Seeing the Paris Opera Ballet’s Paquita on 18 December felt like something of a Christmas miracle. Since opening night on the 5th, the ballet’s holiday run has been repeatedly disrupted by strikes, an increasingly common scenario every December. 

Christopher Wheeldon is a rare talent: He’s known as a master of story ballet worldwide. His pieces are being staged by more and more companies eager to inject a breath of fresh air alongside treasured but overused classics. 

The National Theatre in Prague has chosen Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade for its second ballet premiere of the season. 

Aren’t we lucky in Prague that we can draw inspiration for decades from an artist of guru's calibre - the Briton Julyen Hamilton! 

If one were to imagine a combination of particular choreographic and ballet company dance styles, one would struggle to find a more incompatible combination than the highly dramatic, expressive, and exalted Kenneth MacMillan with his opulent historical opus Mayerling.

“Bura” means “tempest” in Serbian, and just as a tempest roars, so did the première of Swiss-Serbian choreographer Tamara Gvozdenovic’s newest work, After Bura, at the Trafó Center of Contemporary Arts in Budapest

The Dance Context Journal invites new authors to submit articles for the 2025 issue, which will focus on the theme of ‘Identities in Dance’.

Dance adaptations of original plays are always a challenge for choreographers. Shakespeare's dramas and comedies have come to life on the stage, and they have been particularly successful in the world of ballet.