Christopher Wheeldon News

New York City Ballet will open its 2011-2012 season at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, September 13, with four weeks of fall performances through October 9, featuring 16 ballets including works by George Balanchine, Peter Martins, Jerome Robbins and Christopher Wheeldon.

New York City Center will reopen following a historic renovation and modernization with a star-studded gala on October 25.

Dancers' Workshop of Jackson welcomes back New York City Ballet Moves in August. This intimate group of NYC Ballet principal and corps dancers will be in residence with the Workshop.

Peter Martins, Ballet Master in Chief of the New York City Ballet, announced today that the Company will launch a new performance group called New York City Ballet Moves during the summer of 2011. Consisting of a small group of artists from the full company, New York City Ballet Moves will provide an opportunity to showcase NYCB's dancers and repertory in venues that might not be able to present the full company for financial or technical reasons. Martins will select a rotating group of performers from NYCB's roster of dancers and musicians to participate in the group's engagements.

Brooklyn philharmonic has just announced their 2011-12 season:

Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove have announced that Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow returns to Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere production of THE COLUMNIST by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. In this new play, Lithgow plays noted newspaper columnist Joseph Alsop. This limited engagement will begin previews on Tuesday, April 3 and open Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

The Australian Ballet celebrates a longstanding love affair with British ballet in a triple bill spanning three generations. British Liaisons features three of the biggest names in British choreography. Sharing the illustrious bill are Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois, the inimitable Sir Kenneth MacMillan and contemporary ballet legend Christopher Wheeldon.

The 17th annual edition of the spectacular Fire Island Dance Festival raised a record-breaking $340,445, surpassing the previous record by more than $23,000. Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most anticipated cultural event of the season at Fire Island Pines, was presented July 15-17 and is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The 17th annual edition of the spectacular Fire Island Dance Festival raised a record-breaking $340,445, surpassing the previous record by more than $23,000. Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most anticipated cultural event of the season at Fire Island Pines, was presented July 15-17 and is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

New York City Ballet announced today that Chase Finlay and Anthony Huxley have been promoted to Soloist. Peter Martins, NYCB's Ballet Master in Chief, made the promotions at the end of the Company's annual summer residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, NY.

The National Ballet of Canada reported earlier this week that their newest production, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is now sold out for the remainder of its run, making it the most successful production in the history of the company. There is still one more chance to see excerpts from this spectacular new ballet at MAD HOT WONDERLAND, the annual gala fundraiser on June 21st. BWW sat down and spoke with Sonia Rodriquez, a principal dancer currently alternating the role of Alice, about what this journey has been like for her.

Ten emerging and world-renowned dancers, dance companies and choreographers will join two-time Tony Award-winner and celebrated dancer Bebe Neuwirth at Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most anticipated cultural event of the season at Fire Island Pines. Scheduled for July 16-17, this outdoor celebration of dance is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

On Tuesday, May 31 after the curtain came down at New York City Ballet's evening performance, a crew of dancers took to the streets, dancing down city sidewalks and distributing hundreds of red pointe shoes across the city in a grass roots effort to rally and raise awareness for this year's Dancers' Choice performance on Sunday, June 12, a one-time-only program produced entirely by NYCB's dancers with all tickets specially priced at $25 and $50. This year's Dancers' Choice program, overseen by NYCB dancers Adrian Danchig-Waring and Amanda Hankes, will feature George Balanchine's iconic works Apollo and Rubies, as well as a series of selections from George Balanchine's Agon, Angelin Preljocaj's La Stravaganza, and the only performance this season of Christopher Wheeldon's Liturgy. A highlight of the evening will be breakout performances across the board with dancers making exciting debuts in nearly every role.