MARK KAPPEL                      

NEWSNOTES

2020

July 22 - Margo Sappington's Risa's Dream  was presented by the New Jersey Ballet as part of its Quarantine Solo Project on its livestream platform. 

July 27-31 - Betsy McBride and Simon Wexler were members of the faculty for the Shreveport Dance Academy's Summer Intensive in Shreveport, Louisiana. 

August 3-7 - Paola Hartley and Karen Scalzitti-Kennedy were members of the faculty for the Shreveport Dance Academy's Summer Intensive in Shreveport, Louisiana.

August 5 - Ginger Thatcher's Mask, and Loss, was presented by the New Jersey Ballet as part of its Quarantine Solo Project on its livestream platform.

August 18 - Battery Dance presented its Festival on a virtual platform this year and the Kathryn Posin Dance Company performed the Third Movement from Kathryn Posin's Double Sextet as part of this performance.

September 30 - Zhong Jing Fang's  world premiere Perception was presented by American Ballet Theatre Moving Stories Livestream with Ms. Fang as one of the dancers.

November 9 - Skylar Campbell will dance in the Skylar Campbell Dance Collective film production of Ariel  Rose's The Traveler Part I on Youtube.

November 23 - Skylar Campbell will dance in the Skylar Campbell Dance Collective film production of Ariel Rose's The Traveler Part III on Youtube.

November 23 - Concert, a solo show created by Colin Dunne in collaboration with Sinead Rushe and Mel Mercier, has been nominated for a 2020 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production.

December 17-27 - The Boston Ballet will include the Act II Grand Pas de Deux from Mikko Nissinen's production of The Nutcracker as part of its livestream program entitled, The Gift.

2021

January 1-5 - The Sarasota Ballet will present Dominic Walsh's Clair de Lune as part of its Digital Program 3.

January 7 - February 3 - Skylar Campbell will be dancing principal roles in excerpts from Alexei Ratmansky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Wayne McGregor's Chroma as part of the National Ballet of Canada's Digital Series.

January 21 - Tiit Helimets will dance the role of Theseus and Luke Ingham will dance the role of Demetrius in the San Francisco Ballet's production of George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the San Francisco Ballet's digital season.

January 28-February 28 - Skylar Campbell will dance one of the principal roles in the Act I Pas de Quatre from Peter Wright's staging of Giselle as part of the National Ballet of Canada's Digital Series. 

March 4 - Luke Ingham will dance the role of Robert Fine, and Tiit Helimets will dance the role of the Director in the San Francisco Ballet's digital performance of the world premiere of Danielle Rowe's Wooden Dimes.

March 4 - Tiit Helimets and Luke Ingham will dance principal roles in the San Francisco Ballet's digital performance of Yuri Possokhov's Swimmer.

March 8-15 - Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition will be presented in a virtual online format.

March 11 - April 11 - Skylar Campbell will dance one of the principal roles in George Balanchine's Tarantella as part of the National Ballet of Canada's Digital Series.

March 29 - American Ballet Theatre's Incubator streaming series will present the world premiere of Zhong-Jing Fang's The Unforeseen.

April 1 - Tiit Helimets will dance one of the principal roles in the Diamonds Act of the San Francisco Ballet's digital performance of George Balanchine's Jewels.

April 22 - Tiit Helimets will dance a principal role in Helgi Tomasson's 7 for Eight, and Luke Ingham will dance a principal role in David Dawson's Anima Animus as part of the San Francisco Ballet's digital performance series.

May 20 - Tiit Helimets will dance the role of Siegfried in Helgi Tomasson's production of Swan Lake as part of the San Francisco Ballet's digital performance series.

October 23-November 3 - The National Ballet of Japan will dance the Peter Wright/Galina Samsova production of Swan Lake at the National Theatre in Tokyo, Japan.

Last Revised: April 2021

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