Elizabeth Streb

A commission to create a brand new ballet for a boutique troupe like Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is a really big deal, even for a well established choreographer like Jorma Elo.

Bill T. Jones has a long history of pushing envelopes and challenging audiences. In the 1970s, when he was getting his start in New York's downtown da...

In a public event at L.A.'s Hammer Museum last week, tightrope walker Philipe Petit quipped, "I never take risks. I take a long walk on a high path in the sky. That poetry is not extreme -- it's exquisite, enigmatic."