"My goal," said Lincoln Jones, "is to create an experience today that has the depth of [the art of the past] but also the immediacy of what those things had in their own time." (Jane Kim / For The ...

The Russian Mariinsky Ballet performs George Balanchine's iconic "Jewels" series. George Balanchine's three-part "Jewels" series premiered in New York in 1961. It centers on Emeralds, evoking Romantic ...

In what promises to be the most glamourous event of London's cultural calendar this summer, The Australian Ballet has announced that the company will bring George Balanchine's triptych Jewels to the ...

In 1967, George Balanchine created Jewels, billed as the world’s first three-act story-less ballet. But watching the New York City Ballet perform it at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Wednesday ...

Blink and you’d miss the ruby-shaped dance floor at Wortham Theater Center on Saturday night. Look up, and a cluster of diamond-fabric chandeliers loomed overhead. Loose gems were projected on the ...

Of all the American choreographers of the past century, George Balanchine was the most popular and the most prolific. He was also the master of brevity: There are but a handful of full-length works ...

Emeralds, rubies and diamonds. Glittering gems made of stardust forged in the furnace of the earth have fired humanity’s imagination for millennia. In 1966, they inspired George Balanchine to create ...

An internationally celebrated dancer and acclaimed Balanchine interpreter, Mearns is in demand as a guest artist around the world. Toronto audiences will have a unique opportunity to see Mearns ...

Houston Ballet Principals Yuriko Kajiya and Connor Walsh in Diamonds. Credit: Photo by Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Courtesy of Houston Ballet Two stage masterpieces in one week makes me light-headed.

After an artistically triumphant run of "Swan Lake" last month, Miami City Ballet (MCB) presents its second program of the season, George Balanchine’s "Jewels," today through Sunday at the Kravis ...

The first of three seasons celebrating the 75th anniversary of New York City Ballet has been dubbed “The Foundation.” Its programs, which conclude on Sunday, are essentially a George Balanchine run ...

Ballerinas stir in the early afternoon light that shines through a fountain and into the studio. A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper. The dance is not there yet, but ...