Classical ballet is a form of theatrical entertainment that originated among the aristocracy of the sixteenth and seventeenth century royal court of France. In its original form it was performed by trained dancers as well as by members of the court...

Ballet is an academic dance form and technique that is taught in ballet schools according to specific methods. There are many ballet schools around the world that specialize in various styles of ballet and offer different techniques. Works of dance...

People go to matines for all sorts of reasons. A fair chunk of any given audience will be made up of third-agers who view retirement as an opportunity to move to a whole new time zone, in which they can rise at 5am, dine...

Some girls just never learn. The Royal Ballet may have clocked up 500-odd performances of Giselle, but the doomed village beauty is still blithely opening her cottage door to the heedless aristocrat- in-disguise who will break her maiden heart. Tamara Rojo, who danced...

Gerald Arpino plans to step down as artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet this summer _ more than 50 years after he helped get the company started by touring the country in a rented station wagon.Arpino, 84, co-founded the troupe with its namesake, the late...

It was supposed to be a ballet fit for a party boss: Winsome maids from the local collective farm prance around the stage carrying 5-foot long potatoes, while happy Soviet farmers celebrate yet another bountiful harvest.But communist dictator Josef Stalin gave Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet "The...

A history of ballet from its orgins in early in the 16th century and milestones in the 1800s and 1900s.