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Seminars on Nutrition and Injury Prevention Offered Free
to Families, Students, and Instructors,
Sunday, November 16, 2008, 12 Noon
Special Guest Appearances by Angelina Ballerina‚Ñ¢
and Dancers of American Ballet Theatre
Additional Pas de Deux to Include Flames of Paris
Performed by Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin
Talks Offered Free to Ticketholders
Read More As part of its centennial tribute to choreographer Antony Tudor, American Ballet Theatre has created a new microsite celebrating Mr. Tudor’s life and work. The new site will coincide with ABT’s Fall season at New York City Center, October 21-November 2, which culminates in a Tudor Centennial Tribute on October 31. Scheduled to launch Friday, […]
Read More Alexei Ratmansky, artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, will join American Ballet Theatre as Artist in Residence in January 2009. The appointment was announced today by ABT Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Mr. Ratmansky, whose contract with the Bolshoi Ballet expires at the end of 2008, has signed a five-year agreement with American Ballet Theatre. In […]
Read More Program Features Works by Jiřƒ∑ KyliƒØn, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp
Read More Nina Ricci to Serve as Gala Sponsor
Read More Blaine Hoven, a member of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet, is a recipient of the 2008 Princess Grace Award. Hoven received a specially designated award, the Chris Hellman Dance Award, awarded to one recipient in the dance category each year. The awards were announced today by the Princess Grace Foundation-USA. Born in Mobile, Alabama, […]
Read More American Ballet Theatre Soloists Misty Copeland and Sarah Lane have been awarded the 2008 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts. The two-year fellowship recognizes young artists of extraordinary talent with the goal of providing them with additional resources in order to fully realize their potential. To encourage the personal and artistic development of young artists, […]
Read More Final performances for American Ballet Theatre’s New York Summer Intensive Program are scheduled for Friday, July 25, 2008 at 12 P.M. and 4 P.M. at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts located at 100 Amsterdam Avenue at 65th Street. The performances mark the conclusion of ABT’s thirteenth annual New […]
Read More Five Site-Specific Performances Planned
Read More Nina Ananiashvili and Jose Manuel Carreño to Perform Lead Roles
Read More Julie Kent and Jose Manuel Carreño to Lead
Revival Premiere of The Merry Widow on Monday, June 30
Nina Ananiasvili, a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 1993, will retire from performing with the Company during the 2009 Metropolitan Opera House season. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Ananiashvili was an ice skating champion at the age of ten. She studied dance at the Choreographic School of Georgia before going to study at the […]
Read More Guest Artist Marisa Lopez to Perform the Role of
Gamzatti in La Bayadère, June 25 and 27
