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The National Ballet of Canada 2019-2020 Season
The National Ballet of Canada 2019-2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Artistic Director Karen Kain‘s time with the company. To celebrate, the season will culminate with her restaging of Swan Lake after Erik Bruhn’s version. New sets and costumes by Gabriela Týlešová along with lighting by Tony Award-winning designer Natasha Katz will complement Ms. Kain’s vision.…
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet Presents Romeo & Juliet
Royal Winnipeg Ballet will perform Rudi van Dantzig’s Romeo & Juliet after being in a moratorium for 5 years, accompanied by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra playing Serge Prokofiev’s score. The production includes students and apprentices from the company’s school bringing the cast to a total of almost 75 dancers. Romeo and Juliet was van Dantzig’s first full-length…
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Boston Ballet Presents Full on Forsythe
For the opening of their 2018-2019 Spring season, Boston Ballet is preparing for an exciting program of renowned choreographer and artist William Forsythe to be performed at the Boston Opera House. William Forsythe is one of the most influential choreographers living and working today. For over four decades, his works reexamine ballet’s past, redefine its…
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Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Jonathan Porretta to Retire
Pacific Northwest Ballet announced today the retirement of principal dancer Jonathan Porretta. A special tribute will be paid to one of Seattle’s most beloved ballet dancers on Sunday, June 9 at 6:30pm as part of the Season Encore Performance. Audiences can see Porretta on the stage as Carabosse in Ronald Hynd’s The Sleeping Beauty from February 1-10, 2019. Porretta…
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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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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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The International Ballet Club
Here at The Traveling Ballerina, we wanted to create a space where ballet lovers from all around the globe could get together to chat about and share all things ballet. While we don’t have the capacity to do this in-person (yet!) we have created a Facebook Group called The International Ballet Club and hope that you…