As the dance work based on Isherwood’s gay novel A Single Man comes to London’s Royal Opera House, Lily Hyde laments the lack of female queerness in ballet.
Ahead of tonight’s World Premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet Oscar images and footage have been released of the new full-length work.
In September, The Australian Ballet will premiere Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet ‘Oscar’ inspired by Oscar Wilde. In November it will be live streamed.
The Royal Academy of Dance has launched series nine of its podcast, Why Dance Matters. First episode with Misty Copeland.
Interview with Gemma Bond, whose new work, Boundless, for the Royal Ballet has opened with Yasmine Naghdi and Ryoichi Hirano.
“Here’s another the-dance-world-according-to-one-person review of 2023 – because there aren’t enough of those, right?” – says Matthew Paluch
Mosaic International Dance Festival, the “preamble” to a much bigger festival in November 2024 – the ambition is to make Dubai a go-to city for dance.
The annual free digital 24-hour livestream for World Ballet Day occurs on Wednesday 1 November this year.
Casting for American Ballet Theatre’s 2023 Fall Season at the David H. Koch Theater from October 18–29 was announced today by Artistic Director Susan Jaffe.
The Australian Ballet in London: ‘cracking performance’, ‘lacking in spontaneity’, ‘intriguingly romantic’, ‘a ballet cliché’ – mixed feelings from Jonathan Gray.
The Australian Ballet will visit London during the first week of August with Jewels after a saving face change of programme.
Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet returns to The Australian Ballet and will be live streamed from Arts Centre Melbourne on 18 October 2022.
#WorldBalletDay 2022 will be the biggest yet with over 60 companies participating, including 14 for the first time.
Casting for American Ballet Theatre’s 2022 Fall season has been announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.
Australian Ballet and Gramilano are offering passes to watch the live streaming of the dance work ‘Kunstkamer’ with David Hallberg on 10 June.
The Australian Ballet presents Kunstkamer, streaming live on 10 June 2022, with David Hallberg and choreographers León, Lightfoot, Goecke, Pite.
David Hallberg will become the new artistic director of the Australian Ballet, taking over from former principal dancer David McAllister, who has directed the company for two decades. Hallberg’s last performances as a dancer will be in 2021, when he will fulfil previous commitments, culminating in a farewell gala with American Ballet Theatre. He spent…
Giselle is one of La Scala Ballet’s international calling cards. Together with Nureyev’s Don Quixote, this production has been seen all over the world, and rightly so. The company dances it beautifully, and its staging by Yvette Chauviré (based, of course, on the Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot choreography) would be difficult to better. It is clearly told, the story points being so carefully prepared that focus is…
Three years ago, Jacopo Tissi left La Scala to join the Bolshoi Company in Moscow. Makhar Vaziev, the Company’s current director, was previously the director at La Scala and had seen Tissi’s work. It was Vaziev (on having to find a substitute for Sergei Polunin, who was himself a substitute for David Hallberg), who chose…
David Hallberg will become a Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet in the 2019/2020 Season. Hallberg has a long association partnering Royal Ballet Principal dancer Natalia Osipova. During the 2018/2019 Season they performed together at The Royal Opera House in Frederick Ashton‘s A Month in the Country and Kenneth MacMillan‘s Romeo and Juliet. They also danced…
Opening Night – 17 September 2019 Giselle Svetlana Zakharova Albrecht David Hallberg Duke of Courland Alessandro Grillo Principess Bathilde Marta Romagna Giselle’s mother Beatrice Carbone Hilarion Mick Zeni Wilfried Riccardo Massimi Hunter Massimo Garon Peasants Pas de deux Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo Giselle’s friends Alessia Auriemma, Christelle Cennerelli, Stefania Ballone, Marta Gerani, Agnese Di Clemente,…
Canadian dancer Shale Wagman turned 19 last May. Soon after he was guesting at the Mariinsky Theatre. What’s more, it was his first time dancing a principal role. Ever. Last season – his first as a professional dancer – he was dancing with English National Ballet’s corps de ballet, part of his prize after winning the Prix de Lausanne when he was 17, last year.
With a performance of Kenneth MacMillan‘s Manon on 20 June, Roberto Bolle said goodbye to the American Ballet Theatre. He has been a principal dancer with the company over the last decade. Everyone likes Bolle, ballet’s Mr Nice Guy, who is kind to his colleagues onstage, the backstage staff, and his many fans. David Hallberg,…
Last night, 8 June 2019, The Royal Ballet celebrated the centenary of the birth of its most famous ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn, who was born on 18 May 1919. A performance of The Firebird, currently in a triple bill, was followed by a gala of extracts from ballets representing some of Fonteyn’s most celebrated roles….
After almost a month touring China, La Scala’s ballet company popped back to Milan for a run of Manon performances, before popping off to Australia for thirteen performances in Brisbane, from 7 to 18 November. It is the company’s first time in Australia and they are taking two of their most popular productions: Don Quixote…
Mid-way through the first act, taking off for a jump, I felt a pop in my calf, and from then on a sharp pain inflicted by just stepping on it. I finished the act through sheer grit of determination but knew in my gut I couldn’t possibly continue. I am shattered and heartbroken… In an…
The American Cancer Society – Our Mission is to Save Lives, Celebrate Lives and Lead the Fight for a World Without Cancer! – is staging its 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer. Erin Fogarty Bittner, who is the Programming Director at Manhattan Youth Ballet, and Daniel Ulbricht, Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet, who have…
American Ballet Theatre‘s new production of Whipped Cream, choreographed by ABT Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, will receive its world premiere at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts from 15 – 19 March. It will subsequently be performed in New York at the Met between 22 May and 1 July. The performance on the opening…
If you visit Australian Ballet‘s site with its casting for Coppélia and scroll down – after company members Chengwu Guo, Brett Chenowyth, Ty King-Wall, Christopher Rodgers-Wilson, Joseph Chapman – you will come across the name of David Hallberg, which is sure to make many ballet fans very happy indeed. He will be dancing Franz – a role…
Jacopo Tissi, the young Italian dancer who is starting to make waves, has been offered a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet Company. That’s not something that happens every day. The Moscow company, like all Russian companies, has almost no dancers from outside the ex-Soviet borders. Tissi arrives via the Makhar Vaziev connection, the ex-director of…
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