WhatsOn - Dance Europe

WHAT'S ON

AUSTRALIA
Brisbane
QUEENSLAND BALLET
Director: Li Cunxin
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - regional tour 24 Feb - 1 Apr.
www.queenslandballet.com.au

Melbourne
The Australian Ballet
Director: David Hallberg
The company will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2023.
Don Quixote 15 - 25 Mar, Melbourne; 8 - 25 April, Sydney.
International tour: Kunstkamer ch: Sol León, Paul Lightfoot, Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, 2 - 6 Aug, Royal Opera House, London.
australianballet.com.au

Perth
West Australian Ballet
Director: Aurélien Scannella
In Cognito: Ballet at the Quarry - Open Heart Story/Verses/Persona [Fratres] In Cognito 10 Feb - 11 Mar.
waballet.com.au

AUSTRIA
Vienna
WIENER STAATSBALLETT
Director: Martin Schläpfer
Liebeslieder 13, 18, 19 Feb, 1, 6 Mar; La Fille mal gardée 16, 27, 30 Mar.
www.wiener-staatsoper.at

BELGIUM
Antwerp
JUNIOR BALLET ANTWERP
Director: Alain Honorez
World premiere - Cinderella
17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 Feb; 1 Mar, Handelsbeurs, Antwerp.
www.juniorballetantwerp.be

CANADA
Toronto
NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
Director: Hope Muir
Anima Animus/Symphony in C/WP ch: Rena Butler 3 - 5, 22, 23 Mar; Cinderella 10 - 19 Mar.
https://national.ballet.ca

CZECH REPUBLIC
Ostrava
NATIONAL MORAVIAN-SILESIAN THEATRE BALLET
Director: Lenka Dřímalová
Rossini Cards 23 Feb; Hora 16, 18, 21 Mar & 5, 13, 14 Apr; Carmen 31 Mar & 2 Apr.
https://www.ndm.cz/en/

Prague
CZECH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Filip Barankiewicz
The Sleeping Beauty 2, 4 m&e Feb; La Fille mal gardée 5, 7, 8 m&e Apr, The State Opera.
Onegin 10, 16, 18 m&e Feb; Cinderella 23, 24, 26 m&e, 30 Mar & 1 m&e Apr, National Theatre.
A Streetcar Named Desire 23, 25 m&e Feb; Leonce & Lena 28 Feb & 2, 4 m&e Mar, Estates Theatre.
www.narodni-divadlo.cz

ENGLAND
Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET
Director: Carlos Acosta
Swan Lake pr: Wright 2, 3, 4 Feb Mayflower Theatre, Southampton; 15 - 25 Feb Birmingham Hippodrome; 2, 3, 4 Mar The Lowry, Salford; 9, 10, 11 Mar Sunderland Empire; 15, 16, 17, 18 Mar Theatre Royal Plymouth; 30, 31 Mar & 1 Apr Festival Theatre, Edinburgh; Apollo/Interlinked/’Still Life’ at the Penguin Café 8, 9, 10 m&e Jun, Birmingham Hippodrome. www.brb.org.uk

Hinckley
BALLET THEATRE UK
Director: Christopher Moore
Beauty and the Beast
UK tour: https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/ballet-theatre-uk

Leeds
NORTHERN BALLET
Director: Federico Bonelli
The Great Gatsby 8 - 18 Mar, Leeds Grand Theatre; 21 - 25 Mar, Sheffield Lyceum Theatre; 16 - 20 May, Sadler’s Wells, London.
www.northernballet.com

London
BALLET CENTRAL
Performance company of Central School of Ballet
Director: Kate Coyne
Monotones I The Two Pigeons /Mirror, Mirror /Dextera /new ballets by Morgann Runacre-Temple and Darshan Singh Bhuller 4 May The Grove, Dunstable, 11 May Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, 16 May Corn Exchange, Newbury Spring Festival, 2 Jun The Baylis Theatre, London, 6 Jun Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford, 8 Jun Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 15 Jun The Crescent, Birmingham, 17 Jun Chipping Norton Theatre, 21 Jun Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, 23 Jun Uppingham Theatre, 29 Jun EM Forster Theatre, Tonbridge, 7 Jul ADC Theatre, Cambridge, 12 & 13 Jul The Britten Theatre, London.
www.centralschoolofballet.co.uk

London
ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Aaron S. Watkin (from August 2023)
Creature 23 Mar - 1 Apr, Sadler’s Wells, London.
www.ballet.org.uk

London
THE PLACE
On The And: Honouring the Legacy of Sir Robert Cohan 24, 25 Mar.
www.theplace.org.uk

