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CAROLINA BALLET TO PREMIERE THE LITTLE MERMAID RALEIGH, NC —  Principal guest choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett has created a over dozen ballets on Carolina Ballet over the past 14 seasons that run the gamut from The Ugly Duckling to Dracula, Carolina Jamboree to Carmina Burana, and most recently seen in Raleigh, her very moving Lost and Found.  [...]

IVAN PUTROV & SERGEI POLUNIN RETURN TO SADLER’S WELLS FOR MORE MEN IN MOTION   Two of the biggest stars of the dance world, former Royal Ballet Principal Ivan Putrov and dance sensation, Sergei Polunin will star in a new production of Men in Motion, highlighting the range and virtuosity of the male dancer, at [...]

Ballet San Jose School’s New Principal – Dalia Rawson Appointed Ballet San Jose is pleased to announce that Ballet San Jose School’s Ballet Mistress, Dalia Rawson, a former principal dancer with the Company and a faculty member at the School for the past 12 years, has been promoted to the position of School Principal.  Rawson [...]

ROYAL BALLET WORLD PREMIERE: NEW WAYNE McGREGOR WORK, WITH MUSIC BY MARK RONSON AND DESIGNS BY GARETH PUGH   On 5 April 2012, The Royal Ballet will premiere a new work by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor. Already well-known for his innovative and boundary-pushing collaborations which have spanned subjects as varied as science, contemporary art and [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET ANNOUNCES 2012 – 2013 BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME SEASON   UK PREMIERE OF DAVID BINTLEY’S ALADDIN SEASON CELEBRATES THE BRITISH BALLET TRADITION OF STORYTELLING FOUR 6.30pm FRIDAY PERFORMANCES TO APPEAL TO FAMILY AUDIENCE   Book on-line at the Birmingham Hippodrome website Call Ticket Sales: 0844 338 5000 (Public booking dates – on-line, by telephone [...]

The National Ballet of Canada’s 60th Anniversary Celebrated at NFB Mediatheque Dance on Film and Archival Display February 21  – 29, 2012 February 17, 2012… To celebrate The National Ballet of Canada’s 60th anniversary season the NFB Mediatheque will present a week-long series of dance on film, February 21 – 29, 2012. The series will launch [...]

THE THREE FACES OF ALABAMA BALLET’S SWAN LAKE Birmingham, AL – Called “the most challenging female role in classical ballet” by Alabama Ballet Associate Artistic Director Roger Van Fleteren, the part of Odette/Odile requires a dancer’s movement style to be the best of both worlds: soft, loving and timid, as well as forceful, seductive and [...]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PRESENTS NEW WORKS                         Featuring works by DAVID DAWSON – ANNABELLE lOPEZ OCHOA – VICTOR QUIJADA March 16-24, 2012 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109   March 16 & 17 at 7:30 pm March 18 [...]

The National Ballet of Canada | Torontonian Evan McKie Guests and Makes Hometown Debut in The Sleeping Beauty   February 15, 2012… Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced the principal casting for Rudolf Nureyev’s landmark production of The Sleeping Beauty which opens the Winter Season on March 10, 2012 [...]

  CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON CREATES NEW CINDERELLA FOR SAN FRANCISCO BALLET & FOR THE DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday, February 15, 2012—Christopher Wheeldon is creating a spectacular new ballet version of the most popular fairytale in the world: Cinderella. San Francisco Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet will co-produce this new creation by one of [...]