If you’ve ever wanted to check out the ballet, or “Swan Lake” in particular, do it now. I can’t be clearer than that. Orlando Ballet’s production of the timeless classic, which opens the company’s ...

The origins of “Swan Lake” are difficult to trace, though most audiences accept the story has roots in Russian and German folktales and most ballet companies base their productions on the 1895 revival ...

“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto of uncertain authorship, a score by neophyte ballet composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and choreography, now lost, by the now forgotten Julius Reisinger.

Los Angeles is neither a dance center nor a dance desert. We don’t have much of a history of nourishing major ballet companies. We do have a plethora of smaller companies — modern, classical and ...

The darkened, crowded theater swelled with orchestral music from unseen speakers. The tune was familiar — one of those pieces of classical music that everyone recognizes, Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” ...