School of American Ballet

Ballerinas Are Talkin' and Tweetin' Like Normal People

​Traditionally stoic, angelic, and completely silent, ballerinas are now spinning in the other direction, chatting it up at City Ballet performances to "humanize" their art, according to the Times. What happened to the robotic mystique of the seemingly unshakable dancer?

Remembering Merce Cunningham (1919–2009)

A farewell to the choreographer of chance and thrilling universes

Benjamin Millepied Takes A Very Big Leap Forward

Celebrating Jerome Robbins and Bidding Damian Woetzel Goodbye

Feast and farewell

Images on the Move For Dance on Camera 2008

Dancers on toe, hanging from hooks, blooming in deserts

The Fresh and the Seasoned

Angels we have seen on high

Chosen People

An autobiography and a novel plumb ballet dramas driven by George Balanchine

Leaping into Choreography

New York City Ballet principal Benjamin Millepied assembles colleagues and puts on a show

Go West!

Peter Boal takes his classical heritage and his adventurous spirit to Chelsea and Seattle

Balanchine's Ballets Receive Productions They Deserve in Stagings for His School

Venturing Out

Peter Boal's latest project (what's next?) and Nicholas Leichter's now-generation dances

Dance

Vive la Danse

From Paris in the spring to a Delancey Street parking lot, the French make their move

O.D.'ing on Beauty

These fine jewels don't rest on black velvet; they spin, glistening in the fire of dance

George Balanchine's Birthday Presence Takes Multiple Shapes

Upcoming

All Hail the Chief

Opening a jewel box of ballets to celebrate Mr. Balanchine's birth a hundred years ago

Local Color

Ballet by and for the Young

Crack That Nut, Girl

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

Whirled Dance

Trading on the Tap Floor

Dancers Create a Global Village in Manhattan

Letters

The Arrangement

In a Case Where Failure Means Success, 'Separate but Equal' Dance Program Is Averted at La Guardia

Luck of the Draw

Melissa Barak Has the City at Her Feet

Home Front Action

New Work From David Gordon, Tamar Rogoff, and New York City Ballet

They’ve Got Rhythm

June Blooms: Tribeca to Chelsea to Lincoln Center

Thoroughly Postmodern Misha

Ballet Renegade Warms Up at the Barre

Shape-Shifting

Make Yourself a Spectacle

Counterpoints

New York City Ballet Gets a New Gem

Groaning Board/Lean Cuisine

New York City Ballet Shows Its All

More, but Not Merrier

Tights May Not Keep Boys From Football, but They Still Drive Them From Ballet

The Master and His Disciples

Drama on Pointe

Ballet Companies Are Busy Acting Up