Dance Season 2022 - 23

Dates given indicate the first day on which the work will be performed during the season

AUSTRIA
Vienna
WIENER STAATSBALLETT
Director: Martin Schläpfer
Premieres: The Sleeping Beauty pr: Martin Schläpfer 24 Oct; Goldberg-Variations 27 Apr.
Repertoire: Onegin ch: Cranko 20 Sept; La Fille mal gardée ch: Ashton 13 Dec; Im Siebten Himmel: Marsch Walzer, Polka/Fly Paper Bird/Symphony in C 9 Jan; Liebeslieder 13 Feb; Die Jahreszeiten 5 Jun; Don Quixote 28 Jun.
www.wiener-staatsoper.at

AUSTRALIA
Brisbane
QUEENSLAND BALLET
Director: Li Cunxin
Programme: Manon ch: MacMillan 28 Sept; Moonlight Ballet 10 Nov; The Nutcracker 2 Dec. 2023 to be announced.
www.queenslandballet.com.au

Melbourne
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET
Director: David Hallberg
Programme: Body Torque 11 Aug; Instruments of Dance 23 Sept; Romeo and Juliet 7 Oct; Dancex 20 Oct.
australianballet.com.au

Perth
WEST AUSTRALIAN BALLET
Director: Aurélien Scannella
Programme: Goldberg Variations 9 Sept; Swan Lake 18 Nov.
waballet.com.au

BELGIUM
Antwerp
OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN
Director:  to be appointed
Programme: FUTUR PROCHE ch: Jan Martens/Tempus Fugit ch: Johan Inger 23 Sept; Mozart/Concert Arias ch: De Keersmaeker 9 Oct; Creature ch: Khan 21 Jan; Pite/Spivey/Forsythe 3 Jun.
https://www.operaballet.be/nl

CANADA
Toronto
NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
Director: Hope Muir
Programme: WP MADDADDAM ch: McGregor 23 Nov; The Nutcracker 10 Dec; Anima Animus/WP Butler/Symphony in C 3 Mar; Cinderella 10 Mar; International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize 25 Mar; Frame by Frame 2 Jun; Romeo and Juliet 15 Jun.
https://national.ballet.ca

CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague
CZECH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Filip Barankiewicz
Programme: Kylián- Bridges of Time 1 Sept; Leonce & Lena 16 Sept; The Sleeping Beauty 24 Sept; Romeo and Juliet 5 Oct; La Fille mal gardée 25 Oct; bpm 2 Nov; The Nutcracker/A Christmas Carol 23 Nov; A Streetcar Named Desire 15 Dec; Onegin 9 Feb; Cinderella 23 Mar; Forsythe/Clug/McGregor 18 Apr; Who Cares? 11 May.
www.narodni-divadlo.cz

ENGLAND
Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET
Director: Carlos Acosta
Programme: Coppélia 5 Oct; Into the Music: Forgotten Land ch: Kylián/WP Hotel ch: Runacre-Temple/The Seventh Symphony ch: Scholz 2 Nov; The Nutcracker 19 Nov.
www.brb.org.uk

Leeds
NORTHERN BALLET
Director: Federico Bonelli
Programme: Made in Leeds: Wailers ch: Mthuthuzeli November/Nostalgia ch: Stina Quagebeur/Ma Vie ch: Dickson Mbi 10 Sept; The Little Mermaid ch: Nixon 22 Sept; Ugly Duckling (for children) 24 Oct; The Nutcracker 10 Nov.
www.northernballet.com

London
ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Aaron S Watkin (from start of 2023-24 season)
Programme: Swan Lake 1 Oct; Ek/Forsythe/Quagebeur 9 Nov; Raymonda 23 Nov; The Nutcracker 15 Dec; Creature ch: Khan - Spring 2023; Emerging Dancer - Spring 2023
International tour: Akram Khan’s Giselle, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris 12 –15 Oct; Festspielhaus St. Pölten, 24 & 25 Feb.
www.ballet.org.uk

London
RAMBERT
Director: Benoit Swan Pouffer
Programme: Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby 27 Sept.
www.rambert.org.uk

