Tuesday, April 16

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A preview of San Francisco Ballet's 2025 season by Joshua Kosman in The San Francisco Chronicle.

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For her second season as artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet, Tamara Rojo has planned a program dedicated to the work of Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen, full-length story ballets by herself and Kenneth MacMillan, and a celebration of recent choreography from the U.K. under the title “Cool Britannia.”

 

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Photo gallery from a party for Alonzo King's Lines Ballet.

 

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Southern California Ballet presents Coppélia.

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This is the first time Southern California Ballet has staged the complete two-hour ballet since 2018, said Toby Batley, SCB’s co-artistic director with Martha Leebolt.

“We want to give our dancers the opportunity to do a full-length classical ballet from the Romantic Era,” Batley said. “The music is beautiful and likely will be recognized.”

 

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 Nashville Ballet presents "Romeo and Juliet." TV news video.

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Nashville Ballet has announced the highly-anticipated production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet will return to Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Jackson Hall on April 20 - 21, 2024 under the artistic direction of Nick Mullikin.

 

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A gala in Seoul featuring dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet is canceled.
 

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The organizer, Ballet & Model, who had signed a deal with the Sejong Center last October to stage the show at the venue, made several changes to the cast and program on March 28.

The number of ballet dancers decreased from 20 to 8, with the number of Bolshoi Ballet's principal dancers down from 12 to six. Six programmed pieces were scrapped, while four new numbers were added.

 

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A ballet performance in South Korea featuring dancers from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was cancelled abruptly, the organisers confirmed to AFP Tuesday, amid growing tensions between Seoul and Moscow over Ukraine and North Korea.