N.B. Dates indicate the first performance during the season only

AUSTRIA
AUSTRALIA
BELGIUM
CANADA
CZECH REPUBLIC 
DENMARK

AUSTRIA
Vienna
WIENER STAATSBALLETT
Director: Martin Schläpfer
Programme: Don Quixote 14 Sept; Giselle 7 Oct; Tabula Rosa ch: Naharin / Goldberg Variations ch: Spoerli 7 Nov; The Sleeping Beauty ch: Schläpfer 27 Nov; Concertante ch: Van Manen / In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated ch: Forsythe / Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet  ch: Balanchine 23 Dec; The Lady of the Camellias ch: Neumeier 24 Mar; Marsch, Walzer, Polka / Fly Paper Bird / Symphony in C 21 May; Swan Lake 6 Jun; Nureyev Gala 29 Jun.
www.wiener-staatsoper.at

AUSTRALIA
Brisbane
QUEENSLAND BALLET
Director: Li Cunxin
Programme: Strictly Gershwin 27 Sept; A Midsummer Night’s Dream 25 Oct; The Nutcracker 1 Dec. 2024 to be announced.
www.queenslandballet.com.au

Melbourne
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET
Director: David Hallberg
Programme: Swan Lake pr: Hallberg 19 Sept; The Dream / Marguerite and Armand ch: Ashton 10 Nov.  
www.australianballet.com.au

Perth
WEST AUSTRALIAN BALLET
Director: Aurélien Scannella until end of 2023 season. David McAllister guest director for 2024.
Programme: WP Echoes of Van Gogh ch: Wubkje Kuindersma 8 Sept; Genesis 12 Oct; The Nutcracker 17 Nov. 2024 tba.
waballet.com.au

BELGIUM
Antwerp
OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN
Director: Jan Vandenhouwe
Programme: Choreolab 1 Sept; New Ballet Mécanique / Half Life 3 Oct; The Seven Deadly Sins / Petrushka 16 Dec; Puur ch: Wim Vandekeybus 23 Mar; Ombra ch: Alain Platel 30 Mar; Martens / De Keersmaeker / Brown 23 May.
https://www.operaballet.be

CANADA
Toronto
NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
Director: Hope Muir
Programme: WP Emma Bovary ch: Helen Pickett  / CP Passion ch: James Kudelka 11 Nov; Onegin ch: Cranko 22 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Kudelka 8 Dec; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ch: Wheeldon 6 Mar; WP UtopiV.erse ch: William Young / CP islands ch: Emma Portner / Suite en Blanc ch: Lifar 20 Mar; Don Quixote ch: Carlos Acosta 1 Jun; Jewels ch: Balanchine 15 Jun.
https://national.ballet.ca

CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague
CZECH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Filip Barankiewicz
Programme: Romeo and Juliet 1 Sept; 420People - May 7 Sept; Beyond Vibrations 5 Oct; Cinderella 20 Oct; The Sleeping Beauty 28 Oct; A Streetcar Named Desire 16 Nov; The Nutcracker - A Christmas Carol 25 Nov; Holo Harmonies 1 Dec; Onegin 1 Feb; La Sylphide 13 Apr; Coppélia 16 May.
Season ends on 15 Jun.
www.narodni-divadlo.cz

DENMARK
Copenhagen
ROYAL DANISH BALLET
Director: Nikolaj Hübbe
Programme: Scotch Symphony ch: Balanchine / La Sylphide ch: Bournonville 2 Sept; Swan Lake ch: Silja Schandorff, Nikolaj Hübbe, after Petipa, Ivanov 23 Sept; Dance Fever ch: Tobias Praetorius 11 Oct; The Dante Project ch: McGregor 4 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Balanchine 24 Nov; Cinderella ch: Gregory Dean 1 Feb; Giant Steps: Serenade ch: Balanchine / Sibelius’s 4th Symphony ch; Jorma Elo / Etudes ch: Harald Lander  12 Mar; Koreorama 22 Mar; Under dybet 20 Apr; Raymonda ch: Nikolaj Hübbe 17 May.
Season ends on 6 Jun.
https://kglteater.dk

