Ann Haskins

Ballet has a long tradition of male dancers performing female roles en travesti, but usually in character parts like the overbearing mother in La Fille Mal Gardée or the comic ugly sisters in Cinderella. Since 1974, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has taken that travesty tradition into new realms,......

The painstaking process of creating choreography, adapting the movement to available dancers and then cleaning and polishing in rehearsal usually precedes what an audience eventually sees onstage. But that endless repetition can stifle the in-the-moment impulse that makes dance so exciting. Using a range of techniques, dance improvisation helps dancers......

The painstaking process of creating choreography, adapting the movement to available dancers and then cleaning and polishing in rehearsal usually precedes what an audience eventually sees onstage. But that endless repetition can stifle the in-the-moment impulse that makes dance so exciting. Using a range of techniques, dance improvisation helps dancers......

Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion Having conquered the major challenges of the classical ballet repertoire and known for her bravura performances in 20th-century...

Last year, artistic directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary staked their company's claim as L.A.'s premier professional ballet company with home...

Rooted in Buenos Aires' bars and brothels but banned by Argentina's better classes, tango didn't acquire international cachet until Paris in the 192...

Picking favorite dance performances in a given year feels like Sophie’s Choice, as impossible as choosing among your children. How to compare ambitious but underfunded efforts against polished, deep-pocketed touring ventures? Still, there were individual standouts: Hamburg Ballet at Orange County Performing Arts Center, demonstrating why John Neumeier is possibly......