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Cupcakes and Conversation with Rebecca Krohn, Principal, New York City Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Tuesday morning? What gets me going on Tuesday morning is remembering that this is a career I chose to do. Ballet was never forced upon me, I do it because I love it.  Also, a big cup [...]

World premiere for The Royal Ballet School’s End of Year Matinée on 14 July 2013 on the main stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.   Performance also features works by Maurice Béjart, Jiří Bubeníček and Valentino Zucchetti. A specially commissioned one-act ballet entitled La Destinée will be the centrepiece of The Royal Ballet [...]

Cupcakes & Conversation with Ashley Laracey, Soloist, New York City Ballet What motivates you at 8 a.m. on a Tuesday morning?  The alarm rings at 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday morning. A few minutes prior to the alarm, our automatic coffee pot begins brewing our favorite Whole Foods blend. The smell of coffee motivates me to get [...]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PRESENTS Director’s Choice                           Featuring two works by GEORGE BALANCHINE   And a world premiere by CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON   May 31-June 9, 2013 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109   7:30 pm on May [...]

The Royal Ballet School announces World Premiere ballet World premiere for The Royal Ballet School’s end of year matinée on 14 July 2013 on the main stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.   Performance also features works by Maurice Béjart, Jiří Bubeníček and Valentino Zucchetti.   A specially commissioned one-act ballet entitled La [...]

Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s Laszlo Berdo hired as Artistic Director for Eglevsky Ballet   Central, Pa. (February 1, 2013) – Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Founding Artistic Director Marcia Dale Weary announced today that CPYB faculty member Laszlo Berdo has accepted the full-time position of Artistic Director for Eglevsky Ballet, Long Island. Mr. Berdo, a former [...]

Casting Announced for Pacific Northwest Ballet at New York City Center, February 13 – 16       First Full-Company NY Performances Since 1996   New York, NY, January 28, 2013 – New York City Center will present Pacific Northwest Ballet in its first full-company performance in NYC since 1996, February 13–16, 2013. PNB, celebrating [...]

Dutch National Ballet announce Best of Balanchine * Three faces of a choreographic genius * programme to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of his death * première 7 February 2013 at The Amsterdam Music Theatre * performances until 1 March 2013 in Amsterdam, Groningen, Zwolle, The Hague, Heerlen, Utrecht, Breda and Enschede George Balanchine (1904-1983) was the [...]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PRESENTS Modern masterpieces Featuring works by George Balanchine – Ulysses Dove – Twyla Tharp Plus a world premiere by Paul Gibson   March 15 – 24, 2013 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109   March 15 & 16 at 7:30 pm March 16 at 2:00 pm [...]

Dance Center of Oklahoma City Ballet adds class for children with Down syndrome   OKLAHOMA CITY (Dec. 20, 2012) – The Dance Center of Oklahoma City Ballet will begin the New Year by offering a new dance program for children with Down syndrome.   At “Chance to Dance,” 12 students between the ages 5-10 with [...]

Ballet News Christmas Cupcakes & Conversation 2012 What does a ballet dancer do ? What happens when the curtain goes down ? The grit and the glamour : your backstage pass into ballet. It doesn’t matter whether you are new to ballet, a ballet teacher, dancer, student or someone who just loves ballet, there is always something [...]

Cupcakes & Conversation with Wendy Whelan, Principal, New York City Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning ? What motivates me and gets me out of bed in the morning on the first work day of the week is knowing that I will have the privilege of working with a choreographer or [...]

KAY MAZZO and PETER MARTINS TAPE VIDEO SERIES for THE GEORGE BALANCHINE FOUNDATION   Former principal dancers with New York City Ballet coach roles Balanchine created on them                                                                                                                                                                      New York City –Kay Mazzo and Peter Martins, former principal dancers with New York City Ballet, have coached their roles in Duo Concertant and Stravinsky Violin Concerto for [...]

Ballet News Recommends It’s been a good year for ballet books and I want to recommend my top reads for Christmas. These are the books that you can’t go wrong with, whether they are gifts to give or receive – or whether they are, as we say in my family, “presents of undying affection,.” e.g. presents you [...]

Pacific Northwest Ballet receives NEA grant to support DIRECTOR’S CHOICE   Grant one of 832 Art Works grants totaling $23.3 million in funding nationwide   SEATTLE, WA — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Pacific Northwest Ballet is one of 832 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art [...]

Ballet News Reviews | Ballet by Henry Leutwyler What a year it’s been for photography books connected to ballet! Darcey Bussell’s lavish photo-biography arrived within reinforced packaging, and then we had the utterly fabulous Dancer’s Among Us from Jordan Matter; an altogether different look at dancers with a spring in their step, and now an [...]

Ballet PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET BY HENRY LEUTWYLER 488-Page Hardcover Book Features Nearly 300 Photographs New York City’s Foley Gallery to Exhibit Photographs from Ballet November 28, 2012 through January 6, 2013 Ballet, Photographs of the New York City Ballet, is a book by Henry Leutwyler that is the culmination of four years [...]

NEW YORK CITY BALLET ANNOUNCES WORLD PREMIERE BY JUSTIN PECK TO PREMIERE AT NYCB’S ANNUAL NEW COMBINATIONS EVENING ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013 New Peck Ballet will Replace Previously Announced Premiere by Peter Martins and Composer Marc-André Dalbavie New York City Ballet announced today that the Company will present a World Premiere by NYCB dancer [...]

NEW YORK CITY BALLET’S ANNUAL SEASON OF GEORGE BALANCHINE’S THE NUTCRACKER™ RETURNS TO LINCOLN CENTER NOVEMBER 23 THROUGH DECEMBER 30, 2012 2012 Edition of the Beloved Holiday Classic  Sponsored by The Travelers Companies, Inc. New York City Ballet will open its annual season of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker on Friday, November 23 at 8 p.m. at [...]

NEW YORK CITY CENTER PRESENTS PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET First Full-Company New York Performances Since 1996 -Accompanied by the PNB Orchestra- Season Features a Balanchine Mixed Bill and Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette February 13–16, 2013   New York, NY, September 27, 2012 –New York City Center will present Pacific Northwest Ballet in its first full-company [...]