ENGLAND
ESTONIA
FRANCE

ENGLAND
Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET
Director: Carlos Acosta
Programme: WP Black Sabbath - The Ballet ch: Pontus Lidberg, Raúl Reinose, Cassi Abranches 23 Sept; The Nutcracker ch: Wright 17 Nov; The Sleeping Beauty ch: Petipa, Ivanov, Wright 8 Feb.
Promotions: Lachlan Monaghan and Max Maslen to principal; Gabriel Anderson, Rosanna Ely, Sofia Liñares and Lucy Waine have been promoted to first artist.
Joining: Olivia Chang Clarke - artist (previously apprentice), Yasiel Hodelin Bello (Cuban National Ballet School) - soloist, Nasrullah Abdur-Rahman (Boston Ballet School), Ariana Allen (Royal Ballet School), Alisa Garkavenko (Princess Grace Academy), Thomas Hazelby (Royal Ballet School), Rosa Lidia-Nuesi (Acosta Danza), Alexandra Manuel (Royal Ballet School) and Alfie Shacklock (Royal Ballet School) joining BRB2 as artists, Patricia Tierney - répétiteur and Samara Downs transitions to assistant répétiteur.
Leaving: Marion Tait - rehearsal director and coach; Carmen Piqueras - répétiteur; Brandon Lawrence is joining Ballett Zürich.
www.brb.org.uk

Leeds
NORTHERN BALLET
Director: Federico Bonelli
Programme: Generations - Three Short Ballets: Adagio Hammerklavier ch: Van Manen / WP new ballet ch: Tiler Peck / WP new ballet ch: Benjamin Ela 8 Sept; Beauty and the Beast ch: Nixon 4 Oct; The Nutcracker ch: Nixon 29 Nov; Northern Ballet Late: informal ballet evening 26 Jan; Romeo & Juliet ch: Massimo Moricone 8 Mar.
Promotions: Joseph Taylor to premier dancer, Jonathan Hanks, Saeka Shirai and Dominique Larose to leading soloist and Alessandra Bramante and Harris Beattie to coryphée.
Joining: Aaron Kok as a dancer, Mayuko Iwanaga and Yu Wakizuka as apprentices and Itsuki Amemiya also as an apprentice until December 2023.
Leaving: Mackenzie Jacob (joining Scottish Ballet), Katharine Lee (joining San Francisco Ballet), Sean Bates (joining Ballett Zürich) and Wesley Branch. Gavin McCaig has retired from performing (joining Young Dancers Academy as Director of Business Operations).
www.northernballet.com

London
ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Director:Aaron S. Watkin
Programme: Our Voices: Theme and Variations ch: Balanchine / Four Last Songs ch: Dawson / Les Noces ch: Miller 21 Sept; Akram Khan’s Giselle 19 Oct; The Nutcracker 30 Nov; Giselle ch: Mary Skeaping 11 Jan; Carmen ch: Inger 27 Mar; My First Ballet: Swan Lake 4 Apr; Emerging Dancer tbc; Swan Lake in-the-round 12 Jun.
Promotions: Aitor Arrieta and Emma Hawes to lead principal; Julia Conway to first soloist; Lorenzo Trossello to soloist; Ivana Bueno, Henry Dowden, Noam Durand, Rentaro Nakaaki and Victor Prigent to junior soloist; Alice Bellini, Georgia Bould, Eireen Evrard, Giorgio Garrett, Minju Kang, Adriana Lizardi and Eric Snyder to first artist; Breanna Foad to 8th year artist.
Joining: Sangeun Lee (from Dresden) as lead principal; Gareth Haw (from Dresden) as first soloist; Anna Nevzorova (from Dresden) and Vsevolod Maievskyi (from Dresden) as junior soloist; Edvinas Jakonis (from Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre) as first artist; Laurretta Summerscales (currently with Bayerisches Staatsballett) as a guest artist for Swan Lake in-the-round; Carmen Piqueras as ballet master; Cynthia Harvey as associate guest répétiteur; Alessandra Ferri and Alejandro Parente as guest répétiteurs; Carolyn Bolton as creative director of ENBYouthCo.
Leaving: Sarah Kundi (joining Royal Ballet School staff); Paige Bestington, Noah Benzie-Drayton, Poppy Frankel, Lulu Toner, Daisy Wales, Oscar Ward; soloist Rina Kanehara and artists Amber Hunt, Jade Longley and Alejandro Moreno left the company mid-season; ballet mistress Anu Sistonen.
www.ballet.org.uk

London
RAMBERT
Director: Benoit Swan Pouffer
Programme: Cerberus / Goat ch: Ben Duke 3 Oct.
www.rambert.org.uk

