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Boston Ballet in George Balanchine’s “Mozartiana.” The artists of the Boston Ballet opened their “Winter Experience” Thursday night, delivering a bill of four strong performances that combined elements of neoclassical American ballet and modern performance. COURTESY OF ROSALIE O’CONNOR

Boston Ballet’s “Winter Experience” toes the line of classic, contemporary dance

Karyna Cheung March 25, 2025
The artists of the Boston Ballet opened their Winter Experience Thursday night, delivering a bill of four strong performances that combined elements of neoclassical American ballet and modern performance.
Shanzah Rafiqi | Graphic Artist

Is art really for everyone? | Price of Existence

Karyna Cheung April 5, 2024

I worked at a commercial art gallery for an internship last summer.  There were a few things I learned. One, art is expensive. The cheapest items I can recall were postcard-sized sketches worth...

Ji Young Chae performs in Boston Ballet’s Don Quixote

REVIEW: ‘Don Quixote’ valiantly opens Boston Ballet’s spring season

James Buckser March 19, 2023
Rudolf Nureyev’s ballet interpretation of the famous storyline will run at the Boston Ballet from March 16-26.
mural in west campus at boston university

Boston Cultural Council approves 2021 grants for artists, organizations

Tanisha Bhat February 24, 2021
This year’s funding is composed of around $489,000 in grants from the council’s annual budget, leaving just under $7,000 available for later use. Applicants included local writing contest Boston in 100 Words, City Ballet of Boston and Chinatown’s Pao Arts Center.
The Boston Ballet is offering a streamed “Look Back, Focus Forward” performance and a monthly at-home studio program to virtual audiences this year in place of its usual in-person productions. LAURYN ALLEN/ DFP FILE

Boston Ballet keeps dancing with virtual ‘BB@yourhome’ program

Nicole Bartuch January 28, 2021
While nearly all live performances are on hold, Boston Ballet's "BB@yourhome" program gives new audiences the opportunity to discover dancers’ talent and be entertained — at a time when the industry demands creativity. The “Look Back, Focus Forward” performance joined in its first ever virtual season Jan. 21, and will be available until the end of the month.
“GraceLand,” a short film created by Boston University alumna Bonnie Kathleen Discepolo, follows a mother and her daughter Grace, who believes she is the reincarnation of Elvis Presley. COURTESY OF BONNIE KATHLEEN DISCEPOLO

BU alum conquers gender identity in Elvis Presley-inspired film

Ashley Soebroto November 5, 2020
A former BU School of Theater and College of Communication student recently released a narrative comedy short film "GraceLand," which explores topics of gender, identity and acceptance.
Roddy Doble and Patric Palkens gracefully perform their highlighted duet in "Obsidian Tear." PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘Obsidian Tear’ mesmerizes audience with abstract, unconventional ballet

Lauren Frias November 6, 2017

[mediagrid cat="45041"] A fanfare of brass instruments erupted from the orchestra pit, punctuating the nearly dead silent auditorium. The curtain raised to reveal not a cast of exquisitely dressed ballerinas,...

FRILOT: Boston Ballet and Blue Man Group in one weekend

FRILOT: Boston Ballet and Blue Man Group in one weekend

Madison Frilot May 2, 2017

In terms of entertainment, this weekend couldn’t have been more diversely eventful. On Friday evening, I was lucky enough to attend Boston Ballet’s opening night of the classic ballet, "Sleeping Beauty."...

Lia Cirio in rehearsal for the Boston Ballet performance of “Le Corsaire.” PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Ballet “Le Corsaire” brings 19th-century ballet into modern times

Lauren Frias November 2, 2016

[mediagrid cat="34220"]A deafening silence draped over the crowd in the Boston Opera House as the lights dimmed and the curtains rose. A boat full of pirates in a stormy sea appear behind the scrim, only...

REVIEW: Comfortable “Nutcracker” feels like recurring dream

Brooke Jackson-Glidden December 4, 2014

In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s renowned ballet, “The Nutcracker,” the shifty-yet-kind Herr Drosselmeyer gives the blue-eyed, pure Clara Silberhaus a nutcracker toy for Christmas. That evening, from...

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