It’s a sprawling nightmare of a ballet, complicated and crowded with incidents, heavy with expressions of pain and loss and pitiable confusion. It enthrals and it alienates, enchants and exhausts.

Miriam Miller, newly promoted to principal at New York City Ballet, is set to make her debut in “Swan Lake.” By Gia Kourlas Elegance has a way of pouring out of Miriam Miller. Her arms open ...

I’m talking, of course, about “Princess and the Pea,” the main event of the Joffrey Ballet’s mixed-repertory bill on now at the Lyric Opera. Choreographer Dani Rowe and librettist Garen ...