Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen and the Boston Ballet present My Obsession, a program that explores our obsessions, devotions and idols, featuring George Balanchineof Apollo and Allegro Brillante, Helen Picketby 月夜Tsukiyo and the return of DEVIL’S/eye by Stephen Galloway. My Obsession runs October 6-16 at Citizens Bank Opera House. “Boston Ballet returns to the stage with […]
On February 23, 2022, Ukraine Kyiv City Ballet arrives in Paris to begin a two-week national tour Nutcracker. Russia invaded Ukraine the next day, blocking the venture in the French city indefinitely. Since then, the troupe has relied on the generosity of others while organizing short tours in Europe and actively fundraising to sustain itself. […]
Kyiv City Ballet of Ukraine’s inaugural tour of the United States will make Fort Worth and Bass Hall its only stop in Texas in October as part of a 13-city fall excursion. Performing Arts Fort Worth and Texas Ballet Theater present “A tribute to peace – North Texas Welcomes Kyiv City Ballet,” a neoclassical work […]
PICTURES BY JOHN POSADA ‘The Lost Princess of Oz’ will run at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theater in West Long Branch until August 28. A perennial favorite of children around the world, L. Frank Baum’s stories of Oz have launched countless theatrical spin-offs. Holmdel’s Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater are the latest group to capitalize on the […]
Smuin Contemporary Ballet will kick off its 29th season with Dance Series 1 featuring a long-awaited world premiere from brilliant Cuban choreographer Osnel Delgado, whom Bay Area audiences will first experience in The Turntable. Set on the artists of the Smuin company, this vibrant debut album is inspired by life’s odd moment and is set […]
Ashley Wheater, artistic director of Joffrey Ballet, announced last month that the Joffrey Academy of Dance was starting full-time activity Contemporary Ballet Trainee Program this autumn. The school appointed two new leaders to oversee the launch: Katlin Michel Bourgeoiswho will lead the Contemporary Ballet Trainee Program, and former artist of Joffrey Ogulcan Borova, head of […]
A Ukrainian dance company that hasn’t been able to return home since Russia invaded Ukraine will perform this fall at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Three performances by Kyiv City Ballet are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. from October 5-7 at the newly renovated Roland Hayes Concert Hall in the UTC Center for Fine Arts. […]
Artistic Director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theater (PBT) Susan Jaffe signed five new dancers to the company’s roster for PBT’s 2022-23 season. The season opens October 7-9, with Storytelling in Motion at August Wilson African American Cultural Center. Ariana Chernyshev, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will join the company as an apprentice for the 2022-23 season. Chernyshev trained […]
GS PHOTOGRAPHY Alyssa Harris and Lindsay Jorgensen in ‘The Lost Princess of Oz’. When it comes to fairy tales, Gabriel Chajnik thinks it’s the journey that counts, not the happy ending forever. “Have you ever traveled somewhere to see or meet someone, or something that’s really important to you, and you don’t really care what […]