While creating Crime and Punishment for American Ballet Theatre and Lady Macbeth for Dutch National Ballet, Helen Pickett suffered a pair of knee injuries. Her treatment for one, a lateral meniscus tear, involved wearing a large brace that limited her mobility and impacted her creative process, preventing her from demonstrating full-out. For Pickett, whose choreography […]

Where is the dance field headed next? The dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies on our annual “25 to Watch” list offer heartening, imaginative, exciting possible answers to that question. Whether or not you’re already familiar with these up-and-comers, our editors and contributors from across the dance world predict that we’ll be hearing a lot more from these artists on the verge of a breakout in 2025 and beyond.

New story ballets, a landmark revival, works that take to the sky or descend into the earth—the fall performance season is going full speed ahead as we move into October. Here’s what has us most intrigued. A Trilogy Concludes BIRMINGHAM, UK  Birmingham Royal Ballet’s trilogy of works celebrating the company’s hometown comes to a close with […]

From major tours to noteworthy premieres to Hollywood-inspired musicals (and one movie musical), here are 28 shows on our contributors’ must-see lists.

From major U.S. debuts to premieres that piqued our interest in ballet, musical theater, and beyond, here’s what we’re penciling in as the fall performance season continues full steam ahead.

A long-awaited world premiere, a festival filled with experiments, two New York City mainstays and a trio of new works tackling environmental issues head-on—there are a lot of performances to be excited about this month, and our top picks are just the tip of the iceberg.

Spring is in the air, and performance calendars are (dare we say it?) almost as busy as they ever have been, if still largely housed on the internet. This mix of online screenings, outdoor events and indoor performances for limited audiences caught our eye this month. Caged In Stefanie Batten Bland’s Kolonial Maria Baranova, Courtesy […]

In 2007, Oregon Ballet Theatre asked Nicolo Fonte to choreograph a ballet to Maurice Ravel’s Boléro. “I said, ‘No way. I’m not going near it,’ ” recalls Fonte. “I don’t want to compete with the Béjart version, ice skaters or the movie 10. No, no, no!” But Fonte’s husband encouraged him to “just listen and […]