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Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into...

Spandau Ballet (/ˈspændaʊ ˈbæleɪ/ SPAN-dow BAL-ay) were an English pop band formed in Islington, London, in 1979. Inspired by the capital's post-punk underground...

Ballet is a formalized Italian dance form with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries. Ballet spread from Italy to France...

Moscow Ballet has commonly been applied to a number of different ballet companies, which include: Moscow Ballet (United States), a Russian ballet company...

Ski ballet is a form of ballet performed on skis. It is very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed...

A ballet dancer is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet. They rely on years of extensive training...

Mayerling is a ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Franz Liszt, arranged by John Lanchbery, scenario by Gillian Freeman and designed...

Look up ballet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ballet is a formalized kind of performance dance. Ballet may also refer to: Ballet company, a group...

Joburg Ballet is a ballet dance company based within the Joburg Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Joburg Ballet was formerly known as the South African...

Company formed in 1984, and the Mendocino Ballet School formed in 2001 as a classical ballet school. Mendocino Ballet received its non-profit corporation status...

Sierra Leonean–American ballet dancer who danced with the Boston Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Dutch National Ballet. DePrince rose to fame...

Gorda is two-act ballet by the Georgian composer David Toradze, first premiered in 1949 at the Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theater. Originally performed...

a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of...

Sacramento Ballet is a performing arts organization in Sacramento, California. It is the largest ballet company in California's capital city. The Sacramento...

Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique. It is known for its aesthetics...

pronounced [ɕːɪlˈkunʲtɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by...

A ballet shoe, or ballet slipper, is a lightweight shoe designed specifically for ballet dancing. It may be made from soft leather, canvas, or satin, and...

Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world's leading ballet companies. Internationally in some quarters, the Mariinsky Ballet continues...

Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. Styled as the father of American ballet, he co-founded...

Horoscope is a ballet created in 1937 by Frederick Ashton with scenery by Sophie Fedorovitch and music by Constant Lambert. It is based on astrological...

Ballet Hispánico is an American dance company based in Manhattan, New York. It was founded by the Puerto Rican-Mexican-American dancer and choreographer...

full-length classical ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed by Louis Mérante to music by Léo Delibes. The ballet's premiere took place on...

The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi...

Gayne, the e is pronounced; Armenian: Գայանե; Russian: Гаянэ) is a four-act ballet with music by Aram Khachaturian. Originally composed in or before 1939,...

Ballet Arizona is a professional ballet company in Phoenix, Arizona directed by Daniela Cardim. The company was created in 1986 by a merger of three smaller...

"At the Ballet" is a song from the musical A Chorus Line. Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical noted: Composer Marvin Hamlisch...

Russian ballet (Russian: Русский балет) (French: Ballet russe) is a form of ballet characteristic of or originating from Russia. Ballet had already dawned...

A ballet company is a type of dance troupe that performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus...

Ballet égyptien, Op. 12 (1875), is Alexandre Luigini's best-known composition and the only one of his works in the standard repertoire. It was dedicated...

Ballet flats or ballet pumps are a style of shoe. The appearance is inspired by women's ballet shoes, with a very thin heel or the appearance of no heel...

Cullberg Ballet (Swedish: Cullbergbaletten) is a Swedish contemporary dance company. It was founded by the modern dancer and pioneer choreographer Birgit...

Because ballet became formalized in France, a significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language. Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M...

Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger and the filmmaker Dudley...

The Mexcaltitán Ballet (native name Ballet Mexcaltitan, Danza y Arte de México) was founded in 1989 by choreographer Sergio Eugenio García Pérez and is...

Soul Ballet is a musical project of actor, producer, arranger, programmer, and multi-instrumentalist Rick Kelly. Soul Ballet's music is styled around...

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins...

Jewels is a three-act ballet created for the New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday...

Babek (Azerbaijani: Babək) is a heroic Spartacus-like ballet in two acts, based on the story of the people’s liberation struggle against Abbasid Caliphate...

Monotones is a one-act ballet in two parts choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music by Erik Satie. Monotones II was created first as a gala piece for...

Interplay is a ballet in one act made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently ballet master of New York City Ballet, for Billy Rose's Concert Varieties to Morton...

York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Houston Ballet. The school...

The Banquet of Chestnuts (sometimes the Ballet of Chestnuts, the Festival of Chestnuts, or the Joust of Whores) was a supper purportedly held at the Papal...

(French: [aʁabɛsk]; literally, "in Arabic fashion") in dance, particularly ballet, is a body position in which a dancer stands on one leg–the supporting leg–with...

Ballet may refer to: National Ballet of Washington, D.C. Chilean National Ballet Cuban National Ballet Dutch National Ballet English National Ballet Finnish...

Tricolore is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins (subsequently City Ballet balletmaster in chief) and Jean-Pierre...

has lived and worked in the United States since joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002. He has...

Ballet russe is French for Russian ballet. Ballet Russe may also refer to: Ballets Russes, an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between...

lightweight and light-footed while jumping. It is a desirable aesthetic in ballet and other dance genres, making it seem as though a dancer effortlessly becomes...

Marching Song also known as Frontiers (Perspective No. 1) and Frontier. The ballet's Marching Song portion was set to music by Lehman Engle. The work premiered...

Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary ballets during...

dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He subsequently became a noted dance director...

ballerina. She received early ballet training at the School of American Ballet. Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15, at the invitation...

Pulcinella is a 21-section ballet by Igor Stravinsky with arias for soprano, tenor and bass vocal soloists, and two sung trios. It is based on the 18th-century...

The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet is a school of classical ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1738 during the reign of Empress Anna,...

Gutter Ballet is the fifth full-length album produced by the American heavy metal band Savatage. This was the second album created under the direction...

Contemporary ballet is a dance genre that incorporates elements of classical ballet and modern dance. It employs classical ballet technique and in many...

a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three ballets and...

A ballet master (also balletmaster, ballet mistress, premier maître de ballet or premier maître de ballet en chef) is an employee of a ballet company...

Don Quixote is a ballet in three acts, based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally...

Look up ballet shoe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ballet shoe is a lightweight shoe designed specifically for ballet dancing. Ballet Shoes may...

being considered for merging. › Billboards is a ballet commissioned by Gerald Arpino for the Joffrey Ballet featuring the works of Prince. The premiere was...

The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan...

a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", the ballet consists...

The Paris Opera Ballet (French: Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris) is a French ballet company that is an integral part of the Paris Opera. It is the...

Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Stravinsky's Variations: Aldous Huxley...

Pandemonium Ballet is a 1971 album by Harry Nilsson which reimagined recordings from his early albums Pandemonium Shadow Show (1967) and Aerial Ballet (1968)...

Ballet is a British classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies...

Parade is a ballet choreographed by Leonide Massine, with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed in 1916–17...

Ballet first began to flourish in the French courts during the 17th century with the help of several important men: King Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully...

Ash is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master in chief Peter Martins to Ash (1991) by Michael Torke. The premiere took place Thursday, June...

January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the preeminent male ballet dancer of the 20th century, as...

musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was...

The State Ballet of Georgia is the ballet company of the Z. Paliashvilil Opera and Ballet State Theatre in Tbilisi. Nina Ananiashvili has been artistic...

The positions of the feet in ballet is a fundamental part of classical ballet technique that defines standard placements of feet on the floor. There are...

