So often in ballet, the more perfect the heroine, the greater her flaws. I’m talking about relatability. Just how realistic are the incorruptible protagonists of “Swan Lake” and “Giselle,” for ...

In Marius Petipa’s classic ballet, “La Bayadere” (The Temple Dancer), a young maiden Nikia is murdered by her rival Gamzatti for the affections of a young warrior, Solor. Upon learning of the temple ...

“La Bayadère” debuted in St. Petersburg in 1877, the same year as “Swan Lake,” and it has the same romantic charge. Indian temple dancer Nikiya is coveted by the High Brahmin, but she and the hunter ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new production of the ballet sets it in 1930s Hollywood instead of a mythic India, eliminating Orientalist clichés while embracing American ones. By ...

“La Bayadère” is one of ballet’s classic works, the 1877 tale of a warrior torn between duty and love. From its origins at the Mariinsky Ballet, the Russian company that dates to the 1740s, “La ...

A French dance critic’s infatuation with a Indian temple dancer has led Shobana Jeyasingh, who trained in classical bharathanatyam, to create a new version of Marius Petipa’s ballet of adoration and ...

Pennsylvania Ballet begins the spring season with Artistic Director Angel Corella's first ever re-staging of the passionate and dramatic masterpiece La Bayadère. Visually and technically impressive, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There are extraordinary evenings in the theatre when the spell of a performance, the power of an interpretation and a ...

Successful ballet partnerships are almost impossible to manufacture. Not only do the techniques, style, body types and personalities of each dancer have to mesh, but between them they have to generate ...

Forty years ago almost to the day, American Ballet Theatre premiered a glittering extravaganza of Indian temple dancers, bejeweled Brahmins, an opium-aided trip to the afterlife and an earthquake ...

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s government has invested heavily in the arts, including a massive renovation of Budapest’s Hungarian State Opera House, an imposing structure that dates ...