WHEN BALLET BECAME AMERICAN American Contemporary Ballet celebrates the choreographer who traded princes and swans for jazz, swagger, and pure fun Before George Balanchine arrived in America, ballet belonged largely to princes, princesses, fairy tales, and European courts. Within a generation, he transformed it into something unmistakably American. Balanchine understood that Americans moved differently. They… The p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:55AM on May 26, 2026