Words about Ballet

Then as now, one of the secrets of the Paris Opera Ballet's success was its ballet school, which put its students, long nicknamed les pe...

The salaries of people employed in the imperial theaters -- the Mariinsky, the Alexandrinsky, and the Maly Theaters in St. Petersburg, and t...

 In the storm of meetings, debates, and humiliating self-criticism that followed, Asafiev condemned Shostakovich's score for the ballet ...

One of the most eloquent of the voices of the body is the hand. It is its function to give completion to movement and gesture. The hand is t...

A ballet, just like an opera, should be staged using the actual score and not an "imaginary one". Furthermore, in the choreographi...

From the autumn of 1883, ever since he had been officially residing in Vienna, the Crown Prince had been gratifying his sexual passions with...

The second ball was even more brilliant than the first, though the guests were less numerous they were more select. All the ladies were in c...