By Marisa C. Hayes Seven months ago, when “socially distanced pas de deux” had not yet entered the balletomane’s vocabulary, the Paris Opera Ballet was just beginning to emerge from an unprecedented strike. Within weeks, the company’s two opera houses, as well as all theatres across France, were forced to close in response to the
by Karen Barr George Balanchine’s ballet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, recently took an unusual twist through the Florida waterways, which inspired newly commissioned sets and costumes by Michele Oka Doner for Miami City Ballet’s 30th anniversary season. Shakespeare’s story of love, quarrels and marriage is set in a magical forest full of fairies and mortals.