PLATTSBURGH — Doll enchantment is front and center in the Adirondack Dance Company’s “An Evening of the Arts featuring Coppélia.” It will will be presented at SUNY Plattsburgh’s E. Glenn Giltz ...

There was something special about the video Sophia Sulzle picked up at the North Mankato Taylor Library that day. She was 11-years-old at the time, and had been browsing through the library’s ...

The Boston Opera House boasts cavernous ceilings adorned with gold filigree and chandeliers, which naturally calls for performances of virtuosity. With the opening of its production “Coppélia” last ...

It might seem curious that a bouncy little pixie in a bright apron and a peasant blouse is ballet’s Wonder Woman, but this is the revelation of “Coppelia,” the comic ballet that, in a genre full of ...

Once upon a time, before Barbies and MTV, there were automatons, dolls that mimicked human movement. Automatons were a major entertainment in the 1800s, there being no Super Bowl. And so it was that ...

If a funny classical ballet sounds like a contradiction in terms, remember that opposites will attract. It’s a point the Shanghai Ballet gracefully demonstrates in its latest production, the playful ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like every performing-arts genre, ballet has a stock of dependable classics that it can take off the shelf, dust off and successfully bring back to life time ...

Mar. 25—TUPELO — Mary Conlee Wilson was in the sixth grade when she performed in Tupelo Ballet's 2015 production of "Coppelia." Six years later, Wilson is once again cast in the company's version of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. E.T.A. Hoffman’s gothic romance The Sandman may have inspired it, but Coppélia is a comedy: Giselle turned on its ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After seven years with the Colorado Ballet, Dana Benton is about to take on the biggest role of her career. The 25-year-old soloist will rotate with two of ...