London
THE ROYAL BALLET
Director: Kevin O’Hare
Programme Main Stage
Don Quixote ch: Acosta after Petipa 30 Sept; Anemoi ch: Zucchetti / The Cellist ch: Marston 20 Oct; The Dante Project ch: McGregor 18 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov 6 Dec; Manon ch: MacMillan 17 Jan; Festival of New Choreography - various venues 12 Feb; Swan Lake ch: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, with additional ch: Liam Scarlett and Frederick Ashton 8 Mar; Danses Concertantes / Different Drummer / Requiem ch: MacMillan 20 Mar; The Winter’s Tale ch: Wheeldon 3 May; The Sarasota Ballet (guest company) Two programmes to include: Valses nobles et sentimentales / Dante Sonata / Sinfonietta / Façade 4 Jun; Les Rendezvous / The Dream / Rhapsody ch: Ashton 6 Jun; The Dream / Five Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan / The Walk to the Paradise Garden / Hamlet and Ophelia recreated and staged by Wayne Eagling 7 Jun; The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance 6 Jul.
Programme Linbury Theatre
WP The Limit ch: Kristen McNally 20 Oct; Northern Ballet Generations - Three Short Ballets: Adagio Hammerklavier ch: Van Manen / new ballet ch: Tiler Peck /  new ballet ch: Benjamin Ela 31 Oct; Fallen Angels Dance Theatre ch: created by Fallen Angels Dance Theatre / Paul Bayes Kitcher 4 Nov; Ballet Black: Pioneers: Then or Now  ch: Will Tuckett / Nina: By Whatever Means ch: Mthuthuzeli November 16 Nov; Northern Ballet Tortoise & The Hare ch: Dreda Blow / Sebastian Loe 27 Jan; Yorke Dance Project California Connections: Three Pioneering Women El Penitente ch: Martha Graham / Meta 4 ch: Bella Lewitzky / Isadora ch: MacMillan 21 Mar; Sydney Dance Company Ascent: I Am–ness ch: Rafael Bonachela / The Shell, A Ghost, The Host & The Lyrebird  ch: Marina Mascarell in collaboration with Sophie Jones, Jesse Scales, Lucy Angel, Coco Wood, Liam Green, Dean Elliott, Emily Seymour, Jacopo Grabar, Luke Hayward / Forever & Ever ch: Antony Hamilton 25 Mar; The Royal Ballet and Guest Companies International Draft Works 10 Apr; The Royal Ballet and Guest Companies Next Generation Festival 11 Jun.
Programme Clore Studio
Yorke Dance Project WP Sea of Troubles ch: MacMillan 10 Oct; Winter Draft Works 11 Dec.Promotions: Isabella Gasparini to first soloist; Mica Bradbury, Hannah Grennell, Sae Maeda, Joonhyuk Jun and Taisuke Nakao to soloist; Bomin Kim, Nadia Mullova-Barley, Katharina Nikelski, Amelia Townsend, Yu Hang, Harris Bell, Liam Boswell, Daichi Ikarashi, Harrison Lee, Marco Masciari and Aiden O’Brien are promoted to first artist; Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Olivia Findlay, Scarlett Harvey, Ella Newton Severgnini, Martin Diaz and Luc Foskett are now promoted to artist.
Joining: RBS graduates Bethany Bartlett, Sierra Glasheen, Seung Hee Han, Isabella Shaker, Caspar Lench and Blake Smith join the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme; Julie Ann Joyner as Prix de Lausanne Dancer for the 2023 - 4 season.
Leaving:Laura Morera retires as a principal dancer but will now stage and coach repertoire; Tara-Brigitte Bhavnani to pursue teaching and education work but will return as a guest character artist; Alicia Rose Couvrette, Ava May Llewellyn and Alix Van Tiggelen from the 2022 / 23 Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme, and Prix de Lausanne dancer Darrion Sellman; after nearly 20 years at the Royal Opera House, Senior Benesh Choreologist Anna Trevien left The Royal Ballet in April to take up the role of Ballet Master with the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen.
www.roh.org.uk

Tallinn
ESTONIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Linnar Looris
Programme: Alice in Wonderland 31 Aug; Le Corsaire 17 Sept; Carnival of the Animals 23m Sept; Twilight Houses 23 Sept; Black / White 12 Oct; The Nutcracker 1 Dec; Louis IV - The Sun King 28 Jan; Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs 1 Mar; A Streetcar Named Desire 8 Mar; Ravel: Ravel 13 Mar; Giselle 5 Apr; Anna Karenina 19 Apr; International Dance Day Gala 28 Apr; The Sleeping Beauty 11 May; Jazz Ballet Club 16 Jun.
Season ends on 22 Jun.
www.opera.ee

