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BOSTON BALLET OPENS FALL SEASON WITH KUDELKA'S STUNNING
CINDERELLA
BOSTON, MA – September 15, 2008 – Following Boston
Ballet’s one-night-only all-star gala performance, Night of
Stars, the company opens its season one week later on October 16
with the highly-anticipated return of James Kudelka’s
Cinderella. The ballet received its U.S. premiere by Boston Ballet
in 2005 and was met with an abundance of audience and critical
praise. Boston Ballet performs Cinderella October 16 – 26 at
the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Wang Theatre.
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES NEW ADDITIONS AND PROMOTIONS TO ITS
INTERNATIONAL ROSTER
BOSTON, MA – September 4, 2008 – Boston Ballet Artistic
Director Mikko Nissinen announced today the company’s
2008-2009 dancer roster along with the promotion of six current
company members and addition of eight new dancers. Nissinen has
continued Boston Ballet’s tradition of developing a diverse
company by bringing in talented dancers from all over North America
and the world and cultivating new talent from its esteemed school.
Boston Ballet’s new roster has dancers from 15 different
countries and 47% of the company is from outside of the U.S.
BOSTON BALLET KICKS OFF 2008-2009 SEASON
BOSTON, MA – August 25, 2008 – Boston Ballet embarks on
its 2008-2009 season with a pair of ballets that are sure to
delight both the young and the young at heart. Currently on a
week-long tour to Korea, the Company returns home to begin
preparations for the new season, which will have Boston Ballet
lighting up the stage with 21st century fairy-tales and
excitement.
BOSTON BALLET OPENS FALL SEASON WITH ALL-STAR GALA
PERFORMANCE
BOSTON, MA – August, 19, 2008 – Artistic Director Mikko
Nissinen announced today the complete repertoire and casting for
Boston Ballet’s annual, one-night-only all-star gala
performance, Night of Stars, which takes place on Friday, October
10 at 8pm at Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Wang Theatre. This
benefit evening will feature the full company, Boston Ballet
orchestra and renowned guest artists Maria Kowroski and Albert
Evans, principal dancers with New York City Ballet. The performance
will emphasize the talent of Boston Ballet’s international
roster of acclaimed dancers performing solos, pas de deux, and
ensemble excerpts from both classical and contemporary ballets
including a world premiere by Viktor Plotnikov.
BOSTON BALLET RE-SIGNS JORMA ELO AS RESIDENT
CHOREOGRAPHER
June 6, 2008
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announced today that
Boston Ballet will re-sign its contract with its
highly-sought-after resident choreographer Jorma Elo. Elo will
remain with the Company in his current role through August 2014.
Elo has served as Boston Ballet’s resident choreographer
since September 2004, and his current contract was set to expire in
August 2009. Under the extension, Elo will create at least three
new works over the five-year period between 2009 and
2014.
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST TOUR TO
KOREA
May 30, 2008
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announced today its
first trip to Korea August 23 – September 1, 2008, which is
the company’s second tour to Asia in its history. The company
will perform three repertory works: George Balanchine’s
Concerto Barocco, Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia and Twyla
Tharp’s In The Upper Room at Universal Arts Center in Seoul
and Goyang Cultural Arts Complex in Gyeonggi-do.
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES SPECTACULAR 2008-2009
SEASON
April 1, 2008
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announced
programming today for the Company’s 45th Anniversary season,
opening in October 2008. Nissinen’s season showcases the
Company’s versatility by featuring classic story ballets as
well as works by renowned neoclassical and contemporary
choreographers such as George Balanchine, Jiří
Kylián and Resident Choreographer Jorma Elo. A special
Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet) program titled Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes Centennial Celebration and paying tribute to the most
influential impresario and company in the history of the art form,
closes the season.
THE OPERA HOUSE TO BE BOSTON BALLET'S PERMANENT PERFORMANCE
VENUE BEGINNING FALL 2009
March 27, 2008
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen and the Opera House
Executive Director, Jim Jensen today announce that beginning in the
fall of 2009, Boston Ballet’s sole performing venue for its
home season and subscription series as well as its popular holiday
classic, The Nutcracker, will be the Opera House.
JOINT
STATEMENT FROM BOSTON BALLET CHAIRMAN RICHARD DAVIS AND EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR VALERIE WILDER
March 10,
2008
After five-and-a-half years as Executive Director of the Boston
Ballet, Valerie Wilder has decided to step down at the conclusion
of the current season. A transitional period has been carefully
planned during which Mikko Nissinen, the Ballet’s Artistic
Director, will take on the additional responsibilities of interim
Executive Director. The Ballet’s Board of Directors, under
its Chair Richard Davis, will simultaneously conduct a national
search for Valerie’s successor.
FINLANDIA FOUNDATION HONORS BOSTON BALLET ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MIKKO NISSINEN
February 21, 2008
Mikko Nissinen,
Artistic Director of Boston Ballet, has been named the recipient of
the 2008 Finlandia Foundation Arts & Letters Award. Nissinen
has a distinguished career as a dancer, dance educator and popular
presenter at conferences. He will receive the award in New York on
Saturday, March 1, 2008 at the Finlandia Foundation’s annual
black tie awards dinner dance.
BOSTON BALLET TOURS TO SPOLETO FESTIVAL AND THE KENNEDY
CENTER
February 20, 2008
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen
announces today two special engagements for Boston Ballet after the
close of the Company’s 2007-08 Boston season. This Spring,
the company will perform as part of the acclaimed Spoleto Festival
USA in Charleston, South Carolina (May 24 and 25) and as part of
the Ballet Across America series at The Kennedy Center in
Washington, DC (June 13 and 15).
BOSTON BALLET HOSTS DREAM BALL BENEFIT
Boston Ballet, one of America’s leading
dance companies, hosts its annual fundraising event on Saturday,
April 12, 2008 at The Boston Center for the Arts
Cyclorama.
BOSTON
BALLET’S 2008 SEASON FEATURES ACCLAIMED CLASSICS, WORLD
PREMIERES AND REPERTORY FAVORITES
January 10, 2008
Capping its Fall Season with the Company’s 40th consecutive
year performing The Nutcracker, Boston Ballet opens its
2008 winter/spring season with the Company premiere of John
Cranko’s Romeo & Juliet.
BOSTON BALLET PRESENTS THE
COMPANY PREMIERE OF JOHN CRANKO’S ROMEO &
JULIET
December
19, 2007
Boston Ballet will open the second half of its 2007-08 season on
Valentine’s Day with John Cranko’s acclaimed staging of
Romeo & Juliet.
BOSTON BALLET RETURNS
HOME FROM CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED TOUR OF SPAIN WITH EXCITING LINE-UP
OF BALLET FAVORITES
August 13, 2007
Highlights of fall season include exclusive
gala event plus performances of two Balanchine favorites, La
Sylphide and the Company's world-renowned production of
The Nutcracker.
Boston Ballet announces
2007-2008 Season
March 29, 2007
Highlights include tour to Spain,
gala performance, three world premieres, and the company premieres
of John Cranko’s celebrated Romeo and Juliet and Antony
Tudor’s remarkable Dark Elegies.
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