Ophelia's levitating body is part of a stunning scene in Stephen Mills' "Hamlet." Ballet Austin brings it back Sept. 15-17. October 27, 2000, marked the start of a new era in Austin dance. Stephen ...

It was a duel to the death for their characters, Hamlet and Laertes, in the final scene of Stephen Mills’ “Hamlet,” a contemporary ballet adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. The end of this duel is also ...

Guillaume Côté had gotten a haircut, and Robert Lepage noticed. “Something’s different about you, Guillaume,” Lepage said during a recent Zoom with his collaborator. Côté, who has arguably been the ...

Hamlet. For many this word may invoke memories of tedious readings of the play in high school. Others may only know the word in association with a bearded Mel Gibson who is visited by his father’s ...

American choreographer Kevin O’Day lost his father shortly before he decided to create a new ballet based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hamlet, to make its North American premiere Friday with the National ...

In Stephen Mills’ ballet version of “Hamlet,” the titular character is a man of multiple dimensions. While slowly slipping into madness, the line between reality and the imagined becomes blurred; ...

October 27, 2000, marked the start of a new era in Austin dance. Stephen Mills, then freshly anointed as artistic director of Ballet Austin, premiered a full-length dance. This time, it was not a ...