Artistic Director Yoshida Miyako has announced the upcoming season featuring much loved ballet classics, work by celebrated Japanese choreographer Moriyama Kaiji, a young dancer gala and a new educational project. A season highlight is the revival of Don Quixote, brimming with fun and vitality. Choreographed by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky, and directed by Alexei…
Mikhail Baryshnikov is set to take to the stage in The Hunting Gun – adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe and directed by François Girard. The Hunting Gun is a two-hander performed entirely in Japanese starring Miki Nakatani as Shoko, Midori, and Saiko, and Mikhail Baryshnikov in the non-speaking role of Josuke Misugi. The Hunting Gun – Three letters. One tragedy. Josuke Misugi…
McNicol Ballet Collective – founded by Artistic Director and choreographer Andrew McNicol – unites artists from a range of disciplines to create adventurous new work for both stage and screen. Following the success of McNicol Ballet Collective’s debut programme in 2021 the innovative dance company returns this summer with Devotions, a triple bill of virtuosic dance work…
The National Ballet of Canada has announced that Spencer Hack has been promoted to Principal Dancer. Hack was surprised on stage by Artistic Director Hope Muir following the Canadian premiere of David Dawson’s Anima Animus, by promoting him from First Soloist to Principal Dancer. “Spencer is one of The National Ballet of Canada’s most committed, versatile and poetic artists.…
Ashley Wheater MBE, The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet, announced the Joffrey’s 2023–2024 Season, featuring a Chicago debut of a full-length gothic masterpiece set in the dawn of modern science; a mixed rep program featuring a world premiere; the return of a Swedish tour de force; and a holiday tradition boldly reimagined for…
First Soloist Tanya Howard is set to retire after 25 years with The National Ballet of Canada at the end of the 2022/23 season. Howard will be honoured onstage by the company at a celebratory performance as she dances the role of the Stepsister in James Kudelka’s Cinderella on March 12, 2023. Tanya Howard said: “I feel so fortunate to…
Acclaimed choreographer Johan Inger‘s award winning production of Carmen is set to make a triumphant return to Semperoper Dresden this March. Semperoper Ballett Director Aaron S. Watkin first presented Inger’s interpretation of this classic tale of erotic passion, freedom, and jealousy in 2019, and it has been eagerly anticipated by dance lovers ever since. Inger’s…
English National Ballet has announced the 2023/2024 season, the first programmed by Artistic Director Designate Aaron S. Watkin. Featuring two world premieres, a UK premiere, a Company premiere and revivals of some of English National Ballet’s most iconic works, the season represents the vast spectrum of ballet, forging innovation with ground-breaking new productions while continuing to honour…
Propel Dance – a brand-new, Birmingham-based, professional all wheelchair-user dance company is premiering the company’s first ever live performances with The Snow Queen. The Snow Queen promises to be captivating and enthralling for all the family (ages 5+) and focuses on the origins of the queen who brings endless winters. The production is a contemporary…
On the anniversary of the devastating war in Ukraine, we look back at the dancers who came together in a show of support and performed at the Stand with Ukraine – Ballet for Peace at the San Carlo Theatre in Italy last year. This fundraising gala was organised by Artistic Director Alessio Carbone, who brought…
Isaac Hernández is a dancer on a mission to change…
Dance is a universal language that has the power to…
Don’t miss Birmingham Royal Ballet’s triple bill at Sadler’s Wells…
Artistic Director Yoshida Miyako has announced the upcoming season featuring…