London
THE ROYAL BALLET
Director: Kevin O’Hare
Royal Opera House:
The Sleeping Beauty 3, 8, 10, 11 m&e, 14, 17, 25 m&e Feb; 4 m&e Mar; 6, 11, 12, 15, 17, 22, 24, 26, 29 m&e May & 6 Jun; Woolf Works 1, 3, 8, 9 m&e, 11 m&e, 16, 18 m&e, 21, 23 Mar; Cinderella - new production 27, 28, 29, 30 m&e Mar, 1 m&e, 5, 10 m&e, 11, 12, 14, 15 m&e, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22 m&e, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29 m&e Apr & 3 May; The Royal Ballet Class on Stage 21 Apr.
Linbury Theatre: Pam Tanowitz - Everyone Keeps Me 4 - 16 Feb; International Draft Works 3 - 6 Apr; The Dark Crystal: Odyssey 13 May - 4 Jun.
www.roh.org.uk

ROH Stream
New subscription service. Upcoming ballet releases include:
Romeo and Juliet from 14 Feb; Sylvia from 9 Mar.
https://www.roh.org.uk/stream/offer

TOURING THE UK
DeNada Dance Theatre
The Bull & The Moon
18 Mar The Cervantes Institute, Manchester; 6 Apr The Drama Studio, Sheffield; 7 Apr The Place, London; 8 Apr Harlow Playhouse; 23 Apr Cambridge Junction; 29 Apr Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton; 4 Jun Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds; 10 Jun Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot.
http://www.denada-dance.com/whats-on-1

SADLER'S WELLS
Ballets Jazz Montréal & Robomagic
Dance Me - music by Leonard Cohen 7 - 11 Feb; Dada Masilo's The Sacrifice 24 - 25 Feb; Scottish Ballet - Coppélia 2 - 5 Mar; Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends 9 - 11 Mar; Seeta Patel - The Rite of Spring 13, 14 Mar; Gregory Maqoma / Thuthuka Sibisi - Broken Chord 17, 18 Mar; English National Ballet - Creature 23 Mar - 1 Apr; Akram Khan Company - Jungle Book Reimagined 4 - 15 Apr; Nederlands Dans Theater 19 - 22 Apr; Breakin' Convention 2023 - International Festival of Hip Hop Dance Theatre 29 - 30 Apr.
www.sadlerswells.com

ESTONIA
Tallinn
ESTONIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director:Linnar Looris
Anna Karenina 10, 12 Feb; 3, 8, 19 Mar; 5 Apr; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 18 m&e, 26 Feb; 11, 30 Mar; Open Door/Suite en Blanc 24, 26 Mar; 1, 15 Apr; 5, 7, 19 May; A Streetcar Named Desire 13, 23 Apr; 13, 21, 26 May; Swan Lake 21, 26 Apr; 11 May; 3, 11, 17 Jun.
www.opera.ee

FRANCE
Paris
BALLET DE L’OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS
Director: José Martinez
Palais Garnier: Ballet Imperial/Who Cares? ch: Balanchine 6 Feb - 10 Mar; Hommage à Patrick Dupond 21 - 23 Feb; Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber - Pit, 17 - 30 Mar; Paris Opera Ballet School Performances 15 - 18 Apr; Soirée exceptionelle in honour of Claude Bessy 19 Apr; The Dante Project 29 Apr - 31 May; Peeping Tom (guest company) 7 - 11 Jun; Manon 19 Jun - 15 Jul.
Opera Bastille: Maurice Béjart - Firebird/Song of a Wayfarer/Boléro 20 Apr - 28 May; Signes 19 Jun - 16 Jul.
www.opera-de-paris.fr

Toulouse
BALLET DU CAPITOLE
Director: Kader Belarbi
Paysages Intérieurs 10 - 12 Feb; Noir et Blanc 22 - 26 Mar.
www.theatreducapitole.fr

GERMANY
Berlin
STAATSBALLETT BERLIN
Acting Artistic Director: Dr Christiane Theobald (Christian Spuck from 2023/24)
A Sort of... /Cacti 16, 18, 21 Feb; 12 m&e, 22 Mar; Lib/Strong 8, 10 Mar; 2, 6, 9, 15 Apr; 1, 2, 9, 25, 27 m&e May; Messa da Requiem 14, 17, 29 Apr; 4, 5, 12 May; 2, 19, 22, 27 Jun; Onegin 10, 13, 16 May.
www.staatsballett-berlin.de

Chemnitz
BALLETT CHEMNITZ
Director: Sabrina Sadowska
Home 4, 18, 26 Feb & 2, 28 Apr; Cinderella ch: Sabrina Sadowska 30 Mar; 8, 22 Apr; 1 May & 3 Jun.
https://www.theater-chemnitz.de

