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The choreographer celebrates 10 years at the helm of ABT with a vibrant new production in New York
Despite Alexei Ratmansky’s attentions, Petipa’s 1901 story ballet is an incorrigibly flimsy affair
The choreographer’s first American Ballet Theatre commission is the latest attempt to stage ‘The Rite of Spring’
The choreographer’s new work nestles folk dancing within a ballet idiom
A dance-cum-light-show that made motion visible
The plot in Ratmansky’s ballet is an excuse for colourful dances amid spectacular effects
The choreographer’s new piece focuses on the thwarted composer Fanny Mendelssohn
Alexei Ratmansky’s painstaking historical reproduction unearths delightfully bright and unusual steps
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballet, based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera, is staged with heat and joy
The Russian-born choreographer’s new piece sketches an American ‘type’
These specially commissioned duets rarely stretched the stars they were created for
The evening came to life after the interval with Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s ‘Islands of Memories’
A professional dancer teaches a unique approach to creativity
Works by the two choreographers brought to mind their debt to Balanchine
The choreographer’s new piece is a meditation on civility
Copeland, a rare black female soloist in a big classical ballet company, performed two major debuts
Alexei Ratmansky’s excavation of the 1890 Petipa original is a revelation
Isabella Boylston and Alexandre Hammoudi kindled a beautifully attuned love between their characters
The company revived works from the 1940s that contrasted a comic wild west with tortured repression
Two works created for the Mariinsky star proved a waste of her ability in a frustrating performance
Jerome Robbins’ source ballet for ‘On the Town’ is electric and affecting
The cast struggled valiantly with Scarlett’s plotless, incoherent piece
ABT revives Massine’s Belle Époque fantasy – but doesn’t quite get into the spirit of things
Twyla Tharp’s 1983 work exults in the ballet idiom while giving it an individualist twist
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