NEWSNOTES
2023
November 24 – December 31 – Mikko Nissinen’s production of The Nutcracker was performed by the Boston Ballet at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 1-24 – The Kansas City Ballet danced Devon Carney’s production of The Nutcracker at the Kauffman Center for the Arts in Kansas City, Missouri.
December 9 & 10 – Yoshiko Kamikusa and Luis Ocaranza appeared as guest artists in the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker at the Riverview Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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 will perform Mikko Nissinen’s production of The Nutcracker at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 6-24 -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 14 & 15 – Marlena Brinkmann and Justin Valentine will appear 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 will perform Mikko Nissinen’s production of Swan Lake at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
May 15-25 – The Boston Ballet will perform Mikko Nissinen’s new staging of Raymonda at the Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts.
June 26-29 – The Boston Ballet will perform Mikko Nissinen’s production of Swan Lake at the Los Angeles Music Center in California.
Last Revised: December 2024
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