by Kyra Laubacher | Sep 19, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Seven years ago, world-renowned choreographers Vasily Medvedev and Stanislav Fečo founded the Petipa Heritage Foundation. Their goal: to preserve, restore, and enhance the works of Marius Petipa, the father of classical ballet. Together, Medvedev and Fečo have...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Dec 25, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, News
The Nutcracker has been a dancer’s tradition for over 125 years. As a student at Russia’s Imperial Ballet School in Saint Petersburg in the early 1900s, a young George Balanchine performed in the original production of The Nutcracker, created in 1892, at...