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Christopher Bruce CBE Steps Down as Houston Ballet’s Associate Choreographer
Houston Ballet and Christopher Bruce CBE jointly announce Bruce’s departure as Houston Ballet’s Associate Choreographer. The news to step down from the position comes after 32 years of service to the...
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HOUSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES NEW PRINCIPAL DANCER, SKYLAR CAMPBELL
Houston Ballet is pleased to announce the addition of Skylar Campbell from The National Ballet of Canada as a Principal Dancer. Campbell will join the Company in January 2022, in time for the...
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Houston Ballet Academy’s 2022 Summer Intensive Program: What to Expect
Houston Ballet Academy would like to introduce its 2022 Summer Intensive Program. Scheduled for June 27 to July 30, 2022, the program connects serious ballet students with distinguished faculty and...
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Houston Ballet Announces Beckanne Sisk and Chase O’Connell as New Principal...
Houston Ballet is pleased to announce the addition of Beckanne Sisk and Chase O’Connell to the Company as Principal Dancers for the 2022-2023 season. They will join the Company in July for the start...
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Checking in with ECE
Houston Ballet’s Education and Community Engagement (ECE) department has been busy the past couple years adapting classes to new health and safety protocols, creating virtual content, and...
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HOUSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES JULIE KENT AS CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Kent will join Houston Ballet and Artistic Director Stanton Welch AM in July 2023 Julie Kent. Photo by Jayme Thornton. Courtesy of The Washington Ballet. Houston Ballet proudly announces Julie Kent as...
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The Nutcracker Wrap Up
Houston Ballet closed its 2022 holiday season on a high note, with record-breaking numbers in terms of sales and attendance. HB performed 33 public and 3 student matinees that were sold to an average...
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Lauren Anderson Dance Studio in the Koehler Performing Arts Center at Ucross...
Lauren Anderson outside the Lauren Anderson Dance Studio in the Koehler Performing Arts Center | Photo Courtesy of Houston Ballet Ucross, the prestigious residency touted as a research-and-development...
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My First Ballet – April 15 & 16 – with Sensory-Friendly Performance
Houston Ballet Academy will present My First Ballet: Coppelia in the Dance Lab at the Margaret Alkek Williams Center for Dance April 15 & 16. The My First Ballet program features abridged...
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Maestro Ermanno Florio to celebrate upcoming 2023 – 2024 season as his last...
After 32 years as Music Director of Houston Ballet, Ermanno Florio will step down from his position at the end of the 2023 – 2024 season. Since joining Houston Ballet in 1992, Florio has been the...
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Inside Look: A Week in The Life as a Houston Ballet Summer Intensive Program...
Houston Ballet Academy has been offering top-notch ballet training since its founding in 1955, with our world-class instructors, including the Houston Ballet Academy artistic staff and Houston Ballet...
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From Summer Program to Tour – Amelia McGravey on Chautauqua
Earlier this month Houston Ballet’s second company, Houston Ballet II (HBII), traveled to Chautauqua, New York for two weeks of performances, participatory experiences for the public, and master...
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STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCES
Stanton Welch pulls inspiration from retellings of Cinderella to create his own unique version Aschenputtel: Hermann Vogel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In preparation for his own retelling of...
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A DARK SCORE
When is comes to Sergei Prokofiev’s brooding Cinderella score, “There’s nothing Disney about it,” insists Stanton Welch Sergei Prokofiev (Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia...
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A Small Idea Creates a Big Impact
Since 2006, Houston Ballet’s Education and Community Engagement (ECE) has given away hundreds of dance costumes, shoes and other varieties of dance accessories to Houston-area schools free of charge...
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INSIDE BESPOKE
Created on San Francisco Ballet dancers in 2018 for Unbound: A Festival of New Works, Bespoke explores the unique relationship between dance and dancers over time, and features movement fueled by the...
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THE KYLIÁN EFFECT
Through stimulating movement and humanizing themes, Jiří Kylián continues to inspire dancers and audiences Jiří Kylián. Photo by Anton Corbijn. Touching the hearts of artists and audiences around the...
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ECHOES OF INSPIRATION
Houston Ballet Academy was thrilled to have former company Soloist Ilya Kozadayev back to create a new piece on the Professional Program students in honor of Artistic Director Stanton Welch’s 20th...
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DEFINING MOMENTS
Houston Ballet’s 2017 premiere of Mayerling marked a period of community, grit, and determination Artists of Houston Ballet in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling. Photo by Amitava Sarkar. When I...
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The Music of Mayerling
Compositions from Franz Liszt, arranged by John Lanchbery OBE, make up Mayerling’s score. Learn more about the creators and inspiration behind the music Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt....
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