A dream ballet, in musical theater, is an all-dance, no-singing production number that reflects the themes of the production. The plot, themes, and characters...

Repertory Ballet (ARB) is an American ballet company based in New Jersey. The company was founded by Audrée Estey in 1963, as the Princeton Regional Ballet Company...

Ballet West is an American ballet company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in 1963 as the Utah Civic Ballet by Willam F. Christensen, the...

Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master...

Black women have been traditionally underrepresented in ballet. In the 15th and 16th centuries, ballet began in Italian Renaissance courts, where it was largely...

The Béjart Ballet Lausanne is a Swiss ballet company. It is based in the city of Lausanne and performs all over the world. The Béjart Ballet Lausanne was...

Lines Ballet (1982) San Francisco Ballet Lines Ballet Smuin Ballet Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley Oakland Ballet Company C Contemporary Ballet The Sacramento...

Sylvia Rosenstein, Evelyn Sabin, Betty Macdonald and Rosina Savelli. The ballet is approximately five minutes long. The music consists of ten percussive...

Tribute is a ballet made by Christopher d'Amboise to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The première took place Saturday, June 4, 2005, at the School of American...

The history of the art of classical ballet in Turkey only goes back about 60 years, however, classical ballet performances in Turkey date from two centuries...

Ballet (Swedish: Kungliga Baletten) is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gustav III founded the ballet in...

This is the discography of the English new wave band Spandau Ballet. "To Cut a Long Story Short" did not enter the US Hot 100, but peaked at number 28...

The Ballet Class (French: La Classe de danse) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1874 and 1876 by the French artist Edgar Degas. The painting...

The Royal Ballet School is a British school of classical ballet training founded in 1926 by the Anglo-Irish ballerina and choreographer Ninette de Valois...

Elmhurst Ballet School is an independent boarding school for professional classical ballet in the United Kingdom. It takes students aged 11–19 years who...

"True" is a song by the English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released in April 1983 as the title track and third single from their third studio album...

subtitled: La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of...

The following is a list of ballets with entries in English Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by ballet title, with the name of the composer...

Spartacus (Russian: «Спартак», Spartak) is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave...

Opéra-ballet (French: [ɔ.pe.ʁa.ba.lɛ]; plural: opéras-ballets) is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century...

in a theatre setting but it is not a requirement. Examples are Western ballet and modern dance, Classical Indian dance such as Bharatanatyam, and Chinese...

Houston Ballet, operated by Houston Ballet Foundation, is a professional ballet company based in Houston, Texas. The company consists of 59 dancers and...

This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities...

a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America. It was founded...

International Ballet Competition may refer to: The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, promoted by the Royal Academy of Dance, first held...

Tulsa Ballet is a professional American ballet company located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The artistic mission of Tulsa Ballet is "To preserve the tradition...

Romeo + Juliet is a ballet by New York City Ballet balletmaster-in-chief Peter Martins to Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (1934–1940). The premiere...

La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules...

Ballet Manila is a classical ballet institution and dance company in the Philippines. It currently[when?] highlights more than fifty highly trained dancers...

Ballet Philippines (BP) is a ballet company in the Philippines founded in 1969 by Alice Reyes with the support of Eddie Elejar and the Cultural Center...

Rubella Ballet are an English gothic anarcho-punk band formed in 1979, who released several albums before splitting up in 1991. They reformed in 2000....

2016. She has released two independent albums, The Echo (2012) and Blood Ballet (2014), and three studio albums, Heard It in a Past Life (2019), Surrender...

Leo Beat Ballet (born 12 March 2001) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish Süper Lig club Antalyaspor. Ballet made his...

In ballet, the corps de ballet ([kɔʁ də balɛ]; French for "body of the little dance") is the group of dancers who are not principal dancers or soloists...

a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake by the company of New York City Ballet. The production requires a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile White...

The ballet boot is a contemporary style of fetish footwear that merges the look of the pointe shoe with a high heel. The idea is to restrict the wearer's...

Ballet Afsaneh (Persian: گروه رقص افسانه) is a non-profit cultural organization devoted to the art, dance, music, and poetry of cultural heritage from...

choreographer, author, and retired ballerina. She danced with the American Ballet Theatre for fifteen years before retiring in 2019. She has written two novels...

Romantic ballet is defined primarily by an era in ballet in which the ideas of Romanticism in art and literature influenced the creation of ballets. The era...

Concert (or The Perils of Everybody) is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet's ballet master, to Chopin's: The décor was by...

Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. He is considered one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history....

Episodes is a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham and George Balanchine, to compositions by Anton Webern. The ballet was a co-production between the...

Smuin Contemporary Ballet, formerly known as Smuin Ballet, is a touring ballet company based in San Francisco, California. Smuin Ballet performs its season...

Mechanical Ballet may refer to: Mechanical Ballet, a 1931 ballet by Adolph Bolm set to the composition Iron Foundry by Alexander Mosolov "Mechanical Ballet", a...

Evolution Arts, The National Chorale, Ballet Tech, Manhattan Youth Ballet, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Alvin Ailey American Dance...

Ballet Memphis is an American ballet company based in Memphis, Tennessee. It was founded as Memphis Concert Ballet in 1986 by Dorothy Gunther Pugh. Ballet...

Le papillon (The Butterfly) is a 'fantastic ballet' in two acts (four scenes) of 1860, with choreography by Marie Taglioni and music by Jacques Offenbach...

Opera (French: Opéra de Paris [ɔpeʁa də paʁi] ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra...

Ondine is a ballet in three acts created by the choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and composer Hans Werner Henze. Ashton originally produced Ondine for...

A narrative ballet, also known as classical ballet or story ballet is a form of ballet that has a plot and characters. It is typically a production with...

The Boston Ballet is an American professional classical ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams...

The Cincinnati Ballet is a professional ballet company founded as Cincinnati Civic Ballet in 1958, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. After being...

The Washington Ballet (TWB) is an ensemble of professional dancers based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1976 by Mary Day and has been directed by...

Soft Ballet was a Japanese electronic group formed in 1985. The group consisted of three members, Maki Fujii, Ken Morioka, and Ryoichi Endo, though they...

The Sarasota Ballet is an American ballet company based in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1987 by former ballet dancer Jean Weidner Goldstein and...

This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master. Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale)...

The Academic Kyiv Modern-ballet Theatre (Ukrainian: «Київ Модерн-балет», fully titled Communal facility 'Theatrical and entertainment establishment of...

to as Arabian Nights) Arabian Nights is a two-part ballet written in 1979. The music of the ballet was written by Fikret Amirov, and the libretto was...

Finnish National Ballet (Finnish: Suomen Kansallisbaletti) is a professional ballet company at the Finnish National Opera, in Helsinki, Finland. The company...

Seoul Ballet Theatre is one of four professional ballet troupes in the Republic of Korea. It was founded in 1995 as the country's first private professional...

Ballet technique is the foundational principles of body movement and form used in ballet. It is an important aspect of ballet performance because ballet...

reviewer added the work "was the highlight of the whole program." "Danse (Ballet choreographed by Martha Graham)". Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library...

Watermill is a ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins when he was balletmaster at the New York City Ballet and set to a musical piece written a year earlier...

from Bangalter. The ballet started as a collaboration between the Ballet Preljocaj and Ballet de l'Opéra de Bordeaux. Another ballet, Ghost, was created...

Aerial Ballet is the third studio album by American musician Harry Nilsson, released in July 1968. Aerial Ballet was Nilsson's second album for RCA Victor...

non-literal context. Movement language is taken from dance techniques of ballet, contemporary dance, jazz, hip hop dance, folk dance, techno, K-pop, religious...

songwriter for the new wave band Spandau Ballet. Kemp wrote the lyrics and music for all 23 of Spandau Ballet's hit singles, including "To Cut a Long Story...

The Grand Kyiv Ballet, also called Kyiv Grand Ballet or Kiev Grand Ballet, is an independent touring ballet company of Ukrainian ballet dancers from Kyiv...

Paris Opera, entered the Paris Opera Ballet repertoire in 1995 under the direction of Brigitte Lefèvre. The ballet Ulysse is based on the central character...

ballet in five scenes with both music and a libretto by Werner Egk that is based on the Faust legend. The original 1948 choreography for the ballet was...

The Royal Ballet Sinfonia is the orchestra of Birmingham Royal Ballet. The Sinfonia appears with Birmingham Royal Ballet in its home town, in London and...

used extensively in ballet training and warm up exercises, where such exercises are commonly referred to as barre work. In a ballet class, barre may also...

Arcade is a ballet made by John Taras to Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds (1924). The premiere took place Thursday, March 28, 1963, at the...

The Kirov Academy of Ballet (formerly the Universal Ballet Academy) was a ballet school in Washington, D.C. founded by Rev. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon in...

The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris which performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on...

Dutch National Ballet (Dutch: Het Nationale Ballet) is the official and largest ballet company in the Netherlands. Its forerunners were Ballet Der Lage Landen...

Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage is a children's novel by Noel Streatfeild, published by Dent in 1936. Her first book for children...

A tutu is a dress worn as a costume in a classical ballet performance, often with attached bodice. It may be made of tarlatan, muslin, silk, tulle, gauze...

The Kansas City Ballet (KCB) is a professional ballet company based in Kansas City, Missouri. The company was founded in 1957 by Russian expatriate Tatiana...

Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went...

"Le ballet" (lit. 'The ballet') is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her thirteenth studio album, D'eux (1995). Written by Jean-Jacques Goldman...

The Hamburg Ballet is a ballet company based in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1973, it has been directed by the American dancer and choreographer John Neumeier...

Richmond Ballet is an American ballet company and 501(c)(3) organization, located in Richmond, Virginia. It was named the State Ballet of Virginia in...

Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the...

International Ballet was a British ballet company that operated, with great success, between 1941 and 1953. Its director throughout its existence was...

Tiresias is a ballet in a prelude and three acts choreographed by Frederick Ashton to an original score by Constant Lambert. With scenery and costumes...

Scénes de ballet was performed with students from the School of American Ballet and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to Stravinsky's eponymous music...

The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de...

her entire career as a dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, now known as the Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed prima ballerina assoluta...

Carmen is a ballet created by Roland Petit and his company 'Les Ballets de Paris' at the Prince's Theatre in London on 21 February 1949, which has entered...

premiered on February 10, 1935, at the Guild Theatre in New York City. The ballet was performed by Martha Graham and Group, the forerunner to the Martha Graham...

Alabama Ballet is a ballet company in Alabama, United States. Prior to the establishment of Alabama Ballet, there were three smaller ballet companies...

American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant. Through 2019,...

Ballet Robotique is a 1982 short film by Bob Rogers, and BRC Imagination Arts, previously known as Bob Rogers & Company. Robots in General Motors automobile...

piece with music by Carlos Chávez (originally called Prelude). "Salutation (Ballet choreographed by Martha Graham)". Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library...

Ива́нович Пу́шкин; 7 September 1907 – 20 March 1970) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet master. His students include Askold Makarov, Nikita Dolgushin,...

Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain...

Atlanta Ballet is a ballet company, located in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the longest continuously performing ballet company in the United States and the...

also known as ballet folklórico, is a collective term for traditional cultural dances that emphasize local folk culture with ballet characteristics...

costume of ballet has influenced and been influenced by fashion. Ballet-specific clothing used in productions and during practice, such as ballet flats, ballerina...

The Ramayana Ballet (Indonesian: Sendratari Ramayana) is a visualization and representation of the epic Ramayana saga, originally written by Valmiki in...

Les Ballets Persans (Persian: سازمان باله ایران) is the successor company and the recreation of the former Iranian National Ballet Company (Persian: سازمان...

of ballet." Ballet Cymru, formerly Welsh ballet, and Independent Ballet Wales and, prior to that, Gwent Ballet Theatre, is a touring classical ballet company...

Ballet Shoes is a 2007 British television film, adapted by Heidi Thomas from Noel Streatfeild's 1936 novel by the same name. It was produced by Granada...

Bullet Ballet (Japanese: バレット・バレエ, Hepburn: Baretto barē) is a 1998 Japanese film directed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto, and co-starring Hisashi Igawa...

Ballet Now is an American documentary film directed by Steven Cantor that premiered on July 20, 2018, on Hulu. Ballet Now provides "an unfiltered look...

Orlando Ballet is an American professional ballet company based in Orlando, Florida. Orlando Ballet is the only fully residential ballet company in Central...

A ballet blanc (French: [balɛ blɑ̃], from French: 'white ballet') is a scene in which the ballerina and the female corps de ballet all wear white dresses...

Petite Mort is a contemporary ballet choreographed by Jiří Kylián to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The ballet is danced by a cast of twelve, alternating...

Melbourne City Ballet was a ballet company based in Melbourne, Australia. The company was founded in 2013 by artistic director Michael Pappalardo and...

The Louisville Ballet is a ballet school and professional ballet company based in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the official state ballet of the Commonwealth...

include the ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid and Rodeo, his Fanfare for the Common Man and Third Symphony. In addition to his ballets and orchestral...

This is a list of ballet companies in the United States. List of dance companies Yellowstone Ballet Co. Livingston Montana 1991 - present Yellowstoneballet...

style that embodies various aspects of ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance. The style combines ballet technique with the freedom and musicality...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a ballet in three acts by Christopher Wheeldon with a scenario by Nicholas Wright, based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

This is a list of ballet premieres in the 2000s, by year....

BalletMet is an American ballet company and training program based in Columbus, Ohio. Located in downtown Columbus, BalletMet facilities include a black...

Complexions Contemporary Ballet is a contemporary ballet company founded in 1994 by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. The company, based in New York...

The Cuban National Ballet (Spanish: Ballet Nacional de Cuba) is a classical ballet company based at Great Theatre of Havana in Havana, Cuba, founded by...

World Ballet Series is a ballet program of the World Ballet Company, a touring ballet company, based in Los Angeles. The World Ballet Series was created...

Ballet Romand is a dance company located in Vevey, Switzerland. It was founded in 2005 as a non-profit association. The company was founded by American...

"Gold" is a song by the English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 5 August 1983 in the UK and on 1 November 1983 in the US as the fourth single...

Greensboro Ballet and the School of Greensboro Ballet are a professional ballet company and pre-professional ballet school in Greensboro, North Carolina...

Rushin' Ballet is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 154th Our Gang short to be released. When Porky and Buckwheat...

The National Ballet of Canada is a Canadian ballet company that was founded in 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, with Celia Franca, the first artistic director...

The National Ballet of China (NBC), known in China as the Central Ballet Troupe, is the national ballet company of the People's Republic of China. It was...

Anastasia is a ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan. The first version in one act was premiered in 1967 by the Deutsche Oper Ballet. In 1971 MacMillan...

Scottish Ballet is the national ballet company of Scotland and one of the five leading ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside the Royal Ballet, English...

British ballet is most recognised for two leading methods, those of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Academy of Dance. The identifying characteristic...

BalletBoyz or Ballet Boyz are a London-based all-male dance company. BalletBoyz was founded in 1999 by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, both principal...

"Dark Ballet" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her fourteenth studio album Madame X (2019). It was released on June 7, 2019, as the...

Zakouski is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master in chief Peter Martins to: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 by Sergei Rachmaninoff "Parasha's Song"...

Cigale is a divertissement-ballet in two acts by Jules Massenet to a scenario by Henri Cain. It was composed in Égreville during the summer of 1902, first...

Irish-born British ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. She danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later...

In Memory of ... is a ballet in one act made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Berg's Violin Concerto (To the Memory of an Angel)...

Ashley Bouder of New York City Ballet and Nina Ananiashvili, formerly of American Ballet Theatre and The Bolshoi Ballet, have used Dying Swan arms in Swan...

Asphalt Ballet is the debut album by the American band Asphalt Ballet. The album was released in 1991 by Virgin Records. The song "Soul Survive" was a...

Stuttgart Ballet is a German ballet company. Dating back to 1609, then the court ballet of the dukes of Württemberg, the modern company was founded by...

is a ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to music by Jules Massenet and based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The ballet was first...

Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the five major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, Northern...

Ballet de cour ("court ballet") is the name given to ballets performed in the 16th and 17th centuries at courts. The court ballet was a gathering of noblemen...

Ballet Quad Cities is a ballet company located in Rock Island, Illinois. It was founded in 1996 by Joedy Cook. The company performs both classical and...

music by Alexander Scriabin. The piece was originally part of Five Poems, a ballet divided into five solo sections: Fragilité, Lugubre, Poeme ailé, Danse Languide...

New York City Ballet. He was a répétiteur for the George Balanchine Trust and a former faculty member at the School of American Ballet. Lavery grew up...

of ballet premieres in the 1990s, by year. "Brandenburg | New York City Ballet". www.nycballet.com. Retrieved 2024-06-21. "Othello". American Ballet Theatre...

In ballet, a soloist is a rank or position in a ballet company. This rank is above the corps de ballet but below principal dancer. As signified by the...

Polish National Ballet (Polish: Polski Balet Narodowy, PBN) is the largest and most influential ballet company in Poland. It continues a ballet heritage, dating...

Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks, also known by its abbreviation Ghost Ballet, is a public art installation and modern sculpture at the east...

The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) is an American professional ballet company based in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded...

is a ballet with a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi, music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck, and choreography by Gasparo Angiolini. The ballet's first...

Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Mongolian: Улсын дуурь бүжгийн эрдмийн театр; also known as the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet) is a theater on...

prima ballerina. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, but is most recognized for creating...

Fancy Free is a ballet composed in 1944 by Leonard Bernstein. The Ballet Theatre premiered the ballet with choreography by Jerome Robbins, scenery by...

(Russian: Ромео и Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet...

inclined in the direction of ugliness." "Adolescence (Prelude and Song) (Ballet choreographed by Martha Graham)". Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library...

British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance...

The New York Negro Ballet Company, also known as the Ballet Americana, was co-founded in 1954 by American choreographer Ward Flemyng and dancer Thelma...

dance Ballet Comique de la Reine - sometimes called the "first ballet" 17th century French ballet Comédie-ballet 18th century Baroque dance Opéra-ballet Ballet...

with many of her early pieces, the choreography and other details of the ballet are lost. It is known, though, that her approach to making dances during...

Ballet Austin is the 12th largest classical ballet company in the US, and also operates the largest combined training facility associated with a professional...

Philadelphia Ballet (formerly known as Pennsylvania Ballet until its rebranding in 2021) is the largest ballet company in Philadelphia. The company's...

Chicago Opera Ballet was a Chicago dance company located in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1956, it is a Chicago dance company located in downtown...

Ballet Deviare was founded in 2003 and is located in New York City. It was conceived by Laura Kowalewski and Andrew Carpenter. The company was noted for...

The Singapore Ballet (formerly known as Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT)) is Singapore's national dance company, founded in 1988 by Anthony Then and Goh Soo...

Australian Ballet Bolshoi Ballet The Royal Ballet The National Ballet of Canada San Francisco Ballet Royal Swedish Ballet The date of World Ballet Day since...

Echo is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master (subsequently ballet master in chief) Peter Martins to Michael Torke's Slate (1989). The premiere...

Ballet Des Moines is a ballet company based in Des Moines, Iowa. The company was founded in 2002 as the Ballet Theatre of Iowa. Previously, the city had...

The Royal Danish Ballet (Danish: Den Kongelige Ballet) is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens...

Syncopations is a one-act ballet created in 1974 by Kenneth MacMillan for The Royal Ballet. The piece was premiered by The Royal Ballet on 7 October 1974 at...

as practice garments and performance costumes. They are often worn with ballet skirts on top and tights or sometimes cycling shorts as underwear. As a...

the ballet Le triomphe de l'amour (1681), the opera Persée (1682, as premier danseur opposite Mlle Lafontaine), the opera Amadis (1684), the ballet Le...

Neoclassical ballet is the style of 20th-century classical ballet exemplified by the works of George Balanchine. The term "neoclassical ballet" appears in...

the Maître de Ballet of St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet from 1859 until 1869 and is famous for creating the choreography of the ballet Coppélia. He was...

Gilbert Ballet (March 29, 1853 – March 17, 1916) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist and historian who was a native of Ambazac in the department of...

Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are among the oldest and best known ballet and opera companies in the world. It is by far the world's biggest ballet company...

In ballet, a variation (sometimes referred to as a pas seul, meaning to dance alone) is a solo dance. In a classical grand pas de deux, the ballerina and...

Trilby is a ballet in 2 acts and 3 scenes. It was the final ballet that Marius Petipa choreographed and staged for the Imperial Bolshoi Ballet during the...

State Ballet, Wiener Staatsballett, is considered one of the world's top ballet companies. It was formerly named the Vienna State Opera Ballet as it is...

Les Patineurs (The Skaters) is a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer and arranged by Constant Lambert. With...

Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre...

The Harkness Ballet (1964–1975) was a New York ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness. Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard...

The Dayton Ballet is a ballet company based in Dayton, Ohio. The Dayton Ballet was founded in 1937, making it the second oldest regional ballet company in...

Civic Ballet Alameda Civic Ballet American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Anaheim Ballet Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Met Ballet Nouveau Ballet San Jose Ballet West...

for his work with the Ballet Frankfurt (1984–2004) and The Forsythe Company (2005–2015). Recognized for the integration of ballet and visual arts, which...

Ramayana Ballet Prambanan is a visualization of Kakawin Ramayana, Javanese version of Ramayana story, performed near the Prambanan temple, Indonesia. The...

Bayou is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson's Acadian Songs and Dances (1947). The...

Ballet Folklórico de México is a Mexican folkloric ensemble in Mexico City. For six decades, it has presented dances in costumes reflecting the traditional...

The Australian Ballet School is the premier ballet training facility in Australia, located in Melbourne. The Australian Ballet School was founded in 1964...

bleu) is a ballet in two acts, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni, first presented by the Imperial Ballet on May 12 [O...

Astarte, choreographed by Robert Joffrey, was the first live, multi-media ballet with a specially commissioned rock music score composed and performed by...

Bacchus and Ariadne (French: Bacchus et Ariane), Op. 43 is a ballet score by the French composer Albert Roussel written in 1930. Its composition roughly...

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Dutch; "Opera Ballet Flanders") is an opera and ballet company in Belgium directed by Jan Vandenhouwe. It operates in two different...

or Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 (Russian: Блудный сын) is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev...

Caroline Mathilde is a two-act ballet to music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Its original choreographer was Flemming Flindt in 1991. It tells the story...

The National Ballet of Rwanda (French: Ballet national du Rwanda), also known as the Urukerereza National Ballet (Ballet national Urukerereza), is a Rwandan...

The Best of Spandau Ballet is a greatest hits album by the English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 16 September 1991 by Chrysalis Records. It...

foreign soloist to ever join the Kirov Ballet. In the Philippines, she is the Artistic Director and CEO of Ballet Manila and was the Vice-Chairman of the...

"Ballet Dancer" is a song by the German synth-pop duo the Twins, released as both a 7" and 12" single from their third studio album, A Wild Romance (1983)...

Estonian ballet in four acts by Eduard Tubin. It is considered the first Estonian ballet. The libretto was written by Elfriede Saarik. The ballet is entirely...

In ballet, turnout (also turn-out) is rotation of the leg at the hips which causes the feet (and knees) to turn outward, away from the front of the body...

Goh Ballet Academy is a school of classical ballet in Vancouver, British Columbia, founded in 1978 by Chan-hon Goh and Lin Yee Goh. The Goh Ballet Academy...

K-ballet is a Japanese ballet company. The company started in 1999, and has since held approximately 50 annual performances. K-Ballet's activity was first...

Ballet No. 1 The Girl in White is a contemporary ballet in three acts written by American composer Robert J. Bradshaw. The story is based on Mexican folklore...

an American ballet dancer and author. She has danced primarily for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in...

The Philippine Ballet Theatre is a classical ballet company in the Philippines. The Philippine Ballet Theatre was founded in 1987 out of an alliance of...

The Ora Ballet Cat (Chinese: 欧拉芭蕾猫; pinyin: Ōulā bālěi māo) is a battery electric compact hatchback produced by Chinese EV manufacturer Ora, a marque of...

True is the third studio album by the English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 4 March 1983 by Chrysalis Records. The band's songwriter/guitarist...

Ballet BC is a contemporary ballet company located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ballet BC is a professional contemporary ballet company based in Vancouver...

Camellias is a ballet by John Neumeier with music by Frédéric Chopin, created for Marcia Haydée, then prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet. It premiered...

Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films. The story follows a Russian-imposter ballet dancer (Astaire) who falls in love with a tap dancer (Rogers); the tabloid...

Chicago Festival Ballet is a professional ballet company performing a repertoire of classical, romantic and neoclassical works in venues around the United...

The Royal Danish Ballet School is a ballet school that trains dancers for the Royal Danish Ballet. It was founded in the 1770s.[citation needed] In 1771...

rose to fame in the 1980s as the lead singer of the new wave band Spandau Ballet and launched a solo career following the group's split in 1990. Hadley returned...

working-class boy who has a passion for ballet. His father objects, based on negative stereotypes of male ballet dancers. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old...

Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB), the National Ballet Company of Portugal, was established in Lisbon in 1977 and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos was...

Yeh Ballet (lit. 'This Ballet') is a Netflix Original film written and directed by Sooni Taraporevala and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur. The film features...

Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre.[citation needed] At age 20, Thompson was dancing with American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company...

Façade is a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton, set to the music of William Walton; it is a balletic interpretation of items from Façade – an Entertainment...

René Ballet (1928 – 2 January 2017) was a French journalist, novelist and essayist. A communist, he was an international correspondent for L’Humanité....

Raffaella: A New Fairytale Ballet (or simply Raffaella) is an original ballet choreographed by Claire Kretzschmar with music by Michael Kurek, inspired...

particularly a ballet company. A principal may be of any gender and is usually the star of the ballet. The term is used mostly in ballet but can be used...

the Paris Opera Ballet from 1839 until 1851. Master of the Saint Petersburg Ballet from 1851 until 1852 Master of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1852 until...

Alberta Ballet (also known as the Alberta Ballet Company) was founded by Muriel Taylor and Dr. Ruth Carse in 1958 and became a professional company in...

Carmen Suite is a one-act ballet created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin for his wife, prima...

Ballet Magnificat! is a professional Christian ballet company founded in Mississippi in 1986 and located in the state capital, Jackson. It has been described...

Thou Swell is a ballet created by New York City Ballet's balletmaster-in-chief Peter Martins to the songs of Richard Rodgers in an arrangement by Glen...

Several ballets have been created based on the 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée, some of which use music from the 1875 opera of the same name by Georges...

The Hungarian National Ballet (Hungarian: Magyar Nemzeti Balett, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈnɛmzɛti ˈbɒlɛtː]) is a classical ballet dance company based in Budapest...

Wild Swans is a 2003 ballet by Meryl Tankard with score by Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. The story is based on the fairy tale "The Wild Swans"...

The Suzanne Farrell Ballet is a ballet company housed at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., and founded in 2000 by Suzanne Farrell, one of George Balanchine's...

The Barcelona Ballet was a classical ballet company based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Formerly called the Corella Ballet, the company was founded by...

Ballet Nacional de España (English: National Ballet of Spain; BNE) is a dance company founded in 1978. It is part of the National Institute of Performing...

Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Russian: Бахчисарайский фонтан) is a full-length ballet in four acts, choreographed by Rostislav Zakharov to music by Boris Asafyev...

City Ballet, La Scala Theatre Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and the Australian Ballet. She retired from ballet in 2007. Bussell was born Marnie...

The Georgian National Ballet (Georgian: ქართული ეროვნული ბალეტი, romanized: kartuli erovnuli balet'i) is the first professional state dance company in...

Building Motif: Homesteading (solo) and Dance of Rejoycing (ensemble). The ballet was performed by Martha Graham and Group, the predecessor of the Martha...

Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and...

Backchat is a ballet made by Eliot Feld for his Ballet Tech company to "Idle Chatter Junior" by Paul Lansky. The premiere took place October 21, 2004,...

Petersburg) is a Russian ballet dancer, the soloist of the Mikhailovsky Theatre (St. Petersburg), the winner of the International Ballet Artist Competition...

first attempt at writing music to a dance already composed.” "Bacchanale (Ballet choreographed by Martha Graham)". Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library...

director of Mobile Ballet. In 2006, a production was staged by John Alleyne, then artistic director of Ballet BC. In 2012, Scottish Ballet collaborated with...

The Barber Violin Concerto is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master in chief Peter Martins to Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (1939)...

Fragilite and Fragments. Louis Horst accompanied Graham on piano. "Danza (Ballet choreographed by Martha Graham)". Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library...

Colon Theater Ballet is a ballet company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The company is attached to the Colon Theater, which is also home to the Buenos...

Queensland Ballet, founded in 1960 by Charles Lisner, is the premier ballet company of Queensland, Australia, and is based in Brisbane. It is one of only...

The Cleveland Ballet was founded in Cleveland in 1972 by Dennis Nahat and Ian Horvath as a dance school, the School of Cleveland Ballet. It was the second...

The American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States. The company was founded with the help of...

The Tokyo Ballet is a classical ballet company, based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1964. It is one of the leading performing arts companies in Japan. European...

The Dream is a one-act ballet adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with choreography by Frederick Ashton to music by Mendelssohn arranged...

Ballet Ireland is an Irish ballet company, established in 1998 by Günther Falusy and Anne Maher. Presenting a broad repertoire, it has been funded by...

 'the temple dancer'; Russian: «Баядерка», romanized: Bayaderka) is an 1877 ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by the French choreographer...

Chroma is a one-act contemporary ballet created by Wayne McGregor for the Royal Ballet. The work received its premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent...

York City Ballet dancers. This is a list of New York City Ballet soloists. The following is a list of the current members of the corps de ballet. Devin Alberda...

Tributary is a ballet made by Robert La Fosse and Robert Garland to Mozart's Divertimento No. 11 in D, K. 251 (1776). The premiere took place on May 25...

The Royal Ballet of Flanders is a dance company based in Antwerp, Belgium, specializing in classical, neoclassical and contemporary ballet. In its current...

The Chairman Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master in chief Peter Martins to John Adams' eponymous music from 1985. The music was...

April 2025) was a French ballet dancer and instructor. He was during different tenures the artistic director of the Charlotte Ballet and the Chautauqua Institution...

"Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon" [sic], also known as "The Ballet" and "Make Me Smile Medley", is a nearly 13-minute mini-rock opera/song cycle/suite from...

Black and White is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master, subsequently ballet master in chief, Peter Martins to some of Michael Torke's eponymous...

to compose a ballet, La tragédie de Salomé, for Loie Fuller to perform at the Théâtre des Arts.[citation needed] Another Salome ballet was composed by...

Oklahoma City Ballet is a professional dance company and school located in Oklahoma City. The company began under the artistic direction of Ballet Russe de...

Edythe Gilfond designed the costume; Philip Stapp created the set. The ballet premiered on December 27, 1939, at the St. James Theatre in New York City...

Moves is a ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins. The ballet was made for Robbins's troupe Ballet: USA's 1959 tour, with Aaron Copland brought in to...

Images is a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani for the New York City Ballet's first Diamond Project to Debussy's "Gigues" from Images pour orchestre (1906–12)...

Moscow, Russia. The troupe combines traditional folk dance and classical ballet techniques to create their style of character dance. It was established...

Pointe Ballet (BPB) was a classical ballet company based in South San Francisco and was led by Artistic Director Bruce Steivel. Bay Pointe Ballet's principal...

Big Ballet is a 2014 British documentary program that follows Wayne Sleep and prima ballerina Monica Loughman as they help a troupe of amateur plus-size...

Ballet d'action is a hybrid genre of expressive and symbolic ballet that emerged during the 18th century. One of its chief aims was to liberate the conveyance...

modern rendition of Eugene Onegin as a ballet taking place in modern Moscow. The ballet was performed by Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, with music by Alexander...

The Berlin State Ballet (German: Staatsballett Berlin) is the principal ballet company in the German capital of Berlin. It was created in 2004 through...

Bernstein wrote in many genres, including symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music, and pieces...

Hooper Tait CBE is a former ballerina and ballet mistress, and assistant director of Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2011. Tait was appointed an Officer...

The Shanghai Ballet Company is the state ballet company for Shanghai. This regional dance troupe organized in 1966 (though they did not settle on the name...

39440°W / 41.84931; -71.39440 Ballet Rhode Island (Ballet RI), formerly known as "Festival Ballet Providence", is a ballet company located in Providence...

This is a list of ballet premieres in the 1980s, by year....

Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Aaron Copland, later arranged as an orchestral work...

The Alexandra Ballet is a pre-professional ballet company in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1949, that cultivates top dance talent. The company regularly...

Los Angeles Ballet (LAB) is a classical ballet company based in Los Angeles. While rehearsals take place at the Los Angeles Ballet Center, the company...

Hong Kong Ballet (香港芭蕾舞團) is a classical ballet company founded in 1979. The company was created in 1979. Since 1997, The Hong Kong Ballet has concluded...

Malandain Ballet Biarritz is directed by its choreographer Thierry Malandain, has 22 dancers, and focuses on contemporary ballet and neoclassical ballet. Since...

RAkU is a 37-minute ballet choreographed by Yuri Possokhov that was commissioned by San Francisco Ballet (Possokhov's 13th work for the company) and set...

Moment Rustica was a Martha Graham ballet performed to the music of Francis Poulenc. It premiered on April 14, 1929, at the Booth Theatre in New York City...

– 26 June 1973) was a South African ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet. Cranko was born to Herbert and Grace...

Balletorkest (Netherlands Ballet Orchestra) was established as the resident orchestra for Het Nationale Ballet (Dutch National Ballet) and the Nederlands Dans...

Central School of Ballet is a classical ballet school based in London, with students from countries all over the world. The school was established in 1982...

William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 1904 – 18 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He also worked as a director and choreographer...

1964, the Ballet School of the Royal Flemish Opera became the Stedelijk Instituut voor Ballet (SIB), now the internationally renowned Royal Ballet School...

Russian ballet dancer. Zelensky was born on 13 July 1969, in Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR. He was a principal at the Mariinsky Ballet from 1991...

ballet comique in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo. First presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School...

Ecstatic dance Free dance Fusion dance Interpretive dance Modern dance Ballet Baroque dance Medieval dance Regency dance Renaissance dance Ultapulta dance...

Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida, led by artistic director Gonzalo Garcia. MCB was founded in 1985 by Toby...

Colorado Ballet encompasses a 40-member professional performing ballet company, a studio company for advanced dance students, an academy, and an education...

January 8, 1891 [O.S. December 27, 1890] – February 21, 1972) was a Russian ballet dancer of Polish origin, and an innovative choreographer. She came of age...

Relâche is a 1924 "ballet obscène" by Francis Picabia with music composed by Erik Satie. The title was thought to be a Dadaist practical joke, as relâche...

The Ballet Azul (Blue Ballet) is a term coined in Colombia in the 1950s to describe the Millonarios football team, during its successful period from 1949...

English National Ballet School is a specialist classical ballet school based in London in the United Kingdom. The School was founded in 1988 by Peter Schaufuss...

renowned ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director. He was an instrumental figure in the creation and dissemination of classical dance and ballet as...

Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is an American ballet company based in Seattle, Washington. It is said to have the highest per capita attendance in the...

September 18, 1952) is a Hungarian-American ballet dancer who studied under E. Virginia Williams with the Boston Ballet. Edra Toth came to the United States...

Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in EastEnders. He is the younger brother of Gary Kemp, who is also a member of Spandau Ballet and an actor...

artist" as her compositions grew "more modern and cerebral." "Insincerities (Ballet choreographed by Martha Graham". Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of...

The Ballet Girl may refer to: The Ballet Girl, another name for the operetta The Peasant Girl The Ballet Girl (1918 film), a German silent comedy film...

Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies...

Ballet Black is a British ballet company. It was founded by Cassa Pancho OBE in 2001 as a response to the lack of professional Black and Asian ballet...

