The New Year's Concert 2003 from Vienna presents musical highlights by Brahms and Strauss and "Invitation to the Dance" by Weber/Berlioz.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt appears as guest conductor and the Wiener Staatsoper Ballet is joined by the Kirov Ballet.

December 23, 2002

This evening on BBC2 broadcasting of "The Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky".
From the Châtelet Theatre, Paris, a celebration of the collaboration between choreographer Mikhail Fokine and Vaslav Nijinsky.

December 16, 2002

In Milan on the 19th of December 2002 the Scala holds an international dance gala ten years after the death of Rudolf Nureyev.
On stage at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi artists from the Paris Opéra, the Royal Ballet, the Kirov, the Bolshoi and the Cuba Ballet will be performing his trademark roles.

December 9, 2002

Du 10 au 14 décembre dans le cadre du Monaco Dance Forum le festival de danse et les Nijinsky Awards seront à l'affiche.
La cérémonie de remise des Nijinski Awards 2002 sera diffusée le 14 à 20h sur Mezzo.

December 2, 2002

The Hamburg Ballet will be performing for the first time "La bayadère" on Sunday.
The choreography and staging are Natalia Makarova's after Marius Petipa.

November 25, 2002

The Kirov Ballet will be performing in Hong Kong from Thursday to Sunday.
First "Giselle" and then "Jewels" are scheduled.

November 18, 2002

Sylvia dans la très belle version Neumeier fera son retour à l'Opéra après un petit tour à Dijon samedi et dimanche.
Dans cette passionnante relecture les époques antique et moderne se confondent.

November 11, 2002

Créée le 17 novembre 1967 à Stockholm, la version de "Casse-Noisette" reglée par Noureev sera reprise par le Ballet de la Scala à Milan en décembre.
Les personnages sont très difficiles à interpréter: Clara a l'ingénuité de l'enfance et l'allure de la fée, tandis que le vieil parrain Drosselmeyer devient le prince charmant.

November 4, 2002

Pour son 20e anniversaire, samedi la Cinémathèque de la Danse présentera jusqu’à 1h30 du matin un programme composé de films et vidéos les plus rares, les plus précieux et les plus étranges de ses collections.

October 28, 2002

Ten years ago on the 29th of October Sir Kenneth MacMillan died in the wings of the ROH during a performance of "Mayerling". The choreography will be revived on Tuesday.

October 21, 2002

Over the next three years William Forsythe will present one production a year in Berlin. This month from the 25th to the 27th it is Kammer / Kammer, a choreography based on texts by Anne Carson and Douglas A. Martin.

October 14, 2002

Les 16, 17, 18 et 19 octobre au Châtelet à Paris le Ballet du Kirov-Mariinski fera revivre l'art de Michel Fokine, ce chorégraphe des Ballets russes qui avait fait souffler un vent nouveau sur la danse en Russie dès le début du 20ème siècle.

October 7, 2002

ENB's new production of The Nutcracker will be unveiled in Bristol on 10 October.
Former Royal Ballet dancer Irek Mukhamedov will dance Drosselmeyer with Agnes Oaks and Thomas Edur as the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Prince.

September 30, 2002

On Thursday Radio3 will broadcast Marenco's "Ballo Excelsior" supervised by Fiorenzo Carpi.
The recording was made live on the 26th of May in Milan with David Coleman conducting the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala.

September 23, 2002

Mercredi rentrée du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris avec "Passacaille" signée Roland Petit.
Ce ballet abstract a été réglé en 1994 pour les danseurs de l'Opéra, Agnès Letestu et José Martinez en tête.

September 16, 2002

Adam Cooper is the choreographer of "Garbo- the Musical". The show opens on Wednesday the 18th in Stockholm.

August 5, 2002

On Thursday at the Vail International dance festival Agnès Letestu & José Martinez will perform much-loved classical works including excerpts from Raymonda, La Bayadere and Don Quixote.

July 29, 2002

Today is the 4th anniversary of the death of Jerome Robbins.
On the evening of his death, the lights of Broadway were dimmed for a moment in tribute.

July 22, 2002

On Tuesday the Royal Ballet will perform at the ROH Queen Jubilee Gala.
The cast includes Benjamin, Bussell, Cojocaru, Cope, Kobborg, Yanowsky, Yoshida , Acosta, Bolle, Guillem, Le Riche and Murru.

July 15, 2002

On Thursday at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus the Greek National Opera Ballet will perform "The sleeping beauty" with a new choreography by Igor Zelensky.

July 1, 2002

A Tribute to Sir Kenneth MacMillan with Adam Cooper, Sarah Wildor & Friends will take place on 6th & 7th July at the Exeter Festival.

June 24, 2002

The Nijinsky-Gala XXVIII on Sunday, June 30, at the Hamburg State Opera will mark the comeback on stage of POB former étoile Isabelle Guérin in excerpts of the 3rd act of Neumeier's The Lady of the Camellias, as well as guests Eleonora Abbagnato, Manuel Legris, Adrian Fadeev, Daria Pavlenko and dancers from Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich and Aterballetto, Reggio Emilia.

June 17, 2002

On June 22 at the Ravenna Festival a new pas de deux choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti with Nino Rota's music will be danced by La Scala Ballet.

June 10, 2002

Neumeier's new ballet Die Möwe (The Seagull) after Anton Checov premiers on June 16 at the Hamburg State Opera, opening the 28th Hamburg Ballet-Days.

