Joffrey Ballet Opens 70th Anniversary Season with CARMEN
by Emmy Rice - Jun 22, 2025
The Joffrey Ballet opens its 70th anniversary season with the U.S. Premiere of Liam Scarlett’s Carmen, a tale of love, betrayal, and defiance set within the gritty confines of a cigarette factory in 1930s Spain.
The Joffrey Ballet Reveals 2025-26 Season at Lyric Opera House
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 24, 2025
The Joffrey’s 2025-2026 season at Lyric Opera House has been revealed, featuring U.S. and Chicago premieres by Liam Scarlett and Yuri Possokhov, and a celebration of dance legends Martha Graham, Glen Tetley and more. Learn more!
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's Marianna Tcherkassky Will Retire
by Stephi Wild - Jun 15, 2023
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s (PBT) long-time rehearsal director, Marianna Tcherkassky, has announced her retirement at the end of the 2022-2023 season. Tcherkassky has been a rehearsal director at PBT for 26 years. Prior to PBT, Tcherkassky danced with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) for 26 years, 20 of which as a principal dancer.
Almamia Dance Project to Stage CARMEN. STEP TWO OF A CONTEMPORARY LOVE
by Marissa Tomeo - Jan 30, 2022
The tragic passion of Carmen and Don Josè, protagonists of one of the most famous and represented opera in the world, becomes body, gesture, movement to relive in its essence. Carmen. Step two of a contemporary love , is the Almamia Dance Project show inspired by the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, staged at the Teatro Regio in Parma on Saturday 5 February 2022 , at 20.30 , for ParmaDanza 2021-2022 . Mauro Bigonzetti signs the choreographies of this double step which sees the dancers Camilla Colella and Octavio de la Roza as protagonists, who also signs the original music; the lights are by Carlo Cerri , the costumes by Silvia Califano .