For those balletomanes who have found the fare a bit austere and abstract in this fast-concluding San Francisco Ballet season, “Onegin” is back as the final program of the year. Based on Alexander ...

In early August, six of Houston Ballet’s most accomplished dancers – three women and three men, working in pairs -- were thrilled to finally be learning the leading roles of a ballet some of them have ...

Lucky audience to see this stellar pair of dance-actors attempting with all their matchless skills to infuse blood into the pallid veins of what’s largely a delineation of Pushkin's plot, rather than ...

Undaunted by the existence of two famous operatic treatments, John Cranko – then director of Stuttgart Ballet – saw the potential for wordless drama in what was originally a very wordy tale. More ...

John Cranko's Onegin was recently presented by American Ballet Theatre. As I expected, the reviews weren't great. It seems Cranko never commands much respect over here. The reviews all describe the ...

The appeal of John Cranko’s Onegin is its leading characters, star parts with stormy emotions for dancers to get their teeth into. It returns to the Royal Ballet with a fascinating mix of established ...

As the curtain fell Friday night at San Francisco Ballet’s premiere of John Cranko’s 1965 evening-long “Onegin,” elegant Vitor Luiz looked spent, and petite Maria Kochetkova gasped for breath as her ...

"Onegin is a compelling expression of human emotion and experience. With dramatic clarity and stylistic beauty, John Cranko paints a vivid reflection of Pushkin's literary masterpiece-a story that has ...