Beware of two notorious tricksters lurking in Miller Symphony Hall in Allentown when the Allentown Symphony Orchestra performs there on Saturday and Sunday. One is the playful Petrushka, the star of ...

The Houston Symphony is teaming up with dozens of students from Crespo Elementary Fine Arts Magnet School Dance Department and Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School Dance Ensemble for a ...

Dancers with the Eugene Ballet rehearsed Wednesday for their world premiere of Petrushka at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene. The futuristic twist on a ballet classic was created by ...

The original “Petrushka” was a ballet about puppets, performed by live dancers. Basil Twist’s “Petrushka” at The Paramount is a performance by puppets who behave like real people, motivated by ...

But oh, how happily wrong you would be! This double bill is just the thing for any mood and season - dance theatre at its fullest throttle, enthralling and rewarding, even better than drinks on ...

Think of Petrushka as a Russian Pinocchio, but without a sweet old puppet maker and a happy Disney ending. In a nutshell, Stravinksy’s ballet, Petrushka was about a puppet who came to life, but who ...

As a legend he almost instinctively attracts the adjective “blinding”, so impossible an act to follow was he as a stage creature, particularly for the men - but in fact “illuminating” is much the more ...

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The Rite of Spring, with score by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinksy, premiered in 1913. This vision of human sacrifice in the name of earthly fecundity was a turning point for ...

Stravinsky’s Petrushka is beloved in the orchestral world, a landmark in the dance community, and for all audiences, one of the most peculiarly passionate ballet stories ever told. Seedy carnival ...

Silver Lion winner Rocío Molina unleashes raw energy, while Golden Lion winner Saburo Teshigawara turns his gaze inward, at Wayne McGregor’s Venice Dance Biennale A woman in a pink tulle dress stands ...

It is a 100 years since the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. One hundred years since that famous opening in Paris when a near riot broke out and modern dance ...