Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer Noelani Pantastico Announces Retirement
To join faculty of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Final PNB performances in Roméo et Juliette, February 4 – 13. Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Noelani Pantastico has announced that after a 25-year dancing career, she is retiring to accept a position on the faculty of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB). Pantastico trained at CPYB before being hired […]
Cupcakes & Conversation with Samantha Lynch, Principal, The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning ? An oat latte and the treadmill, I love to run! Samantha Lynch in rehearsal. Photo Jörg Wiesner If ballet chose you, as many dancers say it did, what is it that has made you stick with it ? I don’t think it’s ever been an option for me not […]
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET APPOINTS TAMARA ROJO AS NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Rojo Joins the Trailblazing Cultural Institution as First Female Artistic Director in the Acclaimed Dance Company’s 89-Year History Tamara Rojo photographed by Bex Singleton for Ballet News San Francisco Ballet today announced the appointment of Tamara Rojo, its first new artistic director in nearly four decades and first woman to lead the internationally-recognized company that has balanced […]
English National Ballet Leadership Announcement
Tamara Rojo & Akram Khan Photograph : Cheryl Angear The Company has announced today that Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer, Tamara Rojo CBE, will step down towards the end of 2022 to take up the role of Artistic Director at San Francisco Ballet. Since Tamara’s appointment to the role in 2012, she has gained […]
The Sarasota Ballet’s 2022 Season Opens with Program 4 | Love & Betrayal
Marijana Dominis in Johan Kobborg’s Napoli Act III– Photography by Frank Atura 28 – 31 January 2022 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts The Sarasota Ballet opens the New Year with a return to triple-bill programming. Program 4 – Love & Betrayal, performing 28 – 31 January 2022 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, […]
Stuttgart Ballet | Agnes Su appointed to Principal Dancer
Agnes Su in John Cranko’s Onegjn. Stuttgart Ballet. Following a triumphant debut as Tatiana in John Cranko’sOnegin, Agnes Su has been promoted to Principal Dancer by Artistic Director Tamas Detrich, effective immediately. A native Californian, she received her first ballet lessons at the Pacific Coast Academy of Dance in San Clemente, and later at the Southland Ballet Academy. As of 2010, she studied […]
Beauty and Light | Martin Schläpfer choreographs the ballet for the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert for the first time
Claudine Schoch und Marcos Menha, Fiona McGee und Daniel Vizcayo, Masayu Kimoto und Elena Bottaro. ORF/Hubert Mican bzw. ORF/Günther Pichlkostner For the traditional New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, which will be conducted by Maestro Daniel Barenboim on 1 January 2022 and broadcast worldwide in the ORF production, for the first time Martin Schläpfer created the […]
The Royal Ballet announces new streams to kickstart your New Year
The Royal Opera House announces that, in addition to both The Dante Project and Giselle, a further five productions will be released on select dates from New Year’s Eve, offering audiences across the globe a rich range of ballet and this New Year. Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, The Royal Ballet […]
Ballet News Introduces | Toi Toi Toi!
Toi toi Toi is a global online marketplace dedicated to dance, and is the brain-child of London-based dance enthusiast and entrepreneur Ikuko Kurahone, who also runs dancewear brand Prima Materia London. It is her grass-roots community building and sustainability project without big financial backing. Strictly for dance Toitoitoi.co.uk functions just like other global marketplaces but […]
Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet | Nutcracker Cancelled
In light of increasing COVID-19 cases and the RoyalWinnipeg Ballet’s desire to do our part in curtailing large group gatherings, the RWB iscancelling the Monday, December27th, and Tuesday, December 28th performancesof Nutcracker at the Centennial Concert Hall. Our priority remains the health and safety ofour patrons, artists, students, and staff.We are automatically applying the value […]