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 ...

During the past four decades, Stephen Mills has created more than 60 completely new dances for Ballet Austin. A dozen or so of those were devised before Mills was named artistic director in 2000. This ...

Ballet is often about the intersection of classic stories and instantly recognizable classical music. But there's an undeniable daring velocity in bringing together Shakespeare's text sans prose and ...

Ballet Austin’s affinity for the works of William Shakespeare are a matter of record: Last season, the company revived their 2004 production of The Taming of the Shrew, and now the troupe leaps into ...

It might be the most consequential dance ever produced in Austin. Respectfully and intentionally, "Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project," first staged by Ballet Austin in 2005, tackled a subject ...