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San Francisco Ballet's encore run of "Swan Lake" will feature guest stars.

I feel much as the two of you do but I'm sorry not to see this. Please tell us what you think after you see it, abatt. I really liked the little pas de deux he made for Delgado and himself to The National's "Dark Side of the Gym."

San Diego Ballet presents "The Many Loves of Don Juan."

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's old house for students is for sale.

An autobiographical article by Peter Martins, "A Life in Ballet," in the March issue of The New Criterion.

A review of the Birmingham Royal Ballet by Sarah Crompton in The Observer.

An interview with Lacey Hammond Harrington, the National Ballet of Canada's footwear co-ordinator and dye workroom manager.

A review of the Ballet of the Buryat Academic Ballet and Opera Theatre by Ilona Landgraf for "Landgraf on Dance."

Thanks. I need to see this again....

Several dancers of the Lviv Opera Ballet fail to return to Ukraine. Related.

Ballet Edmonton appoints a new artistic director.

A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc.

Louisville Ballet closes its season with "Romeo and Juliet." TV news clip.

A study of "Odesa" and "Solitude" by Gay Morris for danceviewtimes.

Q&A with Robert Carter of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

A review of San Francisco Ballet by Charles Lewis III for 48hills.

A TV interview with Natalia Ashikhmina about her retirement from the Louisville Ballet.

A review of Houston Ballet by Carla Escoda for Bachtrack.

The Joffrey Ballet performs in Berkeley this month.

The National Ballet of Japan brings back Peter Darrell's Tales of Hoffmann.

A television news feature on Lauren Anderson teaching at Houston Ballet.

An obituary for Anthony Russell-Roberts, who died at the age of 79 last January, in The Sunday Times. Obituaries and appreciations published previously. Alastair Macaulay Judith Mackrell for the Royal Opera House.

Yum. Looking forward to streaming this one!

Welcome. However, your original point - that recollections may vary, to borrow a useful line from Buckingham Palace - is worth holding in mind when reading memoirs and also when reading (and, one hopes, writing) biographies. It can be tough, because sometimes the best raconteurs are the least reliable. This has a special application when it comes to ballet, because writers or ballet masters/mistresses who are trying to reconstruct how a ballet was first made and how it's changed over time frequently have to contend with differing recollections. I found a good discussion on an old BA thread: Oral history

A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc.