The origins of “Swan Lake” are difficult to trace, though most audiences accept the story has roots in Russian and German folktales and most ballet companies base their productions on the 1895 revival ...
Los Angeles is neither a dance center nor a dance desert. We don’t have much of a history of nourishing major ballet companies. We do have a plethora of smaller companies — modern, classical and ...
In the past, most ballet companies were faithful guardians of a heritage that extended back to Louis XIV, the dance-obsessed king of France. The mandate for a successful ballet company today is much ...
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