11+ hour, 47+ min ago  (720+ words) One morning last August, the female dancers of Northern Ballet tried something most of them had never done before: partnering each other. "It's the opposite," said the dancer Nida Aydinoglu, 20, miming how she usually gives her hand to a male…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (973+ words) Prokofiev's stormy, vivid ballet score "Romeo and Juliet" has beguiled many choreographers. But for a long time, Benjamin Millepied resisted its call. "In dance, the Prokofiev has been so overdone that I think I started to categorize it as second-rate,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (853+ words) A lady who cannot dance?" To Benedict Bridgerton, the very idea is baffling. But such is the case with Sophie Baek, the heroine of the new season of Bridgerton," Netflix's popular series based on Julia Quinn's Regency-era romance novels. At…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1112+ words) Stillness is not a natural state for Kristin Sudeikis, a 47-year-old choreographer who began dancing at the age of 3. But a recent occasion demanded it of her. On a Thursday afternoon in early January, Ms. Sudeikis was standing still inside…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (409+ words) Near the middle of the first movement of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, a powerful moment stands out. The music is barreling along, picking up steam, when a dissonant chord crashes against the rhythm again and again. That extreme tension is cut…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1031+ words) As a child, Cameron Fraser-Monroe was haunted by the legend of an evil woodsman who snatched children after dark, recounted by elders in his community, the Tla'amin Nation of British Columbia's northern Sunshine Coast. Fast forward two decades and Fraser-Monroe,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (761+ words) Choreography is not the same as directing, but every great choreographer has a director's sixth sense. That sense steers dancers, trained or not, to commit to movement with crystalline conviction, and it can see the big picture with the body…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (939+ words) Seth Orza didn't set out to invent a ballet shoe. But he needed one. When Orza was a member of New York City Ballet, he developed plantar fasciitis, in which the thick band of tissue that connects the toes to…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1171+ words) Dance in Georgia is as dazzling as it is ancient. In the fourth century B.C., the Greek military leader and historian Xenophon described Georgian soldiers dancing on the battlefield, a brazen form of intimidation. You can see why their opponents might…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1138+ words) Francis Patrelle, a ballet teacher and choreographer who built a tightly knit community in New York around his classes at Ballet Academy East and his company, Dances Patrelle, died on Dec. 27 in Pensacola, Fla. He was 78. His death in a…...