George Balanchine (real name: Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze) can probably lay as good a claim as any artist living to the title of master of arts. He does not paint, but he does just about ...

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"It's my little secret, but it also helps me focus," Prokopowicz said, referring to the long moment of silence which preceded his performance in the second round of the competition. "I'm glad I had ...

PLATTSBURGH — Doll enchantment is front and center in the Adirondack Dance Company’s “An Evening of the Arts featuring Coppélia.” It will will be presented at SUNY Plattsburgh’s E. Glenn Giltz ...

CHAUTAUQUA – The Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, under the artistic direction of Monika Alch, will present its annual Spring Gala performance on Friday, June 13, at 8 p.m. at the Chautauqua ...

One can imagine the dilemma this sound narrative history posed to a publisher looking for a catchy title. Even so, The First Cold War is an unhelpful one. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Britain and ...

On the evening of Feb. 28, the world-renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang took center stage at Symphony Hall, marking the first stop of the U.S. leg of his world tour as part of the Celebrity Series of ...

If marches and waltzes are inherently Viennese, Mazurkas are intrinsically Polish and nocturnes are forever Irish at their core, much of the world’s greatest ballet music will always be associated ...

When George Balanchine and his friend Alexandra Danilova were young dancers in pre-Revolutionary St. Petersburg, they performed in the rousing Mazurka in Act I of “Coppélia.” Many years later, in 1974 ...

It's hard to separate Poland's history from the lively dance that began in rural Poland and gradually, over time, worked its way into European ballrooms and the local traditions of far away cultures.