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Casting for the first two weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s 2005 season at New York City Center, October 19 through November 6, was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. American Ballet Theatre’s Fall 2005 season will kick off with an Opening Night gala performance highlighted by the Company Premiere of Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of […]
Read More Opening Night Gala Sponsored by Malo and Superfund Asset Management, Inc.
Read More Nancy Raffa, a former dancer with American Ballet Theatre and Miami City Ballet has been named Director of American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensives. Her appointment, effective immediately, was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. As Director, Raffa will oversee ABT’s acclaimed New York Summer Intensive, as well as its five satellite programs in Detroit, […]
Read More Final performances for American Ballet Theatre’s New York Summer Intensive Program are scheduled for Friday, July 29, 2005 at 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. The performances mark the conclusion of ABT’s tenth annual New York Summer Intensive, a […]
Read More Revivals of Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo, George Balanchine’s Apollo, Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room and Antony Tudor’s Dark Elegies Also Planned
Read More Due to injury, Principal Dancer Alessandra Ferri will not dance scheduled performances of the title role of Giselle on Monday, July 11 and Friday, July 15. Principal Dancer Julie Kent will replace Ferri in the leading role opposite Julio Bocca as Albrecht for both performances. This season marks Alessandra Ferri’s 20th Anniversary with American Ballet […]
Read More Michele Wiles has been promoted to Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, it was announced yesterday by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Wiles received her early training in Washington, D.C. At the age of ten, she received a full scholarship to the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. where she studied […]
Read More Amanda McKerrow to Dance Final Performance with ABT on Thursday, July 14
Read More Gillian Murphy to debut as Medora in Le Corsaire on Saturday, June 25
Carlos Acosta to debut as von Rothbart in Swan Lake on Saturday, July 2
Read More One-Hour Program to Include Special Guest Appearance by Angelina Ballerina‚Ñ¢
Read More Veronika Part and Tamįs Solymosi to Debut in Raymonda on Wednesday, June 8
Petrouchka to have New York Revival Premiere on Thursday, June 16
Read More American Ballet Theatre (ABT) announced today that it reached a three-year agreement with Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. ABT has been engaged in negotiations with Local 802 since mid-March. Rachel S. Moore, Executive Director of ABT, stated: “We’re delighted to report that we reached a three-year agreement last evening with the musicians’ […]
Read More Gillian Murphy and Maxim Beloserkovsky to Lead
U.S. Revival Premiere of Sylvia, Friday Evening, June 3
Julio Bocca to Bid Farewell To Don Quixote on Wednesday Evening, May 25
Read More Gala Performance to Include Roland Petit’s Carmen (pas de deux) with Alessandra Ferri and Julio Bocca and All-Star Don Quixote Suite
Read More ABT Studio Company alumna, actress Victoria Rowell, will be the Mistress of Ceremonies at the Studio Company’s 10th Anniversary Gala at 8 P.M. on Thursday, April 21 at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Currently starring in the daytime drama The Young and the Restless, Rowell joined American Ballet Theatre’s school on scholarship in 1977 and danced […]
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