Look a little closer, though, and something is different. Each swan has an individuality that’s unusual in “Swan Lake,” a ballet in which the corps de ballet typically strives for absolute ...

In a back-corner ballet studio in suburban Maryland one recent Saturday morning, Lucy Martini, 7, dangled in a harness rigged to the ceiling, a fluffy white bow poised atop her head as a studio ...

By Alex Williams Christian Holder, a standout dancer for the Joffrey Ballet who made his name in the 1960s and early ’70s in pointedly topical works like “Astarte,” a groundbreaking ...

“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto of uncertain authorship, a score by neophyte ballet composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and choreography, now lost, by the now forgotten Julius ...