May 27, 2002

In The Queen’s Concert on 1st of June 27 year old Zenaida Yanowsky and Italian Roberto Bolle from RB will perform a pas-de-deux from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, staged by RB supremo Sir Anthony Dowell.

May 20, 2002

Vendredi à Lausanne nouveau ballet de Maurice Béjart: "La Voix humaine et la Danse" avec "Cantate 51", musique de Antonio Vivaldi et Johann Sebastian Bach, chantée par la voix d’ange du contre-ténor Aris Christofelis.

May 13, 2002

For "Tryst", an abstract work set to music by the Scottish composer James MacMillan to be premiered by the Royal Ballet on May 18, Christopher Wheeldon has picked some of the best feet in the business: Darcey Bussell’s.
It’s going to Australia and it’s going to be performed for the Queen’s Jubilee.

May 6, 2002

It would be hard to imagine a more beautiful tombstone than the glorious work of art designed by Ezio Frigerio for Nureyev's grave, unveiled six years ago on the 6th of May 1996.
The tombstone was made in Paris and the mosaic in Ravenna.

April 29, 2002

International Dance Day will be celebrated today, the birthday of Noverre.

April 22, 2002

On Friday at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow ceremony and gala concert for the 10th Prix Benois de la Danse.
Maria Eichwald will be partnered by the Italian dancer Alen Bottaini in a pas de deux from "Manon".

April 15, 2002

On Friday at the Staatsoper in Wien première of the ballet "Spartacus" in a new choreography by the Ballet AD Renato Zanella.
He is not the first to create a dance to Aram Khachaturian's 1956 score: in 1968 both Grigorovich and Seregi staged successful works, lately performed in USA and Australia.

April 8, 2002

"On your toes" opened April 11, 1936. It is the story of a jealous Russian premier dancer who hires a mobster to kill a rival during the premiere of a new ballet.
Next May it returns on stage with dancer Adam Cooper as choreographer and male lead.

March 25, 2002

On thursday German première of Robbins' "The concert" in Stuttgart.
"The concert", created in 1956, is a comic spoof of a classical music concert.

March 18, 2002

World ballet stars Aurélie Dupont, Agnès Letestu, Manuel Legris, Nicolas Le Riche, José Martinez, Vladimir Malakhov, Svetlana Zakharova, Zhanna Ayupova and Ballett Frankfurt this evening in St. Petersburg will close the 2nd International Festival with XXth century choreographies.

March 11, 2002

A l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la naissance de Rudolf Noureev (le 17 mars 1938), les samedi 16 et dimanche 17 mars 2002 la Cinémathèque de la Danse présente
UN WEEK-END POUR RUDOLF NOUREEV
en présence de Sir John Tooley (président de The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation), Jean Guizerix (président du Cercle des Amis de Rudolf Noureev), Leslie Caron, Lynn Seymour, Wallace Potts, René Sirvin.

March 4, 2002

To celebrate the 75th Birthday Year of Dame Beryl Grey DBE, a gala will be presented at the Sadler's Wells on Sunday.
Dame Beryl was the first Western ballerina to be invited to dance at the Bolshoi (1957-58), and to appear with the Peking Ballet and Shanghai Company with a Chinese partner (1964).

February 25, 2002

First performed by National Dance Company of Spain at the Teatro de Madrid in 1996, Duato's "Por vos muero" was inspired by popular Spanish music and dances from the golden age of the 15th and 16th centuries, and is set to some of the most beautiful verses of the Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega. After being broadcasted on Wednesday, it will be performed by the RB the following week.

February 18, 2002

Margot Fonteyn died 11 years ago, on the 21st of February, 29 years to the day she and Rudolf Nureyev first danced together in "Giselle".
Dame of the British Empire, she fired the imagination of Frederick Ashton and became a legend in her own lifetime.

February 11, 2002

A friendship that lasted 19 years until Nureyev's death has produced a series of more than 35 portraits of him by Wyeth.
James Wyeth is exhibiting them to overlap performances at the Kennedy Center by the Kirov ballet of St. Petersburg, during the season due to open tomorrow.

February 4, 2002

Ce dimanche sur Arte diffusion de "Watermark".
Watermark est la première chorégraphie de Jiri Kylian pour la télévision. Quatre danseurs de la troisième troupe du Théâtre de danse néerlandais NDT3 se retrouvent dans de multiples situations où l’eau joue un rôle central.

January 28, 2002

On Wednesday the Stuttgart Prima ballerina assoluta Marcia Haydée, who created many roles with John Cranko, will be presenting "The taming of the shrew" in Munich.

January 21, 2002

On Saturday two French male dancers will be guesting in Berlin. Laurent Hilaire will dance in Preljocaj's "Le parc" at the Deutsche Oper while José Martinez will dance in Bart's "Swan lake" at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

January 14, 2002

"Sleeping beauty" was first performed in St Petersburg 112 years ago on the 15th January, with the choreography of Marius Petipa, Carlotta Brianza as Aurora and Paul Gerdt as the Prince.
Next month in Rome first performance of a new version choreographed by Paul Chalmer, with Lisa Maree Cullum as Aurora and Roberto Bolle as the Prince.

January 7, 2002

Invité au Palais Garnier, le Ballet da la Scala de Milan redonne vie mercredi à l'un des plus grands succès de l'histoire du ballet italien.
"Excelsior", grande fresque allégorique célébrant avec faste l'avènement de la Fée électricité, pour render gloire au progrès scientifique et au génie humain.