London
THE ROYAL BALLET
Director: Kevin O’Hare
Programme Main Stage
Mayerling ch: MacMillan 5 Oct; WP Flight Pattern - reworked into a full-length ballet ch: Crystal Pite 18 Oct; The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration - gala marking 60 years of the Friends of the Royal Opera House 16 Nov; The Nutcracker pr: Wright 6 Dec; The Sleeping Beauty pr: Monica Mason and Christopher Newton 16 Jan; Woolf Works ch: McGregor 1 Mar; NP Cinderella ch: Ashton 27 Mar; WP ch: McGregor/Corybantic Games ch: Wheeldon/Anastasia Act III ch: MacMillan 9 Jun; The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance 16 Jul.
Programme Linbury Theatre
Ballet Black - Say it Loud/Black Sun 19 Oct; Northern Ballet - Ugly Duckling 29 Oct; Northern Ballet - Wailers ch: Mthuthuzeli November/Nostalgia ch: Stina Quagebeur/Ma Vie ch: Dickson Mbi 1 Nov; Lost Dog - Medea 1 Dec; Acosta Danza - Spectrum 23 Jan; Pam Tanowitz - Everyone Keeps Me 4 Feb; International Draft Works 3 - 6 Apr.
www.roh.org.uk

ESTONIA
Tallinn
ESTONIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Linnar Looris
Programme: Twilight Houses 10 Sept; Ravel:Ravel 15 Sept; Louis XIV - The Sun King 16 Sept; Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6/Serenade 21 Oct; The Nutcracker 19 Nov; Le Corsaire 2 Dec; Anna Karenina 10 Feb; Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs 18 Feb; Open Door/Suite en Blanc 24 Mar; A Streetcar Named Desire 13 Apr; Swan Lake 23 Apr; International Dance Day Gala 29 Apr.
www.opera.ee

FRANCE
Paris
BALLET DE L’OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS
Director: to be appointed
Programme: WP ch: Alan Lucien Øyen 20 Sept; Mayerling ch: MacMillan 22 Oct; Kontakthof ch: Bausch 2 Dec; Paris Opera Ballet School Demonstrations 3 Dec; Swan Lake ch: Nureyev 10 Dec; Ballet Imperial/Who Cares? ch: Balanchine 6 Feb; Hommage à Patrick Dupond 21 Feb; WP ch: Bobbi Jene Smith 17 Mar; Paris Opera Ballet School Performance 15 Apr; Soirée exceptionnelle en l’honneur de Claude Bessy 19 Apr; Firebird/Le Chant du compagnon errant/Boléro ch: Béjart 20 Apr; The Dante Project ch: McGregor; Signes ch: Carlson; Manon ch: MacMillan 19 Jun.
Guest company: Peeping Tom 7 - 11 Jun.
www.opera-de-paris.fr

Toulouse
BALLET DU CAPITOLE
Director: Kader Belarbi
Programme: Romeo and Juliet ch: Maillot; Don Quixote ch: Belarbi 22 Dec; Paysages Intérieurs ch: Carlson/Malandain 10 Feb; Noir et Blanc: Entrelacs ch: Belarbi/CP No More Play ch: Kylián/CP Loin Tain ch: Kelemenis 22 Mar.
www.theatreducapitole.fr

GERMANY
Berlin
STAATSBALLETT BERLIN
Acting Artistic Director: Dr Christiane Theobald (Christian Spuck from 2023/24)
Programme: Giselle 4 Sept; Onegin 5 Oct; Lab_Works/Half Life 11 Oct; Voices/Citizen Nowhere ch: Dawson 2 Nov; Sleeping Beauty 2 Dec; Swan Lake 23 Dec; A Sort Of... ch: Ek/Cacti ch: Ekman 16 Feb; Lib ch: Ekman/Strong ch: Eyal 8 Mar; Messa da Requiem ch: Spuck 14 Apr; Petrushka ch: Goecke/The Rite of Spring ch: Bausch 10 Jun.
www.staatsballett-berlin.de

Dortmund
BALLETT DORTMUND
Director: Xin Peng Wang
Programme: Ballet Gala 10 Sept; Romeo and Juliet ch: Maillot 15 Oct; Stravinsky ch: Xin Peng Wang, Edward Clug 26 Nov; Peer Gynt ch: Clug 4 Feb; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ch: Ekman 11 Mar; New London Moves ch: Wayne McGregor, Douglas Lee, Akram Khan 2 Apr; International Ballet Gala XXXVI 17 Jun.
www.theaterdo.de

