Copyright © 2005 PlaybillArts.com Wed, 22 May 2013 08:48:43 EDT 60 When the curtain rises at the end of this month on the three ballets set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky for American Ballet Theatre, audiences are sure to gain a new understanding of this uniquely multifaceted composer.]]> Entertainment The Virginia Symphony and Richmond Ballet will present “The Rite of Spring” on May 29th as part of the Virginia Arts Festival - a festival of extraordinary arts experiences that lasts through June. The performance will take place at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk, Virginia.]]> Entertainment Join ballet star Sara Mearns as she steps into a fantasy world created by Stravinsky, the Philharmonic, and Giants Are Small. Mindy Aloff explores the aesthetics behind this genre-bending production.]]> Entertainment In 1936, George Balanchine was a young Russian choreographer who had been in the United States for three years. He had launched a ballet school and was trying to establish a permanent company; Broadway musicals were hardly familiar terrain.]]> Entertainment