Christmas ballet on Italian TV with Makarova's "La Bayadère" starring Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle with La Scala and on French TV with Balanchine's "Jewels" danced by POB étoiles and cdb.

November 27, 2006

On Tuesday Darcey Bussell dances at Sadler's Wells, partnered by the Kirov star Igor Zelensky.
The programme is dominated by "Le jeune homme et la mort", a highly coloured dramatic work by Roland Petit.

November 6, 2006

On Friday the POB unveils "Amoveo", the new creation by Benjamin Millepied with music by Philip Glass and costumes by Marc Jacobs.

October 30, 2006

On Tuesday a gala in honour of the 70th anniversary of Maris Liepa will take place at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. Dancers taking part are from the Bolshoi, the Mariinsky, La Scala Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.

October 9, 2006

On Saturday the TV channel Arte shows the gala filmed in Prague with dancers from Berlin Opera Ballet, Kirov, Bolshoi, and Charles Jude, POB star and director of the Bordeaux Opera Ballet.

October 2, 2006

On Wednesday and Friday Giuseppe Picone is dancing the title role in Cranko's Onegin at the Wiener Staatsoper.

September 11, 2006

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Hamburg Ballet dances John Neumeier's Requiem with music by Mozart at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

September 4, 2006

On Friday Vladimir Malakhov performs in the season-opening gala of the Staatsballett Berlin at the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Guests dancers are Lucia Lacarra, Cyril Pierre, Gillian Murphy and Friedemann Vogel.

July 10, 2006

On Sunday at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes the "Irène Lidova" Lifetime Achievement Prize will be awarded to Rosella Hightower. The celebration of one of the divas of dance will take place in the very city where she has embodied ballet for over 40 years.

July 3, 2006

On Sunday at the Hamburg State Opera for the XXXII Nijinsky Gala, devoted to aspects of the Symphonic Ballet, Nicolas Le Riche presents a new solo created by Jérémie Bélingard.

June 5, 2006

The RB celebrates with choreography from three of its greatest formative influences: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan. Frederick Ashton's Homage to the Queen will be revived for the year of HM The Queen's 80th birthday. 

May 29, 2006

On Tuesday at the Teatre de Beaulieu in Lausanne Béjart's "Le Presbytère" is having its
300th performance. A record!

May 22, 2006

On Friday the Ballet Biarritz makes its Paris debut presenting "Les Créatures" by Thierry Malandain at the Théâtre National de Chaillot.

May 1, 2006

On Saturday the Finnish National Ballet presents two ballets created by Kylian with Mozart's music: "Petite Mort" replete with sexuality, and "Sechs Tänze", replete with humour and buoyancy.
These two ballets will be danced by La Scala Ballet one month later in Milan.

April 24, 2006

On the 29th of April, as every year since 1982, World Dance Day will be celebrated all over the world by the international community of dancers and dance enthusiasts. Its main purpose is to attract the attention of the wider public to the art of dance.

April 3, 2006

On Friday the Stuttgart Ballet presents the world premiere of a Christian Spuck's ballet based on the story "The Sandman" by E.T.A. Hoffmann.

March 20, 2006

« Aurore », by Nils Tavernier, with Margaux Chatelier, François Berléand and Carole Bouquet, is on screen from Wednesday. It tells to story of a kingdom where dancing, banned for many years, is nevertheless practised by the young princess Aurore. To save the kingdom from bankruptcy, the King is obliged to find a wealthy prince for her and she has to choose between the crown and her love.

March 13, 2006

To open its sixth annual ballet festival on Thursday, the Mariinsky Theater presents a reconstruction of a 150-year old ballet. French choreographer Pierre Lacotte is reviving the original version of Jules Perrot’s romantic ballet “Ondine”.

February 6, 2006

On Friday LSB star Roberto Bolle brings ballet to masses pirouetting through the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin.

January 30, 2006

On Thursday the Bolshoi Theatre will premiere a new production of "Cinderella" with choreography by SFB dancer Yury Posokhov, starring Svetlana Zakharova and Sergei Filin in the leading roles.

January 23, 2006

Alessandra Ferri joins Luigi Bonino, Manuel Legris and a group of POB young dancers in two evenings of great masterpieces on Friday and Saturday in two Italian towns, Modena and Ferrara.

January 16, 2006

On Friday in Stockholm the Royal Swedish Ballet opens a series of ten performances of Neumeier's "Peer Gynt", a dramatic ballet of love, betrayal, and death.

January 2, 2006

World-famous ballet dancers take part at the ``2006 Special Ballet Gala'' to be held at Seoul Arts Center. Kang Sue-jin, a principal dancer from Germany's Stuttgart Ballet will perform a pdd from Act 3 of ``The Lady of the Camellias'' on Wednesday and a pdd from Act 3 of ``Onegin'' the following day, partnered by Manuel Legris.