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A woman disguised as a boy falls in love with a man she can never have - it's the stuff of romantic tragedies from Shakespeare to "Yentl" and beyond. In ancient China, a similar legend took on fame as ...

Located in Shanghai, China, the troupe, established in 1979, has been the recipient of a total of 32 medals in various dance categories from around the world. However, this record should come as no ...

Shanghai Ballet, one of China's major classical dance companies, visits Houston for the first time Tuesday. It will perform "The Butterfly Lovers," a tragic love story that involves a disguised ...

Ballet’s living center is shifting eastward, with more and more of the most exciting arts and artists coming out of China, Korea and Japan. New and truly modern productions are being exported ...

We won't be seeing Houston Ballet Principals Yuriko Kajiya and Connor Walsh perform in Madame Butterfly this season after all. Credit: Photo by Amitava Sarkar (2016), Courtesy of Houston Ballet Thanks ...

Houston Ballet has revealed its 2026-2027 Season, a lineup that foregrounds the company’s dual commitment to artistic innovation and rich performance traditions. This season highlights mixed repertory ...

Anyone who had associated the Shanghai Ballet with "The White-Haired Girl," that propagandistic bore of the 1970s, was in for a gratifying surprise Friday evening when the company made its Berkeley ...

Fresh from its appearances at the Chicago Dancing Festival on August 25, Houston Ballet opens its 2012-13 season with artistic director Stanton Welch’s signature work Madame Butterfly on a program ...

Whatever the confluences of culture, tradition, and 20th-century upheaval that have contributed to Chinese dance, as presented by Beijing Dance Academy members on their current West Coast tour, the ...

Gavin: Hey Arolyn! First thing, tell us a little bit about yourself. Arolyn: Hey! So I've been with Ballet West for my whole career so far, starting in Ballet West II, for 12 seasons, going on 13. I ...