Guangzhou Ballet Troupe: East and West get in step

The Guangzhou Ballet Troupe, one of China’s largest ballet companies, went to the West Coast for a performance on Friday, October 21st, at the Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver. Image Via – Guangzhou Ballet Troupe is   The Guangzhou Ballet Troupe was started in 1994 by Zha...

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Posted on Oct 23, 2011

The Manassas Ballet Theatre company kicks off its season with classic ‘Sleepy Hollow’ tale

The Manassas Ballet Theatre company will perform “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on Saturday October 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday October 23 at 3 p.m. Image Via – manassas ballet   The production opens the company’s 2011-12 season, which also include...

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Posted on Oct 19, 2011

‘China: Art of a Nation’ at Kennedy Center festival

Since its appearance in 2005, the 60-member National Ballet of China has fully embraced “modernism.” Image Via – ¿China: The Art of a Nation   Someone once said that ballet and modern dance would merge when a contemporary dancer donned toe shoes and ballerinas went barefoot...

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Posted on Oct 6, 2011

When men wear tutus…

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, or simply “The Trocks,” is an American all-male drag ballet corps that has taken the world by storm over the past thirty years with their comedy drag ballet.   Image Via – When men wear tutus. Can you imagine grown men in tutus, corsets a...

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Posted on Sep 28, 2011

China’s high-energy ballet is on trend – The Washington Post

The National Ballet of China grows and improves its way of presenting classical Western dance as China grows its wealth and global ambitions.   Image Via – Swan Lake by National Ballet On the one hand, there was something charmingly old-fashioned about the program the 60-member company pe...

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Posted on Sep 26, 2011

Hallberg Talks About Joining The Bolshoi Ballet : NPR

David Hallberg, a South Dakota native and one of the most talented male dancers in the world, is the first foreign dancer to become a “premier” dancer with the famed Bolshoi Ballet. He will, however, remain as a principal dancer with the New York-based American Ballet Theater.   Ima...

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Posted on Sep 24, 2011

National Ballet of Canada celebrates 60th anniversary with a tour stop in Vancouver

The National Ballet of Canada will perform The Man in Black by James Kudelka, The second detail and Emergence by choreographer Crystal Pite at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Friday & Saturday, September 23 & 24 at 8 pm, and a matinee on Sunday, September 25 at 2 pm.   Image Via – ...

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Posted on Sep 22, 2011

Russian Ballet in Abu Dhabi

The Diaghilev festival and Ballet Russes will be performing for the first time in the UAE at the Emirates Palace Auditorium on 22 September, 2011. Russian Ballet stars will present two masterpieces of the legendary impresario Sergei Diaghilev’s repertoire – Chopiniana by Frederic Chopin and Polo...

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Posted on Sep 20, 2011

Top American dancers unite for a ballet triumph in New Orleans | NOLA.com

Gregory Schramel and Marjorie Hardwick combined top dancers from Miami, Atlanta and New York into one company with shows in Baton Rouge and the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts.   Image Via – David L’HosteNew Orleans Saturday’s concert, which closed the Fall series for the...

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Posted on Sep 18, 2011

Passion leaps to the fore in romantic ballet | Herald Sun

The Australian Ballet presented Kevin Jackson and Madeleine Eastoe in a classical Romeo & Juliet production with a twist.   Image Via – Ballet stars Kevin Jackson and Ballet stars Kevin Jackson and Madeleine Eastoe yesterday proved they have perfected the passion of Romeo & Juliet...

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Posted on Sep 16, 2011

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