The American Ballet Theatre principal is pushing herself—and ballet—to be better.

In the June 1963 issue of Dance Magazine, we profiled a young Royal Ballet dancer named Lynn Seymour. At 14, she was invited to move to London to study at the Royal Ballet School. The Vancouver native told us she arrived “terribly excited and more than a little scared. I just sunk my teeth in […]

It’s been 34 years since Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling touched down on American soil, when The Royal Ballet first performed the great English master’s tour de force ballet stateside. On September 22–24, Houston Ballet becomes the first North American company to perform MacMillan’s epic chronicle of the murder-suicide of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, […]