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unusual facts about Ballet company


Heinz Bosl

After graduating in 1962 Bosl became a full time member of the Bavarian State Ballet company and in 1965 he started as a soloist.


Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Complexions Contemporary Ballet is a contemporary ballet company founded in 1994 by Co-Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson based in New York City comprising about 14 classical and contemporary dancers.


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American Repertory Ballet

The company was founded by Audrée Estey in 1963 as the Princeton Regional Ballet Company.

Astad Deboo

A turning point in his career came in 1986, when in 1986, when Pierre Cardin commissioned him to choreograph for Maya Plisetskaya, the prime ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater ballet company.

Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada

The Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada is a professional award winning touring ballet company based in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Brain Donors

The formation of the ballet company leads to ambulance-chasing attorney Roland T. Flakfizer (John Turturro) vying against Oglethorpe's former attorney Edmund Lazlo (John Savident) to be director of the company.

Chicago Festival Ballet

Sister to the Chicago Festival Ballet Company is the Von Heidecke School of Ballet, with studios in Naperville, Joliet, and Chicago, Illinois.

Daniel Alfred Wachs

During his tenure as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, Wachs conducted a semi-staged performance of Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Minnesota Opera Chorus and James Sewell Ballet Company.

Dulcie Howes

In 1965, the UCT Ballet Company became the CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Board) Ballet Company (and has since been renamed the Cape Town City Ballet Company) but Dulcie Howes remained as artistic director until 1969 when she retired.

Empire, Leicester Square

The dancer Adeline Genée and the theatre's ballet company, working under composer-director Leopold Wenzel, did much to revive the moribund art of ballet in Britain, which had declined in the 19th century.

Felipe Rose

He participated in a dance-drama recital of Julia de Burgos at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with the Ballet Company.

Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

Gwinnett Ballet Theatre is a ballet company in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia (Atlanta vicinity).

Jonathan Cohler

Cohler's conducting engagements have included Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela, and Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker with the Indian Hill Orchestra (Groton, Massachusetts) and the Granite State Ballet Company in New Hampshire, and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra with the Texas All-State Symphony Orchestra in San Antonio.

Les ballet 1933

Les Ballets 1933 was a ballet company started by Boris Kochno and George Balanchine, which Balanchine used to create new works that were completely his own, set to music that no one had yet choreographed.

Marie Liljedahl

Liljedahl was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was discovered dancing with a Stockholm ballet company by director Joseph W. Sarno.

Marina Eglevsky

Marina performed professionally in New York City Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, with the Eglevsky Ballet Company and as a guest in various companies and engagements.

Noam Zur

The 2009–2010 season saw him heading the premiere of La Sylphide with the Aalto Ballet Company.

Norma Fontenla

Fontenla, Neglia and seven other members of the ballet company boarded a flight at Jorge Newbery Airfield on October 10, 1971, en route to Trelew, a city in Patagonia where they were scheduled to perform.

Paul-Louis Weiller

He subsequently became a philanthropist of the arts; through his influence and financial support, he contributed to the restoration of the Palace of Versailles, created a ballet company, and aided a number of artists (Robert Hossein, Roger Vadim, Maurice Béjart, Michèle Mercier, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, etc.).

Pittsburgh Youth Ballet

Pittsburgh Youth Ballet Company's Performances were named among the "Ten Best Dance Performances" of 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 as compiled by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and PYBC's The Nutcracker was featured in Pittsburgh Magazine as the "Dance Editors Pick" for December.

Richard Cragun

He left Berlin in 1999 to start a new ballet company in the Brazilian city of Curitiba and at the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro with his partner Roberto de Oliveira.