Dortmund
BALLETT DORTMUND
Director: Xin Peng Wang
Peer Gynt 4, 11, 17, 25 Feb; 1, 4, 19 Mar.
www.theaterdo.de

Dresden
DRESDEN SEMPEROPER BALLETT
Director: Aaron S. Watkin
La Bayadère 15 Feb - 5 Mar; Carmen 18, 24, 28 Mar; 4, 9, 16 Apr.
https://www.semperoper.de

Essen
AALTO BALLETT THEATER ESSEN
Director: Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Tannzhommage an Queen 3, 11 Feb; Giselle 9, 12, 14, 19, 25 Feb & 5 Mar; Don Quixote 18, 24 Mar & 8, 23 Apr; Smile 15, 29 Apr.
www.aalto-ballett-theater.de

Hamburg
HAMBURG BALLET
Director: John Neumeier
The Sleeping Beauty 1, 3 Feb; Illusions - like Swan Lake 11, 12, 16, 17, 19 Feb.
International tours - The Glass Menagerie, 23 - 25 Feb, Harris Theater, Chicago; The World of John Neumeier, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mar; Sylvia 10, 11 m&e, 12 Mar, Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo.
www.hamburgballett.de

Leipzig
LEIPZIG BALLET
Director: Mario Schröder
Rachmaninov 3, 5, 11 Feb; Blue Monday 20 Feb; Der Kleine Prinz 4, 12, 17, 25 Mar.
https://www.oper-leipzig.de

Munich
BAYERISCHES STAATSBALLETT
Director: Laurent Hilaire
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 11, 14 Feb; Jewels 24, 26, 28 Feb & 3 Mar; Schmetterling 2, 21, 28, 29 Apr; 2, 3 Jun; 3 Jul.
www.staatsballett.de

Munich
BALLET OF THE STAATSTHEATER AM GÄRTNERPLATZ
Director: Karl Alfred Schreiner
La Strada 3, 22 Feb & 3 Mar.
www.gaertnerplatztheater.de

Nürnberg
BALLETT NÜRNBERG
Director: Goyo Montero
Goldberg ch: Goyo Montero 3, 24, 26 Feb; Stravinsky: Petrushka/Sacre 11, 18, 20 Feb; 3, 9, 17, 23, Mar & 2, 8 Apr.
www.staatstheater.nuernberg.de

Stuttgart
GAUTHIER DANCE
Director: Eric Gauthier
15 Years Alive with choreographies by Mauro Bigonzetti, Alejandro Cerrudo, Itzik Galili, Eric Gauthier, Dunja Jocic, Ohad Naharin and short films by Marco Goecke, Hofesh Shechter 1 - 12 Mar,
Theaterhaus Stuttgart
www.theaterhaus.com

STUTTGART BALLET
Director: Tamas Detrich
Pure Bliss 3 Feb; Lady of the Camellias 11, 23, 24, 26 m&e Feb; 6, 8 Mar; One of a Kind 17, 20, 25, 26 Mar & 17, 19 May; The Taming of the Shrew 7 m&e, 9, 10 May.
Creations X - XII 27, 28, 29 May, Schauspielhaus.
https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de

HUNGARY
Budapest
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Tamás Solymosi
Swan Lake 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31 Mar & 1, 2 Apr.
www.opera.hu

ITALY
Milan
TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Director: Manuel Legris
Dawson/Kratz/Kylián 3 - 9 Feb; Le Corsaire 28 Feb - 17 Mar; William Forysthe Evening 10 - 30 May; Gala for Carla Fracci 7 Jun.
www.teatroallascala.org

Rome
ROME OPERA BALLET
Director: Eleonora Abbagnato
La Bayadère 25 Feb - 2 Mar; La Fille mal gardée 2 - 9 May.
www.operaroma.it

JAPAN
Tokyo
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF JAPAN
Director: Miyako Yoshida
Coppélia c: Petit 23 - 26 Feb; NNT Ballet School Graduation Performance 11, 12 Mar; Dance to the Future 24 - 26 Mar; CP The Dream/WP Macbeth 29 Apr - 6 May; Swan Lake 10 - 18 Jun.
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp

Tokyo
THE TOKYO BALLET
Director: Yukati Saito
Mizuka Ueno on Stage 10, 11, 12 Feb.
https://www.nbs.or.jp

MONACO
Monte Carlo
LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO
Director: Jean-Christophe Maillot
La Belle 26 - 30 Apr, Grimaldi Forum.
https://www.balletsdemontecarlo.com/en

