In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

*The Rite of Spring* helped set the stage for 20th century music. Characterized by its innovative orchestration and ferocious polyrhythms, Stravinsky’s ballet score allows individual players and ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.

Consider Tulsa Ballet’s first mixed-bill program of the 2013-2014 season as a prime example of how eloquent a wordless art form can be. Of course ballet can tell a story –– that’s one of the prime ...

Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to ...

As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...

On May 29, 1913, one of the wildest nights in dance and music history ushered in a 20th-century aesthetic: modern art. That evening, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, impresario Serge ...