Dresden
DRESDEN SEMPEROPER BALLETT
Director: Aaron S. Watkin
Programme: Peer Gynt ch: Inger 24 Sept; WP Romeo and Juliet ch: Dawson 5 Nov; The Nutcracker pr: Watkin/Beechey 5 Dec; La Bayadère ch: Watkin after Petipa 15 Feb; Carmen ch: Inger 18 Mar; The Second Detail ch: Forsythe/Half Life ch: Eyal/White Darkness ch: Duato 6 Jun.
https://www.semperoper.de

Essen
AALTO BALLETT THEATER ESSEN
Director: Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Programme
Premieres: WP Giselle ch: Van Cauwenbergh 29 Oct; Smile - A Night of Chaplin ch: Van Cauwenbergh/Armen Hakobyan 15 Apr; PTAH V - Young Choreographers Spring 2023.
Repertoire: Rock Around Barock 11 Sept; Tanzhommage an Queen 23 Sept; The Nutcracker 2 Dec; Don Quixote 18 Mar.
www.aalto-ballett-theater.de

Hamburg
HAMBURG BALLET
Director: John Neumeier
The season marks the 50-year anniversary of John Neumeier’s appointment to the Hamburg Ballet, and also his last season as the Hamburg Ballet’s artistic director. He will step down from his position at the end of the season in summer 2023 but will retain his position as artistic director of the National Youth Ballet. The season will open on Rathausmarkt Square on 3 September, where Neumeier invites his audience to a “fireworks of dance”, a free open-air event.
Programme:
Premieres and revivals: choreography by John Neumeier: Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler 18 Sept; Préludes CV 27 Oct; WP Dona Nobis Pacem 4 Dec; Illusions - like Swan Lake 11 Feb; Romeo and Juliet 11 Jun.
Repertoire: Beethoven Project II ch: Neumeier 1 Oct; Hamlet 21 ch: Neumeier 7 Oct; Sylvia ch: Neumeier 14 Oct; The Winter’s Tale ch: Wheeldon 5 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Neumeier 21 Dec; Ghost Light ch: Neumeier 8 Jan; Lady of the Camellias ch: Neumeier 18 Jan; The Sleeping Beauty ch: Neumeier 27 Jan; The Glass Menagerie ch: Neumeier 23 Feb; Saint Matthew Passion ch: Neumeier 7 Apr; Liliom ch: Neumeier 12 Apr; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ch: Neumeier 18 Apr; Bernstein Dances ch: Neumeier 11 May; Othello ch: Neumeier 20 Jun; Anna Karenina ch: Neumeier 27 Jun; Nijinsky ch: Neumeier 6 Jul.
Events Hamburg Ballet Days concluding with Nijinsky Gala XLVIII on 9 Jul.
Foreign tours: La Fenice, Venice - Lady of the Camellias 18 - 22 Jan; The Harris Theater, Chicago - The Glass Menagerie 23 - 25 Feb; Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo - 3 - 12 Mar.
www.hamburgballett.de

Munich
BAYERISCHES STAATSBALLETT
Director: Laurent Hilaire
Programme: Herzkammern ch: Eyal 17 Sept; Passagen; Ch: Dawson, Goecke, Ratmansky 1 Oct; Cinderella ch: Wheeldon 10 Oct; Romeo and Juliet ch: Cranko 25 Oct; WP Tchaikovsky Overtures ch: Ratmansky 23 Dec; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ch: Neumeier 1 Jan; Jewels ch: Balanchine 24 Feb; Schmetterling ch: León/Lightfoot 31 Mar; Coppélia 10 May; La Bayadère 26 May.
www.staatsballett.de

Munich
BALLET OF THE STAATSTHEATER AM GÄRTNERPLATZ
Director: Karl Alfred Schreiner
Programme: Der Sturm 10 Nov; Giselle 17 Nov; La Strada 3 Feb; Höhenrausch 1 Jun; Minutemade 22/23 tbc.
www.gaertnerplatztheater.de

Nürnberg
BALLETT NÜRNBERG
Director: Goyo Montero
Programme: Naharin/Clug/Montero 7 Oct; Goldberg ch: Montero 17 Dec; Stravinsky ch: Lee, Montero 11 Feb; Shechter/Montero 29 Apr; Boîte-en-Valise - a retrospective of Ballet Nürnberg on its 15th Anniversary with works by Bigonzetti, Dato, Ek, Ekman, Forsythe, Goecke, Inger, Montero, Naharin and Spuck 13 Jul.
www.staatstheater.nuernberg.de

