WHAT'S

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AUSTRIA
Wiener Staatsballett
Director: Martin Schläpfer
Mahler Live 2, 5, 9, 11 Apr; The Seasons 5, 7, 10, 13, 17, 25 May.
www.wiener-staatsoper.at

AUSTRALIA
The Australian Ballet
Director: David Hallberg
Anna Karenina 5 - 23 Apr - Sydney; Kunstkamer 29 Apr - 14 May - Sydney; 3 - 11 Jun - Melbourne.
australianballet.com.au

Queensland Ballet
Director: Li Cunxin
Giselle 14 - 23 Apr; Aspire ‘22 18 - 21 May; Li’s Choice - Celebrating a Decade of Directorship 10 - 25 Jun; Peter and the Wolf 24 Jun - 2 Jul.
queenslandballet.com.au

West Australian Ballet
Director: Aurélien Scannellla
Alice (in Wonderland) 6 - 21 May; State: new creation/Galatea & Pygmalion/Before Nightfall 24 Jun - 3 Jul.
waballet.com.au

BELGIUM
OperaBalletVlaanderen
Director: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Palmos/Half Live 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 Apr - Antwerp; Mozart/Concert Arias - 21 Jun - 2 Jul Gent.
www.operaballet.be

CANADA
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
Director: Ivan Cavallari
Luna 28 Apr - 1 May; Sleeping Beauty 1 - 5 Jun.
https://grandsballets.com

National Ballet of Canada
Director: Hope Muir
Swan Lake 10 - 26 Jun
https://national.ballet.ca

CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech National Ballet
Director: Filip Barankiewicz
The National Theatre
Onegin 13, 14, 16 m&e Apr & 13, 14 m&e, 31 May; Swan Lake 21, 23 m&e, 24 Apr; Phoenix 4, 5, 7 m&e May; The Sleeping Beauty 21, 22, 26, 27 May.
www.narodni-divadlo.cz

ENGLAND
Ballet Central
Mixed programme including ballets by Mikaela Polley, Ashley Page and Mthuthuzeli November.
Touring: 16 May Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadlers Wells; 19 May Corn Exchange, Newbury Spring Festival; 9 June The Crescent, Birmingham; 11 June Bridport Arts Centre; 18 June Chipping Norton Theatre; 24 June Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford; 8 July ADC Theatre, Cambridge; 13, 14 July  Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music.
www.balletcentral.co.uk                        
www.centralschoolofballet.co.uk

Birmingham Royal Ballet
Director: Carlos Acosta
Lazuli Sky/Interlinked/24 23, 24 m&e Jun; Don Quixote - Sadler’s Wells, London 6, 7 m&e, 8, 9 m&e Jul.
www.brb.org.uk

Carmen ch: Didy Veldman
with Natalia Osipova and Isaac Hernández
27, 28 May Southbank Centre
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk

English National Ballet
Director: Tamara Rojo
The Forsythe Evening 31 Mar - 10 Apr - Sadler’s Wells, London; Emerging Dancer - Online Event 19 May.
www.ballet.org.uk

London Children’s Ballet
Director: Ruth Brill
Anne of Green Gables 26 - 29 May - Peacock Theatre, London

Motionhouse
Director: Kevin Finnan
Nobody - UK tour until 24 Sep 2022
motionhouse.co.uk/tour-dates/

Northern Ballet
Director: Federico Bonelli from 1 May
Pinocchio tour until 18 Apr; The Great Gatsby 21 m&e, 22, 23 m&e Apr; Casanova  10 - 14 May - Sadler’s Wells; 18 - 21 May - The Lowry, Salford.
www.northernballet.com

The Place
Resolution 2022
7 May - 10 Jun
www.theplace.org.uk
PROGRAMME

Rambert
Director: Benoit Swan Pouffer
On Stage Tour: 13, 14 May - Hall for Cornwall; 18 - 21 May - Sadler’s Wells; 25 - 27 May – The Lowry, Salford; 31 May - 1 Jun - Brighton Theatre Royal.
www.rambert.org.uk

