Should the man on the Clapham omnibus ever turn his mind to ballet, he is bound to envisage the work of Marius Petipa. The ballerina holding an arabesque on pointe shoes was his creation, as were The ...

...[a] wonderful, comprehensive biography ... I have always worshipped at the altar of Petipa without knowing much about the man. Marius Petipa: The Emperor’s Ballet Master, the first biography ...

"Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master" by Nadine Meisner; Oxford University Press, $34.95 Not all queers want in their dreams to dance like swans. Even so, the image that probably comes to mind ...

American Ballet Theater’s artistic director, Susan Jaffe, teams up with the régisseur Susan Jones for a new staging of the comic romp. By Gia Kourlas and Vincent Tullo The trailblazing ballerina ...

The instructions received were at once specific and allusive: 16 bars of music here to arouse expectations, 24 bars there for a “haughty and finicky” dance. In one place, hunting horns were called for ...

For centuries, Marius Petipa was the synonym of the classicist within classical ballet, having signed some of the most important pieces that are danced to this day. What few remember – or know – is ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Russian ballet plays by its own rules. March 11 marked 200 years since the birth of Marius Petipa, the French ...

Seattle — It’s Degas heaven as dozens of teenage ballerinas in lacy white tutus, with ribbons around their waists and necks, flood the stage of McCaw Hall, this city’s newly refurbished opera house.

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