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Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre are noted …

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YAGP 2019: The Final Round - Parsons Dance - Tom Gold Dance: Quality is a Given - Osipova and Hallberg: Pure Dance at City Center - Pennsylvania Ballet - All Stravinsky Program - Mariinsky Ballet: Le Corsaire - NYCB: Easy, In the Night, The Runaway, Something to Dance About - Dorrance Dance: A Grand Slam - English National Ballet: She Persisted - The Washington Ballet: Three World Premieres - Norwegian Opera & Ballet: Dido and Aeneas - NYCB: Composer’s Holiday, Kammermusik No. 2, Opus 19/The Dreamer, Symphony in C - Bill T. 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Brown & Dancers: ink - Camille A. 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Encore! - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Rosas: Rain - L.A. Dance Project: Korbes and Taylor Together - Wolf Trap Opera in Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher - New York City Ballet at Kennedy Center, Program 1 - New York City Ballet at Kennedy Center, Program 2 - American Ballet Theatre: More Impressive Role Debuts - Dance Thesis Concert - ICONS Choreographic Insitute - Eifman Ballet: St. Petersburg on the Hudson - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Picture This - Dance to move the heart: Heidi Latsky Dance & AXIS Dance Company - New York City Ballet: Season Wrap-Up; Seasonal Conundrum - RIOULT Dance NY: Fire on the Stage - CityDance Conservatory Dancers and Robert J. 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Dance Project Triple Bill - Pennsylvania Ballet: Balanchine and Beyond - RIOULT Dance NY: Heroines and Highlights - Fighter-Choreographer Ignites New Firebird in the Philippines: An Interview with George Birkadze - Jessica Lang Dance: Fifth Anniversary Program - Satellite Collective: New York Program - American Ballet Theatre: A Golden "Golden Cockerel" - Boston Ballet: Next Generation, 2016 - “1984” Jonathan Watkins, Northern Ballet Theatre - Ballet BC: 30th Anniversary Program - “Betroffenheit” - Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young, Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre - Royal Swedish Ballet in Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo - New York City Ballet: Final Spring Programs - Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal: Return to New York - American Ballet Theatre: Shostakovich Trilogy - American Ballet Theatre: What's A Masterpiece?, Part II - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up May 2016 - Mixed Bill - Nederlands Dans Theater 2 - Ariel Rivka Dance: A Celebration on Many Levels - Ariel Rivka Dance: 9th Season Festival - 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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet - Pennsylvania Ballet: Repertory Program in NYC - Miami City Ballet at Lincoln Center (Opening Night): Let the Sunshine In - Dance Theatre of Harlem: The Legacy of Black Ballerinas - Jump on the DanceWagon: Emerging Contemporary Dance - Martha Graham Dance Company in DC - Steve Paxton: 'Bound' - “She Said” English National Ballet - "Triptyque" The 7 Fingers - “May Contain Food” Protein - "Pattern Recognition" Alexander Whitley Dance Company - Dance Salad Festival 2016 - Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Director's Choice Program - "In-Nocentes" - National Youth Dance Company - Diablo Ballet: 22nd Season Celebration - Gelsey Kirkland Ballet: 'Stealing Time' - Hong Kong Ballet at The Joyce - Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theater: 'BETROFFENHEIT' - Rosas: Anna Terese De Keersmaeker's 'Golden Hours' - Dark dramatic fare: 'Rigor Mortis' from Eastman, and Norwegian National Ballet in 'Ghosts' - Boston Ballet: Erica Cornejo and Paulo Arrais in an Onegin to Remember - Trio ConcertDance: Alessandra Ferri, Herman Cornejo, Bruce Levingston - All The World’s A Stage: Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet - Pennsylvania Ballet in Angel Corella's Much-Anticipated Don Quixote - Mariinsky Ballet in New York: Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya - Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance: Mercuric Tidings, Dilly, Esplanade - Mariinsky Theatre's Saisons Russes programme (all-Fokine) - Akram Khan Company: Kaash - Rosie Kay Dance Company in '5 Soldiers: The Body is the Frontline' - English National Ballet in Singapore: 'Le Corsaire' - Bringing back magic and memories: Gelsey Kirkland Ballet in 'Don Quixote' - Book review: 'The Ballet Lover’s Companion' by Zoë Anderson - Petipa’s 'Paquita' and others - Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan's Delicious 'Rice' - Mark Bruce Company: The Odyssey - New York Theatre Ballet: Legends & Visionaries Program - Periapsis Music and Dance: a Creative Laboratory for Dancers and Musicians - Pacific Northwest Ballet at New York City Center - New York City Ballet in DC - Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival Gala - New York City Ballet in Three Programs - Power and emotion: Gotham Chamber Opera and The Martha Graham Dance Company in 'The Tempest Songbook' - New York City Ballet's Final Programs of the Winter 2016 Season - Mariinsky Ballet at Kennedy Center in 'Raymonda' - A Prodigal Returns: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 'Roméo et Juliette' - Pushing Progress Showcase Series is Innovative and Engaging - Mark Morris Dance Group at George Mason - Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras Dances up a Storm - Youth America Grand Prix Special Program: The Making of a Pointe Shoe - Chop Shop – Bodies of Work - New York City Ballet: 'La Sylphide' and 'Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2' - ‘All that Jack (Cole)’ Film Series - New York City Ballet: Two Takes on Romanticism - "Grease: Live" is a Gem - Heather Desaulniers' SF Bay Area Column for Feb 2016 - Boston Ballet in John Cranko's Daringly Athletic "Onegin" - Joe Goode Performance Group: The Resilience Project - Diablo Ballet: Precision and Balance - New York City Ballet: World Premiere of The Most Incredible Thing - Pennsylvania Ballet: Strength and Longing - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at The Kennedy Center - New York City Ballet: Liebeslieder Walzer and Glass Pieces - American Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty - Parsons Dance at the Joyce - ODC/Dance at University of Maryland: boulders and bones - SF/Bay Area Round-up January 2016 - New York City Ballet Winter 2016 Season Opener - The National Ballet of Canada: The Winter's Tale - Liss Fain Dance at the 3LD Art and Technology Center - Liss Fain Dance: The Imperfect Is Our Paradise - IN-spired to Success: Whim W’Him at Cornish Playhouse - Alison Chase/Performance - Company Wayne McGregor in Atomos at Yerba Buena Center - English National Ballet in Le Corsaire - Until the Lions: Akram Khan Company at the Roundhouse - Inclined Dance Project: Somnipath - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-Up: October 2013 - “Man in a Case”: Adapted and directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar / Big Dance Theater - Letter from Taipei: November-December 2013 - The 7th International Ballet Star Gala, Taipei - Compagnie Käfig: Correria, Agwa - TAO Dance Theater: 4, 2 - DVD: Diana Vishneva and the Mariinsky Ballet in Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella - The Russian Ballet Collection: Spartacus - Looking Ahead To The Next 35 Years of Elisa Monte Dance - Boston Ballet: The Nutcracker - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: December 2015 - Oregon Ballet Theatre: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker - Book Review: Raising the Barre - Making the ascent: Scottish Dance Theatre in Yama - A Winter Wonderland: Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker - Dance and light in quality partnership: Conceal|Reveal - Estonian National Ballet: The Goblin - What’s old is new again: Pacific Northwest Ballet in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker - George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at NYCB - Scene in Singapore: November 2015 - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: November 2015 - Wild Card: Leila McMillan this way, that way - Romeo and Juliet in Hong Kong - Ben Stevenson’s Nutcracker in Tallinn - Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance - English National Ballet School students show their talents - A superstar’s super goodbye - Farewell, Julie Kent - Misty Copeland is a Juliet to really believe in - Another Midsummer Night’s Dream - Flamenco Edition ’15: Jesús Fernández in Cádiz - Kingston Welcomes Korea - Piano, cello and symphonic strings combine in a ballet class CD - Locked in a world of buried memories: Camera Obscura - A Way of Seeing - Sylvie Guillem: A Life in Progress - Cullberg Ballet: Highlights - or maybe not - DVD review: Ballet 422 - Kuli-Kala: Revenge of the Samurai - A journey into scaryland: Pilobolus in Shadowland - China National Peking Opera Company: Farewell My Concubine - A Rare Treat in Stockholm: Mats Ek’s Swan Lake - Royal New Zealand Ballet: A Passing Cloud - Art that crosses cultures: China National Peking Opera Company in Warrior Women of Yang - Making a difference: 2015 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards - Delightful dynamos and captains of cool: Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour - Diablo Ballet in A Swingin’ Holiday and More - An étoile says goodbye: Sylvie Guillem’s Life in Progress - A Snow Queen to warm to - Contemporary Cataclysms: Akram Khan Company in Kaash - Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Giselle - Power and energy unleashed: Sasha Waltz’s Sacre - Melissa Hamilton and Jiří Bubeníček leave everyone breathless in Manon - Source art into dance from BalletCollective - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: October – Part II - Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE with Jason Moran and The Bandwagon - Sasha Waltz on Sacre - Marcelo Gomes’ AfterEffect is a winner all round - Scene in Singapore: October 2015 - Neil Ieremia: a man on a mission and with stories to tell - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: October – Part I - Neville Dance Theatre - Love in the moonlight and rock 'n' roll: Rambert in Birmingham - Versatility and variety in ABT’s opening week - Boston Ballet in Neumeier's Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler - Carlota and student dancers shine at the Limón Festival - José Limón International Dance Festival - Jazz in the spotlight: New York Jazz Choreography Project - New works at New York City Ballet - Revealing histories: H T Chen & Dancers in South of Gold Mountain - Oregon Ballet Theatre: Amore Italiano - Christopher K. Morgan & Artists fifth anniversary concert - Luminosity and grace: Jennie Somogyi’s New York City Ballet farewell - Norrdans: The Little Prince - Birmingham Royal Ballet: Variations - Making music for dancers: an interview with Alexis Lanz - Overdosing on Bach and projections: RIOULT Dance NY - Company Wang Ramirez: Borderline - Soaring dance in a spiritual space: New York Theatre Ballet at St Mark’s Church - Chris Schlichting's Stripe Tease - Motor Learning and Control for Dance (Donna H Krasnow & M Virginia Wilmerding) - Pacific Northwest Ballet: See the Music - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Yabin Studio/Eastman: Genesis - From the far north: Dans i Nord in Förvandlingen and The Reed Warbler - One tool dancing with another: Huang Yi & KUKA - A fragile Odette, a delicious Odile: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake - Scene in Singapore: September 2015 - New York Theatre Ballet in Agnes de Mille’s Three Virgins and a Devil - X-rated drama: Norwegian National Ballet in Manon - Fluttering feet and hairy chests: the Trocks in London - South African 15-year old triumphs at the Genée - A challenging evening all round - Hofesh Shechter Company: barbarians - Ballet laughs: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - Dutch National Ballet: Hans van Manen Live - Dutch National Ballet Gala - Ballet and street dance meet in Narnia - Understanding the mental aspect of dance to advantage - Erudite but not soul lifting: Jillian Peña's Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack - Ariel Rivka Dance/Trainor Dance/Texture Contemporary Ballet - Whim W'him's Choreographic Shindig - Exploring African American female identity: choreographer Camille A. Brown in conversation - English National Ballet: Lest We Forget - Saying goodbye: Sylvie Guillem at the Birmingham Hippodrome - Satellite Collective presents seven new works - National Youth Dance Company: Apex Rising - Aida on Sydney Harbour - inQUAD at Dixon Place - Guys en pointe: The Trocks are back - Scene in Singapore: August 2015 - Taiwan at the Edinburgh Fringe - Comuna de Pedra: Something Between Nothing and Everything - Stories, darkness and illusion: Ballett am Rhein in Seven - Live Arts Collaborative: ex nihilo - Amy Seiwert’s Imagery at The Joyce Ballet Festival - Lorca meets Kathak: Amina Khayyam Dance Company in Yerma - EDx2: One Fine Day - To Dance, The Musical - VerTeDance Company: Correction - BalletX at The Joyce Ballet Festival - Irina Kolesnikova in Swan Lake - Chamber Dance Project at The Joyce Ballet Festival - Aussie sylphs make the grade: Queensland Ballet in La Sylphide - MOVE: the company at The Joyce Ballet Festival - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: July 2015 - Danish Romanticism with an Australian accent - Book review: Brickbats and Tutus by John Plimmer - Six Degrees of Separation - A lavish Cinderella comes to town - The Romantic Spirit inspires Hamburg's Nijinsky Gala - Sixty-five years on, Sinatra fills the Palladium again - Celebrating Arab cinema through male dance - Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow - A Summer ball: The Ardani 25 Dance Gala - les ballets C de la B: Badke - Elmhurst’s summer showcase - Inventive and diverse: Ballet NY’s 2015 Season - English National Ballet School offer alternative Wimbledon talent - Albrecht’s farewell: a much loved artist bows out - Impressive state-of-the-art in Dresden - New English Ballet Theatre - Diana Vishneva in John Neumeier’s Tatjana - Marianela Núñez: a Cinderella with heart - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: From Spring to Summer 2015 - Peer Gynt: a masterpiece in movement - American Ballet Theatre: Cinderella - American Ballet Theatre: Isabella Boylston and Daniil Simkin in Swan Lake - Ballet BC: Transforming Contemporary Ballet - Ballet Theatre UK: Aladdin - A dazzling Cinderella and a slew of stars come to London - Chamber Dance Project - The Royal Ballet in New York: Infra, The Age of Anxiety and divertissements - Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company: Flamencura - Misty Copeland’s Odette/Odile - Polish National Ballet in Washington - The Royal Ballet in New York: The Dream, Song of the Earth - Summer fun in ancient times: Birmingham Royal Ballet's Sylvia - Scene in Singapore: June 2015 - A Balm in Town: Pacific Northwest Ballet School 34th Annual School Performance - A tale of three Juliets - Cool Brits turn up the heat in Amsterdam - New works shine in English National Ballet’s Choreographics - Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Next Step: A Choreographic Primer - The King dances, Fortuna rules - Polish National Ballet at The Joyce - New Adventures: The Car Man - KaleiDANCEscope: A Shared Evening of Dance - Wendy Whelan Lets Her Hair Down - Alexandra Beller/Dances: milkdreams - The 7 Fingers: Traces - Color and humanity: The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote hits the right notes - American Ballet Theatre: La Bayadère - Richard Alston Dance Company: Alston at Home - Past, Present and Future: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore Performance - Hitting the Jackpot: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Concerto DSCH and Carmina Burana - Double Exposure: Whim W’him’s X-Posed - American Ballet Theatre: La Bayadère - Alain Platel: Coup Fatal - A dream of a Dream rounds off NYCB’s Spring season - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch to make new work - Dutch Juniors pack a mature punch - The Victory Dance Project’s First Anniversary Celebration: People, Power & Possibility - A Butterfly of rare beauty - American Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty - Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris - Defining an étoile: Aurélie Dupont - Ariel Rivka Dance: 8th Season Festival - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: May 2015 - The School of American Ballet: 2015 Workshop Performance - Ballet Central - Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes farewells at ABT - A dissolute life makes a splendid ballet: Polish National Ballet in Casanova - Osipova and McRae in a stellar Giselle for ABT - Wendy Whelan: Restless Creature - A Blanche to tear at the heartstrings: Eve Mutso and Scottish Ballet’s A Streetcar Named Desire - Too, too much: Eifman Ballet's Rodin - Mats Ek bids a fond farewell - Don Quixote in Stockholm: A first-class second performance - Scene in Singapore: May 2015 - Lost Dog: Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) - An enchanting Sylph and a memorable James: NYCB’s Lauren Lovette and Anthony Huxley in La Sylphide - Shining and triumphant: ABT's Stella Abrera as Giselle - Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at The Joyce - San Francisco Ballet School: Student Showcase - English National Ballet and English National Ballet School announce plans for a new joint home - A dance of today, for today: Kyle Abraham’s Pavement - Royal New Zealand Ballet: 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Of Days, Banderillero - Ethan Stiefel quits Royal New Zealand Ballet - The Australian Ballet: Swan Lake - American Ballet Theatre to tour Australia - Shanghai Ballet: Jane Eyre - Taipei National University of the Arts: Winter Dance Concert - Kaohsiung City Ballet: Dance Shoe 2014 - Focus Dance Company 2014: Double Half - Seoul International Dance Competition - Scene in Singapore: September 2014 - Scene in Singapore: November 2014 - Bolshoi Ballet: La Bayadère - Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote - Scene in Singapore: December 2014 - Scene in Singapore: February 2015 - Rosa Park glows in Singapore Dance Theatre’s “The Sleeping Beauty” - Scene in Singapore: March 2015 - Of marriage, relationships and city life: Century Contemporary Dance Company and Leipzig Ballet - Focus Dance Company: Shuttling 10 - The stars come out in Taipei: 8th International Ballet Star Gala - Scene in Singapore: April 2015 - Letter from Taipei: April 2015 - American Ballet Theatre: Classic ABT - Norwegian National Ballet: Dream Play - Classic ABT - Rambert Dance Company: Dark Arteries - Boston Ballet’s Next Generation steps forward - Pennsylvania Ballet: A Tribute to Jerome Robbins - A Mothers' Day feast - Hear the Dance: France - New York City Ballet: Bournonville Divertissements, La Sylphide - Fun and Laughs in Philly - The Russian Ballet Collection: <i>Swan Lake</i> - The Russian Ballet Collection: <i>Don Quixote</i> - The Russian Ballet Collection: <i>Giselle</i> - The Russian Ballet Collection: <i>The Nutcracker</i> - <i>Black Diamond</i> sparkles in Copenhagen - Diablo Ballet: Celebrated Masters - New York City Ballet: Balanchine Black & White I and II - Going Crazy: Patricia Noworol Dance Theater and <i>Replacement Place</i> - Lyon Opera Ballet: Sarabande, Sunshine, Steptext - Veiled Moon: the private and public life of Mah Laqa - Jump on the DanceWagon - Finding Neverland: a show to hug and that will hug you back - Brace Upon Impact - Established and Emerging Choreographers Shine at 2015 Choreographer's Canvas - Youth America Grand Prix Gala: Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow - Youth America Grand Prix - Youth America Grand Prix Gala: David Hallberg Presents: LEGACY - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: April 2015 - A Space/Time Continuum: <i>Unfixed Arias</i> with Coriolis Dance - Summer blooms, autumn gales, winter chill: a relationship year - Company Chameleon: <i>Beauty of the Beast</i> - Gallim Dance with CityDance School & Conservatory students - <i>La Dame aux Camélias</i> translates into Dutch passion - Feathers, Fins, and Fine Capes: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s <i>Swan Lake</i> - Diana Vishneva: On the Edge - The Royal Ballet 2015-2016 - Newcomers and New Works - New York City Ballet in DC - The Walkers (行者) - Conjuring a sense of the unknown: Scottish Dance Theatre's <i>Miann</i> - Leading choreographers raise concerns over UK contemporary dance training - Dance Salad: the performances - DSF: