22+ hour ago   (844+ words) Last August, young ballet dancer Jacopo Tissi, resigned from the La Scala Ballet to accept the offer a contract with the Bolshoi Company. As I wrote last September, it’s not something that happens every day. Like all Russian companies, the…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (332+ words) A confession: despite many invitations, I have avoided attending a TAM Ballet performance. TAM stands for Teatro Arcimboldi Milano (the theatre built to house La Scala during its extensive renovations at the beginning of the millennium), which announced this new…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) The Royal Ballet and Opera has named L’Oréal Paris as its first official beauty partner for the 2026/27 season, with the Royal Ballet principal Marianela Nuñez as the face of the collaboration. Under the deal, announced today, L’Oréal Paris will support…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (347+ words) The New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck is to make her West End debut next year in Little Dancer, the musical directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman about the girl who posed for Edgar Degas’s celebrated sculpture. With book…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (214+ words) The National Ballet of Canada will celebrate World Ballet Day on Thursday 29 October with the world premiere of a new film of On the Nature of Daylight, the internationally celebrated pas de deux by its resident choreographer, David Dawson. Derrick…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (256+ words) New York City Ballet has appointed Tiler Peck as its first-ever Choreographic Associate, a newly created position that will run alongside her continuing work as a Principal Dancer. Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford and Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan announced the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (366+ words) World Ballet Day returns on Thursday 29 October, with ballet companies around the world sharing filmed content online. This year’s theme is storytelling, following the journey from studio to stage. The Royal Ballet‘s contribution is a three-hour livestream from the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (149+ words) This revival has a large number of debuts. Some of the dancers are new to the ballet altogether, and others are new to their particular roles. They include the Principals Francesca Hayward, Sarah Lamb, Fumi Kaneko, Yasmine Naghdi, Akane Takada,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (961+ words) Exploring parallels between classical Greece and pre-Hispanic Tenochtitlan, Mexico, Los Angeles‘s Latino Theater Company reimagines and adapts Sophocles’ Antigone, using dance to bring onstage the battles and other important actions that usually are offstage and only described. The Getty…...