“Fancy Nancy” illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser has partnered with ballet dancer Allegra Kent for the new book “Grand Jeté and Me.” It follows a little girl and her grandmother creating a holiday ...

NEW YORK — When Lincoln Kirstein and choreographer George Balanchine were attempting to get a company off the ground in the 1930s and ‘40s, they had little more than a pickup troupe, with meager ...

One of the most important choreographers of the 20th century, George Balanchine, would have been 100 years old this week. Born in Russia, he made his career in the United States, where he died in 1983 ...

Kent, a principal ballerina of the New York City Ballet for three decades under George Balanchine, lends her experience to this simply told picture book following a child and her former prima ...

The audience was perplexed. What was George Balanchine trying to do, anyhow? One week be premiered his rollicking, straightforward Western Symphony with his New York City Ballet (TIME, Sept. 20), then ...

A tribute to the choreographer (1904-83) by six of his former ballerinas, including Maria Tallchief, Merrill Ashley, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Darci Kistler and Mary Ellen Moylan.