With Tchaikovsky’s timeless score, the classical ballet "Swan Lake" is an enchanting masterpiece depicting love, deception and drama. White swan by day, human by night, the beautiful Odette awaits an oath of true love to break the curse. This 2015 production choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich feat...

Experience dramatic acting, virtuoso technique and the beauty of classical ballet. Giselle is an enchanting ballet from the Romantic Era that tells the tale of love, deception, revenge, and forgiveness. One of the oldest surviving and most danced ballets in the world, Dutch National Ballet's prod...

Set to Prokofiev's timeless score, Kenneth Macmillan's classic choreography of Romeo and Juliet is legendary in La Scala's repertoire. The stars of this masterly performance are Roberto Bolle (Principal Dancer Etolie at Teatro alla Scala) and Misty Copeland (Principal Dancer at ABT in New York), ...

Choreographer Mark Morris gained international fame for "L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," set to Handel’s Baroque masterpiece featuring a colorful array of dancers that embody the ecstasy of art that transforms. A premiere work by Mark Morris as Director of Dance at the Théâtre Royal de l...

Don Quichot is a dazzling display of high spirits, virtuosity and Spanish temperament. The flamboyant leaps, stunning pirouettes and crisp pointe work that are standard features of the production give the Dutch National Ballet every opportunity to show off their technical mastery. At the same tim...

First staged in 1973 by legendary choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, this new production of “The Sleeping Beauty”, based on original choreography by Marius Petipa to the music by Tchaikovsky, is the first ballet performed on the newly reconstructed stage of the historical Bolshoi Theatre. As the cur...

Premiered in 2000 by the Hamburg Ballet, John Neumeier's Nijinsky vividly explores the tumultuous life and mind of Vaslav Nijinsky, a legendary early 20th century ballet dancer and choreographer, known as "le dieu de la danse." Divided into two acts, the ballet is structured around Nijinsky's per...

Experience the magic of New York City Ballet’s iconic holiday classic, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, based on the Alexandre Dumas version of E.T.A Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816). In Act I, Tchaikovsky’s beloved melodies transport the young and the young at heart to a...

Collaboration with legendary musician Mickey Hart and cutting edge architect Christopher Hass, explores the inner and outer space of the body: how do we strive to touch something infinitie with our material forms? Drawing on the harmonics of the universe itself, Hart's score gathers light waves f...

The ballet John Henry, based on the folk song that forms the ballet's score, is the tale of the legendary steel-driving man who fights against automation and whose feats of strength are celebrated in American folk tales and ballads. Using his sledgehammer and steel bit, John Henry outworks a stea...

Choreographer John Neumeier premiered his acclaimed version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1977 and the production has been a part of Hamburg Ballet's repertory ever since. Based on the play by William Shakespeare, Neumeier interprets the events as a dream of dance characterized by three worlds,...

Alonzo King’s timeless work Scheherazade is a modern re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of One Thousand and One Nights. The exquisite dancers of Along King LINES Ballet present a vision of the transformative potential these stories possess: the way t...

The Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker is the quintessential Christmas ballet. When her nutcracker toy comes to life, young Clara is transported by the magician Drosselmeyer to a magical world of excitement and delight. With sumptuous period designs, spellbinding stage effects and of course Tchaikovsk...

Exceptional film compilation of archival performance footage featuring legendary dancers from the acclaimed Bolshoi Ballet. Ballet highlights include excerpts from Les Sylphides (1952) with Galina Ulanova, Spartacus (1968) with Vladimir Vasiliev and Natalia Bessmertnova, Don Quixote (1960) with E...

For the American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, dance is an international art which discloses itself to all people because it doesn't require any spoken language. Everywhere that the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre appeared, the audiences greeted the harmonic beauty, the dynamic movemen...

For the American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, dance is an international art which discloses itself to all people because it doesn't require any spoken language. Everywhere that the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre appeared, the audiences greeted the harmonic beauty, the dynamic movemen...

Ballett Zurich’s striking production of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a spectacular contemporary version of the great Tchaikovsky ballet by visionary choreographer Christian Spuck. Emphasizing the fantastical nature of the origin material rather than the delightful Christmas fairytale, Spu...

Patrice Bart's staging of the Nutcracker holiday classic premiered at Berlin State Opera in 1999. Christmas provides the realistic setting for a fantastic plot featuring Vladimir Malakhov—one of the greatest dancers of his generation—with Nadja Saidakova dancing the famous Grand Pas de Deux and O...

First presented in December 1892, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is one of the most beloved ballets today. On Christmas Eve, a young girl has a dream. An emotional awakening of childhood that slowly merges into adulthood. While children revel in Drosselmeyer’s magic tricks and enjoy a good scare wi...