Stuttgart
STUTTGART BALLET
Director: Tamas Detrich
Programme: Pure Bliss: Bliss/Out of Breath/Aurora’s Nap ch: Inger 25 Feb; Creations VII - IX ch: Girelli, Novitzky, Heller & Stiens 1 Oct; Onegin ch: Cranko 13 Oct; WP The Nutcracker ch: Clug 25 Nov; Noverre: Young Choreographers 21 Jan; The Lady of the Camellias ch: Neumeier 11 Feb; One of a Kind ch: Kylián 17 Mar; The Taming of the Shrew ch: Cranko 6 May; WP Creations X - XII 27 May; Remember Me: Initials R.B.M.E. ch: Cranko/Requiem ch: MacMillan 13 July.
Tours: Berlin - Pure Bliss 22 - 24 Sept; The Hague - One of a Kind 13 - 15 Apr; Ludwigshafen - Onegin 29 - 30 Apr; Hamburg - The Lady of the Camellias 4 - 5 July.
www.stuttgart-ballet.de

HUNGARY
Budapest
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Tamás Solymosi
Programme: The Taming of the Shrew 1 Sept; Mayerling 6 Oct; A Streetcar Named Desire 28 Oct; The Nutcracker 27 Nov; Without Limits 20 Jan; Enigma 18 Feb; Swan Lake 16 Mar; Don Quixote 13 Apr; Dancingly Yours 28 Apr; 7th Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala 27 May; Pas de Quatre 8 Jun; The Pygmalion Effect ch: Boris Eifman 10 Jun; WP The Wooden Prince ch: László Velekei/The Miraculous Mandarin 23 Jun.
www.opera.hu

ITALY
Milan
TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Director: Manuel Legris
Programme: Onegin ch: Cranko 14 Sept; The Nutcracker ch: Nureyev 17 Dec; Dawson/Duato/Kratz/Kylián 3 Feb; Le Corsaire ch: Legris 28 Feb; William Forsythe Evening 10 May; Gala Fracci 7 Jun; Romeo and Juliet ch: MacMillan 24 Jun.
www.teatroallascala.org

JAPAN
Tokyo
THE TOKYO BALLET
Director: Yukati Saito
Programme: La Bayadère pr: Makarova
12 Oct.
https://www.nbs.or.jp

MONACO
Monte Carlo
LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO
Director: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Programme: tbc
International tour: Tokyo - The Taming of the Shrew 11 - 13 Nov.

THE NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam
DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Ted Brandsen
Programme: Celebrate!: CP Yugen ch: McGregor/The Two of Us ch: Wheeldon/WP The Chairman Dances ch: Brandsen/WP Regnum ch: Sidorova 13 Sept; The Sleeping Beauty ch: Petipa 12 Oct; The Four Temperaments ch: Balanchine/Frank Bridge Variations ch: Hans van Manen/Manoeuvre ch: Arqués 9 Nov; WP ch: Dawson/The Four Seasons. ch: Dawson 8 Dec; Messa da Requiem - new collaboration between the Dutch National Opera and the Dutch National Ballet choreography and direction: Christian Spuck 9 Feb; Swan Lake ch: van Dantzig 22 Mar; WP Dorian - new collaboration with the Dutch National Ballet, Junior Company and ISH Dance Collective ch: Ernst Meisner and Marco Gerris 11 May; Forsythe Festival: Blake Works 1/Pas/Parts 2018/The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude 10 Jun; New Moves 28 Jun.
International Tour
New York - Fall For Dance Festival
Variations for two couples/Two Pieces for Het ch: van Manen 30 Sept & 1 Oct.
DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET JUNIOR COMPANY
Director: Ernst Meisner
Ballet Bubbles: Pas de deux - Sleeping Beauty ch: Wright/WP ch: Wubkje Kuindersma/WP ch: Joshua Junker and others/Blink ch: Juanjo Arqués 26 Jan.
www.operaballet.nl

NORWAY
Oslo
NORWEGIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Ingrid Lorentzen
Programme: Giselle pr: Cynthia Harvey 3 Sept; Faun/Boléro/new work ch: Whitney Jensen/Anaïs Touret, Samantha Lynch, Juliano Nunes 14 Oct; The Hamlet Complex Redux ch: Øyen 3 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Boyadjiev 2 Dec; Cinderella ch: Stevenson 28 Jan; Portner/Kylián/Balanchine 2 Mar; Crystal Pite 22 April; The Sleeping Beauty ch: Spuck 3 Jun.
www.operaen.no

