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Maria and the Mouse Deer
2025-10-18 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-18 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Austin Ventures Studio Theater, 501 W 3rd St, Austin, TX, 78701, United States
Featuring Ballet Austin TWO, Maria and the Mouse Deer is a whimsical adaptation of the Philippine folk tales of Maria ‘fairy of the mountain’ and the clever Mouse Deer.
Set to traditional Philippine folk music, the colorful short story ballet celebrates the different species of Southeast Asia and the beauty of caring for the earth and all its creatures.
Follow gentle and strong Maria, the nimble Mouse Deer, the quirky little Tarsier, vibrant birds and other animal friends as they protect each other and their environment.

Evening of Horror
2025-10-18 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-10-18 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Academy of Music, 240 S Broad St., Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Philadelphia Ballet presents a powerful double bill that spans the breadth of American storytelling through dance. This extraordinary pairing of Agnes de Mille’s haunting masterpiece Fall River Legend with Juliano Nunes’ world premiere Valley of Death offers audiences a glimpse into the dark corners of American life, reimagined through virtuosic contemporary movement.

Dracula
2025-10-18 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-10-18 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., Portland, OR, 97201, Unites States
Deep in Transylvania, a monster lives in a castle, hungrily capturing women to take as his brides. When Dracula steals Svetlana, she fights back, certain her fiancé is coming to rescue her. But will he be too late? Back by popular demand, Ben Stevenson’s lavish, haunting ballet combines drama and fantasy in a spectacle worthy of Broadway.

ABT@85: A Retrospective of Master Choreographers
2025-10-18 14:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Journey through the rich tapestry of ABT’s repertoire with this rare program of iconic works by master choreographers. Michel Fokine’s romantic Les Sylphides floats with moonlit lyricism, Antony Tudor’s comedic Gala Performance offers witty satire alongside challenging technique, and Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo brings Americana to the stage with charm and grit.
Jake Roxander in Rodeo. Photo: Quinn Wharton

Twyla@60: A Tharp Celebration
2025-10-18 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
In honor of the legendary Twyla Tharp’s 60-year choreographic legacy, this electrifying program highlights her creative genius with three masterworks that have left a lasting imprint on the dance world. Sextet pulses with modernist flair, Bach Partita is an elegant, abstract response to its Baroque score, and Push Comes to Shove, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov, remains one of ABT’s signature works that brilliantly fuses classical technique with Tharp’s singular wit and style.
Chloe Misseldine and Jarod Curley in Bach Partita. Photo: Quinn Wharton.
