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For the second time this year, dancers from American Ballet Theatre will be featured in a special ballet category on the television quiz show JEOPARDY!. On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, in a category entitled “Tough Ballet,” ABT Company members will demonstrate iconic excerpts from its repertoire and read the accompanying clues. The JEOPARDY! crew traveled […]
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23 City Audition Tour for ABT Summer Intensive and Collegiate Program to Begin January 2, 2016
Auditions for Young Dancer Summer Workshop to be Held in Select Cities
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Season to All Include Revival of La Fille mal gardee and Two All-Ratmansky Repertory Programs
Guest Artist Alessandra Ferri to Dance the Role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet on Thursday, June 23, 2016
Read More American Ballet Theatre will bring its Make a Ballet On Tour program to two schools in Los Angeles this Fall, Gabriella Charter School and Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts. Both schools work with ABT’s Make a Ballet dance and design teaching artists from October 9 – 16, 2015. The program will […]
Read More Principal Dancer Misty Copeland and Company members from American Ballet Theatre will make a guest appearance on the first night of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” at Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NY, Monday, October 19, 2015. Host Jimmy Kimmel will welcome Ms. Copeland and fifteen ABT dancers for a special performance on the BAM stage, […]
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Gala Evening Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Read More Alessandra Ferri, a former Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, will return as a Guest Artist to dance the role of Juliet in the Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Metropolitan Opera House, it was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. In her first return to the ABT stage since her retirement […]
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Julie Kent has been named artistic director of American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive programs, it was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. In addition to her leadership responsibilities with ABT’s Summer Intensives, she will serve as a teacher and coach for ABT’s main Company, Studio Company and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Kent succeeds […]
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Veronika Part and Marcelo Gomes Lead Opening Night cast
December 10-20, 2015 in Segerstrom Hall; tickets go on sale September 13
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American Ballet Theatre’s diversity initiative Project Plié and Boys & Girls Clubs of America continues a master class series introducing ballet to a broad array of children with educational and activity-based master classes in member clubs across the United States. These hour-long classes, conducted by ABT Certified Teachers, serve to identify gifted children and connect them […]
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Casting for American Ballet Theatre’s 2015 Fall Season at the David H. Koch Theater was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. American Ballet Theatre opens its Fall season on Wednesday, October 21 at 6:30 P.M. with a special opening night Gala performance, highlighted by the New York City premiere of a new work by Mark […]
Read More Final performances for American Ballet Theatre’s New York Summer Intensive Program are scheduled for Friday, July 24, 2015 at 12 P.M. and 2 P.M. at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, New York. The performances mark the conclusion of ABT’s 20th annual New York Summer Intensive, a five-week training program for dancers ages […]
Read More Revivals of Twyla Tharp’s The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Michel Fokine’s Le Spectre de la Rose & Kurt Jooss’ The Green Table Also Planned
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Skylar Brandt, Thomas Forster, Luciana Paris, Arron Scott & Cassandra Trenary Promoted to Soloist
Maria Kochetkova & Alban Lendorf to Join Company as Principal Dancers; Jeffrey Cirio to Join as Soloist
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Casting for the seventh and eighth weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s 2015 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. The seventh week will feature eight performances of Swan Lake, June 22-27. Monday night’s performance, June 22, will be led by Gillian Murphy as Odette/Odile opposite Marcelo Gomes […]
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