Type: Ballet
Company: Corps de Ballet of the Wurttembergisches Staatstheater
Soloists: Birgit Keil, Richard Cragun
Conductor: Ekkard Bohmer
Program: Giselle and the Wilis
Location: Stuttgart State Theater, Germany
Year: 1992

A vintage performance that allows the audience to enter the mysterious,...

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: 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: 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
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...

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...

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: Ballet Gala
Orchestra: Prague State Opera
Choir: The National Opera of Prague
Soloists: Polina Semionova, Igor Zelensky, Charles Jude, Danill and Dmitri Simkin
Director: Hans Hulscher
Year: 2006

A gorgeous and exclusive dance event with many leading ballet stars from Europe, North America,...

Type: Documentary, Ballet
Ballet Company: The Bolshoi Ballet
Soloist: Maya Plisetskaya
Year: 2004

A moving documentary on Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina for the Bolshoi Theatre from 1945, known for her technical and dynamic movement quality. Presenting a showcase of Maya in many of her greate...

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...

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...

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 ...

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: Contemporary Ballet
Company: Royal Ballet Flanders
Soloist: Drew Jacoby, Alexandra Burton
Program:
Conductor: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jeroen Verbruggen
Location: Opera Antwerp, Belgium
Year: 2016

This Ravel-centered contemporary ballet is a delightful success yet not the kind that turns into...

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: 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...

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...