The Royal Ballet
Director: Kevin O’Hare
Main Stage
New Kyle Abraham/Solo Echo/DGV: Danse à grande vitesse 28 Mar - 1, 2,7 Apr; Scènes de ballet/A Month in the Country/Rhapsody 23 m&e, 26, 29, 30 Apr - 2 m&e May; Swan Lake 4, 10 m&e, 13, 16, 17, 19, 28 May; WP Like Water for Chocolate ch: Wheeldon 2 - 17 Jun.
Linbury Theatre
Draft Works 4, 5 Apr; Born to Manifest 7 Apr.
www.roh.org.uk

Royal Albert Hall
Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man 9 - 19 June.
www.royalalberthall.com

ESTONIA
Estonian National Ballet
Director: Linnar Looris
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs 3, 6 Apr; Twilight Houses 16, 24 Apr & 5 May; Anna karenina 8, 13, 22 May & 9, 18 Jun; Alice in Wonderland 28, 31 May & 15, 21 June.
www.opera.ee/en/
FINLAND
Finnish National Ballet
Director: Madeleine Onne
Swan Lake 4, 6, 8, 9 m&e, 21, 22 Apr & 11, 12, 13, 23, 25 May; Made in Finland 6, 7, 18, 19, 20 May; Sibelius 14 May; Ballet School Spring Gala 18, 19, 20, 21 m&e May; Finnish National Ballet’s Centenary Gala 28 May; Helsinki International Ballet Competition 31 May - 3 Jun.
www.operafin.fi

FRANCE
Paris Opera
Director: Aurélie Dupont
Palais Garnier
Uprising/In your rooms ch: Shechter until 3 Apr; Ecole de Danse - Demonstrations 14, 15, 16 Apr; Mats Ek: Carmen/Another Place/Boléro 9 May - 4 Jun; Giselle 27 Jun - 14 Jul.
Opera Bastille
La Bayadère ch: Nureyev 5 Apr - 6 May; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ch: Balanchine 21 Jun - 16 Jul.
www.operadeparis.fr

François Alu
Complètement jetés
Grand Théâtre de Provence à Aix-en-Provence  6, 7 May;
Théâtre Femina à Bordeaux 10, 12 Jun;
Le Silo à Marseille 19 Jun; Le Trianon à Paris 25, 26 Jun.
store.3e-etage.com 

Ballet du Capitole - Toulouse
Director: Kader Belarbi
Daphnis et Chloé 26 - 30 Jun, Halle aux Grains
www.theatreducapitole.fr/ballet-du-capitole

GERMANY
Staatsballett Berlin
Director: Dr Christiane Theobold (acting)
Staatsoper unter den Linden
The Second Detail/Strong 11, 13 Apr; Jewels 18, 19, 22, 28 Apr; Onegin 20, 27 May.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Voices/Citizen Nowhere 16, 23 Apr; Sleeping Beauty 13, 18, 19, 28 May.
www.staatsballett-berlin.de

Dresden Semperoper Ballett
Director: Aaron S. Watkin
Carmen 30 Mar; 3, 5, 12, 22, 24, 29 Apr.
https://www.semperoper.de

Ballett am Rhein
Director: Demis Volpi
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
One and Others 2 Apr - 27 May; Five New Temperaments 3 - 16 Jun; Favourite Things 26 Jun.
Theater Duisburg
One and Others 30 Apr - 26 May; Favourite Things 25 Jun.
www.ballettamrhein.de

Aalto Ballett Theater Essen
Director: Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Sleeping Beauty 1, 16 Apr & 7, 22 May; Tanz für den Frieden 8 Apr; Tanzhommage an Queen 9 Apr & 4, 6 May; Rock Around Barock 20 Apr & 26, 27, 29 May.
www.aalto-ballett-theater.de

Gauthier Dance
Director: Eric Gauthier
The Seven Sins WPs by Aszure Barton, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau, Hofresh Shecther, Sasha Waltz 7 May.
theaterhaus.com

Hamburg Ballet
Director: John Neumeier
Staatsoper
St Matthew’s Passion 14, 15, 17 Apr; Ghost Light 20, 23, 27, 28 Apr & 3 May; School of the Hamburg Ballet - First Steps 30 Apr; Anna Karenina 6, 7, 13, 15 May; Sylvia 20, 21 May; The Sleeping Beauty 27, 28, 31 May & 2, 3 Jun; CP The Winter’s Tale ch: Wheeldon 19, 21 Jun.
www.hamburgballett.de

