Miami City Ballet’s season opens the evening of Oct. 18 at the Adrienne Arsht Center with Ballo della Regina, a technical feat of precision and speed, with lots of fast turns, hops on point and at ...

Principal Dancer Megan Fairchild has been performing the lead in Ballo della Regina since her capstone SAB Workshop performance. During the ballet's only adagio movement, she reflects on learning the ...

So what does the piece tell us? Very little, really. Staged by Merrill Ashley, its original lead, it is efficient, neat, well-rehearsed. And I can see no real purpose to it. The curtain rises on a ...

Houston Ballet dancer Allison Miller had to bend over to catch her breath during rehearsal last week for "Ballo Della Regina," but she was beaming. Other dancers in the room applauded; she'd nailed a ...

The first time Merrill Ashley danced Ballo della Regina, in 1978, a critic said she danced so quickly she appeared to be in two places at once. Now Ashley's memory must be as swift as her feet. After ...

Robbins or Balanchine? That’s the question this week at N.Y.C.B., which will offer programs devoted to each choreographer. The all-Balanchine bill combines the bubbly “Ballo della Regina” (set to ...