The festival, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts, will be held Feb. 24-26, at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, according to a university news release. Highlights of the festival this year include works by ballet legend George...

Second sight May in Boston has always been Storybook Ballet Month, as Boston Ballet finished off its season with Swan Lake or Sleeping Beauty or Don Quixote , something classical and highbrow and reassuring. That, after all, is what Boston audiences...

Moon landing Jorma Elo and Anna Sokolow In silence a man slowly pushes a large, light-filled box across a dark stage. The box is bigger than an outhouse and smaller than a garage, and the light shows through only one side. Boston Ballet’s A Midsummer...

Farrell is considered one of the most influential ballet dancers of the 20th century. In the early 1960s, the wisp-like teenager from Ohio joined the New York City Ballet and became the muse of George Balanchine, regarded as the greatest choreographer...

This is a genre custom-made for a culture fixated on celebrity. Where will the body snatchers strike next? In any case, Tanny’s story is one no novelist could have invented, and if a novelist had invented it, no reader would believe it. A great...

Here, freshman Celina Culver and senior Adam Hyndman perform choreography by George Balanchine. (Photo by Rebecca Lazier) Highlights of the festival this year include works by ballet legend George Balanchine and contemporary choreographers Doug Varone...