Ballet To The People
Starts with a plié
Who we are
Manifesto
No suffering for your art No despotic teachers No evil, manipulative stage mothers No tutus oozing blood No battered feet No Coke-and-cigarettes diets No one sitting on your shoulders to force your split No descents into madness as you struggle to wring out one more fouetté turn Just a safe and well-lit place to unravel the mysteries of ballet and play with the building blocks of technique A place where dancers come in all shapes and sizes A place where it is okay to fail repeatedly in the process of mastery A slightly dangerous place where around the next corner may lie unfamiliar and entertaining challenges, both physical and mental A place that you walk out of feeling a little taller, a little lighter on your feet, very centered, and a little closer to possessing that mysterious power that turns maidens into swans and nutcrackers into princes
Who we are
What we’re saying
Playlist.
What we’re dancing to
Playlist.
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Tristan
in the age of Timothée
March 16, 2026
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Ratmansky banishes a king
February 9, 2026
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BalletX and ensemble132 boldly reimagine
Petrushka
January 12, 2026
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Shakespeare ‘Problem’ Play gets the Wheeldon Treatment at ABT
July 6, 2025
review
Legends Live On: Gillian Murphy’s Last Giselle
June 27, 2025
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Returning to Woolf Works: ABT at the Met
June 25, 2025
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Summer in New York: ABT’s Misseldine and Bell in Stellar Swan Lake
June 13, 2025
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Strangling time, at the Guggenheim
May 17, 2025
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Inventive New Collaborations in CounterPointe 12
March 16, 2025
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By Land and Sea, Tharp’s Jubilee
March 16, 2025
review
Unity Saves the Day
March 3, 2025
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Akram Khan’s Provocative and Timely GIGENIS
February 18, 2025
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New Paquita, Mixed Results
February 12, 2025
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The Mystical Beauty of Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
February 3, 2025
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Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE: Being the change for 40 years
January 27, 2025
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Ragamala’s Children of Dharma: A Well-timed Tale Told in Dance
January 15, 2025
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Crime and Punishment: A Novel Ballet Lost in Translation
November 5, 2024
review
Otherworldly: ABT’s Signature Works
October 30, 2024
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‘Neo’ at the Heart of ABT’s Second Program
October 24, 2024
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Dazzled as ABT’s Fall Season Begins
October 23, 2024
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State of Darkness Illumines A Poorly Curated Program 5 at Fall for Dance
October 4, 2024
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Like Water for Chocolate: Too Many Ingredients
July 22, 2024
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ABT’s Romeo and Juliet: An Enduring Masterpiece
July 19, 2024
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Three New York Premieres from Smuin Ballet in an Uneven Evening at the Joyce
July 17, 2024
review
ABT’s Swan Lake – A Classic in Need of a Tune-Up
July 10, 2024
