Ballet International News

Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Grace Cathedral are pleased to announce that internationally celebrated choreographer Alonzo King will be the Artist in Residence at Grace Cathedral in 2019.   

Full casting is announced for the West End Premiere of INALA - A Zulu Ballet - at the Peacock Theatre in London, from 30 April to 18 May 2019.

Oregon Ballet Theatre is offering audio-described performances for patrons with blindness or low vision, or anyone interested in listening to a live narration of select performances of George

Oregon Ballet Theatre opens its season as the first U.S. company to build a production of - and stage - this fiery full-length work, originally created in 1842 for Denmark's Royal Ballet, popular for over 175 years of August Bournonville's Napoli.

Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced the principal casting for the company's upcoming tour to Hamburg, Germany with an all-Canadian programme featuring The Dreamers Ever Leave You by Choreographic Associate Robert Binet, James Kudelka's The Man in Black and Emergence by Crystal Pite. The National Ballet will perform as part of the 44th Hamburg Ballet Days, a two-week festival of dance, for two performances July 3 - 4, 2018 at Großes Haus. This will be the company's first appearance in Hamburg since 1994.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents Bedlam, the acclaimed New York based theatre company, with a fresh kinetic look at two plays with four actors, playing 49 characters in William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw's most famous creations, side by side, Hamlet and Saint Joan, in repertory April 5 to 15 at The Broad Stage. This engagement will be the company's West-Coast debut.

Opera & Ballet International presents two Ellen Kent productions featuring outstanding soloists, a highly-praised chorus and a stunning full orchestra coming to The Bristol Hippodrome on January 18 and 19, 2018.

AfroSolo Arts Festival 23 presents the Black Voices Performance Series: 'Our Stories, Our Lives' on October 19-22 at African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet is pleased to announce the return of The Propelled Heart, Alonzo King's critically acclaimed collaboration with vocalist Lisa Fischer that pays tribute to the power of song.

Marshall Ellis Dance School will launch its junior dance company, ME1st, next month. The program is for dancers ages 8-13 in Central Florida and provides an opportunity for them to train and perform in a positive, professional atmosphere. To be considered for ME1st, interested dancers should attend an audition class at ME Dance School. Based on skill and potential, they can be invited to join ME1st.

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AWARD-WINNING opera producer Ellen Kent returns to Manchester following critically acclaimed tours of Carmen, Tosca and Die Fledermaus, bringing an opera festival of three new productions, boasting magnificent new sets. Aida with the grandeur of Egypt, La Boheme, the most romantic opera of all and Nabucco – the most special and iconic opera of all. Not to be missed! 

McCarter Theatre Center is starting the New Year with a fresh look at two of literature's most enigmatic and dynamic characters. From January 13 - February 12, the celebrated New York theater company, Bedlam, makes its McCarter Theatre Center debut with their critically- acclaimed stripped down productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, in rotating repertory.

Aida, the grandest of all Ellen Kent's operas, returns in Spring 2017 to the UK with a stunning new traditional production, boasting an impressive new set built by Set-Up Scenery in the UK, who also build sets for the Royal Opera Covent Garden.

McCarter Theatre Center is starting the New Year with a fresh look at two of literature's most enigmatic and dynamic characters. From January 13 - February 12, the celebrated New York theater company, Bedlam, makes its McCarter Theatre Center debut with their critically- acclaimed stripped down productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, in rotating repertory.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet is pleased to announce its Fall Season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, for a limited six-performance engagement, November 2-6.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet is pleased to announce its Fall Season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, for a limited six-performance engagement, November 2-6. The season features two works: a world premiere ballet featuring the regal mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani performing live; and Meyer, Alonzo King's collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning composer and bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer. Immediately following the company will set off on a tour to Russia, France, Switzerland and Italy.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet is pleased to announce its Fall Season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, for a limited six-performance engagement, November 2-6.

The Centenary Stage Company will host the NJ Civic Youth Ballet's double-feature afternoon of ballet with "The Tales of Beatrix Potter" and "Coppelia"  on Sunday, June 5 at 4 PM in the Lackland Center for the Performing Arts on Grand Ave. in Hackettstown.

The Old Globe today announced the appointment of a new Director of Development. Llewellyn Crain joins the executive team to help implement the Globe's strategic plan by leading and growing a comprehensive, modern, and sophisticated fundraising program to support the theatre's 15 acclaimed annual productions and the wide variety of continually evolving and innovative arts engagement programs.