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After more than 20 years in its studio space north of downtown Raleigh, Carolina Ballet will be relocating at the conclusion of its performance season in May. ... receive free, complimentary ...
Company City State Years active Web site Ajkun Ballet Theatre: New York: New York: 2000–present: www.ajkunbt.org: Alabama Ballet: Birmingham: Alabama: 1981–present
Ballet Palm Beach has four main stage performances each season. The company's repertoire includes classics such as Giselle, [6] Don Quixote, Cinderella, and The Nutcracker, Colleen Smith, the artistic director, has choreographed full-length, original ballets to critical acclaim such as Wonderland, [7] Gatsby, [8] [9] and Snow White.
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
[1] The company was the first in the U.S. to make the ballet an annual tradition, and for ten years, the only company in the United States performing the complete ballet, until George Balanchine's production opened in New York in 1954. (Annual productions of the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker began in 1949.)
The Ballet on the Beach Dance Festival on Assateague State Park is scheduled for Sept. 21, 2024.
Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, primary venue for Carolina Ballet. Carolina Ballet, Inc. was founded in 1984 as Raleigh Dance Theatre, Inc. by Ann Vorus, owner of the Raleigh Dance Theatre. As a student company, its purpose was to provide performance opportunities for students of the school.
Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...