‹ The template Infobox play is being considered for merging. › Ballet Shoes is a play based on the children's novel of the same name by Noel Streatfeild...

The Milwaukee Ballet is a professional ballet company founded by Roberta Boorse of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is located in Milwaukee, and...

contemporary ballet choreographed by Kyle Abraham, to music by Nico Muhly, James Blake, Jay-Z and Kanye West, and costumes designed by Giles Deacon. The ballet premiered...

Schull (born August 26, 1978) is an American actress and former professional ballet dancer. She is known for her lead role in the 2000 film Center Stage, and...

Ballet Review was a print publication which covered all aspects of dance. It was published by the non-profit Dance Research Foundation, Inc. While its...

a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre...

English National Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba, Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. He was a permanent member of The Royal Ballet from 1998 to 2015...

La Guiablesse is a 1927 ballet composition in nine-movements by American composer William Grant Still. The ballet was first performed in 1933 by Howard...

Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to music by Édouard Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus. Paul Foucher...

Joy Annabelle Womack is an American ballet dancer. She is the first American woman to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s main training program with...

High Yellow is a one-act ballet by Buddy Bradley with the assistance of Frederick Ashton, to the music of Spike Hughes. The ballet was first given by the...

Carolina Ballet is one of America's arts organizations, programming traditional ballets and new works by contemporary choreographers. The Ballet was launched...

Le Diable amoureux (also known as Satanella or Love and Hell) is a ballet-pantomime in three acts and eight scenes, originally choreographed by Joseph...

Ballet Folklorico en Aztlan (BFA) is a Chicano dance company focusing on Mexican folklore, and blending traditional dance with contemporary movements....

Sandpaper Ballet (1999). His work is in the repertory of Ballet British Columbia, Ballet West, Boston Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Houston Ballet, Pacific...

The Universal Ballet (Korean: 유니버설 발레단) was founded in Seoul, South Korea in 1984. One of only five professional ballet companies in South Korea, the...

Nashville Ballet is a professional ballet company in Tennessee. Founded in 1986 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, it presents a repertoire of classic...

comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1765 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère. The ballet was...

born 18 April 1940) is a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000...

Marius Petipa production was not a success, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker began to slowly enjoy worldwide popularity after Balanchine...

Terpsichore is a ballet in one act based on the myth of Terpsichore, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni. First presented by the...

dancer for the Birmingham Royal Ballet. She attended the Reiko Yamamoto Ballet School before enrolling in the Royal Ballet School in the London, England...

Bone Palace Ballet is the second album by American post-hardcore band Chiodos, released on September 4, 2007. The album takes its name from a literary...

American ballet dancer. She was a student of Mikhail Mordkin, and an original member of the Ballet Theatre, precursor to the American Ballet Theatre....

Ballet of the 20th Century (French: Ballet du XXme Siècle), was a ballet and contemporary dance company in Brussels, Belgium in 1960, by the French/Swiss...

Comédie-ballet is a Baroque genre of French drama which mixes a spoken play with interludes containing music and dance. The first example of the genre...

a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...

Wilis), is a romantic ballet (ballet-pantomime) in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon...

Enigma Variations (My Friends Pictured Within) is a one-act ballet by Frederick Ashton, to the music of the Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma Variations)...

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories is a posthumous collection of fiction by Canadian author and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, consisting of the...

Rendezvous is a plotless one-act ballet created in 1933, with choreography by Frederick Ashton to the music of Daniel Auber (the ballet music from his opera L'enfant...

Sarabande and Danse is a ballet made by Jacques d'Amboise to Debussy's Sarabande (1901) and Danse (1890). The premiere took place May 29, 1975, as part...

The Four Seasons is a ballet choreographed by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani (1855)...

Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Ravel's music and scenario, the Ma Mère l'Oye...

The New Jersey Ballet is a ballet company based in Livingston, New Jersey in the United States, founded in 1958 by native New Jerseyan Carolyn Clark and...

The Kirsova Ballet was the first professional Australian ballet company. It was founded by prima ballerina Hélène Kirsova in 1941. Initially the leading...

such as Boston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Universal Ballet, and the Cuban...

Ballet San Jose was a ballet company based in San Jose, California, US, operating from 1985 to 2016. The company was founded in 1985 as the "San Jose Cleveland...

Like Water for Chocolate is a 2022 narrative ballet in three acts with a scenario by Christopher Wheeldon and Joby Talbot, based on a 1989 novel by Mexican...

Northern Ballet, formerly Northern Ballet Theatre, is a dance company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a strong repertoire in theatrical dance...

Mystic Ballet is a modern dance company based in Mystic, Connecticut, founded in 1997 by Goran Subotic. Mystic Ballet began in 1997 as a small group of...

The Guangzhou Ballet Troupe is a classical ballet company based in Guangzhou, China. In addition to works from the classical European ballet repertoire,...

a view of male ballet dancers, or danseurs as weak, effeminate or homosexual. Through gender expectations and performance, male ballet dancers combat...

including the Feld Ballet and Ballet Tech, are involved in dance and dance education in New York City. Feld has choreographed 149 ballets since 1967, with...

romanized: Serhiy Volodymyrovych Polunin; born 20 November 1989) is a Russian ballet dancer, actor and model. He has Russian and Serbian citizenships, and has...

Laurencia is a ballet created by Vakhtang Chabukiani to music by Alexander Krein, based on Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna. Created at a time when "choreodrama"...

The Israel Ballet is a dance company that performs works of classical ballet and neoclassical ballet. The company often stages newly choreographed works...

Swedish ballet dancer and choreographer. His choreographies have been performed by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, the Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the...

Mozartiana is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 4, Mozartiana. The current version of the ballet was made for...

needed] – 29 October 1992) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977, and...

Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet! is a comic ballet adapted from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 Savoy Opera The Pirates of Penzance. The plot is the same...

San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet. Students have been recipients of scholarships to Boston Ballet, The School...

Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet schools, joined the Royal Danish Ballet and was promoted to soloist in 1955. He guested with the London Festival Ballet...

Vaslav or Vatslav Nijinsky (12 March 1889/1890 – 8 April 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish ancestry. He is regarded as the greatest...

Catastrophe Ballet is the second studio album by American rock band Christian Death. It was released in 1984, through record label Contempo. Besides founder...

National Ballet of Japan (新国立劇場バレエ団, Shin-Kokuritsu Gekijō Baree-dan), also known as the New National Theatre Ballet, Tokyo, is a Japanese ballet company...

Leyli və Məcnun) a classic Persian story of love couple; it is a one-act ballet by Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev. The libretto is based on Nizami Ganjavi's...

Plisetskaya was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director. Aleksander Plisetsky was a Russian ballet dancer, ballet master, ballet director, brother...

Bossov Ballet Theatre (BBT) is a non-profit performing company and an international pre-professional ballet school, located in Pittsfield, Maine. Founded...

Mirage is a 2025 ballet created by Belgo-French choreographer choreographer Damien Jalet, Japanese designer and sculptor Kōhei Nawa, and French composer...

Zealand Ballet is a ballet company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was originally known as The New Zealand Ballet Company. New Zealand Ballet was established...

the Joffrey Ballet from 1991 until 2008. She was the principal of Sacramento Ballet School and is currently the associate director of Ballet at Northern...

Kosovo Ballet is a dance company in Kosovo. It was established in 1972. Since its inception, there have been two main generations of the company. They...

