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Mack Scheduled to Dance Three Performances of Le Corsaire, June 12 Matinee, June 13 Evening and June 15 Evening
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American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Gillian Murphy has announced her maternity leave. She and her husband, former ABT Principal Dancer Ethan Stiefel, are expecting their first child in June 2019. Ms. Murphy, who joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996, will not perform on the Company’s National Tour or during the 2019 Metropolitan Opera House season, […]
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24 City Audition Tour for ABT Summer Intensive and Collegiate Program to Begin January 5, 2019
Auditions for Young Dancer Summer Workshop to be Held in Select Cities
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Company Premiere of Twyla Tharp’s Deuce Coupe to Headline All-Tharp Program, May 30 – June 3
Company Premiere of Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre
Set for June 4
Roberto Bolle to Give Farewell Performance with ABT on June 20
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Kelsey Grills, Sung Woo Han, Gabrielle Lamb, Duncan Lyle and James Whiteside to Create New Work for Workshop
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Discounted Tickets for Children Ages 4 and Up On Sale
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Alessandra Ferri to Appear as Guest Artist
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American Ballet Theatre Soloist Catherine Hurlin is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award (Barbara & John Lehman Dance Award). Hurlin received one of nine fellowships granted in the Dance and Choreography category. The annual Princess Grace Foundation-USA awards were announced in New York City on July 26. Catherine Hurlin was born in New York City […]
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America’s National Ballet Company®
to Perform at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre
Annually Through 2022 as Visiting Resident Company
Final performances for American Ballet Theatre’s New York Summer Intensive Program are scheduled for Friday, July 27, 2018 at 12:00 P.M. and 2:30 P.M. at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, New York. The performances mark the conclusion of ABT’s 23rd annual New York Summer Intensive, a five-week training program for dancers ages […]
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Sascha Radetsky has been named Artistic Director of ABT Studio Company. It was announced today by American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Radetsky succeeds Kate Lydon, who joins St. Paul’s School as the director of dance at the start of the 2018-19 academic year. Lydon has served as ABT Studio Company Artistic Director since […]
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Zhong-Jing Fang, Catherine Hurlin and Katherine Williams have been promoted to the rank of Soloist with American Ballet Theatre. The promotions, announced today by ABT Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie, become effective September 1, 2018. Zhong-Jing Fang was born in Shanghai, China and received her early training at the Shanghai Ballet School. She graduated from […]
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Performances of Fancy Free to Commemorate Centennials of Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein
Box Office to Open July 23
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Casting for the seventh and eighth weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s 2018 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Eight performances of…
Read More Two-Week Choreographic Workshop Open To ABT Dancers And Freelance Choreographers, October 31 – November 10, 2018
Audition for Freelance Choreographers to be Held September 18
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