The Batsheva Dance Company is currently presenting its new work MOMO in Tel Aviv and on other Israeli stages. In March and April, the company will take the piece on tour to France and Switzerland. Collaborating with the company’s dancers and Ariel Cohen, Batsheva’s house choreographer Ohad Naharin has created another masterpiece. Read on for more.

On 23 December 2022, Alexei Ratmansky’s latest ballet Tchaikovsky Overtures premiered at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Read on to find out more!

In celebration of Native American Heritage Day, TWoA is paying tribute to five Native American ballerinas who shaped the history of American and French ballet: Maria Tallchief, her sister Marjorie Tallchief, Rosella Hightower, Yvonne Chouteau and Moscelyne Larkin.

On 2 November 2022, dance lovers could once again look forward to free live streams from over fifty ballet companies across six continents. TWoA’s highlight: Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in a company class combining Tai Chi Daoyin and internal martial arts.

While kids all over the world were planning their costumes for trick-or-treating, students at the School of American Ballet (SAB) were planning their costumes for the annual Halloween Open House. SAB also asked its staff: what is the spookiest ballet? The clear winner: George Balanchine’s one-act ballet La Valse.

On 28 September, just a few days after the opening of its fall season, New York City Ballet (NYCB) celebrated the 10th anniversary of its annual Fall Fashion Gala. The event pairs choreographers with top fashion designers and commissions them to create new works together.

Few would think of Giselle, the most famous of all Romantic ballets, as an autumn ballet – but it is. The ballet’s first act is filled with the joy and dances traditionally associated with this season. Its second act is full of the darker emotions we associate with autumn: as nature prepares for winter, the trees shed their leaves and appear to be dying. The legend of the Wilis (dead dancing-girls) that inspired the ballet is very appropriate for Halloween.

On 5, 6 and 12 September 2022, London celebrated the iconic dancer Rudolf Nureyev (1938 – 1993) at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Nureyev was the first international ballet superstar. Even people who knew nothing about ballet knew Rudolf Nureyev. Nureyev’s legend started with a scandal. His curiosity almost ruined him.

Life can change overnight. As one of the Bolshoi Theatre’s leading ballerinas, Russian ballerina Olga Smirnova was a national hero, a glamorous icon of Russian culture. But from one day to the next, she became an outcast and traitor in the eyes of the Russian government – and an international hero and symbol of artistic and human integrity in the eyes of the world.