Artistic Director and Co-Founder Lauren Jonas has announced Diablo Ballet's Firebird program on May 17-18 at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. The program will feature a new commission ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Tallchief performing 'Firebird' at the New York City Ballet on Sept. 19, 1963. Jack Mitchell / Archive Photos via Getty ...

Leo Holder is standing in the cavernous warehouse of the Local 52 Motion Picture Studio Mechanics in Astoria, Queens. He raises his arms, striking them apart like Moses parting the sea, and four ...

Upstairs, at Liberty Station’s Dance Place, all but two San Diego Ballet dancers were rehearsing last month for the company’s signature dance, “Mambomania.” It’s one of the works, along with “The ...

Experience an evening of breathtaking movement and transformative storytelling with Maine Dance Company’s double bill: The Firebird & Unearthed. Set to Stravinsky’s legendary score, The Firebird is a ...

For a very long time, the chance to perform on international stages has been a dream for Montgomery ballet dancer Erin Waggoner. Very soon, the college student who graduated from Alabama River Region ...

On a chilly spring night in Balboa Park, the Casa del Prado’s cavernous rehearsal room was warmed by the body heat of more than a dozen San Diego Civic Youth Ballet dance students. Dressed uniformly ...

In the world of story ballets, “Firebird” is a definite oddity. Originally choreographed by Michel Fokine for the Ballets Russes in 1910, with a gloriously dramatic score by Igor Stravinsky (his ...

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 ...

Despite assumptions to the contrary, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief showed that Indigenous people could not just exceed the standards of Western arts but also set new ones, writes associate professor ...