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Cupcakes & Conversation with Brooke Widdison-Jacobs, Artist,  West Australian Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning? Well, to be honest, I do need my coffee in the morning but as soon as that kicks in I am excited to start the week. You never know what kind of rehearsals you will have [...]

Chelsea Flower Show 2013 Today is press day at the Chelsea Flower Show, which is celebrating 10o years. If you’d like to keep up with all the exibitors, the gardens, the flowers and of course the live updates regarding the medals, then you might be interested in downloading the iPhone app from iTunes. What else will [...]

BALLET STAR TAMARA ROJO LAUNCHES GLOBAL ‘BIG DANCE’ IN LONDON   Dancers from English National Ballet, led by their Artistic Director, Tamara Rojo, were joined today at their Kensington Studios by young dancers from Chingford Foundation School, to launch the BIG DANCE PLEDGE, to be performed by thousands of people all over the world this [...]

Metropolitan Ballet Company Announces Auditions for Boys’ Scholarship Dance Program, Led by Alexander Iziliaev, Former Principal Dancer with Pennsylvania Ballet The Boys’ Scholarship Program, celebrating its 15th year in 2013, provides tuition-free training in all-male classes to more than 50 boys, ages 7-18, each year.  Boys’ unique movement and learning styles are addressed by distinguished [...]

Ballet Austin Academy Placement Auditions for 2013/14 School Year Dreams Begin Here.   WHO:                     Ballet Austin Academy, where we nurture dreams, spark creativity and foster aspirations. WHAT:                    Audition for Placement in Ballet Austin Academy’s 2013/14 School Year WHEN:                   June 1, 2013 (Ages 8-12 – 2:00-3:30 pm; Ages 13 and Older – 3:30-5:00 pm) WHERE:                 [...]

HOUSTON BALLET’S JOURNEY WITH THE MASTERS SHOWCASES THREE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S GREATEST CHOREOGRAPHERS MAY 30 – JUNE 9, 2013   Merrill Ashley Stages Company Premiere of George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial Company Revives Jiří Kylián’s Signature Work, Sinfonietta Jerome Robbins’s Comedic Spoof The Concert Brings Laughter to the Stage From May 30 – June 9, [...]

Cupcakes & Conversation with Ty King-Wall, Principal, The Australian Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning ? Absolutely nothing! I get up at 8.30am….Not a morning person! If ballet chose you, as many dancers say it did, what is it that has made you stick with it ? Insanity, and a certain level [...]

Ballet News Reviews | Northern Ballet’s The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Northern Ballet Sadlers Wells, London 14th May 2013 The Great Gatsby isn’t, at first sight, a story that lends itself easily to ballet. The complex characters make it difficult to get the whole story over to an audience with no words. However, the [...]

Famous love story Queensland’s first Super Star The Newman Government is delivering on a key Arts for All Queenslanders election commitment, with the announcement of the first Super Star project. Arts Minister Ian Walker said Queensland would be home to an exclusive season of the ballet Romeo and Juliet, featuring internationally acclaimed dancers.   “This [...]

Ballet Austin’s Butler Community School celebrates a day of FREE fitness and dance classes for those 60 and older AUSTIN, TX – May 13, 2013 – Aging is inevitable…it happens to all of us. The good news is that there are plenty of ways to stay young and healthy. In honor of National Senior Health [...]

Northern Ballet’s The Great Gatsby | Illustrated Regulars among you will know that Ballet News has been collaborating with Berenice Berelli for some time now. Today I want to offer you the latest Limited Edition and exclusive collection based on Northern Ballet’s The Great Gatsby, which opens at Sadlers Wells in London this week. Inspired by Principals Martha [...]

Alina’s Gala | Alina Cojocaru’s signed pointe shoes auctioned for her charity, Hospices of Hope Only Alina Cojocaru could open her Gala with the Rose Adage from The Sleeping Beauty. The music alone sends shivers of fear into the most professional of professional ballet dancers : not Cojocaru. Her supreme technicality aided by wonderfully smooth partnering from [...]