Youth America Grand Prix’s 2026 Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala
Ballet stars will join Youth America Grand Prix to celebrate this year’s Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala on Thursday 16 April in New York.
Misty Copeland
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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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Royal Academy of Dance launches ninth season of its ‘Why Dance Matters’ podcast with Misty Copeland
The Royal Academy of Dance has launched series nine of its podcast, Why Dance Matters. First episode with Misty Copeland.
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Misty Copeland and Stevie Wonder receive the Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance
Misty Copeland and Stevie Wonder rewarded for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance.
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Movement at the Still Point – a glorious new coffee table book by Mark Mann celebrating the New York dance scene
Photographer Mark Mann’s new book Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to Dance, is a multi-disciplinary and multi-generational look at NYC dance.
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Misty Copeland Foundation announces its new directors
Caryn Campbell has been appointed Executive Director of The Misty Copeland Foundation and Sindy Folgar has been named Director of its BE BOLD programme.
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Akram Khan Company marks its 20th anniversary with The Silent Burn Project
The Akram Khan Company will celebrate its 20th anniversary on 4 October 2020.
To mark the anniversary, the company will present a live-streamed programme of work celebrating its 20-year history. The Silent Burn Project will combine storytelling with personal experiences from the multiple voices and talents who have contributed to the company’s work over the last two decades. All the content, including dance and music short films, panel discussions, touring memories and documentaries, has been produced and created especially for this event.
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The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance – dance photography from NYC Dance Project
Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – the husband-and-wife team behind the NYCDance Project – have their second dance photography book coming out next week: The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance.
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Roberto Bolle – ballet’s Mr Nice Guy – bows out
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,…
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Marcelo Gomes to guest in Giselle with the Mariinsky Ballet
Marcelo Gomes will be guesting with the Mariinsky Ballet as Albrecht, with Yekaterina Osmolkina as Giselle. After his surprise departure from the American Ballet Theatre in December, he has been working on a new choreographic project at The Washington Ballet, run by his old old ABT pal Julie Kent. His piece, The Outset – for the Three…
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La Scala brings Misty Copeland, Marianela Núñez and Roberto Bolle to California in Giselle
La Scala‘s ballet company is in California, warming up for tomorrow’s opening night of Giselle at the Segerstrom Center. The company’s resident principal dancers will only be seen at the Saturday matinee, though for the three evening performances Roberto Bolle will play Albrecht and, although he is a guest artist at Milan’s opera house, he…
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La Scala Ballet’s programme change for the US – with Bolle, Nuñez and Copeland
The previously announced ballet to be performed at California’s Segerstrom Center by La Scala‘s Ballet Company was Mauro Bigonzetti’s Cinderella, a ballet created for the opening of La Scala’s ballet season in 2015. Bigonzetti had a short-lived tenure at the helm of the La Scala company: less than ten months, in 2016. His departure because of…
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Meeting Davide Dato, the Italian ballet star who’s finally hitting the headlines in his homeland
Salsa, merengue and mambo… that’s how I started dancing. So says Davide Dato, Principal Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet. Many classical dancers began in their living room imitating Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, but the Caribbean dances for Dato were not just a phase. I started when I was very young, with my sister Greta. Our…
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Misty-eyed for Misty Copeland at La Scala
I’ll lay my cards on the table: I thought that Misty Copeland was an over-hyped media phenomenon, with a personal story that had leapfrogged ahead of her actual ability. This opinion was totally based on prejudice – having never seen her dance – and by knowing how many ‘artists’ become popular with a vast public…
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Coppélia scrapped and Misty Copeland and Roberto Bolle as Romeo & Juliet open new ballet season at La Scala
Mauro Bigonzetti’s Coppélia had already been put aside as the ballet to open La Scala‘s ballet season on 20 December due to his back problems. There was discussion of another version of the ballet to substitute it, but now everything’s changed and we have Misty Copeland and Roberto Bolle in Kenneth MacMillan‘s Romeo and Juliet. They danced…
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ABT’s Misty Copeland counterattacks after photoshopping allegations: “I’m happy and proud of my body”
American Ballet Theatre’s Misty Copeland posted a photo on her Instagram account last week by New York based photographer Gregg Delman. The photo is from his new book called, sensibly, Misty Copeland by Gregg Delman. Who would have imagined the storm it whipped up. @greggdelmanphoto A photo posted by Misty Copeland (@mistyonpointe) on Sep 24, 2016 at 6:46pm PDT…
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Albert Ayzenberg photographing dancers, “it’s not just about capturing a beautiful silhouette”
Photographer Albert Ayzenberg was born in the Ukraine, transferring to the United States when he was a child. It was there that he received his first camera. Since I was a little boy I’ve been fascinated with photography. When we moved to the United States my parents bought a Canon Sure Shot Supreme. I had…
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Nominees of Benois de la Danse 2015
CHOREOGRAPHERS: ALEXANDER EKMAN – A Swan Lake, Mikael Karlsson. The Norwegian National Ballet. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAILLOT – The Taming of the Shrew, Dmitry Shostakovich. Bolshoi Ballet. DWIGHT RHODEN – Verse Us, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nils Frahm, Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, Sven Helbig, Kristian Jarvi. Ballet Nice Mediterrannee. MARTIN SCHLÄPFER – Deep Field, Adriana Holzsky. Ballet am…
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Play Misty for me – Prince borrows ABT ballerina Misty Copeland
The American Ballet Theatre hired Misty Copeland when she was just 18. I had never, ever, thought, I’m black, and no one else looks like me. At ABT, I realized, Oh, I do have this other thing that could work against me or for me. I always thought my talent would take me as far as…
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