FRANCE
Paris
BALLET DE L’OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS
Director: José Martinez
Programme: WP The Last Call ch: Marion Motin / WP Horizon ch: Xie Xin / The Seasons’ Canon ch: Crystal Pite 21 Sept (Gala), 23 Sept (Premiere); Jerome Robbins: En Sol / In the Night / The Concert 24 Oct; Paris Opera Ballet School Demonstrations: 3 Dec; Jirí Kylián: Stepping Sones / CP Gods and Dogs / Petite Mort / CP Sechs Tänze 8 Dec; The Nutcracker ch: Nureyev after Petipa / Ivanov 8 Dec; CP Sadeh21 ch: Naharin 7 Feb; La Fille mal gardée ch: Ashton 15 Mar; Don Quixote ch: Nureyev 21 Mar; Paris Opera Ballet School: Les Forrains ch: Petit / Un Ballo ch: Kylián / Suite en blanc ch: Lifar 13 Apr; Giselle ch: Coralli, Perrot adapted by Bart, Polyakov 2 May; Swan Lake ch: Nureyev after Petipa, Ivanov 21 Jun; CP Barbe-Bleue ch: Pina Bausch 22 Jun.
Season ends 14 Jul.
Guest company: Béjart Ballet Lausanne 5 - 7 Jan.
www.opera-de-paris.fr

Toulouse
BALLET DU CAPITOLE
Director: Christophe Ghristi
Programme: La Sylphide ch: Bournonville 20 Oct; Suite en blanc ch: Lifar / Sech Tänze ch: Kylián / The Concert ch: Robbins 21 Dec; Song of the Earth ch: Neumeier 19 Apr; Nocturnes ch: Malandain / Wind Women ch: Carlson / If To Leave Is To Remember ch: Carlson 15 May; Toile Étoiles Picasso et la Danse: Tablao (Cuadro Flamenco) ch: António Najarro / L’Après-midi d’un faun ch: Honj Wang, Sébastien Ramirez / Le Train bleu ch: Cayetano Soto 12 Jun. Season ends 16 Jun.
Season trailer: www.youtube.com / watch?v=1fkYFWuzt3U
www.theatreducapitole.fr

GERMANY

GERMANY
Berlin
STAATSBALLETT BERLIN
Artistic Director: Christian Spuck
Programme: Half Life ch: Eyal, Behar / Lib ch: Ekman 2 Sept; WP Bovary ch: Spuck 20 Oct; Sleeping Beauty pr: Haydée 9 Nov; WP 2 Chapters Love ch: Eyal / Stars Like Moths ch: Léon 11 Dec; William Forsythe: Blake Works I / Approximate Sonata 2016 / One Flat Thing, Reproduced 16 Feb; Giselle pr: Bart 8 Mar; Overture ch: Morau / Angels’ Atlas ch: Pite 28 Apr; Next Generation: WP ch: dancers of the company 11 May; Messa da Requiem ch: Spuck 8 Jun; 20th Anniversary Gala 7 Jul. Season ends on 11 Jul.
Joining: Anthony Tette, Chloe Capulong, Cohen Aitchison-Dugas, Désirée Guler, Dominik White Slavkovský, Emma Antrobus, Jan Casier, Jessica Beardsell, Leroy Mokgatle, Loïck Pireaux, Mark Geilings, Matthew Knight, Meiri Maeda, Michelle Willems, Rafaelle Queiroz.
Leaving: Alejandro Virelles, Arshak Ghalumyan, Aya Okumura (joining Czech National Ballet), Daniil Simkin, Dino Tamazlacaru, Evelina Godunova, Federico Spallitta, Iana Balova, Johnny McMillan, Krasina Pavlova, Marian Walter, Olaf Kollmannsperger
www.staatsballett-berlin.de

Dortmund
BALLETT DORTMUND
Director: Xin Peng Wang
Programme: International Ballet Gala 9 Sept; Swan Lake ch: Wang 23 Sept; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ch: Ekman 18 Nov; WP Der Traum der roten Kammer ch: Wang 3 Feb; Dawson: Metamorphosis / Affairs of the Heart 6 Apr; Da Vinci Mode ch: Douglas Lee, Gaj Žmavc, Marijn Rademaker 14 Jun; International Ballet Gala 22 Jun.
Guest company: Béjart Ballet Lausanne 16, 17 May.
Season ends on 4 Jul.
www.theaterdo.de

Dresden
DRESDEN SEMPEROPER BALLETT
Artistic Advisor: Marcelo Gomes
Programme: White Darkness ch: Forsythe, Eyal, Duato 11 Sept; The Dream ch: Ashton / The Four Seasons ch: Dawson 12 Oct; A Swan Lake ch: Inger 9 Dec; The Sleeping Beauty pr: Watkin 9 Feb; WP Romeo and Juliet ch: Dawson 12 Apr; Serenade ch: Balanchine / Plot Point ch: Pite / In the Upper Room ch: Tharp 2 Jun.
Season ends on 6 Jul.
https://www.semperoper.de

