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A ballet company is a type of dance troupe that performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year (typically thirty or forty ...
Oakville Ballet Company: ballet Oakville, Ontario: Canada: AD Amanda Bayliss current ODC/Dance: contemporary San Francisco, California: United States: Founder & AD Brenda Way: 1971–present Oregon Ballet Theatre: ballet Portland, Oregon: United States: Founder James Canfield Interim AD Anne Mueller 1989–present Pacific Northwest Ballet ...
This inclusive list of opera companies in Europe contains European opera companies with entries in Wikipedia plus other companies based there. Within the sections for each country, the arrangement is alphabetical by location. For a list of the most important opera companies in the world, see Lists of opera companies. For more inclusive lists of ...
Poster by Jean Cocteau for the 1911 Ballet Russe season showing Nijinsky in costume for Le Spectre de la rose, Paris. The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.
The result is an extremely eclectic repertoire which crosses centuries, styles and techniques while keeping a strong Portuguese and European identity. CNB was the first ballet company in Portugal to produce full-length classical ballets such as La fille mal gardée, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, La Sylphide, La Bayadère, Paquita, Coppélia, Romeo ...
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
Ballet companies in the United Kingdom (5 C, 17 P) Ballet companies in the United States (9 C, 100 P) This page was last edited on 19 October 2019, at 01:46 (UTC ...
Defunct ballet companies (6 P) Dutch National Ballet (1 C, 3 P) N. National Ballet of Uruguay (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Ballet companies"