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Ballet
From Hong Kong to New York and beyond, find out what's happening in one of the most graceful and elegant - and punishingly hard to learn - forms of dance.
Noelia Ruiz plays the title role in Ballet Nacional de España’s La Bella Otero, performed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on February 27 as part of Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Tony Luk
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | She seduced some of the most powerful men. A ballet tries to tell her story

Despite some excellent dancing, Ballet Nacional de España’s La Bella Otero fails to do justice to the notorious Belle Époque star’s story.

Wellness

Hong Kong Ballet and Pure Fitness join forces to offer new exercise programme

Icons and Influencers

Q&A | High barre: a chat with dancer Roberto Bolle ahead of Caravaggio in Hong Kong

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Why this star ballerina was an ‘ugly duckling’ and her struggles with pain

Recently dancing in Hong Kong, Natalia Osipova talks about going from Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet to Britain’s Royal Ballet and her future hopes.

Natalia Osipova and Patricio Revé perform the Balcony pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet during the Hong Kong Ballet’s annual gala on October 15, 2025. Osipova reflects on her career, from her Bolshoi beginnings to the Royal Ballet. Photo: Tony Luk, courtesy of HKB
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, October 17-19

A Shakespearean ballet, a beer-filled celebration, a day of family fun by the sea and more await Hongkongers this weekend.

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

What to expect at Hong Kong Arts Festival 2026, from Mozart to Caravaggio

Festival highlights include a mixed-reality Ryuichi Sakamoto show, a concert led by John Eliot Gardiner and a ballet starring Roberto Bolle.

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World of performing arts

Pioneering ballet dancer Misty Copeland on diversity and what’s next for her

As she retires from American Ballet Theatre, where she was its first black principal dancer, Misty Copeland talks about ongoing challenges.

Misty Copeland, the first black principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, pictured in Hong Kong in 2015. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Fame and celebrity

Meet Anna Baryshnikov, who played the unsettling Daisy in Love Lies Bleeding

From joining New York’s Children’s Shakespeare Theatre to her breakout role in 2016’s Manchester by the Sea, Baryshnikov had long sought to follow her Sex and the City star father into acting.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend June 6-8

From the ultimate celebration of cocktails to ballet, Thai massage and a Lane Crawford pop-up, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Giselle by Hong Kong Ballet a lavish spectacle, and company’s dancers shine

Guest artists Marianela Nuñez and Matthew Ball were excellent in the leading roles, with the HKB cast also impressing when their turn came.

Marianela Nuñez and Matthew Ball in the premiere of Hong Kong Ballet’s Giselle. Photo: Conrad Dy-Liacco, courtesy of Hong Kong Ballet
Ukraine war

Ukraine’s ‘ballet in a basement’ sends a message from the war’s front lines

The staging of Chopiniana underneath Kharkiv’s musical theatre shows Ukraine’s resilience and cultural independence, opera director says.

Ballerina Olena Shliahina, 38, poses for a picture after practising for the revival of Chopiniana, the first full performance of a classical ballet in the city of Kharkiv since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in the underground area of Kharkiv’s National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, on April 27, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Ballet makes Titanic-like sweep of dance awards

The Butterfly Lovers wins in 6 of 8 categories at Hong Kong Dance Awards, where speakers bemoan lack of resources for art form in the city.

Fame and celebrity

Yuri Grigorovich, Bolshoi ballet’s artistic powerhouse, dies aged 98

Credited with revitalising male dance, Yuri Grigorovich ruled Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre with an iron fist as its lead choreographer.

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | A surfeit of talent on show from Bolshoi Ballet in Shenzhen

With 10 principal dancers and numerous soloists, the famed Russian company performed classic and modern pieces with precision and grace.

