On Oct. 6, the curtain rose for the long-awaited Chinese Culture Year in France. As one of the key opening activities, a ballet entitled The Red Company of Women, performed by the National Ballet of ...

A series of workshops that are part of the Dance Reflections festival help to demystify contemporary dance. There are classes for pros, nonprofessionals and even children. By Brian Seibert Dance ...

Entering time fort which is dedicated this fall in Paris, Maguy Marin comes with the Ballet de l ' Opéra de Lyon for the first time at Chaillot, and signed with Cinderella one of his greatest ...

Its program Trois Grandes Fugues features a trilogy of interpretations of Beethoven’s challenging and confronting 1825 masterwork, The Great Fugue for strings. “Trois Granges Fugues is a work we are ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Lyon Ballet gives the ubiquitous category “contemporary dance” a good name by doing something else. The company’s ...

Merce Cunningham’s demands on dancers are the stuff of legend, but as in the celebration of two of his classic works here, utterly essential Merce Cunningham was always ahead of his time: as a dancer ...

Youth, passion, seduction and fear were the themes portrayed Tuesday night as one of France’s most distinguished modern dance companies, the Lyon Opera Ballet, graced the stage in Mershon Auditorium.