The Wild Life and Times of a Soon-to-Be Former City Ballet Dancer

Harrison Ball is retiring. After battling addiction, he is engaged to Zac Posen, serious about acting and grateful for his career.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/arts/dance/harrison-ball-retiring-new-york-city-ballet.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-variants-shadow-lda-unique-diversify-time-cutoff-30&alpha=0.05&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=160160424&impression_id=303c742a-e8e0-11ed-aaf2-9fff480809ee&index=2&pgtype=Article&pool=published-assets-db-4-ls®ion=footer&req_id=715793461&shadow_vec_sim=0.10263026003504618&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=0_pers_bandit_diversified

Review: A Trip From Light to Dark With the National Ballet of Canada

The company returned to New York City Center with recent works by Crystal Pite and David Dawson, along with a vintage offering by Kenneth MacMillan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/arts/dance/review-national-ballet-of-canada-city-center.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Dance

A Sugarplum’s Swan Song

After a season of saying farewell to cherished roles, the City Ballet principal Sterling Hyltin prepares to take her final bow in “The Nutcracker.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/dance/sterling-hyltin-new-york-city-ballet-retirement.html

Olga Smirnova, who has for over a decade been a star of the Bolshoi, the Russian company whose name is synonymous with ballet, has left.

In a move likely to shake up the ballet world, Ms. Smirnova, 30, on Wednesday announced that she had joined the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, becoming one of the most significant Russian cultural figures to leave the country because of its invasion of Ukraine.

Ms. Smirnova, who since 2016 has been a principal soloist at the Bolshoi, said in a news release that she had been thinking about leaving for some time. “It’s just that the current circumstances accelerated this process.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/arts/dance/nutcracker-new-york-city-ballet.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Dance

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/arts/dance/thomas-forster-american-ballet-theater.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-megan-fairchild-jovani-furlan-india-bradley.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Arts

‘The Nutcracker’ Returns, With New Rules for Children

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/arts/dance/nutcracker-rules-children-covid.html?smid=url-share

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/arts/dance/city-ballet-texting-scandal-amar-ramasar-retire.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Dance