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The San Francisco Ballet will be coming to Reykjavík next spring as part of the 2016 Reykjavík Arts Festival. There will be four performances on the Eldborg stage in Harpa Concert Hall from May 28-30. The ballet company has been under the direction of Icelandic dancer and choreographer Helgi Tómasson since 1985. Choreography for the performances in Harpa will be by Helgi and British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, to the compositions of Tchaikovsky, Bosso, and Vivaldi. The San Francisco ...

New York City Ballet alum Silas Farley, 26, is named dean of Colburn dance institute Makeda Easter © (Julieta Cervantes) Silas Farley will become the dean of Colburn Schools Trudl Zipper Dance Institute. (Julieta Cervantes) Silas Farley was 9 when he joined a scholarship program for young male dancers at the North Carolina Dance Theatre School of Dance, created by then-director Darleen Callaghan. Quickly recognizing his talent, Callaghan encouraged Farley to begin choreograph...

Margot Fonteyn and hints of Swan Lake infused his new collection 23 February 2021 • 5:30pm Erdem AW21 In 2018, Erdem Moralioglu realised a long-held dream when he was commissioned to create costumes for the Royal Ballet’s Corbyantic Games, a new ballet by Christopher Wheeldon. Standing in the wings of the Royal Opera House during rehearsals, he noticed a towering poster of Rudolf Nureyev. It was invisible from the stalls but dominated the backstage – which led him to think about the dyna...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. Fr...

Henry Danton dances with Margot Fonteyn in The Sleeping Beauty in 1946 Credit: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Historical It’s 75 years ago this week that Henry Danton stepped onto the Royal Opera House stage, performing in the Sadler’s Wells (now Royal) Ballet production of Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty – the venue’s grand reopening after the war. A former army captain, Danton had gladly traded in his bayonet for ballet shoes, and, in 1946, was living out his dream of dancing at Covent G...

Arts news for Sarasota-Manatee: Jan. 31-Feb. 6 from Sarasota Ballet After more than 13 years with The Sarasota Ballet, Coryphee dancer Christine Windsor has announced her retirement from the stage. Windsor joined the company in 2007 and has since performed in a diverse array of works by such choreographers as Sir Frederick Ashton, Dame Ninette de Valois, Anthony Tudor, Ricardo Graziano and Christopher Wheeldon. In a statement, Windsor said that artistic director Iain Webb and assistant director...

Arthur Mitchell Sharon Perry On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a rally in Memphis, Tennessee, delivering his iconic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. Initially, there had been concerns he might miss the rally due to a bomb threat. The following day, as King prepared for another rally, he turned to musician Ben Branch and said, “Ben, make sure you play ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’ in the meeting tonight...

Review: Joffrey Ballet's "Nutcracker," new this year by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, tells its story from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. This new "Nutcracker" is very much about Chicago. (4 stars)

San Francisco Ballets Helgi Tomasson to conclude tenure as Artistic Director by mid-2022 Helgi Tommason with Nikisha Fogo and Julian MacKay rehearsing Tomassons new work © Erik Tomasson. SAN FRANCISCO, CA .- Helgi Tomasson today announced that he will be concluding his tenure as Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of San Francisco Ballet by mid-2022, following nearly four decades of creative leadership. As SF Ballet embarks on its first digital season, Tomasson will continue to activ...

Chronicle Staff January 6, 2021Updated: January 11, 2021, 11:05 am S.F. Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson works with dancers on stage during a rehearsal for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on March 4, 2020. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle Helgi Tomasson, the longtime artistic director and chief choreographer of San Francisco Ballet, announced his intention to retire from the dance company in 2022. Here is a chro...