• The Washington Ballet (TWB) is an ensemble of professional ballet dancers based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1976 by Mary Day and has been directed...
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    Julie Kent (dancer) (category American Ballet Theatre principal dancers)
    she was named the artistic director of The Washington Ballet. She became co-artistic director at the Houston Ballet in July 2023. She was born Julie Cox...
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    The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as...
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  • The National Ballet of Washington, D.C. was an American national ballet company founded in 1962 by Jean Riddell, granddaughter of the founder of PET Evaporated...
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    Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into...
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    Contemporary ballet is a genre of dance that incorporates elements of classical ballet and modern dance. It employs classical ballet technique and in...
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    The Kirov Academy of Ballet (formerly the Universal Ballet Academy) was a ballet school in Washington, D.C. founded by Rev. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon in...
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  • Elaine Kudo (category American Ballet Theatre dancers)
    Elaine Kudo is a ballet dancer and choreographer. She is the ballet master at the Washington Ballet and was formerly a ballet mistress at the American Repertory...
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  • Goh Choo San (category American male ballet dancers)
    Singaporean ballet dancer and choreographer whose decade-long association with The Washington Ballet brought that company international acclaim. The son of...
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  • This is a list of ballet companies in the United States. List of dance companies Yellowstone Ballet Co. Livingston Montana 1991 - present Yellowstoneballet...
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    Nicole Ari Parker (category Circle in the Square Theatre School alumni)
    At the age of 17, she won Best Actress in the state of Maryland's high school theater competition. She became a member of The Washington Ballet Company...
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    Russian ballet (Russian: Русский балет) (French: Ballet russe) is a form of ballet characteristic of or originating from Russia. Until 1689, ballet in Russia...
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    Ballet is a formalized dance form with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries. Ballet spread from Italy to France with...
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    Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Washington Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet (formerly Pennsylvania Ballet), Kansas City Ballet, Alvin...
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  • Brooklyn Mack (category The Washington Ballet dancers)
    accepted. Two years later, he enrolled at the Kirov Academy of Ballet on scholarship in Washington DC, where he was the only African American student; he trained...
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    The Boston Ballet is an American professional classical ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams and...
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    Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master...
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    with New York City Ballet, of which he was appointed Resident Choreographer in July 2014, being the second person in the history of the institution to hold...
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  • Julia Moon (category People from Washington, D.C.)
    published The Washington Times), CAUSA International, the Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea, and other church related organizations. At the age...
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  • Francisco Ballet 2002 San Francisco Ballet 2002 Texas Ballet 2003 BalletMet 2003 Oregon Ballet Theatre 2003 Washington Ballet 2003 Cincinnati Ballet 2003 Milwaukee...
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    Spandau Ballet (/ˈspændaʊ ˈbæleɪ/ SPAN-dow BAL-ay) were an English pop band formed in Islington, London, in 1979. Inspired by the capital's post-punk...
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  • from the International Ballet Academy in Bellevue, Washington, USA while in refuge from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Grand Kyiv Ballet was founded...
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    Misty Copeland (category 21st-century ballet dancers)
    1982) is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June...
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    the National Symphony Orchestra, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and the Washington National Opera. In addition, it hosts performances by the Washington Ballet...
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  • Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington. It is said to have the highest per capita attendance in the United States...
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  • gone on to dance with Alvin Ailey , Philadanco, Dutch National Ballet, The Washington Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, on Broadway, and also become choreographers...
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    ever piece for the Washington Ballet called Etalage. His second piece is called Homage Au Ballet which was also for the Washington Ballet in 1963. His final...
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    Adam Crystal (category Interlochen Center for the Arts alumni)
    Ethan Stiefel for the Washington Ballet entitled "Frontier" as part of the JFK centennial celebration. It premiered in May 2017 at the Kennedy Center. Crystal...
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  • attending The Academy of The Washington Ballet prior to her acceptance at Juilliard School of Drama at the age of 16. After graduating from Juilliard at the age...
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    The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours...
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