The Godfather of French Contemporary Dance Passes the Torch
Jean-Paul Montanari's career as the head of Montpellier Danse has been entwined with the rise of contemporary dance as a force in France.
Jean-Paul Montanari's career as the head of Montpellier Danse has been entwined with the rise of contemporary dance as a force in France.
John Neumeier has run the Hamburg Ballet for 51 years, putting his stamp on the company and the city.
The festival, the final one for its longtime director, started with a bravura work by Wayne McGregor that was at once otherworldly and deeply human.
Many remarkable performances fueled the Royal's mini-festival of ballets by Frederick Ashton, the company's founding choreographer.
Benjamin Millepied, an organizer of La Ville Dansée " a daylong event in Paris and its environs " wants "to tell the invisible stories of the city."
Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly's evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris.
The summer's Vail Dance Festival features Mearns, the New York City Ballet star, and the choreographer Roberts.
At 42, Cojocaru has no desire to stop dancing. Instead, she commissioned and is producing a ballet, "La Strada," in which she will dance.
At La Scala, Ratmansky's original choreography makes details and nuances of the story pop, as if a carapace of formulaic interpretation has been cracked open.
The stage designer and artist Es Devlin brings decades of work to life in an experiential monograph and exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.
The company folded in the 1990s with mounting debts. Can a rebooted troupe thrive at a time when similar British organizations are scaling back?
Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school.
The fall dance calendar began with English National Ballet under new leadership. Then came Royal Ballet's "Don Quixote" and "Black Sabbath: The Ballet."
A huge new performance space in Manchester, England, opened with a show that trumpets the building's possibilities, but doesn't push any boundaries.
Christian Spuck, a choreographer of narrative ballets, has taken the helm at the Staatsballett Berlin after years of strife for the troupe. Can he turn it around?
The Empire State Building honors New York City Ballet's 75th anniversary by lighting up in blue, favored by George Balanchine as a backdrop.
It's been cathartic to "create art from places of torment," the singer-actor said ahead of the opening of "Sunset Boulevard" in London.
The Lyon Dance Biennial, now under new leadership, is doubling down on its efforts to attract in a wide public.
The program featured three living female choreographers but not much in the way of traditional ballet.
Original cast members talk about their experiences making the three-part plotless ballet, which opens New York City Ballet's 75th anniversary season.
Charmatz's first new work for the company founded by Pina Bausch was a messy, meandering grab-bag of ideas and inspirations.
As Waltz's Berlin troupe commemorates its anniversary, its founder looks back on the lessons of those years, and forward to what comes next.
The former American Ballet Theater star now leads the Australian Ballet. "When I am faced with difficulties, I lean into them," he said.
Tanztheater Wuppertal unveiled its first season under Boris Charmatz, as well as plans for a new, multipurpose center.
The British actress is reprising her role as the Jewish physician at the center of an ethical drama. "It's like a tailored suit," the director Robert Icke said.