Type: Contemporary Ballet
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Choreographer: Julien Lestel
Company: Ballet Julien Lestel
Soloists: Julien Lestel, Maria Stefania Di-Renzo, Gilles Porte
Location: The Opera of Marseille, France
Year: 2014

A series of interconnected tableaux, each evoking one of the c...

Type: Ballet
Company: The Czech National Ballet
Soloists: Nikola Marova, Ondrej Vinklat
Choreographer: Vaclav Zahradnik
Orchestra: The Prague State Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Sergej Poluektov
Venue: State Opera House, Prague
Year: 2015

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is a vivid and emotionally char...

Type: Ballet
Company: Landestheater Linz Company
Choreographer: Patrick Lauze
Soloists: Elisa Lodolini, Mischa Hall
Orchestra: The Bruckner Orchestra
Conductor: Marc Reibel
Venue: The Landestheater Linz, Austria
Year: 2024

Get ready to see Sleeping Beauty as you’ve never imagined her before, aw...

Type: Contemporary Dance
Company: Ballet Julien Lestel
Choreographer: Julien Lestel
Soloist: Alexandra Cardinale
Location: Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Year: 2023

A visually rich ballet that brings Auguste Rodin’s sculptures to life. It explores the relationship between sculpture and movement, gi...

Type: Ballet
Name: Kaguyahimea (pron. KAH-goo-yah-hee-meh)
Year of this production: 2023
Ballet Company: The Tokyo Ballet
Soloist: Akira Akiyama
Location: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
Created by: Jiro Matsumoto
Choreographer: Jo Kanamori
Composer: Maki Ishii
Inspired by: The Tale of the Bambo...

Genre: Documentary, Modern Ballet
Year: 2022
Interviewees: Rebekah Harkness, Margo Sappington, Helgi Tómasson
Awards: Excellence, Best Art Documentary
Country of Origin: USA

Explore the rise and fall of the Harkness Ballet, a bold 1960s company founded by arts patron Rebekah Harkness. Featuring ...

Type: Biopic
Starring: Galina Belyayeva, James Fox
Director: Emil Loteanu
Studio: Mosfilm; Poseidon Films
Year: 1983

This is the full program, also offered in episodes on Ovation Arts. The biography presents the life and legend of prima ballerina, Anna Pavlova with elegant performances fro...

Type: Ballet
Location: National Theater of Prague
Ballet Company: The Czech National Ballet
Soloist: Magdalena Matejkova
Orchestra: The Czech National Orchestra
Choreographer: Jan Kodet
Story by Hans Christian Anderson
Year: 2017

A full-length ballet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s class...

Type: Contemporary Ballet
Location: Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Performed by: Gauthier Dance
Directors: Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, Marco Goecke
Year: 2021

This reimagined version of the iconic ballet creates bold perspectives by three choreographers, each delivering a distinct surge of ...

Type: Ballet
Company: Mariinsky Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Venue: Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia
Soloists: Ulyana Lopatkina, Igor Zelensky
Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev
Year: 2015

“Jewels”, a landmark three-part ballet, was created by George Balanc...

Type: Ballet
Performers: Antonio Gades, Carlos Rodriguez
Choreography: Antonio Gades
Director: Ángel Luis Ramírez
Dance Company: The Antonio Gades Company
Venue: Teatro Real, Madrid
Year: 2011

Carmen by Antonio Gades is a dramatic ballet based on Bizet's opera. Gades' choreography brings the fie...

Type: Modern Ballet
Location: Theatre de Chaillot, Paris, France
Ballet Company: Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Soloist: Hugo Layer, Irma Hoffren, Mickaël Conte, Claire Lonchampt, Raphaël Cane
Choreographer: Thierry Malandain
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Director: Patrick Lauze
Year: 2019

Choreogra...

Type: Ballet
Company: The Czech National Ballet
Choreographer: Yuri Vamos
Orchestra: Prague National Theater Orchestra
Conductor: Vaclav Zahradnik
Venue: National Theatre, Prague
Soloist: Klara Jelinkova
Year: 2017

Enjoy a new version of Tchaikovsky’s original. This performance uses the famous N...

The Antonio Gades Company, founded by legendary choreographer Antonio Gades, blends flamenco, classical ballet, and Spanish folk dance with a focus on storytelling through movement and cultural authenticity through costume. Here they perform Fuenteovejuna, based on Lope de Vega’s 1619 play about ...

The Ballet of Madrid’s Coppelia is a witty, colorful take on the classic comic ballet. This innovative rendition, choreographed by Eduardo Lao, reimagines the classic ballet within a futuristic, cybernetic laboratory setting, where Dr. Coppelius endeavors to create a lifelike female android. Whil...

Type: Ballet
Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Venue: The Mariinsky Theater, Russia
Company: The Mariinsky Ballet
Soloists: Alina Somova, Vladimir Shklyarov, Elena Yevseyeva
Choreography: Marius Petipa, Vasily Vainonen
Orchestra: The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Year: 20...

Type: Ballet
Company: The National Ballet of Canada
Lead Dancers: Greta Hodgkinson, Aleksandar Antonijevic
Choreographer: James Kudelka
Location: The Four Seasons Centre, Toronto
Year: 2003

Designed specifically for the screen, this version of the famous ballet was choreographed by James Kudelka...

Type: Contemporary Ballet
Ballet Company: Leipziger Ballett, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Choreography: Mario Schröder
Lead Dancers: Tyler Galster (Chaplin), Amelia Waller (Tramp)
Location: The Leipzig Opera House
Year: 2013

Chaplin is an emotionally layered dance production that explores the man...

Type: Modern Ballet
Venue: Palais Garnier, Paris
Choreographer: Thierry Malandain
Music: Compositions by Debussy and von Weber
Principal Dancer: Yvette Chauvire
Year: 2012

Thierry Malandain describes this ballet as a light, joyful escape from life's struggles, offering a moment to forget worries...

Suite Flamenca by the Antonio Gades Company is a vibrant and passionate ballet that showcases the heart and soul of Spanish flamenco. Through intricate footwork, expressive movement, and powerful music, the performance captures the intensity and emotion of flamenco dance. Blending traditional ele...

Director and award-winning choreographer Ted Brandsen has drawn inspiration from the tumultuous life of Dutch dancer and spy Mata Hari for this opulent full-length ballet. Mata Hari retells the story of the legendary World War I spy and considers her complex life, blending themes of love, betraya...