In Paris in 1928, when classical dance was démodé, Balanchine created a ballet that prompted Diaghilev to remark at a rehearsal: “What he is doing is magnificent. It is pure classicism such as we have ...

Sacramento Ballet will wrap its 2023-24 season at a technical and inventive peak with Innovations (May 17-19, 2024), a thrilling bill of challenging, in-demand works. The performances feature Apollo - ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. In St. Paul it’s called a “Stravinsky Festival,” while in Minneapolis it’s a “Stravinsky Celebration.” What’s the ...

Balanchine regarded Apollo as his artistic coming of age. He said that through the creation of this work, he learned he could "dare not use all my ideas, that I too, could eliminate. . . to the one ...

In the George Balanchine canon, there is only one god. His name is Apollo. This title role is conferred upon only a few at New York City Ballet. Those who are cast in this Stravinsky ballet are the ...

This is the first in a new series of Channel Classics recordings from the prestigious group which recorded Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète during its 20th-century association with Sándor Végh (Capriccio ...

One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new ...

It’s the joy of all-Stravinsky programmes – and this is the fourth major event in an ambitious 2016 festival – that so many alternative groupings are possible. The final work of last night’s “Myths” ...