Press Releases
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF JARED REDICK AND MELANIE ATKINS
BOSTON, MA - May 4, 2009 - Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announces the retirement of company soloists Jared Redick and Melanie Atkins. Redick and Atkins joined Boston Ballet in 2002 and each has danced with the company for seven seasons. Both will make their final performances with Boston Ballet in George Balanchine's Prodigal Son in the upcoming Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration program at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre May 14-17.
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES JACK R. MEYER AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOSTON, MA - April 27, 2009 - Boston Ballet announces Jack R. Meyer as Chairman of the organization's Board of Trustees. Meyer will lead the 35-member Board as it oversees the administration and artistic direction of one of the leading dance companies in the United States.
BOSTON BALLET HONORS SERGE DIAGHILEV WITH SPECTACULAR BALLETS RUSSES CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
BOSTON, MA - April 15, 2009 - Boston Ballet performs Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre May 14-17. This retrospective program honors the great contribution of Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and marks Boston Ballet's final performance at the Wang Theatre.
BOSTON BALLET LAUNCHES A NEW ERA AT THE OPERA HOUSE WITH SENSATIONAL 2009-2010 SEASON
BOSTON, MA - April 6, 2009 - Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen annouced programming today for the Company's 46th season, opening September 2009, at Boston Ballet's new home theater, the Opera House. Nissinen's season showcases the Company's range and skill by featuring classic story ballets as well as works by renowned neoclassical and contemporary choreographers such as George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian and rising talents Helen Pickett and Viktor Plotnikov.
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BARRY C. HUGHSON
BOSTON, MA – March 12, 2009– Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of Boston Ballet, one of the leading dance companies in the United States, announces today the appointment of Barry C. Hughson as Executive Director beginning June 1, 2009.
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES PRINCIPAL PROMOTIONS TO ITS 2009-2010 SEASON ROSTER
BOSTON, MA – March 5, 2009 – Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announced today the company’s 2009-2010 season promotions of four company members. Boston Ballet soloists Kathleen Breen Combes, Melissa Hough, Misa Kuranaga and James Whiteside have been promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer. The company, gaining great momentum from the recent artistic triumphs of George Balanchine’s Jewels and Jiří Kylián’s Black and White, is thrilled to share this exciting news. Nissinen continues Boston Ballet’s tradition of developing a diverse company with strong, versatile dancers from within the company and by recruiting talent from all over the world. This news marks a new generation of dancers rising from within the company itself.
BOSTON BALLET PREMIERES BALANCHINE'S JEWELS
BOSTON, MA – January 26, 2009 – Boston Ballet presents the company premiere of George Balanchine’s Jewels, a masterpiece, full-length work, February 26-March 8 at the Citi Wang Theatre. This unique program, a ballet in three parts, presents a miniature history of classical dance with references to ballet’s French origins, Russia’s imperial style, and Balanchine’s own take on the art form. In presenting Jewels, Boston Ballet joins such major, international companies as The Royal Ballet/Covent Garden, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Maryinsky Theater’s Kirov Ballet who have performed this work.
BOSTON BALLET PRESENTS THE EXPLOSIVE BLACK AND WHITE
BOSTON, MA – January 19, 2009 – Boston Ballet presents Jiří Kylián’s Black and White at the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Wang Theatre February 12-15, becoming the first company outside of Nederlands Dans Theatre to perform this entire program. The five-ballet program includes Falling Angels and Sarabande, premiered by the company in 2005, as well as Petite Mort, Sechs Tänze and No More Play.
BOSTON BALLET'S SPRING SEASON FEATURES U.S. AND WORLD PREMIERES, AUDIENCE FAVORITES AND UNIQUE TRIBUTE PROGRAM
BOSTON, MA – January 13, 2009 – Following the close of the Company’s fall season with its annual production of The Nutcracker, Boston Ballet returns for its final performances at the Citi Wang Theatre with its 2009 winter/spring season. The season commences with Jiří Kylián’s Black and White program, followed by Boston Ballet’s premiere of George Balanchine’s Jewels program, and the return of Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty. It concludes with a special Ballets Russes program, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration.
BOSTON BALLET ANNOUNCES OPENING OF FOURTH SCHOOL BRANCH IN MARBLEHEAD
BOSTON, January 8, 2009 – Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education, already the largest professional ballet school in the country with more than 10,000 annual participants, will open its fourth school branch at the newly constructed Leggs Hill Road YMCA in Marblehead on Monday, February 2, 2008. The school will be under the direction of Boston Ballet’s Artistic Director, Mikko Nissinen, Boston Ballet School’s Associate Director, Margaret Tracey and Managing Director, Elizabeth Benjes.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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