Sacramento Ballet will wrap its 2023-24 season at a technical and inventive peak with Innovations (May 17-19, 2024), a thrilling bill of challenging, in-demand works. The performances feature Apollo - ...

In Paris in 1928, when classical dance was démodé, Balanchine created a ballet that prompted Diaghilev to remark at a rehearsal: “What he is doing is magnificent. It is pure classicism such as we have ...

Miami City Ballet dancers perform in ‘Apollo,’ a ballet that became the first collaboration between composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer George Balanchine ALEXANDER IZILIAEV There was palpable ...

Balanchine regarded Apollo as his artistic coming of age. He said that through the creation of this work, he learned he could "dare not use all my ideas, that I too, could eliminate. . . to the one ...

If only one titan, Atlas, could support the Earth on his shoulders, for two together would even the sky be the limit? The 20th century experienced just that when choreographer George Balanchine and ...