Petipa News

PPAC's 2011/2012 Broadway Season opens today with ROCK OF AGES. The complete schedule includes PPAC's Contemporary Specials, Family Shows, Music and Dance Specials, and Featured Shows at The VETS.

Popejoy Presents is thrilled to announce their 2011-12 Broadway in New Mexico Series in Albuquerque, featuring the New Mexico premiere of the Broadway phenomenon Disney's The Lion King in October 2012 at Popejoy Hall.

The State Ballet Theatre of Russia brings the world's most beloved ballet, 'Swan Lake,' to glorious life for one performance only Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3:00 p.m. at The Morris Performing Arts Center, 211 N. Michigan Street, South Bend, IN 46601.

The Joffrey Ballet's 2011-2012 subscription season, titled New Generation, launches this fall with the World Premiere of Yuri Possokhov's re-imagined Don Quixote.

The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall announces a 2011-2012 Season rife with star-studded talent.

Media City Ballet (MCB), Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director & Choreographer, the Southland's leading dance company specializing in the presentation of performances in the tradition and style of the Ballets Russes, will celebrate their current 10th Anniversary Season by making their debut at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre; 2580 Cahuenga Boulevard East, Hollywood, CA 90068, on Friday, August 12, 2011 at 8:30 p.m. with the World Premiere of AXIS MUNDI: A Global Multi-Cultural Celebration of Ballet Dance.

In last February's Aspects of Love, Dance Theatre of Tennessee's midwinter concert featuring a wide variety of dance styles that perfectly showcased the superb talents of company members, Guadalupe Medina was featured along with Amanda Whites and Lisa Schmidt in Nuts, a contemporary piece set to 'Beatles Go Baroque' by Peter Preiner and His Chamber Orchestra. Staged by DTT artistic director Christopher Mohnani, after the original choreography of R. Culalic, the smart and sprightly work exuded humor that was exemplified by the spirited dancing of the trio who presented the winning work with an easy grace, making it a sure favorite of the audience.

Media City Ballet (MCB), Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director & Choreographer, the Southland's leading dance company specializing in the presentation of performances in the tradition and style of the Ballets Russes, will celebrate their current 10th Anniversary Season by making their debut at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre; 2580 Cahuenga Boulevard East, Hollywood, CA 90068, on Friday, August 12, 2011 at 8:30 p.m. with the World Premiere of AXIS MUNDI: A Global Multi-Cultural Celebration of Ballet Dance.

Popejoy Presents is thrilled to announce their 2011-12 Broadway in New Mexico Series in Albuquerque, featuring the New Mexico premiere of the Broadway phenomenon Disney's The Lion King in October 2012 at Popejoy Hall.

The Harris Theater for Music and Dance today announced its full Harris Theater Presents 2011-2012 season, offering Chicago audiences a ground-breaking collection of innovative, culturally diverse programming by the world's finest musicians and dance companies, as well as Harris' signature collaborations with Chicago's leading dance and music institutions.

J.L. 'Lynn' Singleton, President of the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), is pleased to announce the full schedule for PPAC's 2011/2012 Broadway Season. The complete schedule includes PPAC's Contemporary Specials, Family Shows, Music and Dance Specials, and Featured Shows at The VETS.

Continuing its mission to offer groundbreaking in-theater events of all types, NCM Fathom presents GISELLE IN 3D, the world's first 3-D ballet to be shown with RealDTM 3D technology on Tuesday, July 12 at Noon followed by a second performance at 7:30 p.m. (both times local).

Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center announces the ninth season of its international dance series. Six companies representing the United States, Scotland, France, Switzerland and Russia will participate in 22 performances at the Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Ahmanson Theatre, in a season that is not only culturally diverse, but also boasts a residency by Diavolo Dance Theater, a Music Center co-commission with Penn State and a part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an initiative of the Getty in collaboration with more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California.

A doll come to life, love triangles, illusions, doubles - the story of Coppelia is just as intriguing and fanciful today as it was when it premiered in 1870, with original choreography by Marius Petipa.

Following the tremendous success of its first Tour de Force in 2009, Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Tour de Force II - a one-night-only celebration of extreme dance artistry, extraordinary talent and brilliant creativity that will thrill dance audiences. Tour de Force II will be April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Segerstrom Hall.

IFC Center today announced a new program to bring Emerging Pictures' "Opera in Cinema" and "Ballet in Cinema" presentations to downtown Manhattan this spring.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College concludes its 2010-2011 World of Dance series with the internationally acclaimed Russian National Ballet Theatre's interpretation of Swan Lake on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 2:00pm.

Four new productions and a collection of classics, including a reprise of Puccini's La Bohème, will take the stage at Bloomington's Musical Arts Center and the Buskirk-Chumley Theater during the 2011-2012 Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater season.

Critics have called the Russian National Ballet Theatre, directed by the legendary Bolshoi principal dancer Elena Radchenko, "the real thing."

More than 50 Metro West area ballet students will showcase their skills in Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA's) Ballet Story Classics on Saturday, March 26th at 3:00 p.m. at the Thomas D. Mercer auditorium, Horace Mann Middle School in Franklin.