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B Is for Ballet and Boys Dance! Will Release in Time for the Opening of
ABT’s 80th Anniversary Fall Season
American Ballet Theatre’s artists – dancers, production crew, rehearsal pianists, ballet masters and education faculty – directly impacted by the loss of income due to canceled tour engagements in four cities this spring are now receiving supplemental benefits and financial support through the newly established ABT Crisis Relief Fund. The Fund, created by ABT, will […]
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Beginning Monday, March 23, 2020, children and parents can tune into @ABTSchool on Instagram for daily classes in ballet movement taught by former ABT dancers, faculty from the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (JKO) School and ABT teaching artists. All teachers are certified in the ABT National Training Curriculum. The classes will be available through Instagram […]
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American Ballet Theatre’s scheduled performances of Romeo and Juliet at the 2020 Abu Dhabi Festival have been postponed due to concerns over the coronavirus (COVID-19). It was announced today by the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation. American Ballet Theatre’s performances of Romeo and Juliet with The Cleveland Orchestra were scheduled for April 3 and […]
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American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer David Hallberg has been appointed Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, effective January 2021. It was announced on Monday, March 2, 2020 in Melbourne by The Australian Ballet. Hallberg succeeds David McAllister, who served as Artistic Director for the last 30 years. Commenting on the appointment, American Ballet Theatre Artistic […]
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American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Ballet Master Nancy Raffa has been nominated for a prestigious Isadora Duncan Award for her 2013 restaging of Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy at San Francisco Ballet. Shostakovich Trilogy was originally created by ABT Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky as a co-production with San Francisco Ballet. The trilogy comprised Symphony #9, first […]
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March 5 – 8, 2020 in Segerstrom Hall
Tickets on sale now
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As American Ballet Theatre celebrates the 80th Anniversary of its founding in January of 1940, Company dancers and staff joined together to contribute 80 hours of service to the New York Cares Coat Drive, giving back to the city that has been home and headquarters to America’s National Ballet Company® for eight decades. New York Cares […]
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ABT to Give Two Performances of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet with The Cleveland Orchestra at Emirates Palace Auditorium
Soloist Cassandra Trenary and Calvin Royal III to Debut in the Title Roles
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27 City Audition Tour for ABT Summer Intensive and Collegiate Program to Begin Saturday, January 4, 2020
Auditions for Young Dancer Summer Workshop to be Held in Select Cities
Read More 80th Anniversary Season to Open with “ABTThen And Now”
Featuring Works by George Balanchine, Jessica Lang,
Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp and Antony Tudor
and 40th Anniversary Performances ff
La Bayadère To Honor Legendary Ballerina Natalia Makarova
Stella Abrera to Give Farewell Performance in Giselle,
Saturday Evening, June 13
Natalia Osipova, Olga Smirnova and Kimin Kim to Appear as
Guests Artists for the Season
Abrera to Conclude 24-Year Career with a performance in the title role of Giselle
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Erica Cornejo, former American Ballet Theatre Soloist and former Boston Ballet principal dancer, will join her brother Herman on stage in El Chamuyo at the David H. Koch Theater on Saturday evening, October 26 at 8:00 P.M. The pas de deux is a pièce d’occasion celebrating Herman Cornejo’s 20th Anniversary with ABT. El Chamuyo, a tango […]
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Claire Davison, Zhong-Jing Fang, Sung Woo Han, Gabrielle Lamb and Laura O’Malley to Create New Work for Choreographic Program
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Laura Alonso, Rodolfo Castellanos Cardoso and Caridad Martinez
To Serve as Guest Faculty for Two-Day Teacher Training Workshop
