Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

American Ballet Theatre

July 2023

  • Black Swan meets 50 Shades … Pas de Don’t and First Position.

    Pleasure and pliés: the ballet bonkbusters handling dance’s hot button issues

    New novels combine romance and raunchy trysts with body politics and an exploration of the industry’s power dynamics

May 2022

  • Marcelino Sambé and Francesca Hayward in rehearsals for Like Water For Chocolate

    Sweet moves: the Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate – in pictures

    Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet is an adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s tale of magical realism, starring Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé. Tristram Kenton went into rehearsals

April 2021

  • Royal Ballet choreographer Liam Scarlett, 26, instructs dancer Zoe Zien, right, and other Miami City Ballet dancers during rehearsal of ''Euphotic,'' in Miami Beach, Fla., Friday, January 4, 2013. Euphotic, a new ballet, will premier January 11, 2013. (Credit Image: © Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post/ZUMAPRESS.com)<br>D1WR75 Royal Ballet choreographer Liam Scarlett, 26, instructs dancer Zoe Zien, right, and other Miami City Ballet dancers during rehearsal of ''Euphotic,'' in Miami Beach, Fla., Friday, January 4, 2013. Euphotic, a new ballet, will premier January 11, 2013. (Credit Image: © Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post/ZUMAPRESS.com)

    Liam Scarlett obituary

  • Catherine Hurlin and Aran Bell in Alexei Ratmansky’s Bernstein in a Bubble.

    Lockdown culture
    The week in dance: Bernstein in a Bubble; The Barre Project (Blake Works II) review – lockdown riches

March 2019

  • Northern Ballet: Victoria LANDSCAPE - Abigail Prudames and Joseph Taylor in Victoria. Photo Guy Farrow

    Queen Victoria – the ballet: 'You think you know her. It turned out I didn't'

    After her celebrated Jane Eyre, Cathy Marston is staging a revelatory regal ballet. She talks about binge-watching ITV’s Victoria and the politics of storytelling

November 2018

  • ‘I had this awakening’ … Misty Copeland.

    Misty Copeland: the trailblazing ballerina loved by Prince, Obama and Disney

    She thinks ballet’s broken – and has a plan to fix it. The star of Disney’s Nutcracker reboot talks about racism, nude shoes and growing up bendy

January 2018

  • Gareth Pugh's designs for Carbon Life by Wayne McGregor.

    The kings and queens of couture – and their most dazzling dance creations

    From Chanel’s Riviera bathers to Alexander McQueen’s cross-dressing spywear, we explore the spellbinding results when giants of fashion cross into dance

October 2016

  • Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen

    'Throw your soul to the audience': dancers on the art of movement – in pictures

  • Eric Underwood

    Eric Underwood: ‘I was told, you’re black, wear black ballet shoes’

July 2015

  • Marcelo Gomes.

    Marcelo Gomes's fearless dance: 'Now I’ve started, I can’t hold myself back'

    American Ballet Theatre’s poster boy on dancing for Matthew Bourne, choreographing his own works and his ‘moment’ in London

April 2015

  • Diana Vishneva

    Diana Vishneva: ‘It’s not my wish to run the Bolshoi’

    Russian dancer Diana Vishneva pirouettes between Moscow and New York – with masseurs on speed-dial around the world. The superballerina tells Judith Mackrell about why she’s worried about the future of Russian dance and wanting to start a family

March 2015

  • The Sleeping Beauty - American Ballet Theatre

    Dance blog
    Wakey-wakey: American Ballet Theatre’s new Sleeping Beauty

    Alexei Ratmansky is aiming to make his new production of the classic ballet as close to Marius Petipa’s 1890 original as he can – and the dancers are rising to the physical challenge

June 2013

  • Misty Copeland, dancer with the American Ballet Theatre

    Misty Copeland raises bar for black ballet dancers

    Star ballerina overcomes hardship and injury to become American Ballet Theatre's first black soloist in 20 years

December 2011

  • Ballet star Gelsey Kirkland dances Act 1 solo from Giselle

    MoveTube: the best dance on the web
    MoveTube: A young Gelsey Kirkland makes Giselle her own

    Luke Jennings: The detail, the exquisite control, the lyrical flow ... this clip shows why Kirkland remains a cherished legend of American ballet

July 2011

  • French dancer and choreographer Roland Petit

    Roland Petit: a career in clips

    From Hollywood musicals to a Pink Floyd ballet, Roland Petit's choreography raised the bar – and hemlines – of dance for ever

February 2011

  • comp-b

    American Ballet Theatre; LOL (Lots of Love) – review

  • American Ballet Theatre – review

January 2011

  • Ratmansky rehearses Seven Sonatas with American Ballet Theatre

    Alexei Ratmansky: 'I hated making people unhappy'

    He shook up the Bolshoi. Now Alexei Ratmansky is shaking up American Ballet Theatre. The unstoppable choreographer talks to Judith Mackrell

November 2010

  • Principal dancer Michele Wiles of the American Ballet Theatre performs in Havana, Cuba

    In pictures: the American Ballet Theatre in Cuba

  • American Ballet Theatre

    US ballet troupe returns to Cuba after 50 years

About 28 results for American Ballet Theatre
12
Explore more on these topics