Essen
AALTO BALLETT THEATER ESSEN
Director: Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Programme: Smile ch: Van Cauwenbergh 9 Sept; Tanz Gala 14 Oct; Giselle ch: Van Cauwenbergh 20 Oct; Romeo and Juliet ch: Van Cauwenbergh 20 Oct; Swan Lake ch: Van Cauwenbergh after Petipa, Ivanov 2 Dec; Tanzhommage an Queen ch: Van Cauwenbergh 1 Feb; Carmen / Boléro ch: Van Cauwenbergh 22 Feb; WP Last ch: Armen Hakobyan, Ana Maria Lucaciu, Ben Van Cauwenbergh 13 Apr; Bye-Bye Ben dance collage 22 Jun. Season ends on 7 Jul
www.aalto-ballett-theater.de

Hamburg
HAMBURG BALLET
Director: John Neumeier
Programme: Dance on the Rathausmarkt 3 Sept; A  Streetcar Named Desire ch: Neumeier 17 Sept; Nijinsky ch: Neumeier 19 Oct; Romeo and Juliet ch: Neumeier 28 Oct; Jane Eyre ch: Marston 3 Dec; The Nutcracker ch: Neumeier 17 Dec; Christmas Oratorio I -VI 23 Dec; Ghost Light ch: Neumeier 4 Jan; Lady of the Camellias ch: Neumeier 10 Jan; Illusions - like Swan Lake ch: Neumeier 25 Jan; The Odyssey ch: Neumeier 24 Feb; Anna Karenina ch: Neumeier 26 Apr; Préludes CV ch: Neumeier 30 Apr; Dona Nobis Pacem ch: Neumeier 21 May; The Glass Menagerie ch: Neumeier 28 May; The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler 19 Jun; Epilogue ch: Neumeier 30 Jun; Nijinsky Gala XLIX 14 Jul - last performance of the season.
www.hamburgballett.de

Munich
BAYERISCHES STAATSBALLETT
Director: Laurent Hilaire
Programme: Paquita ch: Petipa / Aunis ch: Garnier / Le Grand Sot ch: Motin 23 Sept; Cinderella: ch: Wheeldon 1 Oct; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ch: Wheeldon 12 Oct; Tchaikovsky’s Overtures ch: Ratmansky 21 Oct; Schmetterling ch: León, Lightfoot 10 Nov; Le Parc ch: Preljocaj 25 Nov; Onegin ch: Cranko 12 Jan; La Bayadère ch: Petipa, Bart 19 Feb; White Darkness ch: Duato / WP ch: Andrew Skeels / Autodance ch: Eyal 12 Apr; Romeo and Juliet ch: Cranko 18 May; Spheres.02 / Preljocal (Cuvilliés Theater) 18 Jul. Last performance of the season 22 Jul.
Guest Company: Peeping Tom 16, 17 Apr.
Joining: Jakob Feyferlik as principal dancer; Ksenia Shevtsova as first soloist; Ana Gonçalves, Zhanna Gubanova, Zachary Rogers, Daniella Venter, Marina Mata Gómez and Soren Sakadales as corps de ballet.
Leaving: principal Emilio Pavan, who is retiring due to injury; Emma Knowlson, who is joining Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo; Philip Hedges, Sofia Ivanova-Skoblikova, Valeriia Sklotskaia, Isabella Wagar and Stefano Maggiolo; ballet mistress Yana Zelensky.
www.staatsballett.de

Nürnberg
BALLETT NÜRNBERG
Director: Goyo Montero
Programme: Aufkaft 30 Sept; Anthem ch: Montero / theBAD ch: Shechter 13 Oct; WP Der Steppenwolf ch: Montero 9 Dec; Goldberg ch: Montero 17 Feb; Les Noces ch: Maillot / Stop-Motion ch: León, Lightfoot 4 Apr; Exquisite Corpse VI young choreographers 22 Jun. Season ends 17 Jul.
www.staatstheater.nuernberg.de

Stuttgart
GAUTHIER DANCE
Director: Eric Gauthier
Premieres: Elements: premieres ch: Mauro Bigon zetti, Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis, Louise Lecavalier 29 Feb; Anthology: ch: Virginie Brunelle, Alexander Ekman, Eric Gauthier, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, Hofesh Shechter, Po-Cheng Tsai, Hans van Manen, Nadav Zelner 21 Jun.
Repertoire: Contemporary Dance 2.0 ch: Shechter; 15 Years Alive ch: Bigonzetti, Cerrudo, Gauthier, Galili, Naharin, Shechter; The Seven Sins ch: Barton, Cherkaoui, Eyal, Goecke, Morau, Shechter, Waltz; Swan Lakes ch: Chouinard, Goecke, Shechter, Soto; Kamuyot ch: Naharin.
GAUTHIER DANCE JUNIORS
Renaissance ch: Rena Butler, Norge Cedeño Raffo,Sharon Eyal, Eric Gauthier, Marco Goecke, Barak Marshall 18 Jan.
www.gauthierdance.com
www.theaterhaus.com

Stuttgart
STUTTGART BALLET
Director: Tamas Detrich
Programme: Romeo and Juliet ch: Cranko 7 Oct; Initials R.B.M.E. ch: Cranko / Requiem ch: MacMillan 30 Oct; Creations XII - XV WP new ballets ch: Vittoria Girelli, Samantha Lynch, Morgann Runacre-Temple 25 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Clug 13 Dec; Shades of Blue and White: Kingdom of the Shades ch: Makarova after Petipa / Blake Works I ch: Forsythe / Seventh Symphony  ch: Scholz 1 Feb; Swan Lake pr: Cranko 6 Apr; Noverre: Young Choreographers 25 May; Kosmos ch: Thoss / Schwerelos ch: Foniadakis 28 May; WP new ballet ch: Roman Novitzky / WP Symphony No. 2 ch: David Dawson 28 Jun; John Cranko School ballet matinée 14 Jul; Ballet in the Park 20 Jul.
Season ends on 21 Jul.
www.stuttgart-ballet.de

HUNGARY
ITALY
JAPAN
MONACO
NETHERLANDS

HUNGARY
Budapest
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Tamás Solymosi
Programme: Don Quixote pr: Messerer 30 Sept; Spartacus ch: Seregi 12 Oct; The Nutcracker pr: Eagling, Solymosi  24 Nov; Onegin ch: Cranko 12 Jan; The Wooden Prince ch: László Velekei / The Miraculous Mandarin ch: Marianna Veneki / Dance Suite ch: Kristóf Várnagy 1 Feb; Mayerling ch: MacMillan 14 Mar; Paquita Suite / Petite Mort ch: Kylián / Six Dances ch: Kylián / Etudes ch: Lander 11 Apr; Walking Mad ch: Inger / The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude ch: Forsythe / Five Tangos ch: Van Manen / Sad Case ch: León, Lightfoot 3 May; The Pygmalion Effect ch: Eifman 17 May; 8th Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala 9 Jun; Le Corsaire pr: Holmes 22 Jun.
Season ends on 30 Jun.
www.opera.hu

ITALY
Milan
TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Director: Manuel Legris
Programme: Swan Lake 15 Sept; Onegin 5 Nov; Coppélia 17 Dec; Reveal ch: Garrett Smith / Skew-Whiff ch: León. Lightfoot / Memento ch: Simone Valastro 7 Feb; Madina 28 Feb; Gala Fracci 19 Apr; La Scala Academy’s Ballet School Evening 18 May; La Bayadère 26 May; Manon 8 Jul.
www.teatroallascala.org

JAPAN
Tokyo
NATIONAL BALLET OF JAPAN
Director: Miyako Yoshida
Programme: Don Quixote pr: Fadeyechev 20 Oct; Dance to the Future: Young NBJ Gala 25 Nov; The Nutcracker and the Mouse King ch: Eagling 22 Dec; The Tales of Hoffmann ch: Peter Darrell 23 Feb; La Bayadère 27 Apr; Aladdin ch: Bintley 14 Jun; Moriyama Kaiji Ninja ch: Moriyama 28 Jun; First Steps: Swan Lake - educational programme for children 28 Jul.
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english

Tokyo
THE TOKYO BALLET
Director: Yukati Saito
Programme: Don Quixote’s Dream - ballet for children 26 Aug; Kaguyahime 20 Oct; The Sleeping Beauty 11 Nov.
https://www.nbs.or.jp

MONACO
Monte Carlo
LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO
Director: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Programme: tba
www.balletsdemontecarlo.com

THE NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam
DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Ted Brandsen
Programme: Four Temperaments ch: Balanchine / Frank Bridge Variations ch: van Manen / WP The Chairman Dances ch: Brandsen / WP Full Frontal ch: Juanjo Arqués 16 Sept; New Moves 25 Sept; Giselle pr: Rachel Beaujean, Ricardo Bustamente 12 Oct; Raymonda pr: Beaujean 9 Dec; Frida ch: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa 8 Feb; Oedipus Rex ch: Wayne McGregor / Antigone (opera) 9 Mar; Concertante ch: van Manen / WP ch: Milena Sidorova / Wings of Wax ch: Kylián / CP Anima Animus ch: David Dawson 30 Mar; Do Not Run Fly: WP ch: Marcos Morau / WP ch: Yoann Bourgeois / Solo Echo ch: Crystal Pite 22 May; Stravinsky Fairy Tales: CP The Fairy’s Kiss ch: Ratmansky / Firebird ch: Ratmansky 25 Jun;
Gala 28 Jun; Dansers van Morgen (Dancers for Tomorrow) 2024 performance by Dutch National Ballet Academy 5 Jul.

DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET JUNIOR COMPANY
Director: Ernst Meisner
Programme: Ten: Valse Fantaisie ch: Balanchine / CP Toccata ch: Krzysztof Pastor / WP ch: Joseph Toonga / WP ch: Wubkje Kuindersma / WP Kirsten Wicklund 3 Feb.
www.operaballet.nl

NORWAY
POLAND
SOUTH AFRICA
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
URUGUAY
WALES

NORWAY
Oslo
NORWEGIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Ingrid Lorentzen
Programme: The Sleeping Beauty ch: Spuck 31 Aug; Nothing Personal ch: Alan Lucien Øyen 12 Oct; Coda - Thank You Very Much ch: Claire Cunningham 20 Oct; Swan Lake Act II ch: Makarova after Petipa, Ivanov / Swan Lake pas de deux ch: Makarova after Petipa / Romeo and Juliet Balcony pas de deux ch: Kaloyan Boyadjiev / WP ch: Samantha Lynch / Raymonda Suite ch: Xander Parish after Petipa 9 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Kaloyan Boyadjiev 1 Dec; Diamonds ch: Balanchine / Schubert ch: León, Lightfoot / Stop Motion ch: León, Lightfoot 2 Feb; Light of Passage ch: Crystal Pite 28 Feb; The Wild Duck ch: Marit Moum Aune 14 Mar; Norwegian National Ballet 2 10 Mar; Mats Ek: She Was Black / A Sort Of 18 Jun. Season finishes on 21 Jun.
www.operaen.no

POLAND
Warsaw
POLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Krzysztof Pastor
Programme: Dracula ch: Pastor 15 Sept; Fredriana: Sarmatian Parable, Husband and Wife ch: Drzewieck, Wesołowski, Hop 8 Oct; Giselle ch: Coralli, Perrot, Gielgud 18 Oct; La Bayadère ch: Makarova after Petipa 17 Nov; Bolero+: Moving Rooms / WP Kilar Concerto / Bolero ch: Pastor 15 Dec; Don Quixote ch: Petipa, Gorski, Fadeyechev 29 Feb; Creations 16 – workshop – ch: Polish National Ballet’s young choreographers 13 Mar; WP Pinocchio ch: Hop 21 Apr. Season ends: 30 Jun.
Promotions: Jaeeun Jung, Ryota Kitai to first soloists; Hannah Cho, Aoi Choji, Marko Juusela, Daria Majewska & Yume Okano to coryphées
Joining: Evelina Godunova (from Staatsballett Berlin) as first soloist.
Newly created PNB Junior Group: Weronika Gałązka, Maria Grzymała, Kamila Lechowska, Julia Skubis, Łucja Ulbrych; Paweł Dobrzański, Maciej Duda, Wiktor Perdek, Mikołaj Spiżewski, Cezary Szlachta.Leaving: principal dancer Maksim Woitiul and soloist Emilia Stachurska are retiring from dancing to join the PNB ballet master team.
Events: 14th Days of Dance Festival 15-25 Nov Zawirowania Dance Theatre (guest performance) 15 Nov; PNB Junior Company Evening 24 Nov; Polish Dance Theatre in Poznan (guest performance) 25 Nov
www.polskibaletnarodowy.pl

SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town
CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET
Director: tba
Programme: Don Quixote pr: Maina Gielgud 12 Aug.
https://capetowncityballet.org.za

SWEDEN
Stockholm
ROYAL SWEDISH BALLET
Director: Nicolas Le Riche
Programme: Manon ch: MacMillan 1 Sept; Le Corsaire 27 Oct; The Nutcracker 1 Dec.
www.operan.se

