Before pointe shoes and tutus, ballet used to look and sound quite different... Following its birth in Italy, ballet flourished in France in the court of King Louis XIV. In the early 18th Century, the ...

BERKELEY — With its luminous score and frequent flights into choreographed dance sequences, “Le Temple de la Gloire” (The Temple of Glory) is a rare example of the large-scale works of the French ...

Every other June, music fans flock to the Boston Early Music Festival for a week-long extravaganza of some of the best historically informed performances of music anywhere in the world. Since its ...

Before there was George Bernard Shaw (or My Fair Lady, for that matter) there was Rameau’s take on the myth of Pygmalion – the artist so in love with his own creation that she comes to life. The ...

If there’s one composer who embodies the French musical genius it must surely be Jean-Philippe Rameau, the 250th anniversary of whose death is being marked with a string of performances at this year’s ...

There’s a new ballet in town. It's worth dancing about. Ventana Ballet, directed by AJ Garcia-Rameau, made its debut at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center with "Disrupt," seven ...

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There’s something soft and vulnerable about ballet in an intimate space. It’s such a remote, rarified art form. Many people think of ballet as austere performance. Starched skirts and opera glasses, ...