Opening the Bill - Introdans, Bereishit Dance Company - TAKE Dance: There and Here - Letter from Taipei: March 2015 - Robert Cohan at 90 - Choreographers’ Forum: Jiří Kylián - Gelsey Kirkland Ballet in Petipa's <i>Cavalry Halt</i> and <i>Harlequinade</i> - Swans and Shakespeare: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 2015-2016 Season - Boston Ballet’s <i>Shades of Sound</i> - Games people play: Ballet West at The Joyce - Ballet perfection: Scottish Ballet’s <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> - Onegin comes to Tallinn - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: March 2015 - Break through! Take off! Freedom! Sun-Shier Dance Theatre at TIFA - Concepts to the fore: Jessica Lang Dance - Diablo Ballet 21st Season Anniversary Celebration - Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company: Bayadère – The Ninth Life - "Like A Bomb Going Off, Leonid Jakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia" by Janice Ross - Shaken to the core, shaking with laughter: ABT in DC - New Israeli Voices in Dance: Hillel Kogan and Danielle Agami - DSF Choreographers' Forum - Jinhao Zhang tops an impressive evening at English National Ballet Emerging Dancer 2015 - Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre: Renewal - Girls in the moonlight and a tasty swan: Birmingham Royal Ballet in “Serenade” and “Carmina burana” - Guilty pleasures: hummus, pita and brilliant comedy dance theater - The Vertiginous Thrill of Forsythia - New York City Ballet announces 2015-16 season - Rosas: Drumming - Sylvie Guillem is honoured with an Olivier Award (and farewell tour dates) - Company Chameleon: Beauty of the Beast - Simple and complex, mechanical and emotive: Rosas danst Rosas - Christopher Wheeldon’s “Swan Lake” in Philadelphia - An evening of contrasts: María Muñoz, Mal Pelo and Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza - Val Caniparoli's "Lady of the Camellias" blooms in Boston - Modern Masters - A slice of Sicily Pina Bausch style: Palermo Palermo - Brazilian perfection - Fine calligraphy, jazz and dance: SAO PLUS - An evening of Russian sparkle: 10th Anniversary Russian Ballet Icons Gala - A modern take on a classic tale: Rasta Thomas’ "Romeo and Juliet" - Ballet reawakened: ABT’s new “Sleeping Beauty” - For The Love of Three Oranges: Oregon Ballet Theatre’s “Cinderella” - A Midsummer Night's Dream that includes the human story - Erica Pereira sparkles in Square Dance, and final thoughts on NYCB's winter season - From gentle to grand: Mark Morris Dance Group - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: February 2015 - WArd/waRD: The Red Piece - Flying high: Cirque Éloize in Cirkopolis - Semperoper Ballett: Tristan and Isolde - “Mata Hari”: an enticing prospect for 2015-6 in Amsterdam - On dancing, dancers and being behind the lens: A conversation with Rosalie O’Connor - Whim W’Him: Threefold - New York Theatre Ballet: Short Memory, Romeo and Juliet Pas de Deux, A Rugged Flourish, Rondo, Game Two - Intermezzo Dance Company: From Myth to Philosophy - New York City Ballet: All Balanchine I, Hear the Dance: Russia - Osipova and Goddard lead the way in the National Dance Awards - New York City Ballet: All Balanchine I - New York City Ballet: All-Balanchine II, Hear the Dance: Germany - Aakash Odedra Company: Inked, Murmur - Richard Alston Dance Company: Rejoice in the Lamb, Burning, Nomadic, Madcap - Nureyev & Friends: A Gala Tribute (DVD) - Peeping Tom: 32 rue Vandenbranden - Mariinsky Ballet: Chopin: Dances for Piano - Mariinsky Ballet: Le Sacre du printemps, Le Spectre de la Rose, The Swan, Paquita Grand Pas - CPAA Theatre: Legend of the Sun - Ballett Zürich: Strings - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: January 2015 - Scene in Singapore: January 2015 - Hungarian National Ballet: Onegin - The Sun Came Out Today: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Don Quixote - Ballet 422: A film by Jody Lee Lipes - New York City Ballet: See the Music…New Combinations - Nederlands Dans Theater 2: I New Then, Shutters Shut, Sara, Subject To Change - Twenty years in Birmingham, and a girl in high heels and a little black dress - The Associates: Crystal Pite / Kate Prince / Hofesh Shechter - Ballet Black: To Fetch a Pail of Water, Depouillement, Second Coming - Female choreographers to the fore in English National Ballet’s 2015-6 season - New Soloist Oksana Maslova shines in Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Ballet's Polyphonia, Shift to Minor and Prodigal Son - New York City Ballet: Romeo + Juliet - Lots of variety in Benjamin Millepied's first season at the Paris Opera Ballet - Three tables, two chairs, and one watched kettle: Chop Shop 2015 - On American Repertory Ballet and telling the human story of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: A conversation with Douglas Martin - On the Rise: Ballet San Jose’s MasterPieces - London’s Tate Modern to become Musée de la danse for two days - New York City Ballet: All-Balanchine III (Hear the Dance: Italy) - Provocative and relevant: Kyle Abraham’s “Pavement” - New York Theatre Ballet: Double Andante; Cross Currents; There, And Back Again; Alice-in-Wonderland Follies - Dutch National Ballet: Jewels - Lauren Lovette: a New York City Ballet Juliet that makes you think differently - Wayne McGregor│Random Dance to move into a new arts space in London’s Olympic Park - The Mariinsky Ballet: Swan Lake - Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond - The Mariinsky Ballet: Cinderella - Alison Chase/Performance: Drowned, Red Weather, Devil Got My Woman, Tsu-Ku-Tsu - Royal Danish Ballet: Principals and Soloists - Royal Danish Ballet: Principals and Soloists - Youth America Grand Prix Scholarship Fundraiser: ‘The Making of an Artist’ - BalletBoyz: Young Men - Royal Swedish Ballet: Raymonda - Dutch National Ballet: Cinderella - Robert J. Priore's Ascendance - English National Ballet: Swan Lake - Boston Ballet: The Nutcracker - Royal Danish Ballet: Prinicpals and Soloists - Grand Rapids Ballet: The Nutcracker - Manhattan Youth Ballet: The Knickerbocker Suite - Dances Patrelle: A Yorkville Nutcracker - New York Theater Ballet: The Nutcracker - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: December 2014 - Junior Ballett (Ballett Zürich): New Creations - Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Swan Lake Act II, Go For Barocco, Le Corsaire pas de deux, Le Naiade et le Pecheur - Gelsey Kirkland Ballet: The Nutcracker - American Ballet Theatre: The Nutcracker - Fredrik Rydman: Stop. Play. Rewind. - The Monopoly Game - Oakland Ballet Company: The Nutcracker - Oregon Ballet Theatre: The Nutcracker - Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: ChopEniana, Patterns in Space, Esmerelda Pas de Six, Don Quixote - Rambert Dance Company: New Choreography - English National Ballet: Nutcracker - Ballett Zürich: Anna Karenina - English National Ballet School: December Showcase - Trainor Dance: Courante; Self-Portrait, Reflected; Faux Pas - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Nutcracker - Trainor Dance: Courante; Self Portrait, Reflected; Faux Pas - Phoenix Dance Theatre: Shift, Shadows, Document, Mapping - Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker - Moscow Ballet La Classique: Nutcracker - Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Shostakovich, Rasa - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: November 2014 - Arthur Pita: The Little Match Girl - Little Dancer: A New Musical - Mikhailovsky Ballet: Don Quixote - Batsheva Dance Company: Sadeh21 - Estonian National Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty - Mikhailovsky Ballet: Three Centuries of Russian Ballet, Don Quixote - New Movement Collective: Please Be Seated - Polish National Ballet: 1914 - Ballet, Inc.: An Evening with Ballet Inc. Vol. II - Rambert Dance Company: Triptych - Mikhailovsky Ballet: The Flames of Paris - Mikhailovsky Ballet: Giselle, ou Les Wilis; The Flames of Paris - Mikhailovsky Ballet: Giselle, ou Les Wilis - English National Ballet: Swan Lake - Thomas/Ortiz Dance: Corelli, Lagniappes, Four Temperaments, Frayed Ends, Leverage, Un-Damely - zero visibility corp:…it’s only a rehearsal - Inclined Dance Project: Ringer, Babble, Heliocentris - Boston Ballet: Swan Lake - Cullberg Ballet: Plateau Effect - Akram Khan and Israel Galván: Torobaka - Martha Graham Dance Company: Cave of the Heart, Lamentation Variations, Suite from Appalachian Spring, Echo - Norrdans: Middle of Nowhere - Jasmin Vardimon Company: PARK - Skånes Dansteater & Kenneth Kvarnström Company: DOUBLEtake - Alberta Ballet: The 3 Musketeers - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Director's Choice - Batsheva Dance Company: Sadeh21 - Ballet Boys - Thomas Adès: See the Music, Hear the Dance - The 15th National Dance Awards: nominations announced - Alberta Ballet: Don Quixote - Scene in Singapore: October 2014 - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: October 2014 - American Ballet Theatre: Repertory programs - See The Music, Hear The Dance: McGregor, Armitage, Pite and Whitley meet Thomas Adès - American Ballet Theatre: With a Chance of Rain - Gin Dance Company: East Meets West - A bevy of swans: three Boston Ballet ballerinas talk about starring in Swan Lake - Pennsylvania Ballet: Press Play: The Directorial Debut of Angel Corella - Chickenshed: Alice on the Underground - New Movement Collective: Casting Traces - American Ballet Theatre: Raymonda Divertissements, Seven Sonatas, Fancy Free - Oily Cart Theatre: The Bounce - Sasha Waltz & Guests: Impromptus - The Washington Ballet: Polyphonia, 5 Tangos, Petite Mort - Boston Ballet: The Nutcracker - Beijing Dance Theater: Wild Grass - Fall for Dance: Program 5 - New York City Ballet: Masters at Work - New York City Ballet: Classic NYCB, 21st Century Choreographers I - Men in Dance: Program II - Oregon Ballet Theatre: OBT 25 - MurleyDance: Hail Britannia - Mark Bruce Company: Dracula - Phoenix Dance Theatre: See Blue Through, Document, Mapping - UnderExposed - Smuin Ballet: Untamed - Lost Dog and Lucy Kirkwood: Like Rabbits - Birmingham Royal Ballet: Shadows of War - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Jewels - Seeta Patel: Something Then, Something Now - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Tide Harmonic, Memory Glow, Debonair - New York City Ballet: Morgen, This Bitter Earth, Clearing Dawn, Funerailles, Belles-Lettres, Pictures at an Exhibition - New York City Ballet: Balanchine & Tchaikovsky (The Great NYCB Fire) - Dutch National Ballet: Swan Lake - Sonia Sabri: excerpts from Ekalya - Birmingham Royal Ballet: Beauty and the Beast - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-up: September 2014 - Martha Clarke: Cheri - New York City Ballet: Tchaikovsky & Balanchine, Stravinsky & Balanchine - New York City Ballet: Serenade, Mozartiana, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 - Men In Dance: Program I - Spectrum Dance Theatre: LOVE - New York City Ballet: Fall Gala - Grupo Corpo: Triz, Parabelo - Royal Swedish Ballet: Juliet & Romeo - Norwegian National Ballet: Ghosts - Dutch National Ballet: Gala - Vicky Shick: Everything You See - Constella Ballet & Orchestra: Ballet for Nancy, Adagio, Four on the Floor - Ballet and Anarchy: Lee Wilson’s “Rebel On Pointe” - National Ballet Of Canada: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland - National Ballet of Canada: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Dances Patrelle: Romeo and Juliet - KnowBody - Getting to the heart of the matter: a conversation with Mats Ek - Scene in Singapore: August 2014 - Edinburgh Fringe 2014 - Barrowland Ballet: Tiger Tale, Tiger - Edinburgh Fringe 2014 - Stasis: À Table - Edinburgh Fringe 2014 - Fattoria Vittadini: iLove - Edinburgh Fringe 2014 - Point View Art Association: Playing Landscape 7.0 - Edinburgh Fringe 2014 - C&C Company: Maria Addolorata - San Francisco Bay Area Round-up: August 2014 - Scandi-noir and Scandi-dance - Ballet Bellevue: Giselle - Milton Keynes International Festival: Rosemary Lee, Casus, Ilotopie - Six Degrees Dance and guests: Six Degrees of Separation: Obsession - Vadim Muntagirov to join The Royal Ballet as Principal - Fall for Dance: Program 3 and Program 4 - Mikhailovsky Ballet wins Best Company in the 14th UK National Dance Awards - Shechter, McGregor and Scarlett lead The Royal Ballet’s 2014/15 season - Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake - In conversation with Cynthia Harvey - Mariinsky Ballet: Giselle - Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev: Solo for Two - Eifman Ballet: Rodin - The International Dance Teachers Conference Gala (featuring Big Ballet UK: The Nutcracker Story) - Mariinsky Ballet: Le Corsaire - BalletBoyz – the Talent: Serpent, Young Men (preview), Fallen - San Francisco Bay Area Round-up: July 2014 - A Full Passport: a conversation with Annabelle Lopez Ochoa - Ballet Nacional de Cuba: Swan Lake - DancEthos: Mixed Program - San Francisco Ballet: Allegro Brillante, Solo, Within the Golden Hour, Hummingbird - San Francisco Ballet: The Fifth Season, Concerto pas de deux, Solo, Piano Concerto #1 - Paris Opera Ballet: Notre-Dame de Paris - Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus - Secundaria: A film by Mary Jane Doherty - James Thierrée and La Compagnie du Hanneton: Raoul - Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote - Mariinsky Ballet: In Honor of the 110th Birthday of George Balanchine - Wondering where to go: Why I didn’t attend Nicolas Le Riche’s farewell evening... - Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant: Push - Aracaladanza: Clouds - Pilobolus: New York season - Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote - Scene in Singapore: July 2014 - Hamburg Ballet: Nijinsky XL Gala - English National Ballet: Coppélia - Hamburg Ballet: Ballet for Piano and Voice - San Francisco Ballet: Caprice, Agon, Glass