Ashley Bouder bid farewell, Mira Nadon dazzled in “Swan Lake,” Maria Tallchief was honored and Alexei Ratmansky had another winner.

It’s about Julie Kent, who just retired from the American Ballet Theatre. I interviewed her, and say a fair amount about her in the magazine. But I’d like to say more here, in a Web series.

Mick Jagger and his longtime partner, Melanie Hamrick, recently attended Chanel and Charles Finch’s annual pre-Oscars dinner in Beverly Hills, marking a rare public outing for the couple.

Height can look incredible onstage and even serve a character function for ballerinas—retired PNB principal Laura Tisserand had the longest lines as Odette in Swan Lake—but in unimaginative ...