The great American theater and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins once wrote to a friend, "You know talent is really a gift from nowhere, alighting on some poor slob in spite of himself." Robbins ...

The Orchestra Now performs Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun for its final New York City concert this season, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater on Sunday, May 19 at 3 PM. The concert ...

The radiant beauty of Tanaquil Le Clercq burns through the grainy images and fuzzy kinetoscopes in Nancy Buirski’s stunning documentary tribute Afternoon of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq. One of the most ...

She was a dancer of uncommon style and beauty, full of candor, passion, and humor. Struck down by polio at the height of her career, her personal tragedy became another kind of artistic triumph.

On the night of September 10, 1959, in a theater in the town of Besançon in eastern France, a twenty-four-year-old Japanese man was conducting.Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"This was ...

Glimpse into a world where the studio is the stage, where practice becomes performance and viewer acts as mirror: the world of Jerome Robbins' 1953 masterwork, Afternoon of a Faun. Subtle, sensual, ...

This new film by Nancy Buirski documents the extraordinary dancing of the American ballerina Tanaquil Leclerq, as well as the terrible illness that ended her career at the age of twenty-seven.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FASHION IN MOVEMENT: Dior Men's artistic director Kim Jones has designed the costume for a new dance commission premiering at the ...

To the late great Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, the Afternoon of a Faun was a lazy, sensual episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy’s famed music) in horns, tail and dappled ...

At the Nureyev Festival at the London Coliseum in July 1983, Rudolf Nureyev danced the faun as part of a Homage to Diaghilev in a mixed bill of ballets. Then, in the late 1980s, dance notation ...