Staatstheater Kassel Tanz
Director: Thorsten Teubl
Janus 8 Apr.
www.staatstheater-kassel.de

Bayerisches Staatsballett
Director: Igor Zelensky
National Theatre
Ballet Festival Week 26 Mar - 3 Apr
Passages 19 Apr;  Jewels 29 Mar; Swan Lake 30 Mar; The Blizzard 31 Mar & 8, 10 Jun; Cinderella 2, 3 Apr; 28 May & 1, 4 June; Giselle 4 Apr;  Coppélia 16, 18, 20, 22, 29 Apr & 22, 25 May; A Midsummer Night’s Dream 17, 18, 20 May & 18, 29 Jun.
www.staatsballett.de

Ballett Nürnberg
Director: Goyo Montero
Maria/Narrenschiff 31 Mar; 2, 6, 10 Apr; Naharin/Clug/Montero 16, 23, 29 Apr; 7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 27, 29 May & 3 Jun.
www.staatstheater.nuernberg.de

Stuttgart Ballet
Director: Tamas Detrich
Opera House
Pure Bliss: Out of Breath: Inger/CP Bliss ch: Inger/WP Aurora’s Nap ch: Inger 2, 9, 11, 15, 17 m&e Apr; The Taming of the Shrew 7, 13, 14, 15, 22 m&e May & 1, 5, 7 Jun; The Taming of the Shrew 7, 13, 14, 15, 22 m&e May & 1, 5, Jun; Mayerling 14, 17, 21, 24, 26 Jun.
Schauspielhaus
Noverre Young Choreographers 23, 24 m&e Apr; Creations VII-IX: world premieres by Vittoria Girelli, Shaked Heller/Louis Stiens and Roman Novitzky 29 May & 2, 4, 11, 12, 19, 20 Jun.
www.stuttgart-ballet.de

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Director: Bettina Wagner-Bergelt
Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók´s opera “Duke Bluebeard´s Castle”
3, 4, 5, 6 June 2022, Wuppertal Opera House
pina-bausch.de

HUNGARY
Hungarian National Ballet
Director: Tamás Solymosi
Eiffel Art Studios
Without Limits: Paquita Suite/The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude/Etudes 22, 23m, 24, 30m Apr
https://youtu.be/lbYIO-CfFVE
In Balance: Firebirds/Don Juan/Petite Mort/Six Dances 3, 4 m&e, 5m Jun; Blue/Sad Case/Ballad of Loathing/Tabula Rosa 21 Jun
Hungarian State Opera
Mayerling ch: MacMillan 30 Mar & 2 Apr; Romeo and Juliet 21 m&e, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29 May; 6th Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala 23 Apr.
www.opera.hu

ITALY
Teatro alla Scala
Director: Manuel Legris
Carla Fracci gala 9 Apr; Sylvia ch: Legris 11 - 26 May; Ballet School of La Scala 15 - 17 May; AfterRite/Les noces 24 Jun - 7 Jul; Giselle 9 - 16 Jul.
www.teatroallascala.org

JAPAN
The National Ballet of Japan
Director: Miyako Yoshida
Cinderella 30 Apr - 5 May; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 3 - 12 Jun; Moriyama Kaiji Ninja 25, 26 Jun.
www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/

The Tokyo Ballet
Director: Yukari Saito
Bunka Kaikan
Romeo and Juliet 29, 30, 31 Apr; Don Quixote 23, 24, 25, 26 Jun.
www.nbs.or.jp/english/

MONACO
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Director: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Romeo and Juliet - overseas tour 15, 16 m&e, 17 Apr - Segerstrom Center, Costa Mesa; 18, 19 May - Graf-Zeppelin-Haus, Friedrichshafen, Germany; 24 May - Baluarte, Pampelune, Spain.
Oeil Pour Oeil 28, 29, 30 Apr - Grimaldi Forum
Coppél-i.A. 4, 5, 6 Jun - Grimaldi Forum.
https://www.balletsdemontecarlo.com

NETHERLANDS
Dutch National Ballet
Director: Ted Brandsen
WP Raymonda ch: Rachel Beaujean after Petipa 3 - 23 Apr https://youtu.be/32mfqBZYEy0;
In the Future: various ballets performed by amateur groups 14 May; New Moves 26, 27 May; Hans van Manen Festival 8 -20 Jun; 60th Anniversary Gala Dutch National Ballet 30 Jun.
www.operaballet.nl

