Of all the American choreographers of the past century, George Balanchine was the most popular and the most prolific. He was also the master of brevity: There are but a handful of full-length works ...

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A man and a woman walk toward each other. Doesn’t sound much like ballet, does it? But it happens throughout George Balanchine’s “Jewels,” currently on glittering and glorious display at Pacific ...

The Russian Mariinsky Ballet performs George Balanchine's iconic "Jewels" series. George Balanchine's three-part "Jewels" series premiered in New York in 1961. It centers on Emeralds, evoking Romantic ...

A great ballet is a still point in dance history, its movements delicately fixed in time. But, unlike a great movie or a great book, dances are shaped over their lifetimes by the many different ...

For complex reasons of politics and geography, as well as national personality, no doubt, while Romantic ballet in the rest of Europe fell under the spell of flashier Russian developments, the ...