THE NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam
DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Ted Brandsen
Messa da Requiem (collaboration with Dutch National Opera) ch: Christian Spuck 9 - 25 Feb; Swan Lake 22 Mar - 18 Apr, Dorian 11 May - 16 Jun; Forsythe Festival 10 - 27 Jun; Dancers of Tomorrow - Dutch National Ballet Academy 5, 6 Jul, National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam.
Dutch National Ballet Junior Company - Ballet Bubbles touring the Netherlands until 15 Feb.
www.operaballet.nl

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET
Director: Patricia Barker
Celebrating 70th Anniversary in 2023.
Tutus on tour 23 Feb - 12 Mar.
https://rnzb.org.nz

NORWAY
Oslo
NORWEGIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Ingrid Lorentzen
Cinderella ch: Ben Stevenson 28 Jan - 23 Feb; WP choreographed by Emma Portner/27’ 5” ch: Kylián/Divertimento No. 15 ch: Balanchine 2 - 24 Mar; The Sleeping Beauty ch: Spuck 3 - 16 Jun.
www.operaen.no

POLAND
Warsaw
POLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Director: Krzysztof Pastor
Dracula 16, 17, 18, 19 Feb; Don Quixote 15, 16 Mar; Giselle 1, 2, 4, 5 Apr; Obsessions 21, 22, 23 Mar; Grosse Fuge/Eroica Variations/Symphony no. 7 18, 19, 20 May & 2, 3, 4 Jun; Fredriana 22, 24, 28, 20 Jun.
https://teatrwielki.pl/teatr/polski-balet-narodowy/

SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town
CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET
Cinderella 4 - 19 Feb, Artscape Opera House
www.capetowncityballet.org.za

SWEDEN
Stockholm
ROYAL SWEDISH BALLET
Director: Nicolas Le Riche
Cacti/Riptide/Minus 16 10, 11, 14, 16, 17 Feb; Young Choreographers 16, 18 m&e Mar; Juliet & Romeo 31 Mar & 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 28 Apr.
www.operan.se

SWITZERLAND
Lausanne
PRIX DE LAUSANNE
Director: Kathryn Bradney
International Ballet Competition 29 Jan - 5 Feb; Finals - 4 Feb; 50th Anniversary Gala 5 Feb.
www.prixdelausanne.org

Zurich
BALLETT ZÜRICH
Director: Christian Spuck
On the Move - choreographies by Christian Spuck, Louis Stiens and Hans van Manen until 11 Feb; Emergence/Almost Blue/Angels’ Atlas 18, 19, 25, 26 Feb & 30, 31 Mar; Horizonte: Wolc ch: Shaked Heller/Come Back ch: Samantha Lynch/Formoria ch: Vittoria Girelli 12, 25 Mar; Anna Karenina 19, 23, 25 Mar & 1, 2, 5, 6 Apr.
www.opernhaus.ch

USA
Boston MA
BOSTON BALLET
Director: Mikko Nissinen
Don Quixote 16 - 26 Mar; Everywhere We Go/Les Sirenes 6 - 16 Apr.
www.bostonballet.org

Chicago IL
JOFFREY BALLET
Director: Ashley Wheater
Anna Karenina 15 - 26 Feb; Winning Works Choreographic Competition 16 - 19 Mar; The Little Mermaid 19 - 30 Apr.
www.joffrey.org

New York NY
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Director: Susan Jaffe
Summer Season at the Met includes the company premiere of Wheeldon’s Like Water For Chocolate 22 Jun - 22 Jul.
www.abt.org

New York NY
NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Director: Jonathan Stafford
Associate Artistic Director:
Wendy Whelan
21st Century Choreography
1, 8, 9, 11 m&e Feb; Classic NYCB II 2, 5 mat, 10, 12 Feb; Copeland Dance Episodes 3, 4, 7 Feb; Classic NYCB I mat 4 Feb; The Sleeping Beauty 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 m&e, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 m&e, 26 Feb.
www.nycballet.com

San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
Director: Tamara Rojo
Giselle 24, 25, 26, 28 Feb: 1, 2, 4, 5 Mar.
www.sfballet.org

Sarasota
THE SARASOTA BALT
Director: Iain Webb
La Sylphide ch: Kobborg 24, 25 Mar,
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
www.sarasotaballet.org

Seattle WA
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Director: Peter Boal
Giselle 3 - 12 Feb.
www.PNB.org

Tulsa OK
TULSA BALLET
Director: Marcello Angelini
Tchaikovsky: The Man Behind the Music
23 - 26 Mar - Tulsa PAC
www.tulsaballet.org