Today’s ballet audiences may know little about August Bournonville (1805-79), the Danish choreographer of “La Sylphide” — about a young man who abandons his fiancee for a wood nymph and pays dearly ...

Mirth and whimsy reigned in all of the offerings on San Francisco Ballet's third program Thursday night, but rarely has the War Memorial Opera House been filled with so much sheer joy as upon the ...

It was an otherwise bleary Monday afternoon, but in a mirrored room on the fourth floor of a Civic Center building, 51 girls and five boys pirouetted their hearts out in a cacophonous scene of nerves ...

Philip Chatfield, who has died aged 93, was artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in the mid-1970s. With his New Zealand wife, dancer Rowena Jackson, he influenced many young dancers in ...