Brides have been holding a bouquet to walk down the aisle for thousands of years. In Ancient Greece, brides carried herbs and spices to ward off evil spirits; in the Middle Ages, bouquets were used to ...

Offering a twin bill that any ballet company would deem difficult to pull off successfully, Ballet West was unfazed on opening night, presenting equally glorious performances of Sir Frederick Ashton’s ...

Offering a twin bill that any ballet company would deem difficult to pull off successfully, Ballet West was unfazed on opening night, presenting equally glorious performances of Sir Frederick Ashton’s ...

The Boston Ballet is doing everything right. Maybe that’s because the company is doing everything. Each season artistic director Mikko Nissinen has to program a series of performances that will thrill ...

Ballet West's next performance run will open Nov. 7 with Sir Frederick Ashton’s “The Dream,” above, and Bronislava Nijinska’s “Les Noces” “(The Wedding)” at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City.

In the photos, you can see Gomez’s wedding bouquet, which consisted of Lily of the Valley. Fans on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, immediately pointed this out, saying, “sobbing at the fact that ...

Sixteen 2nd Year students presented choreographic works at The Royal Ballet School’s Frederick Ashton Emerging Choreographer performance in May. The event concluded the School’s annual Choreographic ...

For its current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, through Saturday, American Ballet Theatre bookended four narrative ballets with weeklong runs of its 2000 staging of the perennially popular ...

Gertrude Stein wrote, “A rose is a rose is a rose,” but is it also true that “a ballet is a ballet is a ballet”? If she were still alive, we would ask Stein, a literary lion of the 20th century known ...

The Sarasota Ballet is closing its current season by offering audiences a chance to see works by three of the most revered choreographers of the 20th century “Movements of Genius,” being presented ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet. Both his ...

Among British choreographers, 43-year-old Frederick Ashton has been the busiest and best, lately. U.S. audiences saw several of his witty, agreeable ballets, e.g., Cinderella, Facade, Wedding Bouquet, ...