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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 ...
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"
The Royal Ballet was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century, and continues to be one of the world's most famous ballet companies to this day, generally noted for its artistic and creative values. The company employs approximately 100 dancers. The official associate school of the company is the Royal Ballet School, and it also ...
Aterballetto is the principal producing and touring dance company in Italy and also the first permanent ballet-producing organisation independent of an opera house in Italy. The company enjoys worldwide recognition for its productions performed in theatres and festivals throughout Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia.
The company operates on a hierarchical system, similar to those used by other leading European ballet companies, with senior dancers ranked as principals, and descending in order of importance through lead soloist, first soloist, soloist and finally, corps de ballet. Due to its size, the company operates two troupes of corps de ballet.