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Northern Ballet BBC documentary to be broadcast in May   A documentary featuring Northern Ballet is to be broadcast on BBC2 on Saturday 26 May at 8.15pm. ‘Arts Troubleshooter’ is a two-part series which sees arts expert Michael Lynch[1] at two unique English arts organisations facing serious challenges. The first programme in the series follows [...]

Pacific Northwest Ballet presents George Balanchine’s Coppélia SEATTLE, WA – Pacific Northwest Ballet concludes its 2011-2012 Season with its beautiful production of Coppélia, George Balanchine’s classic comic ballet. PNB’s production of Coppélia, which premiered in 2010 with new sets and costumes by Italian designer Roberta Guidi de Bagno, runs for eight performances only, from June [...]

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL PERFORMS STUDENT SHOWCASE AT NOVELLUS THEATER AT YBCA, May 30-June 1, 2012 Three Performances Benefit the Prestigious San Francisco Ballet School SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Tuesday, May 15, 2012–The San Francisco Ballet School, the official school of San Francisco Ballet, has announced the repertory for the 2012 Student Showcase. SF Ballet School’s [...]

American Ballet Theatre Master Classes presented by Ballet San Jose, May 30 – June 4 Ballet San Jose will present Master Classes from American Ballet Theatre, May 30 through June 4, with Co-Authors of the ABT National Training Curriculum, Franco De Vita and Raymond Lukens.  Mr. De Vita (Principal, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT) [...]

English National Ballet and East London Dance join forces for Shhh… it’s a Secret a dance experience unlike any other, taking place at Westfield Stratford City and Westfield London on Friday 18 May. Shhh… it’s a Secret celebrates the Big Dance 2012six week countdown for the East and West London Hubs, East London Dance and [...]

Darcey Bussell becomes President of the Royal Academy of Dance World-renowned Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell CBE has been elected President of the Royal Academy of Dance, becoming only the fourth President in the organisation’s 92 year history. Darcey follows in the footsteps of Dame Antoinette Sibley who retired in April after 21 years in the [...]

BIG DANCE AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON ·      PARTNERSHIPS WITH OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES HOST CITIES BEIJING AND RIO UNVEILED ·      COUNTDOWN BEGINS TO BIG DANCE WEEK WITH HUNDREDS OF EVENTS ACROSS LONDON AND ALL OVER THE UK ·      OVER HALF A MILLION SCHOOLCHILDREN ACROSS THE GLOBE TAKE PART IN GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT The international programme [...]

Northern Ballet dancer Kenneth Tindall nominated at International Competition for Choreographers Northern Ballet Premier Dancer Kenneth Tindall has been invited to compete for an award at the 26th International Competition for Choreographers in Hannover for his debut choreography Project #1. Originally created for a Northern Ballet Choreographic Workshop performance in the summer of 2011, Project [...]

THE WASHINGTON BALLET PRESENTS THE WASHINGTON BALLET STUDIO COMPANY IN ONCE UPON A TIME   WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Washington Ballet presents Once Upon a Time, May 19 and 20, 2012 at THEARC Theater.  Once Upon a Time is a collection of five world premiere ballets based on fairy tales and folk tales from around the [...]

Tickets to The Australian Ballet’s 50th anniversary gala on sale next week! Almost 50 years to the day that The Australian Ballet took flight with its first ever performance comes a 50th anniversary gala bursting with ballet superstars. International ballet luminary David Hallberg will be coming to Australia especially to dance in the gala season. [...]