Pieces - Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake - Paris Opera Ballet: Notre-Dame de Paris - Boston Ballet: The Second Detail , Resonance, Cacti, Afternoon of a Faun, Symphony in Three Movements, Plan to B, Bella Figura - American Ballet Theatre: Coppélia (Kajiya, Matthews, Radetsky farewells) - American Ballet Theatre: The Dream, The Tempest - American Ballet Theatre Met season wrap-up - Liberating the Liberty: Honoring the Liberty Theatre of Astoria, Oregon and Other Historic NW Theatres - American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake - Hamburg Ballet: Romeo and Juliet - Igor Zelensky Gala Concert: Scheherezade, Carmen - San Francisco Ballet: Caprice, Hummingbird, Symphonic Dances - Boston Ballet: Next Generation, Pricked - Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siècle: Petrushka, Chopiniana, Polotsvian Dances - Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siècle: Gala - Hamburg Ballet: Tatjana - The Royal Ballet School: Summer Performance 2014 - San Francisco Ballet: Maelstrom, Agon, Within the Golden Hour - San Francisco Ballet: Les Étés de la Danse 2014 Opening Gala - San Francisco Ballet: Caprice, Ghosts, The Four Temperaments - San Francisco Ballet: Allegro Brillante, Solo, In the Night, Glass Pieces - San Francisco Ballet: Ghosts, Chaconne for Piano and Two Dancers, Classical Symphony, Symphonic Dances - American Ballet Theatre: The Dream, The Tempest - English National Ballet School: Summer Performance 2014 - Elmhurst School for Dance: Celebration III - Les Saisons Russes: Le Coq d'Or - American Ballet Theatre: Giselle - American Ballet Theatre: Cinderella - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up - June 2014 - ZviDance: Surveillance - Paris Opera Ballet: Orpheus and Eurydice - Paris Opera Ballet: George Balanchine/Benjamin Millepied - The Pennsylvania Ballet: 50th Anniversary Season Finale - Spectrum Dance Theatre with Simple Measures: 'Rambunctious' Program - Clean Sweep - Paloma Herrera on Teaching - RIOULT Dance NY: Martha, May, & Me - Nobody Expects Monty Python Live... - Playlist – an evening of dance diversity - Nederlands Dans Theater 1: Sehnsucht/Schmetterling - American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake - American Ballet Theatre: Giselle - New English Ballet Theatre: Tryst: Devotion and Betrayal - EDge: The Living Room, Spring on Mars, Canto/Pianto, a power to bring light into a darkened room - Ballet Central - Badisches Staatsballett: Mythos - Dutch National Ballet: The Tempest - Ballet du Rhin: Genesis - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: 4D - Scene in Singapore: June 2014 - Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre: Rian - Dada Masilo: Swan Lake - Manhattan Youth Ballet: A Celebration of the Jazz Age - Norwegian National Ballet: Swan Lake - American Ballet Theatre: Cinderella - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Season Encore Program - Roschman Dance and Double Take Dance: Arrival - Russell Maliphant Company: Still Current - Alabama Ballet: Ovation - American Ballet Theatre: Manon - Pennsylvania Ballet: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Giselle - English National Ballet: Romeo and Juliet - New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night's Dream - American Ballet Theatre: Coppélia - 50 years of Workshop Performances at SAB - Boston Ballet: Jewels - Ballet Ireland: Carmen - TAO Dance Theatre: 4, 5 - Step Afrika!: Green is the New Black - “[]n” (the nth power) - Christopher K. Morgan & Artists: By The Inch (An Evening of Mixed Repertoire) - American Ballet Theatre: La Bayadère - New York City Ballet: repertory programs - Pennsylvania Ballet: Director's Choice - Boston Ballet: D.M.J. 1953-1977, Rubies, Bella Figura - New York City Ballet: Concerto Barocco, Other Dances, Neverwhere, Who Cares? - New York City Ballet: Walpurgisnacht Ballet, Everywhere We Go, The Four Temperaments - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up: May 2014 - American Ballet Theatre: La Bayadere - Dutch National Ballet Junior Company: Mixed programme - Gelsey Kirkland Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty - Rosas & Ictus: Vortex Temporum - The curtain comes down: in conversation with Daria Klimentová - American Ballet Theatre: Gala & Don Quixote - American Ballet Theatre: Theme and Variations, Duo Concertant, Gaite Parisienne - Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle - American Ballet Theatre: Don Quixote - Whim W'him: #unprotected - New York City Ballet: Glass Pieces, Opus 19/The Dreamer, The Concert - Keigwin & Company: Episodes, Waterfront - New York Theatre Ballet: Legends & Visionaries - Celebration of Antony Tudor - Dutch National Ballet: Ballerina - Dutch National Ballet: Dutch Doubles - Rambert Dance Company: Four Elements, Rooster, Dutiful Ducks, Sounddance - Scene in Singapore: May 2014 - English National Ballet: Emerging Dancer 2014 - New York City Ballet: Spring Gala (Allegro Brillante; Everywhere We Go) - Scottish Ballet: Romeo and Juliet - American Repertory Ballet: Our Town - Royal Swedish Ballet: Bill - Liz Lerman: Appalachian Spring - Pacific Northwest Ballet: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Oregon Ballet Theatre: Celebrate Program - Northern Ballet: Concerto Six Twenty-Two, Concertante, Luminous Junc•ture - Dance Theatre of Harlem: New York City repertory season - Dance Theater of Harlem: on the rise once more - Dance Salad Festival 2014 - A few words with Manuel Legris - New York City Ballet: 21st Century Choreographers - Semperoper Ballett: Giselle - Ballet Preljocaj: Snow White - Ballett Zürich: Notations - Retiring ballerina Yumiko Takeshima on her career and designing dancewear - Five World premieres and Peter Martins' 'La Sylphide' lead NYCB's 2014-15 season - New on the Bay: Artistic Director Bruce Steivel on Bay Pointe Ballet - Wayne McGregor/Random Dance: FAR - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up - April 2014 Part 2 - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up - April 2014 Part 1 - CG2 at 15: On Cheng Tsung-lung’s "Dorian Gray" - Cloud Gate 2: Spring Riot 2014 (Oculus) - Youth America Grand Prix Galas - Paul Taylor Dance Company: Airs, Dust, Piazzolla Caldera - Yvonne Rainer: Assisted Living - Good Sports 2, Assisted Living - Do You Have Any Money - S.J. Ewing & Dancers: Trapped Happiness - Youth America Grand Prix: New York Finals - Cloud Gate 2: Spring Riot 2014 (Dorian Gray, Floating Domain, Yaangad) - Eifman Ballet: Rodin - Eifman Ballet: Rodin - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: LAC (after Swan Lake) - Le Coq d'Or: a sparkling jewel - Sylvie Guillem: 6,000 miles away - Boston Ballet - Cinderella - Up Close With Choreography: A Conversation With Alberta Ballet’s Alex Ballard - Suzanne Beahrs Dance - 'Amid' - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Lac (After Swan Lake) - les ballets C de la B: tauberbach - American Repertory Ballet: Signature