Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.

Like ballet companies around the world, the Tchaikovsky Ballet from Perm, Russia, cherishes “The Sleeping Beauty.” As a model of technique and style, this ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa in 1890 ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky wrote music for the soul. Yet The Nutcracker – the balletic equivalent of a Terry's Chocolate Orange – has seemingly few claims to profundity. Snowflakes and Sugar Plum Fairies are ...

As a grand culmination to the Festival of Russian Culture in India, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker’ ballet is being performed by a group of dancers from the Bolshoi theatre. This will be the first time the ...

Tchaikovsky's second and longest ballet failed to take off in the composer's lifetime but is now a worldwide favourite. Tchaikovsky's second ballet was premiered in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St ...

An all-Tchaikovsky ballet program: In concept, who can quarrel? But what looked good on paper proved somewhat flat in execution when the New York City Ballet opened its six-day series at the Kennedy ...

Chances are you don’t know a fouetté from a chaîné, but it’s likely that you’ve seen these classical ballet steps performed to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky–and can recognize the tunes. The ...

Some of the world's most renowned ballet dancers will soon be pirouetting, leaping and gliding across the stage at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. The Perm, Russia-based Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet ...