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In the Moment: BalletNova Center for Dance Presents A Global Dance...

BalletNova Center for Dance will present a Global Dance Showcase, featuring ethnic dance companies from around the DC metro region.  The performances will be held...

Ardani Artists Presents: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg: ‘Rodin’ at The...

Boris Eifman is a choreographer critics love to hate and audiences simply love. In fact, in his 2011 opus, Rodin, detailing the loves of...

‘Tour-de-Force: Serenade’ at The Washington Ballet at The Kennedy Center

The dancers, dusted in long, white tulle, reflect—shells on a dark beach. It is an opening, a closing, a commencement, an ending. Arms raise....

‘Cinderella’ (‘La Cenerentola’) at Washington National Opera #1 (Isabel Leonard)

Every spring, the Washington National Opera launches a family friendly show in time for their M&M'S® Opera in the Outfield, and this year they...

ALICE (in wonderland) at The Washington Ballet at The Kennedy Center

The Washington Ballet's performance of ALICE (in wonderland) is delightful for someone like me who is not a connosseur of ballet. Here, sets and costumes...

Ballet Theatre of Maryland Ends 2015 Season with ‘Innovations’

Ballet Theatre of Maryland closed its most successful season to date with three performances of Innovations – a program of classical and contemporary dance -...

‘We Wait in the Darkness by Rosy Simas Danse at Dance...

As a long-time dance observer, I like to say the language of dance is universal and that in performance specificity on stage can imbue...

The Washington Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ at The Kennedy Center

Under a moonlit, cloudy sky, a young, overwhelmed Prince Siegfried seeks refuge in the forest following an evening of birthday revelry. A weighty anticipation...

The Washington Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ at The Kennedy Center

Swooning over the first ‘Swan’ Step aside, Baryshnikov. There’s a new kid on the block and he’s taking the dance world by storm. The Washington...

New York City Ballet: Program B: 21st-Century Choreographers’ at The Kennedy...

Principal dancer Teresa Reichlen unwraps her leg into a développé, a blade curling a bow, then—suspends—playfully, before hiding it away. Her partner, principal Zachary...

‘Cinderella’ at The Russian National Ballet Theatre at Hylton Performing Arts...

I attended the Russian National Ballet Theatre's enchanting Cinderella on Friday night at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. Cinderella moves to George Mason University’s...

‘Cinderella’ at Ballet Theatre of Maryland at the Modell Performing Arts...

Entering the closing phase of this season, Maryland’s premier ballet company -Ballet Theatre of Maryland ('BTM')- returned to the scene of last season’s major artistic...

‘An American Southwest Carmen’ at Ballet Theatre of Maryland

To close its 2014-2015 season on March 14, 2015 at Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Ballet Theatre of Maryland chose An American Southwest Carmen...