Boston Ballet Announces 2024�"2025 Season
by A.A. Cristi
- Mar 28, 2024
Discover the 2024-2025 season of the Boston Ballet, featuring premieres of Crystal Pite's The Seasons' Canon and Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette.
The Royal Ballet's SWAN LAKE Returns to the Royal Opera House
by Stephi Wild
- Jan 24, 2024
This Spring, The Royal Ballet's sumptuous production of Swan Lake returns to the Royal Opera House's Main Stage. Opening in Spring and returning in Summer, the production remains to this day one of the best-loved works in the classical ballet canon, demanding delicacy, grace, and strong, virtuosic technique from the dancers that take on its central roles.
Review: THE NUTCRACKER, Royal Opera House
by Aliya Al-Hassan
- Dec 7, 2023
The world can often seem so grey at the moment, so any opportunity to step into the light is most welcome. There can be few festive shows that ignite such a sense of wonder and delight as the Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker. If the festive season is all about tradition, then Peter Wright’s 1984 production, modelled on Lev Ivanov’s 1892 ballet, is exactly what any ballet lover wants to see.
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE Comes to the Met This Summer
by Stephi Wild
- Apr 18, 2023
American Ballet Theatre returns to the Metropolitan Opera House with four stories of love for its 2023 Summer season, June 22–July 22. The season will feature the New York Premiere of two-time Tony Award-winner Christopher Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate, as well as full-length classics Giselle, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet. General public on sale for ABT's 2023 Summer season begins on Monday, April 24 at 12:00 P.M. at the Metropolitan Opera House box office.
Kennedy Center Announces the 2023/24 Dance Season Featuring New York City Ballet, Sydney Dance Company & More
by Alan Henry
- Mar 9, 2023
Continuing to bring world class dance to the stages of the National Cultural Center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced its 2023–2024 dance season. Being at the forefront of responding to the moment, today’s artists and companies are challenging the frame of storytelling, shifting the boundaries of what movement can be, and showcasing the dynamic form in a multitude of ways blurring the lines between classical and contemporary. Through this lens, audiences will experience a season filled with innovative works and collaborations among ballet and dance offerings, beloved classics, master voices, and newcomers to the stage. Subscriptions for the 2023–2024 season are now available here or by calling (202) 416-8500.
Review: SWAN LAKE, London Coliseum
by Aliya Al-Hassan
- Jan 14, 2023
After the occasionally muddy narrative in their tired Nutcracker, this is a Swan Lake with clear, emotional storytelling and magical choreography.
Dutch National Ballet to Present THE SWAN LAKE Beginning in March
by Blair Ingenthron
- Dec 27, 2022
Dutch National Ballet will present the first night of the full-length ballet classic Swan Lake on Wednesday 22 March. In total, seventeen performances of the production will be given in the period from 22 March 2023 to 18 April 2023.
SWAN LAKE is Now Playing at the Opera National de Paris
by Stephi Wild
- Dec 19, 2022
It is hard to believe that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's first ballet, Swan Lake, created in 1877 for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was a failure, so striking is its music's melodic power. It was not until twenty years later - but Tchaikovsky was already dead - that the ballet was brought to the stage in the choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
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