Head thrown back, ballet dancer Eric Carnes strikes a Grecian pose on the floor: arms stretched out as if to draw a bow, with one knee bent. He takes command of his role of the faun during a recent ...

Four ballerinas, long hair floating to their waists, began their first rehearsal for Jerome Robbins’ “Afternoon of a Faun” in a Pacific Northwest Ballet studio last week. Stager Bart Cook, a former ...

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, ...

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 ...

When the Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky entered the realm of choreography, he arrived with a controversial splash. Nijinsky’s first dance creation was “Afternoon of a faun,” whose depiction of a faun ...

Tending the heritage of Jerome Robbins has always been a deeply personal project for San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson; it's also a mission that stretches the company to its ...

We open with two dancers, a man and a woman, on a bare stage. He is Jacques d’Amboise, one of the greatest male dancers this country ever produced, but you barely notice him. Your eye is drawn to the ...

With its extraordinary footage and a story replete with tragic ironies, Nancy Buirski's documentary on famed '50s prima ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq often soars. Buirski opens and closes her film with ...