Bolshoi principal dancer Yulia Stepanova dances The Swan in Shenzhen on May 14. Photo: Zhan Jiangjuan/Pingshan Theatre
TV shows and streaming video

You can’t fake ballet, say Étoile cast and creators about dance drama

Amazon Prime series Étoile, which follows two ballet companies from New York and Paris, shows the athleticism and dedication of ballerinas.

Luke Kirby in a still from Étoile. Photo: AP
Hong Kong

Allez to the French May arts festival as it returns to Hong Kong

The annual celebration serves up a slice of Gallic goodness with its bounty of gourmet food and performing arts feasts.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Bolshoi Ballet’s China tour to visit Shenzhen and Beijing but not Hong Kong

The famed Russian ballet company’s decision is the latest example of top performers skipping Hong Kong in favour of nearby cities.

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Hong Kong Ballet’s Frida is a visually bold if sometimes bemusing spectacle

Ballet adapted from one-act work shows vignettes of artist Frida Kahlo’s life, with striking choreography and costumes, but feels stretched.

The final scene from Frida, with Ye Feifei as Frida Kahlo and Ryo Kato as Diego Rivera. Photo: Conrad Dy-Liacco; courtesy of Hong Kong Ballet
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, April 5-7

From a brewery’s anniversary celebration to a ballet about Frida Kahlo to an Oscar-winning film, here are 5 things to check out this weekend.

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Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, March 30-April 5

See balletic biopic of Frida Kahlo, savour Alain Ducasse’s menu, sip Causeway Bay cocktails and enjoy live music and conversation to boost your mental wellbeing.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Rudolf Nureyev gala tribute in Hong Kong full of high points

Mariinsky Ballet’s Maria Khoreva shows why she is making waves, hometown hero Lam Chun-wing earns acclaim in tribute to a legend of dance.

Maria Khoreva and Jacopo Tissi in the Act III pas de deux from La Bayadère, part of Nureyev & Friends – A Ballet Gala Tribute, a programme of the 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Tony Luk, courtesy of the Hong Kong Arts Festival
Art

How 3 dancers accomplished one of ballet’s most difficult feats

New York City Ballet’s Unity Phelan, Mira Nadon and Miriam Miller talk about the huge challenge of Swan Lakes’ White and Black Swan roles.

Unity Phelan rehearses for her role as the Swan Queen (aka Princess Odette and the White Swan) in New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake, on February 25, 2025. Photo: AP
Wellness

‘I took up ballet at 78’: Hong Kong Ballet’s classes for the over-55s

The Hong Kong Ballet’s workshops for novice dancers aged 55 and over are making childhood dreams come true for troupes of young-at-heart Hongkongers.

Celebrity Families

Meet Timothée Chalamet’s multitalented mum, Nicole Flender

Chalamet told reporters after his record breaking win as best actor at the SAG awards that his mum ‘might have won me this’, and he wasn’t joking – here’s why.

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US-China relations

US lawmakers raise concerns about Chinese national ballet performance in Washington

Politicians say National Ballet of China performance at Kennedy Centre is part of the Communist Party’s political machinery’.

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The National Ballet of China performs The Chinese New Year, a version of The Nutcracker, with children from the US at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington on January 29. Photo: Xinhua
Fame and celebrity

Meet Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez in the new Bob Dylan biopic

The actress plays Joan Baez – Bob Dylan’s love interest – opposite Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown, and worked with a vocal coach to nail the Queen of Folk’s singing voice.

Monica Barbaro plays Bob Dylan’s love interest Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown. Photo: AP
Hong Kong economy

Letters | Hong Kong must give high-calibre talent a reason to come

Readers discuss how Hong Kong can attract well-connected professionals, a local ballet’s cross-cultural appeal, and why the second phase of the city’s plastic ban shouldn’t be delayed.

Style Edit

Style Edit: Ferragamo celebrates 70 years of its signature ballet flat

The Italian maison kicked off the celebrations with a Ballerina Party on October 10, where Hong Kong film stars sported its latest clothing and handbag designs including new Vara ballet flats.

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