Balanchine’s Don Quixote—that ambitious, mysterious work that fascinated and confused us all back when it was made in 1965—has just been restaged, by Suzanne Farrell, for the first time since it ...

Suzanne Farrell’s revival of Balanchine’s Don Quixote some months ago was a big (and successful) event, resurrecting that problematic full-evening Suzanne Farrell’s revival of Balanchine’s Don Quixote ...

“I’m a tyrant,” claims ballet icon Suzanne Farrell, while coaching dancers of Boston Ballet recently at the company’s rehearsal space in the South End. But she says it with a warm smile, a soft voice, ...

Two principal dancers will say farewell in the 2026-27 season, which features the revival of Balanchine’s “Pithoprakta” and Alexei Ratmansky’s “Romeo and Juliet.” By Adam Nagourney The spring season ...

"The more you listen to the music, the more you hear things in it, and that lends itself to a different way of doing the choreography." So says Suzanne Farrell, one of the most musically gifted ...

There are many ballet luminaries but few superstars like Suzanne Farrell. She joined the New York City Ballet in 1961 and became muse to legendary choreographer George Balanchine. After performing in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Sometimes he called her "the other half of my apple." She was his muse, ...

one of the 20th century’s great choreographers, famously loved speed — he let the ballet orchestra gallop and taught his coltish ballerinas to rebound quickly from the floor. Yet he also loved the ...

Who better than Suzanne Farrell to speak about the ways in which George Balanchine put sex onstage? For 20 years she was his goddess. Their romantic liaison may have been, for the most part, private, ...

A 30-year career as a path-breaking ballerina is a hard act to follow, but Suzanne Farrell has carved out a worthy second act. Her own ensemble, based at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., ...

There’s a moment in George Balanchine’s La Source, as performed by the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow’s Ted Shawn Theatre, when eight women in identical fluffy pink dresses bend forward and ...