Alexei Ratmansky creates a joyful new “Paquita” for New York City Ballet, giving the dancers a classical frame in which to ...

Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita” brings Marius Petipa’s 19th-century style to New York City Ballet through two lenses: his own ...

Paquita is far outside the Company’s wheelhouse. It is classical and rooted in a history Balanchine wished to leave behind. But this is a good thing. World premieres can be fresh and tender—taking ...

In 2014, for a company in Munich, he staged the full “Paquita,” using recondite early-twentieth-century ballet notations as a choreographic Rosetta Stone. Now he revisits just one portion of ...

Academy of Russian Ballet The Academy of Russian Ballet, the first Russian dance school in Minnesota, was established in 2001 by Kirill Bak and Svetlana Gavrilova, both graduated from Vaganova ...

Paquita and La Bayadere, and George Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht Ballet. Her early ballet training began with Mitsuyo Kishibe in Tokyo. At 13, she moved to the U.K. and studied ballet with Desmond ...