WHAT'S ON

EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES

AMSTERDAM
Dutch National Ballet
Director: Ted Brandsen
Celebrate!: CP Yugen ch: McGregor/The Two of Us ch: Wheeldon/WP The Chairman Dances ch: Brandsen/WP Regnum ch: Sidorova 13 - 28 Sept; The Sleeping Beauty pr: Wright 12 Oct - 2 Jan.
www.operaballet.nl

BERLIN
Staatsballett Berlin
Giselle 4, 18 Sept & 12, 14, 22 Oct; Onegin 5, 7, 8, 21, 29 Oct; Lab_Works/Half Life 11, 13, Oct.
staatsballett-berlin.de

BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Coppélia 5 - 29 Oct: Into the Music 21 oct - 5 Nov.
www.brb.org.uk

BRISBANE
Queensland Ballet
Director: Li Cunxin
Peter and the Wolf 18 - 27 Aug; Manon ch: MacMillan 28 Sept - 8 Oct.
queenslandballet.com.au

BUDAPEST
Hungarian National Ballet
Director: Tamás Solymosi
The Taming of the Shrew 1 - 21 Sept; Mayerling 6 -27 Oct.
www.opera.hu

CAPE TOWN
Cape Town City Ballet
Director: Debbie Turner
Romeo and Juliet ch: Paeper 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28 Aug; Ikigai:  Falling Angels ch: Kylián/Les Patineurs ch: Ashton/Polarity ch: Tindall 17, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 Aug.
https://capetowncityballet.org.za

DRESDEN
Semperoper Ballett
Director: Aaron Watkin
Peer Gynt with choreography and staging by Johan Inger
24, 28 Sept - 4, 7, 13 October -  Semperoper Dresden.
semperoper.de

EDINBURGH
Edinburgh International Festival
Dance programme includes: The Pulse 8, 9 Aug - Edinburgh Playhouse; Akeim Toussaint Buck - Windows of Displacement 12, 13 Aug - The Studio; Scottish Ballet - Coppélia ch: Jess & Morgs 14 - 16 Aug - Festival Theatre; A Wee Journey ch: Farah Saleh 16 - 20 Aug - The Studio; Aakash Odedra/Hu Shenyuan - Samsara 18 - 20 Aug - The Lyceum; Shihya Peng/Marco di Nardo - We Are Monchichi 19 - 21 Aug - The Studio; An Untitled Love ch: Kyle Abraham 20, 22 Aug - King’s Theatre; Jungle Book Reimagined ch: Akram Khan 25 - 28 Aug - Festival Theatre.
www.eif.co.uk

ESSEN
Aalto Ballett Theater Essen
Director: Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Rock Around Barock 11 Sept; Tanzhommage an Queen 23 Sept; world premiere Giselle ch: Van Cauwenbergh 29 Oct.
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.
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler 18, 20, 23, 25 Sept.
www.hamburgballett.de

HELSINKI
Finnish National Ballet
Director: Javier Torres
Pippi Longstocking 20, 25, 27 Aug & 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 Sept; World Wide Dance 30 Sept - 22 Oct.
www.operafin.fi

LEEDS
Northern Ballet
Director: Federico Bonelli
Made in Leeds - Three Short Ballets:WP Nostalgia ch: Stina Quagebeur/WP Ma Vie ch: Dickson Mbi/ WP Wailers ch: Mthuthuzeli November 10 - 17 Sept, Leeds Playhouse
www.northernballet.com

LONDON
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (aka The Trocks)
Peacock Theatre from 6 - 17 September
sadlerwells.com
followed by 12-venue UK tour until 29 October
https://www.trockstour.co.uk/#tour

LONDON
Nureyev Legend and Legacy
A gala performance curated by former Royal Ballet principal Nehemiah Kish and supported by the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation. Dancers scheduled to appear include: William Bracewell, Yuhui Choe, Alina Cojocaru, Cesar Corrales, Guillaume Côté, Benjamin Ella, Francesco Gabriele Frola, Emma Hawes, Francesca Hayward, Daichi Ikarashi, Oleg Ivenko, Natascha Mair, Hugo Marchand, Maia Makhateli, Vadim Muntagirov, Yasmine Naghdi, Natalia Osipova, Xander Parish, Iana Salenko, Marcelino Sambé, Alexandr Trusch and Marianna Tsembenhoi.
Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 5-12 September 2022.
www.nureyevlegendandlegacy.com

LONDON
Royal Opera Houses Tours
7 - 27 Aug
The Royal Ballet
Director: Kevin O’Hare
Insights: Lauren Cuthbertson in Conversation 22 Sept
Mayerling ch: MacMillan  5 Oct - 30 Nov.
www.roh.org.uk

LONDON
United Ukrainian Ballet
Giselle - new production by Alexei Ratmansky
13 - 17 Sept - London Coliseum
londoncoliseum.org

MUNICH
Bayerisches Staatsballett
Director: Laurent Hilaire
National Theatre
Herzkammern ch: Eyal 17, 18 Sept; Passages 1, 3 Oct; Cinderella 10, 14 Oct; Romeo and Juliet ch: Cranko 25, 29 Oct.
www.staatsballett.de

NEW YORK
American Ballet Theatre
Director: Susan Jaffe
Fall season 10 - 30 Oct.
www.abt.org

NÜRNBERG
Ballett Nürnberg
Director: Goyo Montero
Naharin/Clug/Montero 7, 16, 20, 29, 31 Oct.
www.staatstheater.nuernberg.de

OSLO
Norwegian National Ballet
Director: Ingrid Lorentzen
Giselle 3 - 23 Sept
www.operaen.no

PARIS
Paris Opera
Director: to be appointed
World premiere ch: Alan Lucien Øyen 20 Sept - 13 Oct; Mayerling ch: MacMillan 22 Oct - 12 Nov
www.operadeparis.fr

STUTTGART
Stuttgart Ballet
Director: Tamas Detrich
Pure Bliss 26 Sept; Creations VII - IX ch: By Girelli, Novitzy, Stiens and Heller 1, 2, 3, 18, 23 Oct; Onegin ch: Cranko  13, 14, 16, 22, 25, 26, 29 Oct.
www.stuttgart-ballet.de

SYDNEY
Sydney Dance Company
Impermanence touring 6 - 26 Aug
sydneydancecompany.com

TOKYO
National Ballet of Japan
Director: Miyako Yoshida
Ballet Asteras 6, 7 Aug; Giselle 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 Oct.
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/ballet-dance/

TOKYO
The Tokyo Ballet
Director: Yukari Saito
La Bayadère 12, 13, 15, 16 Oct.
www.nbs.or.jp/english/

WARSAW
Polish National Ballet
Director: Krzysztof Pastor
Don Quixote 15, 16, 17, 18 Sept; Obsessions 30 Sept & 1, 2, 8 Oct; Dracula 21, 22, 23, 25 Oct.
https://teatrwielki.pl/en