“Guernica,” an 11- by 25-foot painting, is a political, anti-war statement in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain. Through the symbolic depiction of death and violence, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. A page from Stravinsky’s autograph ...

VERMILION, Ohio – Cleveland Ballet returns to Vermilion’s historic Harbourtown Fine Arts Center on Saturday, July 26, for the company’s annual summer performance. Events begin at 6 p.m. with an ...

"Ballets Russes" is much more than a specialty item for dance aficionados. Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's expertly crafted, years-in-the-making docu takes viewers on an ebullient odyssey from Russia ...

This is FRESH AIR. In 1909, the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev came to Paris with a company he called the Ballet Russe and created a sensation that lasted until Diaghilev's death 20 years later.

Spring, 1917. World War I ground grimly on. All the same, the famed impresario of the Ballet Russe, Sergei Diaghilev, commissioned a young poet, Jean Cocteau, to conceive a new ballet. At the time ...