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Charlie Chaplin at the Ballet
REVIEWS | Kris Kosaka

Charlie Chaplin at the Ballet

“City Lights,” choreographed by Alastair Marriott for the National Ballet of Japan under artistic director Miyako Yoshida, made its world premiere this month in Tokyo, spinning the iconic 1931 Charles Chaplin movie of the same name to pure balletic gold. 

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French Flair
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

French Flair

Talk about intensity! The American premiere of “Mirlitons” last weekend at the Nimoy as part of CAP UCLA’s season and presented by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, proved a powerful showcase for two multi-talented bodies: dancer, singer and performance artist François Chaignaud; and Aymeric Hainaux, visual artist, beatboxer, poet and dancer, the duo delivering a 70-minute treatise on stamina, art, sound and, yes, even a dollop of spirituality.

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New Direction

New Direction

Sacramento Ballet is a 72-year-old company in the capital city of California with 25 dancers, a strong history of dancing the works of George Balanchine, and a growing school and...

Performance

Sacramento Ballet: Balanchine’s “The Four Temperaments,” Stanton Welch’s “The Long and Winding Road,” and Julia Feldman’s “Hearts”

Place

B Street Theatre, Sacramento, CA, September 24, 2026

Words

Rachel Howard

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Club Classics
REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Club Classics

With just two weeks penciled in at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theatre, American Ballet Theatre’s fall season is a bright but brief standout in the fall dance calendar.

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Wilde Times
REVIEWS | Mindy Aloff

Wilde Times

Back in Hollywood’s “silent era”—that is, when there was actual sound accompanying the movies, just sound produced, as at a ballet, by musical instruments rather than live speech—the legal entity now known to lawyers and stickler cineastes as “Warner Bros.”

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In Real Life
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

In Real Life

Of all the places Juliet and Romeo could have fled to after Friar Laurence’s plan succeeded, they chose Paris. At least, this is how Ben Duke and Solène Weinachter imagined their fate in “Juliet and Romeo” (2018), now performed by Emily Terndrup and John Kendall in the title roles.

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Life in the Wild
REVIEWS | Sara Veale

Life in the Wild

London City Ballet, the erstwhile resident company of Sadler’s Wells, has just launched its third season since Christopher Marney resurrected the outfit in 2024, fashioning it into a small-scale touring troupe.

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Boys Keep Swinging

Boys Keep Swinging

Well, ring-a-ding-ding! With a show which feels far more cohesive than last year, those Strictly guys are back in the Fair City to pay homage to all things Sin City.

Performance

“The Legends in Vegas: After Hours” by Ian Waite, James Jordan, Brendan Cole, Pasha Kovalev, and Vincent Simone

Place

Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland, October 28, 2026

Words

Lorna Irvine

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Classical x contemporary
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Classical x contemporary

While the world of ballet is considered a rarefied one, what happens when a dancer who trained at the prestigious Paris Opéra Ballet School abandons the art form—or rather integrates said terpsichorean skills—into a solo sans pointe shoes or ballet slippers, sporting, instead, sneakers? The answer can be found in Dimitri Chamblas’ stunning and thought-provoking work, “Ulysse Marion.” 

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Riches to Rags
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Riches to Rags

There is something uncanny about the timing of the Paris Opera’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s “L’Histoire de Manon” at the Palais Garnier in October 2026, as turmoil unfolds in the streets of Paris.

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Back to the Future
REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Back to the Future

I’ve always wondered what it was like to be in the audience of a Balanchine premiere, and on October 8th, when the New York City Ballet revived “Pithoprakta” for the first time in 57 years, I got the closest I will likely ever come to that experience.

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Begin Again

Begin Again

Destruction is a loaded word, so blunt and final, it's hard to imagine a way to move forward from it. But if there was ever a choreographer who knew how...

Performance

Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat: The Odor of Elephants After the Rain / “Dance is Not for Us”

Place

The Pit Theatre, The Barbican, London, October 16, 2026

Words

Eoin Fenton

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A New Opus
PREVIEW | Robert Steven Mack

A New Opus

As the first evening that Gonzalo Garcia has programmed as Miami City Ballet artistic director, “American Rhythms” provides a glimpse into the future of one of America’s most prominent “Balanchine” companies.

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Classic Beauty
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Classic Beauty

The curtain rises on a fairy-tale and the theatre around me all but disappears. There is the sensation that I am turning the pages of Charles Perrault’s 1697 telling of Sleeping Beauty.

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More than a Vampire Story
REVIEWS | Sophie Bress

More than a Vampire Story

It’s important for young dance artists to have the space, time, and resources to create. With its mission of giving autonomy to dancers, Pangea Dance Collective, founded in 2022, is working to offer just that.

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Inner Landscapes
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Inner Landscapes

Early in its 2026–27 season, the Paris Opera Ballet presents “Paysages intérieurs (Inner Landscapes),” and once again we are faced with the much-debated question of just how many contemporary mixed bills the company should programme.

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Lucy Guerin, Inc

Lucy Guerin, Inc

At the end of the year, Lucy Guerin will step down as founding artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, with Melanie Lane to take the helm in 2027, and a...

Performance

Lucy Guerin: “Place Dances”

Place

Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, October 16, 2026

Words

Gracia Haby

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