Sep 12th, 2008 · Author Maurice Sendak celebrates his 80th year on Sept. 15 with a benefit in Manhattan. In addition to penning the children's classics, Where The Wild Things Are and In The Night Kitchen, Sendak has written, designed and produced several operas and ballets.
Aug 29th, 2008 · Bioengineering researcher Michael Dickinson used superslow-motion video cameras to study how flies are so effective at avoiding swatters. He found that flies perform an elegant ballet with their legs — responding to threats in less than 1/10 of a second.
Aug 29th, 2008 · High-speed cameras reveal that flies perform an elegant little ballet with their legs. In less than a 10th of a second, flies perceive the direction of the threat and use their legs to angle their bodies for the quickest escape route.
Aug 4th, 2008 · Ballet dancer Carlos Acosta is known for powerful leaps that make him seem to fly. Those leaps have earned him comparisons with Nureyev and Baryshnikov. He grew up in a poor neighborhood outside Havana. How that boy became a man who dances with grace and power is the subject of Acosta's memoir, No Way Home.
Jul 28th, 2008 · Shakespeare's tragedy — and Prokofiev's ballet — are plenty familiar, but critic Lloyd Schwartz says Mark Morris's new staging isn't: It's based on a forgotten manuscript recently discovered in Russia, and it's truer to Prokofiev's original intent.
Jul 12th, 2008 · The Cleveland Orchestra is matched against Claude Debussy's tennis-inspired ballet Jeux, which conductor Franz Welser-Möst calls one of the most difficult symphonic pieces to perform.
Jun 9th, 2008 · Is ballet something that girls should learn from the Internet? Professional dance teachers don't think so. One teacher, Kay Mazzo, co-chairman of faculty at the School of American Ballet, the training academy of the New York City Ballet, tells us why.
Apr 9th, 2008 · OutKast's Antwan "Big Boi" Patton is working on an unusual collaboration with the Atlanta Ballet. Initially, some patrons were freaked out by the idea of mixing hip hop and their sacred dance form. Through the rehearsal process, however, the project is gathering fans.