Ballet

Yann Bridard, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Marie-Agnes Gillot, Julia Kleiter, Miteki Kudo, and Sunhae I'm perform in this 2008 National Ballet of Paris production by Pina Bausch of the Gluck ballet filmed in HD and conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock.

Marius Petipa's exotic ballet, set in legendary and mysterious India, is a story of love, death and vengeful judgment. Yuri Grigorovich's sumptuous recreation of Petipa's choreography, with breathtaking sets and costumes designed by Nikolay Sharonov,...

The choreographer Alonzo King, acclaimed as one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times" by world-famous William Forsythe, works with his company The Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. Before founding LINES Ballet in 1982 King has been worki

A JOURNEY INTO AN EXTRAORDINARY DREAM WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEDrift into a fantastical forest full of life and unexpected encounters. Like all good tales the feeling of going encompasses both the darkness and the light in playful co-existence. A...

A few ballets", The Nutcracker", Sleeping Beauty", and Swan Lake", which at the end of the 19th Century brought together to the stage the composer Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky and two ballet masters of the imperial theatre, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, were...

Kaguyahime is one of Japan's oldest fairytales. The story of the mysterious Moon Princess inspired Jir? Kyli?n to create a full-length ballet and to commission a score from the Japanese composer Maki Ishii. Through it's use of western percussion...

When it premiered at Sadler's Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne's triumphant modern re-interpretation of SWAN LAKE turned tradition upside down, taking the dance world by storm. Now firmly crowned as a modern day classic, this iconic production is perhaps...

A Blu-ray disc of the stunning 2014 performance choreographed by Belgian modern great Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, performed by members of the Paris Opera Ballet and set to Music for Eighteen Musicians, Steve Reich's major score composed in 1976. In...

Splendid rendition of Tchaikovsky's magical ballet, performed by the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company and using designs by famed children's author Maurice Sendak that evoke the spirit of Hoffman's original fable. Unforgettable family adventure that's fun...

In 1995 the young choreographer Matthew Hart created a witty choreographed version for the Royal Ballet School with designs by Ian Sparling.

Uwe Scholz is one of the most brilliant choreographic minds of his generation - he died in November 2004 at the age of 45. The Great Mass is one of the most impressive works of this important neoclassical choreographer - a truly impressive requiem; a...

Natalia Makarova, one of the most important interpreters of the classical ballet repertoire in the twentieth century, has also had great success as a producer. Her staging of Swan Lake is based on the original choreography by Petipa and Ivanov, with addit