EAU CLAIRE — “Swan Lake” has entertained generations since its creation, and its upcoming performance by the International Ballet Stars bridges the community to the rest of the world. Based on Russian ...

It’s impossible to imagine the Christmas season without “The Nutcracker,” a beloved ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Written in 1892, this two-act classical ballet remains a symbol of the holiday ...

Every winter, dance companies across the U.S. present one very particular ballet for holiday audiences, "The Nutcracker." (SOUNDBITE OF TCHAIKOVSKY'S "THE NUTCRACKER, OP. 71, ACT 1: NO. 2, MARCH") ...

Matthew Gasper has a few new moves for Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The artistic director of the FM Ballet brings his own choreography to the classic "Sleeping Beauty." This new production steps out at 2 ...

"Swan Lake," originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to Pyotr Tchaikovsky's magnificent score, is a masterpiece of world classical ballet. It is also the old myth of princess as ...

Artistic Director Tamara Rojo's Balanchine tribute thrills onstage but collides with politics as San Francisco Ballet confronts Trump-era Kennedy Center fallout.

MADISON (WKOW) -- Tchaikovsky’s 130-year-old ballet 'The Nutcracker' is reimagined in a holiday spectacle coming to Madison's Overture Center on Friday. 'The Hip Hop Nutcracker' pays homage to the ...

Remember that part in The Nutcracker when the prince does a solo? (Do you?) Well, it actually featured eight women, and over time choreographers changed the steps so that the women disappeared and it ...

CHANG: For many, going to local performances of this Tchaikovsky ballet is a treasured family tradition. And for ballet companies, it's big business, as NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas reports. ANASTASIA ...