One of Neumeier's masterpieces, "Midsummer night's dream", enters in the Bolshoi Ballet repertory on Wednesday, with Svetlana Zakharova and Nikolaj Tsiskaridze in the leading roles.

December 13, 2004

The ceremony of the 3rd edition of the Nijinsky Awards takes place on Saturday at the
Monaco Dance Forum.

December 6, 2004

One of Ashton's masterpieces, "La fille mal gardée", created in 1960, enters in the Hamburg Ballet repertory on Sunday.

November 22, 2004

EinsFestival broadcasts on Friday the ballet "Les Chaises" created by Maurice Béjart and danced by Marcia Haydée and John Neumeier, to honour Eugène Ionesco's 95th anniversary.

October 18, 2004

The Royal Ballet’s 2004-05 season starts on Friday, with Darcey Bussell appearing in Kenneth MacMillan’s "Requiem", a work designed as a tribute, to honour John Cranko’s life.

October 11, 2004

Leading dancers from the NYCB present two masterpieces by Robbins and two choreographies by Benjamin Millepied at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon from Wednesday to Sunday.

October 4, 2004

The 2004-5 season at the Maryinsky opens on Friday with "Swan Lake".
Ulyana Lopatkina and Daniil Korsuntsev will dance the leading roles.

September 27, 2004

An evening of ballets on Stravinsky's music opens the season in Berlin on Wednesday. Choreographies first performed on this stage are Scholz's "Firebird" and Preljocaj's "Sacre".

September 20, 2004

The 2004/5 season of the Paris Opéra Ballet opens with a triple bill.
Moreover, the first performance on Wednesday starts with the Défilé followed by Balanchine's "Sonatine" danced by Aurélie Dupont and Manuel Legris.

August 30, 2004

Some Mariinsky principals will appear in the American premier of ballet "Onegin", choreographed by Vasily Medvedev, in the festival "Russian Summer in Santa Fe", from September 3-4, 2004 at Santa Fe Opera House. The guest principals include Igor Kolb who is scheduled to dance Lensky.

August 2, 2004

From Monday the Forum Barcelona hosts the world premiere of Herrumbre, a striking and hard-hitting piece of choreography in which Nacho Duato reflects on torture.

July 19, 2004

On Thursday Rudolf Nureyev is honoured at the Herod Atticus Theatre in Athens by La Scala Ballet with a gala.

July 12, 2004

The Ashton Celebration at the Metropolitan Opera ends with performances from the Royal Ballet dancers joined by guest stars Sylvie Guillem, Roberto Bolle and Massimo Murru.

June 28, 2004 

Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Dresde créera le 1er juillet, en fin de saison, une nouvelle versione de "Don Quichotte" par Vladimir Derevianko, le directeur artistique de la compagnie.

June 21, 2004 

On Sunday at the Nijinsky Gala XXX, hosted by John Neumeier in Hamburg, his dancers perform together with Barbora Kohoutková, Margaret Illmann, Gregor Hatala, Eleonora Abbagnato, Nicolas Le Riche, Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Diana Vishneva, Vladimir Malakhov, Ivan Liska, Kevin Haigen, Lucia Lacarra and Cyril Pierre.

April 24, 2004 

The first guest artists of the NYCB Spring Season will be Aurélie Dupont and Manuel Legris, both étoiles with the Paris Opéra Ballet, who will dance Balanchine's Sonatine as part of the French Tribute on Tuesday. Ms. Dupont and Mr. Legris will also dance Sonatine on Wednesday and Saturday. 

April 12, 2004 

Vendredi Davide Bombana est invité pour la première fois à l’Opéra National de Paris pour la création mondiale du ballet « La Septième Lune ». Le chorégraphe italien, ancien danseur du ballet de la Scala de Milan, s’inspire d’une pièce de théâtre « nô » japonais de l’écrivain Mishima, sur une musique de Jean Prodomidès interprétée par un ensemble instrumental.

March 29, 2004 

The talented Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky has chosen Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina as original material for his full-length ballet with music by Rodion Shchedrin.
The Royal Danish Ballet performs it for the first time on Friday the 2nd.

March 8, 2004

6 days after its world première in Berlin, on Saturday 3sat is broadcasting Malakhov's "Cinderella", starring the young Russian talent Polina Semionova in the title role and Malakhov himself as one of the Ugly Sisters.

March 1, 2004 

De mercredi à dimanche au Théatre de Suresnes Roland Petit raconte, en première mondiale, dans sa langue maternelle - la danse - la nouvelle vague de la chorégggraphie française et les chemins de la 
Création, accompagné par une troupe de huit danseurs d’exception venant du monde entier. 

February 16, 2004 

La Bayadère is the fourth Petipa ballet to feature in the Royal Ballet of Flanders’ repertoire (after The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake). The company première is scheduled on February 18, 2004 at Theater 't Eilandje in Antwerp in the choreography by Anna-Marie Holmes after the original version by Petipa. 

February 9, 2004

The extraordinary Hamburg Ballet makes its West Coast debut dancing the American premiere of its riveting ballet, Nijinsky. Under the leadership of its director and chief choreographer John Neumeier, the Hamburg Ballet will perform this acclaimed ballet February 11 through 15 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. 

January 19, 2004 

January 22, 2004 marks the centennial of the birth of George Balanchine. 
The Kirov Ballet celebrates this anniversary dancing Jewels, while The Four Temperaments, La Valse and Ballet Imperial will be premiered later on this season. 

January 12, 2004 

The Royal Danish Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center in Washington for the first time since 1992, taking "Napoli", "La Sylphide" and "Etudes", from Tuesday to Sunday.