“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 ...

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 ...

At the age of 61, Balanchine created this narrative ballet as an open declaration of his feelings for the 19-year-old dancer Suzanne Farrell. In the early 1960s, Farrell was still in the corps of the ...