Grand Rapids Ballet Celebrates 50 Years in 2022! 2022 marks a major milestone for Grand Rapids Ballet, Michigan’s only professional ballet company, as the company celebrates 50 years of lifting the human spirit through the art of dance. In 2011, our website DanceMelody.com wrote the following about the Grand Rapids Ballet: When people talk about…
When students at the Royal Ballet School scattered to their homes around the globe during the first British lockdown last spring, classes went virtual and, at first, proved quite tricky. It was not just about time differences, with Chinese, Australian and Japanese students, among others, not keen to get up in the middle of the…
The Flytown Ballet Company presents five new ballets each season. All patrons are looking forward to their next production. It is an original ballet written, scored, choreographed and starring Prima Ballerina, Ms. Juanita Juanabee. It is entitled “Orpheus in Denny’s”. One of the world’s greatest ballet companies committed to sharing еру passion for the expressive…
The Mariinsky Theater is better known as the Kirov Theater. The present building, which dates back to 1859, originally housed another theater but was remodeled and taken over by the Mariinsky company. During pre-revolutionary times the theater enjoyed royal patronage and has played host to some of Russia’s most celebrated classical performers. Fiodor Shaliapin sang…
When Catherine Turocy and Ann Jacoby formed the New York Baroque Dance Company in 1976, they were unsure of how audience members would react to their first experience with the peculiarities of 18th-century ballet. What would the uninitiated make of the fleet-footed, vigorous, and sometimes raucous dances of that time period? And what about those…
