“Harlequinade,” American Ballet Theatre’s new production coming to Costa Mesa next week, is a lush re-creation of a largely forgotten ballet from 1900 and, for the ABT costume team, a visual spectacle ...

This season, as part of its ongoing Ratmansky Project, American Ballet Theatre presents Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s latest reimagining of a storied dance classic in Harlequinade, based on ...

The Segerstrom Center’s special relationship with American Ballet Theatre continues this month with the West Coast premiere of a new full-length ballet. In “Harlequinade,” ABT’s acclaimed Alexei ...

Why didn’t it please? I’ve always thought it was because Americans, always happy with a romantic comedy like Coppélia, are just not accustomed to the hard-edged, even cruel comedy of the commédia ...

Kenny Easter thought he was done with ballet. After years on the stages of New York, retiring from dance at 40 sounded perfectly reasonable — until a call came from his colleagues at the American ...

Classical ballet is not big on happy endings. As you may recall seeing through mascara-stained tears, “Swan Lake,” “La Sylphide” and, of course, “Romeo and Juliet” all typically end with the leads ...