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The Kennedy Center Presents National Ballet of China in Raise the Red Lantern
The Kennedy Center presents National Ballet of China in Raise the Red Lantern as part of this year’s Lunar New Year Celebration, a festival that began in 2016. The last time this ballet was performed was at the Center’s 2005 Festival of China. Based on the 1991 film of the same name by Zhang Yimou, Wang Xinpeng and Wang Yuanyuan…
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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Presents Jorden Morris’s The Great Gatsby
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is preparing for the world premiere of Jorden Morris’s The Great Gatsby (based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel) at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh. The PBT Orchestra will be accompanying the dancers with an original score composed by Carl Davis. The music fittingly evokes the 1920s in America, and the company will be…
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The Joffrey Ballet Presents Yuri Possokhov’s Anna Karenina
The Joffrey Ballet will soon perform the world premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s Anna Karenina based on the classic novel by Leo Tolstoy at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago. The company will be accompanied by the Chicago Philharmonic under the leadership of Scott Speck, the Joffrey Music Director. The score for Anna Karenina…
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Voices from the ABT Studio Company
As the new year begins, many young dancers are already thinking about where they will continue their training this summer as auditions for 2019 Ballet Summer Intensives are right around the corner. Many have dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers and know that giving up long holidays at the beach is often part of the…
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Ballet Body Image
Ballet dancers are obsessed with having the ideal ballet body. But what does that even mean? And what if there were a way that focus on artistry and technique were always just as important as focus on “perfecting” our ballet body image? Most dancers owe much of this obsession to their self-inflicted struggle to be…
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The Kennedy Center Presents American Ballet Theatre’s Harlequinade
The Kennedy Center presents American Ballet Theatre in Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade for the company’s 2019 engagement. Annually, America’s National Ballet Company makes an appearance in its capital and this year they bring Ratmansky’s reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s classic, comedic ballet Les Millions d’Arlequin. Harlequinade makes its DC premiere less than a year after its world…
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The Kennedy Center Presents Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella
The Kennedy Center presents Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella a little over a year after the revival’s debut in London. Bourne (who won a Tony Award® for both Best Choreographer and Best Director for Swan Lake) has choreographed for his company, New Adventures, a re-imagined version of this classic fairy tale while maintaining tradition by using Sergei Prokofiev’s famous score.…
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An Interview with Graham Lustig: On Nutcracker and Bees
Graham Lustig After a successful opening of its 2018-2019 season with Luna Mexicana, Oakland Ballet Company is ready to head back to the Paramount Theatre to perform Artistic Director Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker on December 22 and 23. This is truly a production filled with local talent; along with his company dancers, the Oakland Symphony and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir…
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Yuli: The Revealing Biographical Movie About Carlos Acosta
Yuli, the biopic about Carlos Acosta – one of the greatest ballet dancers of all times – has been nominated for 5 Goya awards (the Goya awards are the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars). Directed by Iciar Bollain, the film tells of Acosta’s childhood in his native Cuba and follows his growth to stardom. Based…
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Test Your Nutcracker Ballet Knowledge
You’ve danced or seen the ballet for years, perhaps even decades! Are you up to the challenge to take this Nutcracker ballet quiz to see what you really know?