Melissa Hamilton from Dromore in County Down is a First Soloist of The Royal Ballet in London. The 35-year-old is performing a special Ballet Gala in Belfast's Grand Opera House this weekend.
But it remained for the third number on the program— the Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon—to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed ...
American Ballet Theater opened its fall season at Lincoln Center with premieres by Gemma Bond and Kyle Abraham in his most accomplished ballet yet. By Gia Kourlas For ballet to grow, it has to ...
The National Ballet of Ukraine is on a major U.S. tour; the dancers' mission is to show that Ukrainian culture perseveres despite the ongoing Russian attacks on their country. Organizers say that ...
Sometimes they happen concurrently, but that isn’t ideal. George Balanchine, the founding choreographer of New York City Ballet, viewed the theater as a church. “You don’t applaud in the ...