Anna Tsygankova, principal dancer of the Dutch National Ballet, speaks with artistic director and choreographer Ted Brandsen during a rehearsal of "Mata Hari", a ballet based on the life of the ...

She was the daughter of a British lord and an Indian princess, she told suitors, and counted among her many lovers the crown prince of Germany. She was Indonesian, she told others, and had learned her ...

On this day in 1917, Mata Hari was sentenced to death in Paris for allegedly spying on Germany’s behalf during World War I. Was she really a secret agent or just a scapegoat? On 25 July, 1917, the ...

Nearly a century after she was shot as a spy, the story of the world’s ultimate femme fatale, Mata Hari, is to be staged for the first time as a ballet in her native Netherlands. Mata Hari opened to a ...