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Ballet de Lorraine: Acid Gems and a Folia review – clubby cool with a wild streak

Adam Linder delivers a zingy riff on Balanchine’s Jewels while Marco da Silva Ferreira masses a raucous party crowd

The Guardian - UK

Perspectives at the Royal Ballet review: a hurtling journey from Benjamin Britten to Sufjan Stevens

4/5 This collection of rather abstract works starts at mystery and ends in exuberance

Evening Standard

The Royal Ballet: Perspectives review – intimate seduction, pure dance and enduring beauty

In an engaging triple bill, a new work from Cathy Marston explores the emotional charge of Britten’s Violin Concerto, while works by Justin Peck and George Balanchine showcase the simple joy of dancing to great music

The Guardian - UK

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Anthropologie Just Launched a Collab With the New York Ballet's The Nutcracker — Including the Sweetest Snowglobe Ornaments

Decorations, trinkets, and serveware, all inspired by the classic Christmas ballet? Anthropologie has captured the magic of the season this year with a new collaboration

Livingetc

London City Ballet: Momentum review – lovely dancing set to beautiful music

Alina Cojocaru is breathtaking, Ratmansky’s music zings and Joseph Taylor gets a fantastic angry solo

The Guardian - UK

Gems review – dazzling technique elevates LA Dance Project’s contemporary ballet trilogy

International dance troupe’s power and lyricism on show in trio of works by Benjamin Millepied

The Guardian - AU

Balanchine: Three Signature Works (Royal Ballet) review: an extraordinary dance brain

4/5 This triple bill in the Dance Reflections festival is a joyous look at a man who wasn’t fun to marry, but was a remarkable choreographer

Evening Standard

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75 years ago, Maria Tallchief made the ballet world reimagine itself and find a place for a Native American prima ballerina

On Nov. 27, 1949, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief waited for her cue in the wings of the City Center in downtown Manhattan, preparing to take the stage in the New York City Ballet’s premiere of “Firebird.”

The Conversation

At 75, NYC Ballet is getting older. Its audience is skewing younger -- and that's the plan

New York City Ballet, one of the world's premier dance troupes, has been celebrating its 75th anniversary all year

The Independent UK

New York City Ballet review – iconic company returns to show the shape of modern ballet

NYCB’s first UK visit in 16 years brings a quadruple bill that looks to the past briefly, but mostly presents a very 21st-century vision

The Guardian - UK

How The Nutcracker became the most popular ballet in the world – and a holiday colossus

At dance companies around the world, ‘Nutcracker’ season is in full swing. Clémence Michallon speaks to dancers and critics about the show that has become a staple across countries and generations

The Independent UK

The Australian Ballet: Jewels review – lots of glitter but no gold

George Balanchine’s choreography is gorgeous to look at, and there are standout individual performances, but it really needs more lush grandeur

The Guardian - UK

‘You’re very fat up here’: was dance god George Balanchine a controlling monster?

He was a trail-blazing genius who electrified US ballet. But he was also a dictatorial grudge-bearer who married four of his dancers. How should we remember the Russian-American choreographer?

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‘Ballet has the same appeal as Princess culture’: Alice Robb on how would-be ballerinas are taught to be thin, silent and submissive

The writer talks to Sarah Crompton about her book exploring the pain and sacrifice of ballet training even for those who don’t make it to the top, and the way it perpetuates traditional ideals of femininity

The Guardian - UK

Don’t Think, Dear by Alice Robb review – the beauty and cruelty of ballet

A former student at the School of American Ballet dissects an art form that too often plays host to obsession and bullying

The Independent UK

Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes

Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J

The Conversation

5 Australian women choreographers you should know (and where to see them in 2023)

“Ballet is woman” claimed the legendary New York choreographer George Balanchine. But “where are all the women ballet choreographers?” asked researchers Oellen A. Meglin and Lynn Matluck Brooks in 2012. They found only 23 articles on women ballet choreographers in the New York Times’ 171-year history.

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2022 was a big year for dance books: Here are 5 to check out

These books shed light on some of dance's most iconic figures and provide a glimpse into the state of ballet culture today — and the direction it's heading next year and for years to come.

The Guardian - UK

Dame Beryl Grey obituary

One of the most celebrated British ballerinas of her generation who later dedicated herself to the training of dancers

Chicago Sun-Times

Joffrey Ballet juxtaposes Steinbeck and Balanchine in emotionally jarring pairing

Because of its narrative simplicity and emotional power, “Of Mice and Men” turns out to be well-suited to adaptation as a ballet.

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