Deuts - English National Ballet: Lest We Forget - Paul Taylor Dance Company - ‘Black Tuesday’, ‘Perpetual Dawn’, ‘Gossamer Gallants’ - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up - February 2014 - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up - March 2014 - Helpmann’s 1944 ‘Miracle in the Gorbals’ and a new Bintley ballet headline Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new season - Swan Lake or not Swan Lake: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo’s LAC - TAO Dance Theater: 6 - The Sami Chinese Project - Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena: Lluvia - Birmingham Royal Ballet: Prince of the Pagodas - Compagnie du Hanneton / James Thiérrée: Tabac Rouge - Ensemble for the Romantic Century: Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart - American Repertory Ballet: Firebird, Afternoon of a Faun, Rite of Spring - Compagnia Finzi Pasca: Donka: A Letter to Chekov - Dance Forum Taipei/ Zuni Icosahedron: Dream Illusion Bubble Shadow - Alberta Ballet: 'Giselle' - Chop Shop Bodies of Work’s Contemporary Dance Festival - Alabama Ballet: Romeo and Juliet - Tom Gold Dance: Urban Angels, The Ladies’ Room, La Plage - Young British Dancer of the Year - Kings of the Dance - Nana Kawashima and Ryota Kodera: Developing European-style and truly Japanese ballet in Japan - Royal Swedish Ballet: Onegin - Pennsylvania Ballet: Coppélia - Dutch National Ballet: Fairytales (Firebird, Midsummer Night’s Dream) - Pilobolus: Shadowland - Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival 2014 - Gelsey Kirkland Ballet: Raymonda Suite, Leaves are Fading pas de deux, Ballebille, Flames of Paris pas de deux, Pas de Quatre, Cavalry Halt - South African International Ballet Competition - New York City Ballet: La Stravaganza, A Place for Us, Todo Buenos Aires, Bal de Couture, DGV: Danse a Grand Vitesse, The Four Seasons - WCDance: Small Nanguan 2 - New York City Ballet: Acheron, Afternoon of a Faun, Walpurgisnacht Ballet, La Valse (Janie Taylor/Sebastien Marcovici farewell) - New York City Ballet: Jewels - New York City Ballet: Bal de Couture, DGV: Danse a Grand Vitesse, The Four Seasons, Dances at a Gathering, Union Jack - Ballet Black: Limbo, Two of a Kind, A Dream within a Midsummer Night’s Dream - Oregon Ballet Theatre: Reveal (A Second Front, Almost Mozart, Liturgy, Bolero) - Northern Ballet makes inaugural visit to the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre - Continuous Growth: Boston Ballet principal Ashley Ellis talks about dance, music and taking on Ashton's Cinderella - Protein Dance: Border Tales - The Legend of Yauna - Mark Morris Dance Group: Italian Concerto, A Wooden Tree, Jenn and Spencer, Crosswalk - Yorke Dance Project: Figure Ground - Cloud Gate Dance Theatre: Rice - New York City Ballet: Coppelia - Kylworks: Fortune Cookies, Anonymous, 14’20”, Birth-Day - Cloud Gate Dance Theatre: Nine Songs - Josef Nadj: Woyzeck, ou l’ébauche du vertige - Circa: Opus - Pennsylvania Ballet: Serenade, Afternoon of a Faun, Under the Sun, Petit Mort - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Sleeping Beauty - Rausch Triumphs as Aurora - New York City Ballet: Concerto Barocco, Kammermusik No. 2, Who Cares?, JR Art Exhibit/Installation - New York City Ballet - Vespro, Spectral Evidence, Acheron - New York City Ballet: Jennifer Ringer Farewell - Dances At A Gathering, Union Jack - New York City Ballet: Jewels - New York City Ballet: Concerto Barocco, Kammermusik No. 2, Who Cares - Tong Yang-tze: Sao - Wayne McGregor takes “Symbiont(s)” to Tallinn - Estonian National Ballet: Symbiont(s), Petrushka - Daniel Jones: A Ballet Evangalist - Hubert Essakow: Ignis - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: 1980: A Piece by Pina Bausch - The Washington Ballet - The Jazz/Blues Project - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up - January 2014 - David Rousséve/REALITY - Stardust - Talking Chop Shop: Three Choreographers Preview Their Work for Chop Shop - Whim W'him - Instantly Bound - Daria Klimentová to retire - Royal Swedish Ballet: The Emperor - Jean-Yves Esquerre appointed new Artistic Director of the Dutch National Ballet Academy - Setting the Print Room alight: Hubert Essakow and Sara Kestelman on “Ignis” - Dutch National Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty - Chickenshed: The Night Before Christmas - Alberta Ballet: Up Close - Synetic Theater: Twelfth Night - New York City Ballet: George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - American Repertory Ballet: The Nutcracker - Modern Moves Festival - English National Ballet: Le Corsaire - 1+1: Wings of Desire (Century Contemporary Dance Company), My Dear (Meimage Dance) - Horse: The Battle with My Father - Zürich Junior Ballet: Iris, Solitude, Bellulus - Zürich Ballet: Woyzeck - Alabama Ballet: George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - Love Tomorrow - San Francisco/Bay Area Round Up: December 2013 - NY Nutcrackers: American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet - English National Ballet: The Nutcracker - American Ballet Theatre: The Nutcracker - A Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Phyllis Legters Stonebrook (1934 - 2010) - Oregon Ballet Theatre - George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - les ballets C de la B & KVS: Badke - i-dance Taipei 2013 - Seeing Sendak: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-Up: November 2013 - Mark Morris Dance Group: Excursions, A Wooden Tree, Jenn and Spencer, Festival Dance - Scarecrow Contemporary Dance Company: Step In‧MOCA Taipei - Rambert's new home for dance on London's South Bank - Neander: Blam! - The Junior Company of the Dutch National Ballet: Mixed programme - BalletBoyz: The Talent 2013: Fallen, Serpent - Mark Morris Dance Group: The Muir, Crosswalk, Socrates - Inclined Dance Project: In the Wires, Two, Kick It, Marrow, Stuck Together Pieces - Stuttgart Ballet: The Taming of the Shrew - Stuttgart Ballet: Made in Germany - Phoenix Dance Theatre: All Alight, Ki, Tender Crazy Love, Repetition of Change - Four NYCB Principals to retire - Matthew Bourne's New Adventures: Sleeping Beauty - Matthew Bourne's New Adventures: Sleeping Beauty - An Evening featuring Fang-Yi Sheu and Yuan Yuan Tan - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Emergence, Petit Mort, Sechs Tänze, Forgotten Land - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: M¡longa - American Ballet Theatre: Les Sylphides, Clear, Theme and Variations, A Month in the Country - Introducing Irving: Oregon Ballet Theatre’s New Artistic Director, Kevin Irving - Jonah Bokaer: Occupant - American Ballet Theatre - Theme and Variations, A Month in the Country, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Richard Alston Dance Company: Lachrymae, Hölderlin Fragments, Phaedra, Illuminations - Northwest Ballet Theater: Dracula - Boston Ballet: La Bayadere - The Washington Ballet: Giselle - American Ballet Theatre: The Tempest - American Ballet Theatre: The Tempest, Aftereffect, Bach Partita, Les Sylphides, Clear, Gong, Theme and Variations - David Dorfman Dance: Come, And Back Again - 14th UK National Dance Awards: Nominations announced - Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal: Sleeping Beauty - American Ballet Theatre: Bach Partita, Gong, The Tempest - San Francisco Ballet: Cinderella - Susan Marshall & Company: Play/Pause - Sadler's Wells Sampled: Made at Sadler's Wells - National Dance Company of Wales: Virtual Descent, Noces, Water Stories - Weaving A Story: Timothy Lynch's Threads - A Journey of Boys Who Dance - General Mischief Dance Theatre: Four on the Floor - Buzz 2.0, The Shell Game, Suite Shel - Paris Opera Ballet: Lady of the Camellias - San Francisco Ballet: Cinderella - San Francisco Ballet: From Foreign Lands, Beaux, Classical Symphony, Symphonic Dances - Hofesh Shechter Company: Sun - Wayne McGregor│Random Dance: Atomos - Rambert Dance Company: Subterrain, The Comedy of Change, The Castaways - American Repertory Ballet: Romeo and Juliet - San Francisco Ballet: Trio, Ghosts, Borderlands - Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: Little mortal jump, Fluence, PACOPEPEPLUTO, Casi-Casa - The Pennsylvania Ballet: A Gift to the City - Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty - English National Ballet: Le Corsaire - Coming Up: Mats Ek's 'Sleeping Beauty' Comes to Alberta - Cloud Gate 2: On the Road - Company Chameleon: Eden, Pictures We Make - Birmingham Royal Ballet: E=mc2, Tombeaux, ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café - New York City Ballet - Contemporary Choreographers Program - New York City Ballet: Balanchine Short Stories Program - New York City Ballet: Just for Fun Program - New York City Ballet: La Sonnambula, Prodigal Son, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - Mark Bruce Company: Dracula - Richard Alston Dance Company: The Devil in the Detail, Brink, Lachrymae, Illuminations - Alberta Ballet - Madame Butterfly - Trisha Brown Dance Company: Proscenium Works 1979-2011 - LA Dance Project: Murder Ballads, Reflections, Quintett - Take Dance - New York City Ballet: Carnival of the Animals, Jeu de Cartes, The Four Seasons - Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet: Indigo Rose, Ten Duets on the Theme of a Rescue, Necessity Again - Glasgow 2013: Reflections on the Genée International Ballet Competition - Cirque Éloize: iD - Synetic Theater - The Picture of Dorian Gray - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-Up: September 2013 - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Air Twyla Program - Fall for Dance: Richard Alston Dance Company, Gabriel Misse and Analia Centurion, The Bright Motion, DanceBrazil - Roberto Bolle and Friends - New York City Ballet: The Four Temperaments, Episodes, Duo Concertant, Symphony in Three Movements, Vespro, Dances at a Gathering - Royal Swedish Ballet: Julia & Romeo - Scottish Ballet: The Rite of Spring, Elite Synchopations - New York City Ballet: Swan Lake - New York City Ballet: Fall Gala - Capricious Maneuvers, Neverwhere, Spectral Evidence, Western Symphony - Jasmin Vardimon Company: Justitia - Dutch National Ballet: Corps (Les Sylphides, Corps, Het Lichaam van Het Nationale Ballet) - Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS: Mirror & Music - The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company: Time Bones - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-Up: August 2013 - Peter Schaufuss Ballet: Swan Lake - Peter Schaufuss Ballet: Romeo and Juliet - On Entering the World of Ballet Conducting: An Interview with Geneviève Leclair - American Ballet Theatre: Le Corsaire - New York City Ballet: Barber Violin Concerto, Red Angels, Allegro Brillante, Who Cares? & season wrap up - American Ballet Theatre: Shostakovich Trilogy - Thresh: Savitri - Dance in the Forest of Death - Creating Cerrudo: Interview with Alejandro Cerrudo - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-Up: July 2013 - Gallery: San Francisco Ballet at Stern Grove 2013 - West Side Story - Fredrik Rydman: Swan Lake Reloaded - English National Ballet: Tribute to Nureyev - American Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty and Sylvia - American Ballet Theatre: Romeo and Juliet - New York City Ballet Fall Season - American Ballet Theatre: Romeo and Juliet - New York City Ballet: Serenade, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Stars and Stripes - Carlos Acosta: Classical Selections - Liz Liew & Yuyu Rau: Snapshots - Pacific Northwest Ballet: 40th Anniversary Season Encore Performance - ARC Dance Company: Summer Dance at the Center - American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake - San Francisco/Bay Area Round-Up: June 2013 - American Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty - New Movement Collective: Nest - “A Bit Like A First Date”: Talking with Boston Ballet's Mikko Nissinen - American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake - Paris Opera Ballet: Bolero, Firebird, Afternoon of a Faun - Birmingham Royal Ballet 2013-2014 season - San Francisco Ballet to return to Paris - English National Ballet Spring-Summer 2014 season and performances at the Barbican - Original Works, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and more set for Houston Ballet’s 2013-14 season - Oregon Ballet Theatre: All Balanchine Program - American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Next Step - American Ballet Theatre announces fall season details - Alina Cojocaru to join English National Ballet - Agony and Ecstasy: My Life in Dance - Daria Klimentova with Graham Watts - American Ballet Theatre: Don Quixote - Bern Ballett: Hexenhatz (Witch-hunt) - American Ballet Theatre: Shostakovich Trilogy (Symphony #9, Chamber Symphony, Piano Concerto #1) - School of American Ballet: Divertimento No.15, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Walpurgisnacht Ballet - Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppélia - National Youth Dance Company: (in between) & RIOT Company: RIOT Offspring - New York City Ballet: Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Fearful Symmetries, Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 and others - Verve 13: Night Time, Instructions to the Animal, Resurgence, Shuffle - English National Ballet: Swan Lake - Birmingham Royal Ballet: Giselle - Sadler's Wells Sampled: Rosas & Ictus, Drumming - EDge: As the Dust Settles, Altered States, (Parentheses), Splinter - Boston Ballet: Serenade, Afternoon of a Faun, Plan to B, Symphony in Three Movements - Boston Ballet: The Second Detail, Polyphonia, Bella Figura - Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet: Coppélia - Les Saisons Russes du XXIe siècle: Spectre de la Rose, The Firebird, Shéhérazade - Les Saisons Russes du XXIe siècle: The Firebird, Shéhérazade - New York City Ballet announces 2013-14 season - In conversation with Andris Liepa