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Oakville Ballet Company: ballet Oakville, Ontario: Canada: AD Amanda Bayliss current ODC/Dance: contemporary San Francisco, California: United States: Founder & AD Brenda Way: 1971–present Oregon Ballet Theatre: ballet Portland, Oregon: United States: Founder James Canfield Interim AD Anne Mueller 1989–present Pacific Northwest Ballet ...
A ballet company is a type of dance troupe that performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year (typically thirty or forty ...
(Top) 1 See also. 2 Footnotes. ... This is a list of ballet companies in the United States. Company City State Years active Web site Ajkun Ballet Theatre: New York ...
At dance companies around the world, ‘Nutcracker’ season is in full swing. Clémence Michallon speaks to dancers and critics about the show that has become a staple across countries and ...
Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies. In the early 20th century, it came to international prominence as Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia. The Bolshoi has been recognised as one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. It has a branch at the Bolshoi Ballet Theater School in Joinville, Brazil. [1]
It is the oldest national ballet company, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it. It is still regarded as one of the four most prominent ballet companies in the world, together with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg and the Royal Ballet in London. [2] [3] [4] [5]
It is among the world's leading dance companies, presenting more than 100 performances annually, with a repertoire that spans both classical and contemporary ballet. Along with American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet has been described as part of the "triumvirate of great classical companies defining the ...
The 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, with more than 200 dancers. [2] The theatre is the parent company of The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, a leading school of ballet.