A double bill performance of ‘Scheherazade’ and ‘The Firebird’ will open State Street Ballet’s 30th year. (Courtesy photo) “Scheherazade,” premiered by State Street Ballet in 2014, and “The Firebird,” ...

Scheherazade may be an iconic legendary and literary character, but translating her story into a stage production presents substantial problems. In the famed collection of folk and fantasy tales known ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Milwaukee Ballet will present a revival of ...

Gordon Peirce Schmidt is choreographing a new ballet, to debut in July, which will celebrate the ancient, Middle eastern city of Petra. Schmidt is the executive artistic director of the Grand Rapids ...

Alonzo King, the fearlessly original choreographer and artistic director of LINES Ballet, gives us no hunky slaves seduced by bored, bare-bellied harem wives, few iridescent peacock motifs and not a ...

Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater invites you to enjoy "Scheherazade" ballet on October 12. "Scheherazade" is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. The ballet ...

Here they come, as they do every Christmas, to the piercing sound of flutes and thumping rhythms of plucked strings: adorably cute dancers dressed in silk pajamas, sometimes emerging from tea boxes, ...

Sultan Shahriyar, believing in the cunning women, every day he took a wife, young girl, and the next day executed her. This continued for three years, and in no more girls. And the vizier was the ...

No one can accuse Rodney Gustafson of being forgetful when it comes to great dancers and great ballets. Gustafson, whose State Street Ballet company celebrates its 20th year of continuous operation ...

Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky’s life is the stuff of legend. His career streaked across the international stage like a shooting star in the 1910s, then dropped from sight. It was as ephemeral as the ...

LINES Ballet, a company is famous for blending dance and music styles from many cultures, performs Jan. 21 and 22 in New Orleans as part of the New Orleans Ballet Associations 2010-11 season. RJ ...

Alonzo King, the fearlessly original choreographer and artistic director of LINES Ballet, gives us no hunky slaves seduced by bored, bare-bellied harem wives, few iridescent peacock motifs and not a ...