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Anna Hop has already become a choreographer of some note, but combines it with a full-time job as a member of Polish National Ballet’s corps de ballet.

With ten new productions and a ballet world premiere, the 2023–24 season at Zurich is the opera gastronome’s delight.

Tom Pye has drawn inspiration from the magical fairytale illustrations of Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham with his new set designs for Frederick Ashton's Cinderella.

What is it about classical ballet that makes it so enduring? Darcey Bussell, Cynthia Harvey and Aaron S. Watkin give their views on the continuing importance of classical dance.

Bachtrack’s new Dance Editor has had a remarkable career as a dancer, working with everyone from Rudolf Nureyev, to Margot Fonteyn, to Alicia Markova.

British dancer Rebecca Haw runs an agency giving guidance to young dances auditioning for places in ballet companies. She describes the impact Brexit has had on British dancers.

For dance companies, the National Portfolio funding for 2023-26 reveals many new names, with winners for diversity and disability and losers for established companies in London.

The young Russian pianist never intended to play Bach's Goldberg Variations – such is the shadow cast by Glenn Gould – but then choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker proposed something unusual. 

Jenifer Sarver looks at the disturbing short stories, which, ironically, inspired two of the lightest confections of the ballet repertoire: The Nutcracker and Coppélia.

The Artistic Director of English National Ballet reflects on her company's lockdown achievements and discusses her first foray into choreography to revive a 19th-century classic. 

Since the end of the 19th century, a whole raft of schools and companies were founded by women, resulting in a large number of seminal works in dance history.

The artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders talks about the travails and inspirations of lockdown and the need to continually ask questions about culture.

Has lockdown made Hofesh Shechter more reflective? More political? A better teacher? Has he taken the time to compose? Read our interview to find out...

The founder of La Veronal has been busy during lockdown and he's now back in the studio. He tells us what's coming up.

The associate artist of KVS (Flemish Royal Theatre) and co-founder of Belgian dance-theatre compagnie Peeping Tom tells us about the upset caused by the pandemic and its consequences for future productions

Co-director of CCN2 (the National Choreographic Centre in Grenoble) since 2016, Rachid Ouramdane tells us how the pandemic has affected the way he creates and produces his work.

Follow the ballet stars in their daily routines in their own homes, often in good company: not only are we seeing them on pointe, but we also get a cat, a hoover, a Quiche Lorraine...

In conversation with Bence Vági, founder and artistic director of contemporary circus ensemble Recirquel.

Benjamin Freemantle, newly minted soloist at San Francisco Ballet, tells us about some memorable roles, about his ventures into choreography, and how he's trying to make a difference. 

With the reopening of the Grand Théâtre and a Ring cycle, Tobias Richter's last season finishes his ten year tenure in style.

Parisians with an appetite for contemporary dance have been lucky this Spring, with two opportunities to see the work of Hofesh Shechter. In between rehearsals, Bachtrack writer Laurine Mortha caught up with him

With seven new productions under the title "Alles was Recht ist" (All things just) the Bayerische Staatsoper promises an exciting new season.

Thirteen years’ after its restoration - and at the grand old age of 140 - Sylvia might, at last, be free of her jinx. Discover the ballet's complex history, written here by Graham Watts.

Going from strength to strength under the leadership of Tamara Rojo, English National Ballet presents MacMillan's Song of the Earth as part of nationwide celebrations of the choreographer's formidable legacy. 

The Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the Ugly Duckling of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets. It was the second in the trilogy, completed in 1889, but has neither the dramatic thrust of Swan Lake nor the calorific sugar-coated charm of The Nutcracker in terms of popular appeal. 

Ask anyone who claims to know nothing about ballet to actually name one, the chances are it will be one of Tchaikovsky's.

Ashley Bouder is putting the finishing touches on her upcoming program for the Ashley Bouder Project. It is an all-women choreographers program, and the composers are also specially commissioned.

Appraising the legacy and the future of the dance company established nearly 50 years ago by pioneer Alice Reyes, whose distinctive signature is both Asian and Western.

Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is in New York. Ahead of the première of her new work for the New York City Ballet, Bachtrack visits her in the studio during rehearsals. 

Gemma Bond, a dancer with American Ballet Theatre in New York talks to Andrew Blackmore Dobbyn of her choreographies, juggling creating works and dancing for a ballet company, and her new piece for ABT Studio Company 

Yesterday, Benjamin Millepied stepped down as director of Paris Opéra Ballet, prompting the question: can the director of a large international company juggle a management role with the desire to create?

As part of our focus on the Baroque period, we look at the practice of dance at the Royal Court of Louis XIV

An interview with Ms Feng Ying, Artistic Director of the National Ballet of China, who talks of the company's recent engagements abroad, the History of ballet in China, the company's distinct tradition and the challenges ahead. 

Interview with Sergei Filin, Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Ballet, in the midst of a busy tour to Hong Kong Arts Festival

San Francisco based choreographer Joe Goode talks to Jaime Robles of his upcoming site specific performance Poetics of Space at the Joe Goode Annex, of his attraction to text, voice and music, and of engaging audiences differently.

Along with chestnuts, turkey and Carols from King's, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without The Nutcracker. It has become a staple part of the festive season. 

Ahead of the performances of Outlier as part of Sadler's Wells' upcoming See the Music, Hear the Dance, Wayne McGregor talked to us of his musical choices, feelings about Adès' music, and his choreographic process.

Ahead of the performances of Life Story as part of Sadler's Wells' upcoming See the Music, Hear the Dance Karole Armitage talked to us of his musical choices, and his choreographic process.

Ahead of the première of his new pièce, The Grit in the Oyster set to Adès' Piano Quintet, Alexander Whitley talked to us of his musical choices, and his choreographic process.

Ahead of the première of her new pièce, for 64 dancers, set to Thomas Adès' Polaris Crystal Pite talked to us of her musical choices, and her choreographic process.

While in Paris with for Les Etes de la Danse, Helgi Tomasson talked to Bachtrack of his choreography, artistic vision, inspirations and aspirations. An intimate portrait of San Francisco Ballet's Artistic Director, interviewed by Laurine Mortha.

Myles Thatcher discusses ballet as a powerful art form and how keeping an open mind in the studio is important in an interview for the Bachtrack Choreographers Project. 

Shannon Gillen discusses creating a house of infinite detail so that the dancers and the audience alike can believe in the experience of her choreography in performance. As part of Bachtrack Choreographers Project 2014. 

Sarah A.O. Rosner discusses her plethora of influences, the challenges and the benefits of creating sustainable, site-specific curated works with a team of true partners.  

Raja Kelly discusses his many influences and the importance of finding dancers who can “think” for Bachtrack Choreographer's Project 2014.

Pam Tanowitz discusses contributing to the field of dance and describes the "intimate conversations" between choreographer, dancers and audience in an interview for Bachtrack Choreographers Project. 

Read our interviews with emerging and established choreographers around the world for an insight into how they create and relate to their work.We ask choreographers worlwide the same set of quetsions, nd get an insight into their unique creative process, approach, inspirations and aspirations. 

In interview with Rosamaria Kostic-Cisneros, Caroline Bowditch states: "By 2020 the world will be a different place. Anyone who wants to dance, can dance. We won't be talking about inclusive dance we will just be talking about dance. It is not a matter of if, but when.” 

Dance is a way forward to help often vulnerable and excluded groups. Rosamaria Kostic-Cisneros discusses projects which aim to bring dance to such communities in the UK.

Katja Vaghi discusses the application of dance to help alleviate chronic degenerative neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s.