American Ballet Theatre's new production of "The Bright Stream," a bracing, high-spirited ballet by Alexei Ratmansky, feels refreshing for several reasons.

Wedged between "Don Quixote" and "Giselle" at the Met, American Ballet Theater unveiled three new works this week, each buoyantly successful in different ways.

With NYC's big houses all featuring marquee performances at the end of 2010, and Black Swan a sensation, has dance fever hit the planet?

New York City Ballet’s ambitious six-week spring season got underway last week, a combo of repertory and seven commissioned premieres, including Alexei Ratmansky’s new ballet, Namouna, A Grand Divertissement. Perhaps the most anticipated ballet, it surpassed expectations and set the bar sky high for the remaining premieres. It showed Ratmansky’s ability to be inspired by, [...]

In the shadow of American Ballet Theatre’s season-closing performances of Romeo and Juliet, a few weeks after New York City Ballet ended its spring season, it’s time to take a deep breath. The trope that while NYCB has the rep, ABT has the dancers still holds true to some extent, although it is eroding on [...]

New York City is a tour date for many of the world’s leading ballet companies, if only once every decade (ahem, Kirov). But stick around long enough and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll catch lots of them. But the city’s native ballet scene has brightened in recent years. Twyla Tharp has created new work [...]