Sometimes the youngest of audience members will cry, not because they’re scared, but because the story saddens them. “They cried last year when we did ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ” Eva Kruger, of the ...
The flash of a firebird, a family sent into a spin and a classical ballet explosion. Michel Fokine’s The Firebird with Igor Stravinsky’s music is a ground-breaking classic of the early 20th-century ...
MIAMI — George Balanchine’s “Firebird” has flown the coop. His compressed rendition of the ballet—the first ever with a Russian storyline that Michel Fokine originally choreographed for the Ballets ...
On a chilly spring night in Balboa Park, the Casa del Prado’s cavernous rehearsal room was warmed by the body heat of more than a dozen San Diego Civic Youth Ballet dance students. Dressed uniformly ...