Herman Cornejo and James Whiteside to give farewell performances with American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre has announced that Herman Cornejo and James Whiteside will retire from the company during the 2027 season.
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American Ballet Theatre announces 2026 Fall Season and 2027 Spring Season at The David H. Koch Theater
American Ballet Theatre’s two seasons at the David H. Koch Theater in 2026-2027 were announced by Artistic Director Susan Jaffe.
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American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season 2026 at the Metropolitan Opera House
American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season 2026 will feature a new staging of Don Quixote, as well as the return of Onegin, Swan Lake, and Sylvia.
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American Ballet Theatre’s programme for Fall Gala honouring Misty Copeland
American Ballet Theatre announces programme to honour Misty Copeland at Fall Gala celebration on Wednesday 22 October 2025 at the Lincoln Center.
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Herman Cornejo brings the US premiere of Anima Animal to New York’s The Joyce Theater
In February, Cornejo brings the US premiere of Anima Animal to The Joyce Theater, a full-length work that reflects his deep ties to Argentina’s cultural legacy.
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New York premiere of Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate opens American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season
American Ballet Theatre’s summer season in June/July featuring NYC premiere of Like Water for Chocolate, Giselle, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet.
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Breaking the LORE: Wayne McGregor on his new dance work at La Scala
Today is the 140th anniversary of the birth of Stravinsky, so the perfect day to meet Wayne McGregor to talk about his new Stravinsky programme.
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Vail Dance Festival returns for the 2021 Season
The Vail Dance Festival has announced plans to return in-person for its 32nd season running from 30 July 30 to 9 August 2021
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Interview with Alessandra Ferri: Maturing I find myself smiling more
“I’m enjoying a new chapter in my life having the fortune to play women of my age and not romantic roles like the Giselles, Carmens, Juliets, Manons… all wonderful, but enough, they’re part of another Alessandra. Now I’m a 55-year-old with the knowledge of how extraordinary that is.”
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New York dancers come together for the 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer plus special all-male event
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…
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Herman Cornejo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing?I was 8 years old. It was a normal day when my sister’s teacher, Wasil Tupin, saw me at the door. I was enjoying the music and watching my sister dance to the rhythm, and he invited me to come to class the next day. Why did you start dancing?Music took…
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Alessandra Ferri’s pain at being rejected and joy at being reborn
The word “comeback” isn’t one I like; what I am doing is going ahead. These years off stage have taught me that I can’t live without dance. I am fully realised only when I dance. Alessandra Ferri is in Florence to dance Roland Petit‘s Le jeune homme et la mort, one of her many projects since…
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Carla Fracci, Claudio Coviello and the Prix Benois 2014
For more than twenty years the Benois Prize has been recognising talent with the most starry juries imaginable. The first year it consisted of Yury Grigorovich as its president, with Galina Ulanova (Russia), Carla Fracci (Italy), Kirsten Ralov (Denmark), Yvette Chauviré (France), Rudolf Nureyev (world citizen?) and John Neumeier (Germany). This year one of these, La Fracci, returned as part of an…
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Alessandra Ferri’s women: Cherì, Duse and Woolf… and heading La Scala?
Alessandra Ferri brings Martha Clarke’s Chéri to the Ravenna Festival in two weeks, with the same cast that accompanied her for the piece’s début at The Signature Theatre in New York: ABT’s Herman Cornejo and actress Amy Irving. Although Charles Isherwood for The New York Times said that Clarke’s choreography “sometimes falls into patterns of swooning sameness”, of Ferri…
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Alessandra Ferri returns to dance the end of her marriage
At the end of June Alessandra Ferri will return to the stage after an absence of 7 years, and, at the age of 50, will restart her dancing career. At Spoleto, where she is the artistic director of the dance component, she will dance in The Piano Upstairs, a new work for which she is also…
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