SWITZERLAND
Zurich
BALLETT ZÜRICH
Director: Cathy Marston
Programme: Walkways: Infra ch: McGregor / Snowblind ch: Marston / Glass Pieces ch: Robbins 6 Oct; Nachtträume ch: Marcos Morau 4 Nov; Timekeepers: Ballet mécanique ch: Tankard / Les Noces ch: Nijinska / Rhapsody in Blue ch: Miller 20 Jan; Messa da Requiem ch: Spuck 24 Feb; Horizonte: Wolc ch: Shaked Heller / Come Back ch: Samantha Lynch / Formoria ch: Vittoria Girelli 9 Mar; The Cellist ch: Marston 17 Mar; Atonement ch: Marston 28 Apr; Nijinski ch: Goecke 14 Jun; Next Generation - new choreographies by Ballett Zürich dancers 25 Jun; <<fussspuren>> 6 Jul.
Joining: Cathy Marston (artistic director); Dores André,Max Cauthorn, Brandon Lawrence, Charles-Louis Yoshiyama (first soloist); Shelby Williams (soloist); Daniela Gómez, Mackenzie Richter, Sean Bates, Chandler Dalton, Pablo Octávio, Jorge García Pérez (soloist with group); Giorgia Giani, Marià Huguet, Ruka Nakagawa, Kilian Smith (group with soloist); McKhayla Pettingill, Helian Potié (group); Mariko Ackermann, Keita Bloma, Ayaka Kano, Nehanda Péguillan, Rachel Quintão, Giacomo Berlando, Max Jones, Lucas van Rensburg, Makani Yerg (Junior Ballet).
www.opernhaus.ch

URUGUAY
Montevideo
BALLET NACIONAL SODRE
Director: María Riccetto
Programme: The Merry Widow ch: Ronald Hynd 14 Sept; La Fille mal gardée ch: Ricardo Alfonso 15 Dec.
www.bns.gub.uy

WALES
Newport
BALLET CYMRU
Director: Darius James
Programme: Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood & The Three Little Pigs 23 Aug; season tba.
https://ballet.cymru

USA

USA
Boston MA
BOSTON BALLET
Director: Mikko Nissinen
Programme: Vertical Road ch: Akram Khan / Trois Gnoissiennes ch: van Manen / Bach Cello ch: Jorma Elo.
www.bostonballet.org

Chicago IL
JOFFREY BALLET
Director: Ashley Wheater
Programme: Frankenstein ch: Liam Scarlett 12 Oct; The Nutcracker 2 Dec; Studies in Blue: Yonder Blue ch: Andrew McNicol / WP ch: Stina Quagebeur / Hummingbird ch: Liam Scarlett 15 Feb; Midsummer Night’s Dream ch: Alexander Ekman 25 Apr.
www.joffrey.org

New York NY
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Director: Susan Jaffe
Programme:  Fall Season  - Classics Old and New, 20th Century Works: Balanchine and Ashton and 21st Century Works: King and Ratmansky 18 - 29 Oct; Fall Gala 24 Oct.
www.abt.org

New York NY
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER
Director: Robert Battle
Programme: Fall Season at New York City Centre 29 Nov - 31 Dec.
www.alvinailey.org

New York NY
NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Director: Jonathan Stafford
Associate Artistic Director: Wendy Whelan
Programme: Fall Season: 19 Sept - 15 Oct; Winter Season: 23 Jan - 3 Mar; Spring Season 23 Apr - 2 Jun.
www.nycballet.com

San Francisco CA
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
Director: Tamara Rojo
Programme: The Nutcracker 13 Dec; WP Mere Mortals ch: Aszure Barton 26 Jan; CP Song of the Earth ch: MacMillan / CP Marguerite and Armand ch: Ashton 9 Feb; Swan Lake pr: Tomasson 23 Feb; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ch: Balanchine 12 Mar; Next@90 Curtain Call: Violin Concerto ch: Possokhov / Madcap ch: Rowe / WP Gateway to the Sun ch: Blanc 2 Apr; Dos Mujeres: WP Carmen ch: Rielle Smith / CP Broken Wing.
Joining: Sofia Albers, Raphaël Brunais Besse, Eduardo Cazarez, Jacey Gailliard, Mimi Lamar, Dylan Pierzina - apprentices; Parker Garrison, Katharine Lee, Hui-Wen Peng, Simone Pompignoli, Jihyun Choi, Benjamin Davidoff, Jasper True Stanford, Angela Watson, Seojeong Yun - corps de ballet; Joanna Berman, Pascal Molat, Tiit Helimets, Kristi DeCaminada, Jeffrey Lyons - character artists.
www.sfballet.org

Tulsa OK
TULSA BALLET
Director: Marcello Angelini
Programme: Creations in Studio K 15 Sept; Don Quixote ch: Anne Marie Homes after Petipa 2 Nov; The Nutcracker ch: Val Caniparoli, Ma Cong 15 Dec; Strictly Gershwin ch: Derek Deane 9 Feb; Romeo & Juliet ch: Edwaard Liang 22 Mar; Signature Series ch: Luciano Cannito, Joshua Bergasse, Andrew McNicol 9 May.
https://tulsaballet.org