POLAND
Warsaw
POLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Krzysztof Pastor
Programme: Don Quixote 15 Sept; Obsessions: Adagio & Scherz ch: Pastor/Returning Waves ch: Wesolowski/Moving Rooms ch: Pastor 30 Sept; Dracula 21 Oct; Giselle pr Gielgud 25 Nov; Creations 15 - Young Choreographers 12 Jan; WP Exodus ch: Anna Hop/WP Flights-Harnasie ch: Izadora Weiss 28 Jan; Grosse Fuge ch: van Manen/WP ch: Brandsen/Symphony no.7 ch: van Schayk 18 May; Fredriana: Sarmatian Parable ch: Drzewiecki/Husband and Wife ch: Hop 22 Jul
www.polskibaletnarodowy.pl

SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town
CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET
Director: Debbie Turner
Repertoire: Romeo and Juliet ch: Paeper 4 Aug; IKIGAI: Falling Angels ch: Kylián/Les Patineurs ch: Ashton/Polarity ch: Tindall 17 Aug.
https://capetowncityballet.org.za

SWEDEN
Stockholm
ROYAL SWEDISH BALLET
Director: Nicolas Le Riche
Programme: Don Quixote 9 Sept; Robbins/Balanchine: The Concert/In the Night/Theme and Variations 21 Oct; Cinderella ch: Rojo 2 Dec.
www.operan.se

SWITZERLAND
Zurich
BALLETT ZÜRICH
Director: Christian Spuck
Programme: WP Nachtträume ch: Morau 30 Sept; Horizonte ch: Girelli, Lynch, Heller 22 Oct; Nutcracker and the Mouse King ch: Spuck 20 Nov; On the Move ch: Spuck, Stiens, Van Manen 14 Jan; Angels’ Atlas ch: Pite, Goecke 18 Feb; Anna Karenina ch: Spuck 19 Mar; The Cellist ch: Marston 30 Apr; Monteverdi ch: Spuck 26 May; fusspurenXIX 8 Jul.
www.opernhaus.ch

USA
Boston MA
BOSTON BALLET
Director: Mikko Nissinen
Programme: My Obsession: Apollo/Allegro Brillante/月夜Tsukiyo/DEVIL’S/eye 6 Oct; As Anticipated: WP ch: Forsythe/Artifact 3 Nov; The Nutcracker 25 Nov; Don Quixote 16 Mar; Our Journey: WP ch: Linning/Everywhere We Go 6 Apr; The Sleeping Beauty 25 May.
www.bostonballet.org

Chicago IL
JOFFREY BALLET
Director: Ashley Wheater
Programme: Beyond Borders: Suite Saint Saëns ch: Arpino/WP ch: DaSilva/Vespertine ch: Scarlett 12 Oct; The Joffrey with Chicago Symphony Orchestra WP ch: Marston/WP ch: Lopez Ochoa 10 Nov; The Nutcracker 3 Dec; Anna Karenina ch: Possokhov 15 Feb; Winning Works 2023 17 Mar; The Little Mermaid ch: Neumeier.
www.joffrey.org

New York NY
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Director: Kevin McKenzie succeeded by Susan Jaffe from December 2022.
Programme:  Fall Season - Whipped Cream ch: Ratmansky 20 Oct; The Dream/The Seasons 26 Oct; Gala - WP Lifted ch: Christopher Rudd/Sinfonietta ch: Kylián 27 Oct; Children’s Dance Songs/Lifted/Sinfonietta 28 Oct.
www.abt.org

New York NY
NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Director: Jonathan Stafford
Associate Artistic Director: Wendy Whelan
Fall Season 20 Sept - 16 Oct.
www.nycballet.com

San Francisco CA
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
Director: Tamara Rojo
90th Anniversary Season
Programme: next @ 90 - Festival A 20 Jan; Festival B 21 Jan; Festival C 25 Jan; Giselle 24 Feb; Programme 5 14 Mar; Cinderella 31 Mar; Romeo & Juliet 21 Apr.
www.sfb.org

WALES
Newport
BALLET CYMRU
Director: Darius James
https://dream.cymru

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