ballet

When Dance in New York Took Center Stage
Then came the modern-dance pioneer Martha Graham, who founded her company at Carnegie Hall, in 1926. Graham developed a new way of expressing emotion and meaning through the body,...

Rosalía Takes the Ballet Flat Revival Literally in Ruched White Dance Shoes
Rosalía made the ballet flat revival more literal on Saturday, arriving at Netflix’s “La Jarana en el Guadalquivir” in Seville in a pair of white ruched flats that read...

EXCLUSIVE: Repetto Taps Kaia Gerber to Collaborate on Ballet Styles and Dance-focused Campaign
Kaia Gerber has lent her talents to the French ballet flat brand Repetto. The actress and model conceived the short film “In Bloom,” which she learned to dance for,...

New York City Ballet Premières for the “No Kings” Era
But there is a problem: Beethoven begins to disappear. In the energy and flow of the dancing, the “Eroica” starts to sound like an accompaniment or a favorite song...

Misty Copeland’s Ballet Send-Off
Sometimes a return is also a farewell. Misty Copeland, the first Black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, may be the most famous American ballerina of her generation,...

Chanel Opens a New Season of the Paris Opera Ballet With a Grand Gala at the Palais Garnier
PARIS — Chanel may be on the brink of a new era, with the highly anticipated debut of new creative director Matthieu Blazy early next week, but it has...

Germaine Acogny Brings Joséphine Baker to Life in Solo at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
PARIS — “She is dead, she is immortal.” Those words spoken at the funeral of Joséphine Baker became the starting point for French-Senegalese dancer and choreographer Germaine Acogny to...

LaQuan Smith Suits Up Dancers for ‘DS2 Remix: The Ballet”
If designing a collection, staging a runway show and welcoming celebrity guests weren’t enough for September, LaQuan Smith has designed custom costumes for ballet dancers. The New Yorker has...

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