Springfield’s Copper Coin Ballet Company will present the full-length ballet “Cinderella” at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the University of Illinois Springfield Performing Arts Center. The performance ...

One problem is that, unlike R&J's, the score has a tendency to meander and doodle, stop and start, so that its striking motifs need clever dramaturgical underpinning to create a narrative of big ...

Cinderella, the famous western fairy tale, will be presented in various Indian dance forms for the first time in the country by Bharathanatyam dancer and Vaishnava research scholar Zakir Hussain.

Cinderella is even trickier than most fairy-tale ballets. As I said last week, Prokofiev’s music is almost anti-fairy tale – it’s spiky and sour, harsh and bitter: no one in Prokofiev’s world is happy ...

I’ve spent a lot of this week talking about ballet, mainly in the context of Jennifer Homans’s book Apollo’s Angels, a rather good new history of the art which reaches a rather downbeat conclusion: ...