Le Corsaire brings swashbuckling on the high seas to the Academy of Music stage. "It's mainly the story about pirates and treasure," says Angel Corella, Artistic Director for Philadelphia Ballet. "But ...

“Le Corsaire,” the ballet equivalent of the movie matinee adventure tale, has been tweaked by successive generations of choreographers with one goal uppermost: to raise excitement and audience neck ...

“Le Corsaire” has endured endless resurrections and refinements in its two-century life. The popular story about pirates and slave women, best known as a ballet, is a mongrel with many ancestors.

They say 'X' marks the spot, but the Pennsylvania Ballet is looking for more than just treasure with the staging of Le Corsaire, the story of a daring pirate and his journey of love, betrayal, and ...

The famous excerpt from Petipa's ballet "Le Corsaire" could not have been better timed in Pacific Northwest Ballet's current mixed bill, which opened Thursday night at the Opera House. Its virtuosic ...

American Ballet Theatre can't make up its mind about "Le Corsaire," which it not so much danced as unloosed on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage over the weekend. Granted, the ballet is a pastiche ...

And yet it’s easy to see why the company’s dancers have taken this old warhorse to their hearts, and why Tamara Rojo – surely no slouch in the gender-politics department – thought fit to make Le ...

Seyd the King evaluated the three women who were presented to him, before swooping his arm in a grand gesture, fingers pinched to kiss his lips in approval. Columbia University Ballet Ensemble ...