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Someone at New York City Ballet needs to believe in Orpheus before they present it again.

Balanchine's unbreakable Serenade leads a mixed bill that includes his less than inspired one-act version of Swan Lake.

Serenades, Siberia and a little Celtic nostalgia as Kansas City Ballet returns to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

To celebrate its return to the theatre after lockdown, New York City Ballet pulled out all the stops with a triple bill of Balanchine's Serenade and Symphony in C and Wheeldon's After the Rain. The house went wild. 

Judging by the enthusiastic audience reactions to this program one might have to rethink the modern/ballet divide. Maybe there’s only two types of dance – good dance and bad dance. 

From the ethereal to the galavanting, the program offered a spectrun of emotions delivered with precise technique and abandoned energy. 

Singapore Dance Theatre, in its 20th year of Ballet Under The Stars, puts on a wonderful trio of works: George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Serenade and Goh Choo San’s Schubert Symphony. 

As the audience, our relationship with Körbes and Gaines as PNB dancers has ended, but the future holds new beginnings.

Celebrating 20 years as Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley brings the company to London, where Balanchine’s Serenade acts as a delicate sorbet before the excesses of Bintley’s own Carmina burana.  

Moving Stateside, a Programme which combined Serenade, by George Balanchine, Lyric Piece, a Jessica Lang work and Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room, were gems from America that travelled across the Atlantic to be set on the ever evolving, risk taking, hard working Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Miami City Ballet's performance plays with the many shades of Balanchine's palette and even offers a number of stunning moments.

San Francisco Ballet’s 2015 season opener at the War Memorial Opera House offers a triple bill of neoclassicism, high drama and joyous celebration. 

Hong Kong Ballet presents a very mixed oprogramme , in celebration of their 35th anniversary.

Ballet San Jose opens its 2014 season with Neoclassical to Now featuring works by Balanchine, Jorma Elo and Gaga founder Ohad Naharin, with delightful results.

Pennsylvania Ballet serve up a wonderfully curated menu of works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Michael Kamen, and Jiří Kylián. Reviewed by Stephen Raskauskas at Merriam Theater, Philadelphia. 

The Italian vocal ensemble Cappella Artemisia, directed by mezzo-soprano Candace Smith, is a chamber group devoted to recovering the rich musical repertoire of the 16th- and 17th-century Italian convents.

Thirty years after its last visit to London, Boston Ballet has returned to the British capital in a celebratory mood. With the company opening its 50th season, the London tour has been planned both to launch the anniversary and to strengthen the growing international reputation of the company.

When planning for the 2012/13 season, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen could not have known how incredibly well-timed Chroma would seem for the Boston community.