Sarasota Ballet has announced both its upcoming 2022-23 dance season and the hiring of two new principal dancers who will join the company for this season and beyond. First, the ballet will welcome dancers Macarena Gimenez and Maximiliano Iglesias, both from the Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both […]
Jonzi D at Sadler’s Wells (Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd) Is (whispered) break dancing losing its cool? Not if Jonzi D had anything to do with it. The MC, dancer, spoken word artist and director has long been credited as one of the founders of the UK hip hop scene, helping to bring the lockdown, popping […]
The Fellowship Cultural Arts Center in Basking Ridge welcomes New Jersey Ballet on stage for a Mixed Repertoire with Pas de Deux by George Balanchine and Christophe Wheeldon. The show will take place on May 14 and 15 for an evening and matinee performance. This exciting mixed bill will feature George Balanchinethe virtuoso Tschaikovsky Pas […]
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — After two challenging years for the arts, Santa Monica’s Westside Ballet will present “New Horizons,” a neoclassical and contemporary piece featuring guest performances by Broadway ballerina Lyrica Woodruff and Maté Szentes. The Mother’s Day weekend performances will be the company’s first return to the wide stage since 2019. For Woodruff, who […]
BY KAREN BOSSICK Sun Valley Ballet will present the internationally acclaimed Boston Ballet led by Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen on June 24-25 at Sun Valley Pavilion. The 7 p.m. performances will be Boston Ballet’s first appearance at Sun Valley. Nissinen began her career as a professional dancer in Finland at the National Ballet School of […]
In recent years, diversity and inclusion have become buzzwords in business circles. Companies and organizations hire people, schedule meetings, or create departments to put these terms into practice. But since 1994, a world-renowned dance company has been doing diversity and inclusion in a different way, “reinventing” human movement from the ground up to incorporate a […]
American Ballet Theater returns to the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time in three years for its summer season, June 13-July 16, 2022. The season will feature New York premieres of Alonzo King’s Single Eye and Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage, as well as 75th anniversary performances of George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. […]
Jessica DiGiovanni, Danny Vaccaro, Heather Dilly and Mike Anthony in “Screwball Comedy”. Photo courtesy of the Public Theater “Screw Comedy”7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Until May 8. The Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. $25, $20 student, $10 youth. publictheatre.orgHere is a show that lives up to its name. In the […]
The Sarasota Ballet announced the lineup for its 2022-2023 season and the key word seems to be “new” – new ballets, new dancers and new choreographers. The season will include six world premieres and nine works never before performed by the company. Two dancers new to the Sarasota scene and likely to figure prominently will […]
Sun Valley Ballet announces today that it will present the debut of the internationally acclaimed Boston Ballet under Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen on June 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. at Sun Valley Pavilion. The Boston Ballet, long recognized as one of America’s premier dance organizations, renowned for its excellence and artistic innovation under the […]
American Ballet Theater returns to the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time in three years for its summer season, June 13-July 16, 2022. The season will feature New York premieres of Alonzo King’s Single Eye and Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage, as well as 75th anniversary performances of George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. […]
The American Ballet Theater will return to the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time in three years for its summer season, from June 13 to July 16, 2022. The season will be highlighted by the New York premieres of Alonzo King’s Single Eye and Of Love by Alexei Ratmansky and Rage, plus 75th anniversary […]
Superhuman. From another world. Next level. Even words like these don’t encompass Jeffrey Cirio’s performance in the title role of Akram Khan. Creature, which had its US premiere with the English National Ballet in February. In one of the most pivotal roles of his career, Cirio portrays a creature undergoing a military experiment at a […]
WESTERLY — Local dance fans can jump for joy over a newly formed partnership. Through a collaboration between United Theater and Festival Ballet Providence – Rhode Island’s premier ballet company – dance enthusiasts will be able to experience the work of some of the world’s most sought-after choreographers first-hand, right here at Westerly. An inaugural […]
Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet returns to Triad with ‘Revivalution’ Updated: 1:56 PM EDT April 13, 2022 Hide transcript View Transcript >> AFTER FOUR YEARS, THE ROYAL EXPRESSIONS BALLET IS BACK IN THE TRIAD. CHRISTINA: THEY ARE BACK WITH ATH REVIVALUONTI WHICH IS PERFORMANCES FOR THE COMMUNITY. ♪ CHRISTINA: A BEAUTIFUL PE.EK SNEAK WE ARE JOINED […]
When Eduardo Vilaro came to this country with his parents from Cuba at the age of 6, dancing was a way for him to make discoveries, to connect with people and also to find himself. “I think it was dancing that really helped me become who I am as an American and rediscover my Latin […]
–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 13, 2022– Julia Feldman of the Sacramento Ballet. Photo by Tony Nguyen. WHAT: Fresh out of its prestigious New York Choreographic Institute invitation, company member and Sacramento Ballet dancer Julia Feldman is a featured choreographer this month presenting her first composition for the main stage, Hearts. It’s one of three stellar and ultra-provocative […]
San Francisco Ballet’s Mixed Repertoire Program 6 is a wild ride of a show. Each time the curtain rises on his three ballets, we’re in such a different world that it’s almost hard to believe we’re watching the same company. The single line is the spectacular dance. In fact, I would venture to say that […]
A BASINGSTOKE HIGH SCHOOL FORMER will perform with acclaimed young dance company Ballet Central when they return to touring this spring. Joel Wright will join the company on a four-month tour of 11 venues across England, arriving in Newbury at the Corn Exchange as part of the Newbury Spring Festival on May 19. The company […]
TWO final year dance students from Andover will perform with renowned young dance company Ballet Central when they return to touring this spring. Jack Tyler and Joel Wright will join the company on a four-month tour of 11 venues across England, arriving in Newbury at the Corn Exchange as part of the Newbury Spring Festival […]
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM – The gala programs of popular authors, created by the artistic director of the Astana Opera Ballet Company, People’s Artist of Russia Altynai Asylmuratova, always arouse great interest among the public. Another exciting series of gala evenings, featuring masterpieces of world and national choreography, will be presented on April 12 and 13 at […]
Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater will present “Something’s Coming: Song & Dance from Movie Musicals,” April 8-10 at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in Deal. Here’s a roundup of arts events happening across the state, through April 14. DANCE • Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater will present “Something’s Coming: Song & Dance from Movie Musicals” on April […]
–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 7, 2022– Sacramento Ballet: This press release is multimedia. See the full version here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220407005325/en/ Julia Feldman of the Sacramento Ballet. Photo by Tony Nguyen. WHAT: Fresh out of its prestigious New York Choreographic Institute invitation, company member and Sacramento Ballet dancer Julia Feldman is a featured choreographer this month presenting her first […]
While performing this weekend, dancers from Missouri Contemporary Ballet will emphasize several meanings of the title of their show. They will, of course, be “live”, in person, moving gracefully on stage at the Missouri Theater. But the company will also model a way of inhabit — embodied, athletic, uniting body and mind to fully come […]
–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sacramento Ballet: WHAT: Fresh out of its prestigious New York Choreographic Institute invitation, company member and Sacramento Ballet dancer Julia Feldman is a featured choreographer this month presenting her first composition for the main stage, Hearts. It’s one of three stellar and ultra-provocative dance pieces featured in Catalyst (April 14-16): an exhilarating showcase of […]
NUR-SULTAN – Eight ballerinas took to the stage of the Astana Ballet Theater on April 1 to perform in the Kazakh premiere of “Falling Angels” – a choreographic miniature, one of Czech choreographer-philosopher Jiri’s most famous works Kylian. “Falling Angels” choreographed by Jiri Kylian. Photo credit: Astana Ballet Theater The ballet, accompanied by Steve Reich’s […]
NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | PREVIEWS | EVENTS originally published: 04/03/2022 (OCEAN TOWNSHIP, NJ) — Axelrod’s Contemporary Ballet Theater present something is cominga program of suites from favorite musicals, including the lyrical, jazzy music of George Gershwin An American in Paris and Porgy and Bessurban and immortal by Leonard Bernstein West Side Storyiconic of Sheldon Harnick […]