Of Love and Rage, a co-production with American Ballet Theatre and the National Ballet of Canada, had its world premiere run with ABT in early March at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa, California. The two-act ballet by Alexei Ratmansky — artist-in-residence at ABT — runs approximately two hours and 20 minutes including intermission, with music
The premiere in February of Eyal Dadon’s Salome Tanz (Salome Dance) with Munich’s Gärtnerplatztheater Ballet was anticipated with great excitement. Up until opening night, on a special website, the audience was invited to vote for the following peculiar pairings: black/red, chamber/cage, moon/sun, mayonnaise/ketchup. Whichever got the majority vote would be incorporated into the production. Dadon
It was a long wait but worth it. Almost 11 years after Crystal Pite astonished the National Ballet of Canada’s hometown Toronto audience with her first large-ensemble work, Emergence, the now internationally renowned choreographer returned to the Four Seasons Centre with a new ballet for the company, which premiered February 29. It proved an even