Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has announced four dancer promotions for the 2024–2025 season. Second Soloists Daniel Durrett and Lauren Herfindahl have been promoted to the rank of ...
This season’s show sees the return of company principal Lia Cirio’s “After” and the company premieres of William Forsythe’s ...
You may not expect to hear an electric guitar when you go to the ballet, but legendary rock guitarist Reeves Gabrels will be sitting in with the orchestra during an upcoming world premiere at Boston ...
The Boston Ballet is doing everything right. Maybe that’s because the company is doing everything. Each season artistic director Mikko Nissinen has to program a series of performances that will thrill ...
BOSTON - Young dancers from across the country are spending the summer in Boston, learning from some of the best in ballet. For nearly five weeks, high-level students between the ages of 12 and 18 are ...
Boston Ballet School (BBS) presents Next Generation, a one-night-only performance showcasing young artists of Boston Ballet II, Boston Ballet School, Graduate program, and the Professional Division at ...
“We made a set of rubies,” said Howard Merlin, Boston Ballet’s director of costumes. “But diamonds and emeralds we’re renting from National Ballet of Canada.” In late October, Merlin and his staff of ...
An annual tradition takes on a new look to transform how audiences see "The Nutcracker." Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown tells us how one ballet company is helping to make this long-awaited ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In this episode of PNC C-Speak, Ming Min Hui, executive ...
NUTCRACKER" IS A DREAM COME TRUE FOR AN ASPIRING SUGAR PLUM FAIRY. ♪ IT’S THE INTERNATIONAL SOUNDTRACK TO THE HOLIDAY SEASON. BUT IS IT ABOUT THE NUTCRACKER THAT MAKES IT A HOLIDAY STAPLE? >> FIRST OF ...
The instructions were simple: From first position, demi plié twice, grand plié once, tendu to the right into second position, repeat the pliés, tendu into third position, repeat the pliés, tendu into ...
DANCING, BUT HER COMMITMENT TO REPRESENTATION. SHE REALLY WAS AN ADVOCATE FOR WHAT BALLET CAN BE, WHAT DANCE CAN BE AS AS A MUCH BIGGER ART FORM AND AS A MUCH BIGGER SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND HOPE FOR ...