NEW YORK -- Although Marius Petipa's "La Bayadere" lacks the cachet of his "Sleeping Beauty," which American Ballet Theatre will offer in a new production this season at the Metropolitan Opera House, ...

Here in the West we tend to chuck two-thirds of Petipa's "La Bayadère" and get straight to the plotless poetry - the "Kingdom of the Shades" scene, 32 women in heavenly white. After all, the music is ...

This Wednesday evening, the Joffrey Ballet opened the curtain on a magnificent revival of La Bayadère, a classic work that was given new life by Stanton Welch of the Houston Ballet in 2010 before the ...

Set in mythical India, La bayadère is one of the masterpieces of 19th-century Russian ballet, a brilliant example of a grand spectacular production with huge crowd scenes, colourful costumes and ...

Set in mythical India, La bayadère is one of the masterpieces of 19th-century Russian ballet, a brilliant example of a grand spectacular production with huge crowd scenes, colourful costumes and ...

The pleasures of the Paris Opera Ballet “La Bayadere” at the Orange County Performing Arts Center come from ensemble dancing of great elegance and uniformity--unusually high, sharp and buoyant ...

I can't fathom why the Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg chose to open its season at the Metropolitan Opera House with a La Bayadère that took close to four hours in running time ...

Hokum, even when it is delivered with a foreign accent and no matter who dances it, remains hokum. Rudolf Nureyev's opulent 1992 staging of Marius Petipa's "La Bayadere," the vehicle with which the ...