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Shanghai Ballet to Make UK Debut with JANE EYRE, Aug 14-18

Shanghai Ballet Company is to make its highly anticipated UK debut in August at the London Coliseum with performances of JANE EYRE, an original, innovative ballet production based on Charlotte Brontë'... (more...)

Moscow Ballet's NUTCRACKER to Return to Detroit's Fox Theatre, 12/22; Tickets on Sale 5/7

Celebrate the beauty of the holidays with the best Russian ballet in the celebrated production of Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker at the Fox Theatre on Sunday, December 22 at 3 p.m. (more...)

American Repertory Ballet Announces Princeton Ballet School's Spring Production 2013: SWAN LAKE

Princeton Ballet School, the official school of American Repertory Ballet, will present the full-length classical ballet Swan Lake on May 18, 2013 at the Patriots Theater at the War Memorial in Trento... (more...)

Les Saisons Russes du XX1e Siecle to Bring CLEOPATRA and More to London Coliseum, July 16-20

Andris Liepa, former Bolshoi Ballet star turned ballet entrepreneur, is to return to the London Coliseum with his company Les Saisons Russes du XX1e Siecle from July 16th to July 20th 2013. (more...)

BWW Remembers: Maria Tallchief--January 24, 1925 - April 11, 2013

Maria Tallchief, the first Native American to win acclaim as a prima ballerina, passed away on April 11, 2013. While she worked with many companies and choreographers, she is most renowned for her col... (more...)

Alan Gilbert and the NY Philharmonic to Present A DANCER'S DREAM in Collaboration With Giants Are Small

The New York Philharmonic will present A Dancer's Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky, a multidisciplinary, theatrical reimagining of the ballets The Fairy's Kiss and Petrushka, created by Giants Are Small... (more...)

Photos: UC Berkeley Presents 4 New Dance Works in 'Berkeley Dance Project 2013: Aperture'; Thru 4/28

From 1964-68, Famed photographer Ansel Adams spent time at the University of California on a groundbreaking photographic project commissioned by UC President Clark Kerr. At its core the project, entit... (more...)

Carolina Performing Arts' Rite 100 Festival Ends with Premieres by Vijay Iyer, Basil Twist and Nacho Duato

Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) presents The Rite of Spring at 100 (Rite 100), an unprecedented nine-month festival which began in Septemb... (more...)

Russian National Ballet Performs Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET and CHOPINIANA in Detroit Tonight

Detroit Music Hall hosts The Russian National Ballet Theatre, tonight, March 23rd at 8 pm as they stage the rarely performed, original Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky version of the William Shakespeare trage... (more...)

Bolshoi Ballet's 2013 QPAC Season Announces Casting for LE CORSAIRE and THE BRIGHT STREAM, May 30-June 9

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) will welcome Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in an exclusive season in Brisbane in 2013. It has been almost two decades since this world renowned ballet company ha... (more...)

Santa Fe's The Lensic Welcomes Belisama Irish Dance Company's 7th Annual RHYTHM OF FIRE Tonight

Internationally award-winning Belisama Irish Dance Company presents the 7th Annual 'Rhythm of Fire' St. Patrick's Day performance 7:30 p.m., tonight, March 15, 2013, at The Lensic, Santa Fe's Performi... (more...)

Carolina Performing Arts' Rite 100 Festival to End with Premieres by Vijay Iyer, Basil Twist and Nacho Duato

Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) presents The Rite of Spring at 100 (Rite 100), an unprecedented nine-month festival which began in Septemb... (more...)

2CELLOS, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, Alvin Ailey American Dance and More Set for SPA's 2013-14 Season

As Houston's leading performing arts presenter, Society for the Performing Arts (SPA) is pleased to announce its 2013-2014 season filled with music, dance and family entertainment from the world's bes... (more...)

Russian National Ballet to Perform Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET and CHOPINIANA in Detroit, 3/23

The Russian National Ballet Theatre company brings this rarely seen original - as opposed to the later and more often performed Sergei Prokofiev version to Detroit Music Hall's main stage. The Tchiako... (more...)

Houston Ballet Presents LA BAYADERE, Now thru 3/3

From tonight, February 21-March 3, 2013, Houston Ballet presents Stanton Welch's La Bayadere ('The Temple Dancer'), a historic classic staged by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch and set ... (more...)

Segerstrom Center for the Arts Presents the Hamburg Ballet's THE LITTLE MERMAID, Now thru 2/10

Segerstrom Center's International Dance Season continues tonight, February 8 - 10 with the return of Hamburg Ballet performing its hauntingly compelling production of The Little Mermaid. (more...)

Houston Ballet Appoints Jean Ellis First Chief Development Officer

Houston Ballet has announced that Jean Joransen Ellis has been appointed as its first Chief Development Officer. Ms. Ellis will be responsible for developing comprehensive strategic fundraising plans ... (more...)

Russian National Ballet Theatre to Present SLEEPING BEAUTY at Three Stages, Now thru 2/7

Under the artistic direction of the legendary Elena Radchenko, a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, the Russian National Ballet Theatre brings The Sleeping Beauty to Three Stages. Founded durin... (more...)

Bolshoi Ballet Cancels RITE OF SPRING

Emerging Pictures, the largest all-digital specialty film and alternative content network of theatres in the U.S., today announced that its scheduled presentation of the Bolshoi Ballet's new productio... (more...)

STAGE TUBE: Maria Tallchief, Born January 24, 1925

Maria Tallchief, the first Native American to win acclaim as a prima ballerina, was born on January 24, 1925. While she worked with many companies and choreographers, she is most renowned for her coll... (more...)

Houston Ballet to Present LA BAYADERE, 2/21-3/3

From February 21-March 3, 2013, Houston Ballet presents Stanton Welch's La Bayadère ('The Temple Dancer'), a historic classic staged by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch and set in royal ... (more...)

Russian National Ballet Theatre to Present SLEEPING BEAUTY at Three Stages, 2/5-7

Under the artistic direction of the legendary Elena Radchenko, a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, the Russian National Ballet Theatre brings The Sleeping Beauty to Three Stages. Founded durin... (more...)

Principal Dancer Irina Dvorovenko to Give Final Performance with American Ballet Theatre, 5/18

Irina Dvorovenko, a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2000, will give her final performance with the Company on May 18, 2013 at the Metropolitan Opera House in the role of Tatiana in... (more...)

Santa Fe's The Lensic to Welcome Belisama Irish Dance Company's 7th Annual RHYTHM OF FIRE, 3/15

Internationally award-winning Belisama Irish Dance Company presents the 7th Annual 'Rhythm of Fire' St. Patrick's Day performance 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 15, 2013, at The Lensic, Santa Fe's Performin... (more...)

Moscow Ballet's 20th Anniversary Great Russian Nutcracker Tour Concludes

Akiva Talmi Presents Inc (ATP) concludes largest and most successful tour of the Great Russian Nutcracker in 20 year history of presenting in the US and Canada. Moscow Ballet's (MB) two simultaneously... (more...)