Ballet Beats

After 32 years with the company, Christopher Bruce CBE has made a joint decision with Houston Ballet to leave.

To read more details, please visit The Ballet Herald.

Marking its 36th year, the Ballet Arizona 2021-2022 Season celebrates the return to a complete live performance season for the company. The well-rounded programming features state and world premieres, full-length classics, neoclassical and contemporary repertoire, and closes with the company's popular annual outdoor series at the Desert Botanical Garden.

To see images related to the programs, please visit The Ballet Herald.

With registration on their website, the American Ballet Theatre 2021 Summer Celebration is free to stream. The dancing portion of this fundraising event will feature recently filmed works by Silas Farley, Helen Pickett, and James Whiteside as well as excerpts from Alexei Ratmansky’s Bernstein in a Bubble and Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet.

To watch a trailer video and find the registration link, please visit The Ballet Herald.

Titled Sunshine in Motion, the Miami City Ballet 2021-2022 Season marks the company's 36th and Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez's 10th.

To see images related to the programs, listen to a Spotify playlist, and watch a trailer video, please visit The Ballet Herald.

Hope Muir has been appointed to the leadership role after a two-year international search, taking over the reins held by Karen Kain for over 15 years.

To watch a video introducing Ms. Muir, please visit The Ballet Herald.

From August 17-21, 2021, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New York City Ballet will share The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park over the course of five performances featuring four distinct programs.

To find images and ticket links for these performances, please visit The Ballet Herald.

In its continued campaign to bring art to people’s homes, Boston Ballet released the next episode of its Chamber Music Series – Dreams and Reflections – which exposes the audience to the nuances of Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner with beautiful piano playing and accompanying choreography.

To watch the trailer video, please visit The Ballet Herald.

"Over a year without lobby bells, waiting in long bathroom lines, and bumping into friends I seemed to only see at the ballet, being inside a theater made me nervous. Like Neverland, quarantine makes you forget and my basic theater etiquette was in a dusty file next to 'how to send a fax'."

To read more opinion pieces, please visit The Ballet Herald.

Distinguished leaders, choreographers, and dancers who have worked by her side and under her leadership create a video tribute to Karen Kain whose reign as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada ends on June 30, 2021.

To watch the video, please visit The Ballet Herald.

Resilience is certainly present in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s last program of their season - featuring premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Edwaard Liang alongside Alejandro Cerrudo's PACOPEPEPLUTO - gloriously showcased on the smiles of their dancers doing what they do best. 

To view images and of Pacific Northwest Ballet from this program, an excerpts Christopher Wheeldon's Curious Kingdom and Edwaard Liang's The Veils Between Worlds, and streaming information, please visit The Ballet Herald.