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Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, 79, and girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, 36, tore up the dance floor at the American Ballet Theatre's June Gala.

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LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. - Lake Tahoe Dance Collective (LTDC) presents the eleventh annual Lake Tahoe Dance Festival, which will take place this summer from July 26-29, 2023 at venues in Tahoe City and Truckee, Calif. Tickets start at $25 and are available online at laketahoedancecollective.org.

With the help of novelist Laura Esquivel, Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon cooks up a cinematic ballet for American Ballet Theatre’s summer season at the Met.

Having been unexpectedly delighted by the Royal Ballet’s revival of Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games at Covent Garden last week, I slapped my wrists for underrating him as a prolific craftsman. After a second exposure to his Cinderella, handsomely mounted by English National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall, I have reverted to that ho-hum view.

ABT's Summer Season at the Metropolitan Opera House features a modern masterpiece and three of the most popular story ballets of all time.

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How do you choreograph a scene of mass food poisoning? It gets a splashy New York premiere this week at American Ballet Theatre. Wheeldon is no stranger to storytelling challenges, either in ballet, where he adapted Shakespeare’s vexing “The Winter’s Tale,” or in theater, where he's won two Tonys, the latest for choreographing the hit “MJ: The Musical,” about Michael Jackson.

How do you choreograph a scene of mass food poisoning? A young woman in an erotic frenzy? Or a couple whose passion is so intense, they literally catch fire? These

How do you choreograph a scene of mass food poisoning.