The Texas Ballet Theater was founded by Margo Dean in 1961 as the Fort Worth Ballet Association, in Fort Worth, Texas. At the invitation of Dean, Fernando...

of ballet, and ballet master. Along with Loipa Araújo, Aurora Bosch, and Josefina Méndez, she is regarded as one of the "four jewels of Cuban ballet"....

Charles Askegard is an American ballet dancer and ballet master at Philadelphia Ballet. Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 6 January 1969...

BalletBoyz, English National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Polish National Ballet,...

a one-act ballet originally titled La Perle merveilleuse with a libretto taken almost unchanged from the unperformed danced tableau Ballet de la Reine—"La...

Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the...

London City Ballet is a British ballet company. Originally founded in 1978, Diana, Princess of Wales was its patron from 1983 to 1996. The company closed...

is a 1932 three-act folk ballet composed by Bohuslav Martinů (H. 214). It premiered in 1933 in Prague with the subtitle "Ballet from folk games, customs...

dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet. She has been a keen supporter of August Bournonville, staging a number of his ballets in Denmark and abroad. The daughter...

The National Ballet of Uruguay is a Uruguayan ballet company that was founded in 1935 in Montevideo. It is the public body in charge of developing the...

2025) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and pedagogue who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years, especially as artistic...

The Fisherman and His Bride is a ballet created in 1842 for Denmark's Royal Ballet by Danish choreographer and ballet master August Bournonville. It tells...

Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Boston Ballet, Royal Academy of Dance's Genée International Ballet Competition, and the National Ballet of Canada. Her choreography...

The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet (Norwegian: Den Norske Opera & Ballett) is a Norwegian opera company and ballet company. The first fully professional...

Double Feature (A Ballet in Two Acts) was choreographed by Susan Stroman for the New York City Ballet to music by Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson....

professional ballet choreographer, teacher, and founder of the New England Civic Ballet which became the Boston Ballet, the first professional ballet company...

Scènes de ballet may refer to: Scènes de ballet (Stravinsky), 1944 ballet music by Igor Stravinsky Scène de ballet, Op. 100, music by Charles Auguste de...

Maiden Tower is the first Azerbaijani ballet and the first ballet in the Muslim Eastern countries. It consists of three acts with a prologue and epilogue...

Internet Archive Video – Alonzo King LINES Ballet – "Scheherazade" Ballet (excerpt) Video – Les Ballets de Monte Carlo – "Scheherazade" Ballet (excerpt)...

choreographer and ballet director. Thordal-Christensen and his wife Colleen Neary are founding directors of Los Angeles Ballet. He has directed the ballet since 2006...

position." The following includes descriptions of all major ballet positions. Classical ballet positions were influenced by Baroque art, especially the ideal...

The Korea National Ballet is a South Korean ballet company. It was founded in 1962 in Seoul as the National Ballet Company. It was one of the affiliates...

Azerbaijani ballet (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan baleti) is the training methods and aesthetic qualities seen in classical ballet in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani...

The Red Shoes is a ballet choreographed by Matthew Bourne using the music of Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975). It is based broadly on the 1948 film The Red...

Faust ballets are a set of ballets, choreographed between the 18th and 20th centuries, based on the legend of Faust. As early as 1723, London-based John...

031; 44.676 The North Ossetia–Alania Opera and Ballet Theatre (officially the National State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania)...

Camargo (or La Camargo) is a grand ballet in three acts and nine scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus. The libretto by...

French ballet-pantomime created in 1790 by Pierre Gardel and performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique (known as Paris Opéra). The ballet d'action...

Sarabande and Danse is a ballet choreographed by John Clifford to Debussy's Sarabande (1901) and Danse (1890). The premiere took place on 21 May 1970,...

Ioanna Avraam is a Cypriot ballet dancer, and a first solo dancer at the Vienna State Ballet since 2022. She is one of eight female first solo dancers...

The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, which are known collectively as the Royal Ballet and Opera. The first theatre...

as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher. She attended Perth Modern School and, in 2005, at age 18, joined the New York City Ballet, the first Australian...

хореографический колледж, commonly known as the Perm Ballet School) is an internationally renowned, professional ballet school, based in Perm, Russia. It is the associate...

The State Opera and Ballet (Turkish: Devlet Opera ve Balesi) is the national directorate of opera and ballet companies of Turkey, with venues in Ankara...

The Cellist is a one-act ballet about British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, choreographed by Cathy Marston, with the scenario devised by Marston and Edward...

Walpurgisnacht Ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine for a 1975 production of Gounod's...

Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre, formerly known as the Tajik Musical Theatre, is a historic Soviet-era building and musical theatre in Dushanbe, Tajikistan...

National Ballet of Ukraine from the Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine performs works of classical ballet and tours internationally. It currently...

La source (The Spring) is a ballet in three acts/four scenes with a score composed by Léo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus (Minkus: Act I & Act III-Scene 2/Delibes:...

Mercure (Mercury, or The Adventures of Mercury) is a 1924 ballet with music by Erik Satie. The original décor and costumes were designed by Pablo Picasso...

Canada's National Ballet School, also commonly known as the National Ballet School of Canada, is a classical ballet school located in Toronto, Ontario...

Le Talisman is a ballet in 4 Acts and 7 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Riccardo Drigo. Libretto by Konstantin Augustovich Tarnovsky...

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is an all-male drag ballet troupe that parodies the conventions of romantic and classical ballet. The company's current...

Narkissos is a ballet made by Edward Villella to music by Robert Prince, from an idea by William D. Roberts. The premiere took place on 21 July 1966, with...

music by Alexander Scriabin. The piece was originally part of Five Poems, a ballet divided into five solo sections: Fragilité, Lugubre, Poeme ailé, Danse Languide...

born to a doctor and nurse in Fukuoka, Japan, and trained in classical ballet. He found his way into theater as a dresser in his teenage years, and later...

Seven Beauties (Azerbaijani: Yeddi gözəl) is a ballet composed by Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev in 1947–48 to mark the 800th anniversary of the birth...

Stranger Ballet is the sixth studio album by American musical group the Poison Control Center, released on June 7, 2011. The album was recorded and produced...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's play of the same name. A...

Ballet, Augusta Ballet, Baltimore Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey II, Washington Ballet, Giordano Dance Chicago, Dance Alive, Gainesville Ballet, Georgia Metropolitan...

The Oakland Ballet Company is a non-profit ballet company based in Oakland, California. OBC was founded in 1965 by Ronn Guidi, an Oakland native, and...

Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances regularly as a guest artist with the world’s leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi...

with Semperoper Ballett, Universal Ballet, the Alberta Ballet Company, Feld Ballet, and the Dutch National Ballet. Born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Takeshima...

Opera and Ballet (Russian: Государственный академический театр оперы и балета) 1924 – 1935: Leningrad State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Russian:...

Duport (1781, Paris – 19 October 1853, Paris) was a French ballet dancer, ballet composer and ballet master. Born in Paris, Duport studied dance under Jean-François...

Carnaval (Russian: Карнавал) is a ballet based on the music of Robert Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, Op. 9, as orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai...

modern ballet (i.e. classical or romantic ballet as we know it today not "Modern Ballet" as this is sometimes confused with contemporary ballet.) The day...

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (GBC) is a ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A creative and repertory company, it performs works that reflect...