In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

Sacramento Ballet will wrap its 2023-24 season at a technical and inventive peak with Innovations (May 17-19, 2024), a thrilling bill of challenging, in-demand works. The performances feature Apollo - ...

One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new ...

Igor Stravinsky is widely known as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and one of his revolutionary ballets is coming to Tucson to honor the 100 year anniversary of its creation. The UA ...

The New York City Ballet celebrated its spring gala last week with an evening performance of its ongoing “Stravinsky Festival,” which highlights the dynamism of late composer and Russian expat Igor ...

For Igor Stravinsky's 125th birthday, Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off a two-week celebration with the PNB orchestra playing his Greeting Prelude. It's a 50-second take on "Happy Birthday!" written ...

A $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant will help Ballet Quad Cities and the Cedar Rapids-based Orchestra Iowa perform three Igor Stravinsky ballets over the next three years. The first ...

City Ballet of San Diego Artistic Director Steven Wistrich is unequivocal when he calls the legendary, Russian-born George Balanchine “the father of American ballet.” “He created a whole new pathway ...