NEW ZEALAND
Royal New Zealand Ballet
Director: Patricia Barker
Swan Lake 5 May - 5 Jun; Cinderella 3 Aug - 3 Sep.
https://rnzb.org.nz

NORWAY
Norwegian National Ballet
Director: Ingrid Lorentzen
La Bayadère 4, 5, 7 Apr; Onegin 30 Apr - 18 May; Norwegian Ballet School 5 - 7 May; A Swan Lake 1 - 21 Jun.
Jo Strømgren Company
The Loft 16 - 19 Jun.
www.operaen.no

POLAND
Polish National Ballet
Director: Krzysztof Pastor
Dracula ch: Pastor 28, 29, 30 Apr; 19, 20, 21, 22 May; The Tempest 3, 4 Jun; Creations 17, 18, 19 Jun.
www.polskibaletnarodowy.pl

SCOTLAND
Scottish Ballet
Director: Christopher Hampson
The Scandal at Mayerling 13, 14, 15, 16 m&e Apr - Theatre Royal Glasgow; 21, 22, 23 Apr - Eden Court, Inverness; 5, 6, 7 May - His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen; 25, 26, 26, 28 m&e May - Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.
www.scottishballet.co.uk

SWITZERLAND
Ballett Zürich
Director: Christian Spuck
Sleeping Beauty 10, 18, 23, 24, 28 Apr; 6, 11, 12 Jun.
www.opernhaus.ch

USA
American Ballet Theatre
Director: Kevin McKenzie
Summer Season at the Met 13 Jun - 16 Jul.
www.abt.org

ABT Studio Company
Director: Sascha Radetsky
NYU Skirball 20 & 21
https://tickets.nyu.edu/overview/abtstudiocompany22

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
US tour
Milwaukee, WI: Apr 20 
Cleveland, OH: Apr 22-24 
Amherst, MA: Apr 26 
Boston, MA: Apr 28-May 1 
Chapel Hill, NC: May 3-4 
Newark, NJ: May 6-8
www.alvinailey.org

Boston Ballet
Director: Mikko Nissinen
MINDscape 5 - 15 May; Boston Ballet School 11 May; Swan Lake 26 May - 5 Jun
www.bostonballet.org

Houston Ballet
Director: Stanton Welch
Houston Ballet Academy Spring Showcase 29, 30 Apr; Pretty Things 20 - 29 May; Originals 2 - 12 Jun; Madame Butterfly 16 - 26 Jun.
www.houstonballet.org

The Joffrey Ballet
Director: Ashley Wheater
Of Mice and men/Serenade 27 Apr - 8 May; Don Quixote 2 - 12 Jun.
www.joffrey.org

New York City Ballet
Director: Jonathan Stafford
Serenade/The Goldberg Variations 19 , 20, 21, 23m, 26 Apr; Emanon - in Two Movements/Gustave Le Gray No.1/Partita/new work ch: Tanowitz 22, 23, 24m, 29 Apr & 1 May; Ballet Essentials 25 Apr & 21 May; Divertimento No. 15/ Afternoon of a Faun/Le Tombeau de Couperin/The Four Temperaments 27, 28, 30 m&e Apr; Stravinsky Festival 3 - 15 May; All Robbins 17, 18, 19, 20 May; A Midsummer Night’s Dream 21 m&e, 22m, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 m&e, 29m May.
www.nycballet.com

San Francisco Ballet
Director: Helgi Tomasson
Fifth Season/ Harmony/Magrittomania 2 - 16 Apr; Prism/WP Finale Finale/WP The Promised Land 6 - 15 Apr; Swan Lake 29 Apr - 8 May.
www.sfballet.org

WALES
Ballet Cymru
Director: Darius James
https://welshballet.co.uk

Carmen - ch: Didy Veldman, with Natalia Osipova, Isaac Hernández  27 & 28 May SBC

WORLD PREMIERE - Christopher Wheeldon's Like Water Like Chocolate - the Royal Ballet 2 - 17 June

François Alu - Complètement jetés - 6 May - 26 June

The Royal Ballet - Swan Lake in UK cinemas on 19 May

Birmingham Royal Ballet - Don Quixote - until 9 July