NEWSNOTES
2024
January 24 – Tiit Helimets danced in the Pas de Deux from Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight at the San Francisco Ballet’s annual gala performance at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California.
February 14-March 3 – Colin Dunne appeared in Jean Butler’s What We Hold at the Irish Arts Center in New York.
February 16-25 – The Kansas City Ballet performed Devon Carney’s Peter Pan at the Kauffman Center for the Arts in Kansas City, Missouri.
February 22 – March 3 – The Boston Ballet presented Mikko Nissinen’s concept of Raymonda including excerpts from the ballet which he co-staged with Florence Clerc, and was performed at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
March 28 – Janis Brenner performed her piece, She Remembers her Amnesia at Pomona College in California.
April 6 & 7 – Cristian Laverde Konig appeared as a guest artist in the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet’s production of Beauty and the Beast at the Riverview Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana.
April 8-12 – The Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition took place at the Kaye Playhouse in New York City.
April 26 & 27 – Imagine Ballet Theatre presented the world premiere of Raymond Van Mason’s Cinderella at the Peery’s Egyptian Theatre in Ogden, Utah.
July 18 – Zhong-Jing Fang danced the role of Mama Elena in Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate with American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
November 29-December 29 – The Boston Ballet performed Mikko Nissinen’s production of The Nutcracker at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 6-24 -The Kansas City Ballet danced Devon Carney’s production of The Nutcracker at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri.
December 14 & 15 – Marlena Brinkmann and Justin Valentine appeared as guest artists in the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker at the Riverview Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana.
2025
February 27-March 16 – The Boston Ballet performed Mikko Nissinen’s production of Swan Lake at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
April 12 – Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition – Gala Performance and Awards Ceremony was held at the John Jay Theater in New York City.
May 15-25 – The Boston Ballet performed Mikko Nissinen’s new staging of Raymonda at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
June 26-29 – The Boston Ballet performed Mikko Nissinen’s production of Swan Lake at the Los Angeles Music Center in California.
October 10 & 11 – Justin Valentine will appear as a guest artist in the Palmetto Ballet Theatre’s world premiere of Simone Cuttino’s A Night Under The New Moon at the Lexington Two Performing Arts Center in West Columbia, South Carolina.
October 17-26 – The Kansas City Ballet will dance Devon Carney’s production of Swan Lake at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri.
October 19 (Matinee) – Zhong-Jing Fang will be dancing one of the principal roles in Mikhail Fokine’s Les Sylphides with American Ballet Theatre at the Koch Theater in New York City.
October 19 (Evening) – Janis Brenner will be performingn her dance piece, She Remembers Her Amnesia, at the Dance Hall in Kittery, Maine.
November 22 & 23 – Yoshiko Kamikusa and Luzemberg Santana will appear as guest artists in the Alameda Civic Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker at the Castro Valley Center for the Arts in Castro Valley, California.
November 28-December 28 – The Boston Ballet will performd Mikko Nissinen’s production of The Nutcracker at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
November 29-December 24 – The Kansas City Ballet will dance Devon Carney’s production of The Nutcracker at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri.
December 13 – Yoshiko Kamikusa and Luzemberg Santana will appear as guest artists in the Greater York Youth Ballet/Dance It Forward’s production of The Nutcracker at the Appell Center for the Performing Arts in York, Pennsylvania.
2026
February 12-15 – The Tulsa Ballet will perform Marcello Angelini’s new production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Performing Arts Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Last Revised: October 2025
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