Famous ballet schools in Canada

National Ballet School of Canada
The National Ballet School of Canada was established in 1959. It’s one of the world’s foremost training institutions for aspiring young dancers and teachers. Attracting students from across the country and around the world, NBS is the only ballet academy in North America to provide elite dance training, academic instruction and residential care on the same campus.
Location: 400 Jarvis St, Toronto ON M4Y 2G6, Canada
Styles : Classical Ballet, Neoclassical, Contemporary, Modern, Other
Website : http://www.nbs-enb.ca

Royal Winnipeg Ballet School
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School was founded in 1939 by Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally. This ballet school holds the double distinction of being Canada's premier ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.
Location: 380 Graham Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 4K2, Canada
Styles : Classical Ballet, Neoclassical, Contemporary, Modern, Folk, Other
Website : http://www.rwbschool.com/

Goh Ballet Academy Canada
Established in 1978, the Goh Ballet Academy is an internationally renowned institute, recognized for its high caliber ballet training and performances, providing students with advanced knowledge to prepare them for a flourishing career in the field of dance.
Location: 2345 Main Street Vancouver, BC V5T 3C9 Canada
Styles : Ballet
Website : http://www.gohballet.com/

Victoria Ballet Academy
Victoria Ballet Academy of Canada provides the highest quality ballet training for for children and adults in a warm and friendly environment. Students are stimulated culturally and intellectually through their personal achievements, public performances and educational trips within Canada and abroad.
Location: 7751 Yonge St, Thornhill, Ontario, L3T 2C4
Styles : ballet, character dance, modern and ballet gymnastics
Website : http://www.victoriaballet.com/

Quinte Ballet School of Canada
In 1972, the Quinte Dance Centre was established as the Belleville branch of the National Ballet Guild, a fundraising and public awareness arm of the National Ballet of Canada with Brian Scott as the School's Founding Artistic Director.
Location: 196 Palmer Rd, Belleville, ON, K8P 4E1.

Alexandra Elagina's North American debut

Alexandra Elagina, a 23-year old Russian, has already traveled extensively across Europe in her short budding ballet career. She has performed Snow White, Sleeping Beauty’s Fairy of Tenderness, Little Swan in Swan Lake and a lot of other performances too.

She is yet to bring her talents to the U.S. audience. Alexandra will make her North American debut at the Eisenhower Hall Theater at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (NY) on Nov. 13 in Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, in which she dances the lead role of Masha/Clara along the performance’s east coast tour.

Source: http://www.nutcracker.com/

Upcoming ballet events: Find the nut cracker

The 3rd annual "Find the nut cracker" contest will be starting on November28th. There are 30 nut crackers with each having two tickets and are ready to deliver on the participating locations. Here is the list of the top participating Ballet Businesses as of now.. Newsbeat City Bicycle Works Britt Steele Boutique Tres Chic Bead Fetish The entire list of the top Ballet Businesses will be published after November 25th. Good luck for all the participants in this event! Source: http://www.sacballet.org/

Ballet dancer: Alina Cojocaru

Alina Cojocaru is a female principal dancer with The Royal Ballet of London. She was born on 27th May 1981 in Bucharest, Romania. From her young age she studied gymnastics. Later she began ballet classes, despite never having seen a live ballet.

At the age of 7 or 8 she began gymnastic classes, progressing at the age of 9 to a Bucharest ballet school which acted as a feeder for the Romanian State Ballet school. In January 1997, aged 16, she competed in the Prix de Lausanne, a prestigious international ballet competition. She won the gold medal, winning a six month scholarship to train at the Royal Ballet School in London. She moved to London that same year to commence her training, but did not speak any English. Cojocaru's early appearances with the company included performing in the opening gala for the refurbished Royal Opera House, plus appearances with the corps de ballet in the Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère, as a snowflake in The Nutcracker and as a doll in Coppélia.

Ballet dancer: Allie Bertram

	Allie Bertram is a Ballet dancer from Calgary, AB. She is a graduate of the International School of Ballet. She participated in so you think you can dance canada ,she was one of the top 19 contestants. Allie Bertram was Runner-Up. That week she performed "Rock This Town"—Stray Cats, style was Jive with Danny Arbour.

The Oklahoma Festival Ballet

The Oklahoma Festival Ballet is the resident ballet company of the University of Oklahoma. The company maintains a repertoire of over 33 short ballets and numerous full-length ballets in styles ranging from classical to romantic, abstract to contemporary and dramatic to comedic. Such choreographers as Massine, Balanchine, Terekhov, Fokine, Stevenson and Joffrey are represented in the repertoire.

The Oklahoma Festival Ballet is a company of 40 dancers. The company is efficiently organized for touring and boasts an impressive national and international touring schedule, which has included performances in Taiwan, Mexico, Ecuador and France.

Georgian National Ballet

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Ballet dancer: Anders Selinder

Anders Selinder was a Swedish dancer, Ballet master, choreographer and director who lived during 4 November 1806, Stockholm-6 November 1874, Stockholm . He was the master of the Royal Swedish Ballet from 1833 till 1856.

Anders Selinder was also a premier dancer at the Royal ballet in the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in 1829-1846. In 1833, he was appointed as the ballet master at the age of twenty seven, and replaced Per Erik Wallqvist, who had first shared the position with Sophie Daguin; Daguin was principal of the Opera's ballet school, and together, Selinder and Daguin are considered to have uphold a high standard in the ballet. Selinder are considered as one of the most notable of the masters in the ballet. During this time, there was a new interest for the old Folk dance, which were at that time disappearing, and Selinder learned them and preserved them by making them in to ballets. He wrote several ballets and made the choreography to the national opera Värmlänningarne in 1846. In 1856, Selinder lost his position; Sophie Daguin was fired the same year, and this is considered to be the start point of the decay, which was considered to affect the Swedish ballet during the second half of the 19th century. After 1856, he created the first travelling Swedish ballet company and toured in Sweden; they also performed folk dance and instructed everyone interested in learning. In 1858-1866 he managed a children's theatre, and in 1870-1871, he was joint director in the theatre Ladugårdslandsteatern.

2009 American dance competition winners

A classical/contemporary dance competition for the professional bound student. Scholarships offered to over 10 Professional Ballet Companies. Including: Ajkun Ballet Theatre, Alabama Ballet, Ballet Florida, BalletMet Columbus, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Lexington Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, & Atlanta Ballet.

World Ballet Competition 2010 - Christina Ricucci

Christina Ricuccu, the 11 year old girl won the gold medal for her Murrieta Dance Project in the introductory division held at the World Ballet Competition, 2010. She was also the Hope Award Winner at the 2010 YAGP - San Diego, and 1st place winner at the YAGP Philadelphia. For this particular dance she also won first place at the KAR National Finals in Las Vegas 2010 and at the Bravo Competition in Los Angeles.

Ballet dancer: Agrippina Vaganova

	Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was an outstanding Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method- the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School.Vaganova's whole life was connected with the Imperial Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
Ballet did not come easily to Vaganova in her first years as a student, but slowly, through the efforts of her own will power, she was able to join the illustrious Imperial Ballet upon her graduation. By the time she attained the rank of soloist, Saint Petersburg balletomanes dubbed her queen of variations, for her unlimited virtuosity and level of technique.

Ballet dance: Isabella's 1st Ballet Competition

Ballet dance: Upcoming ballet events

The Suzanne Farrell Ballet
The Kennedy Center's own The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, "too distinctive, too juicy, too fabulously fearless to pass up, returns with two mixed repertory programs featuring works of Balanchine, Robbins, Béjart, and Mejia.

Nov 17 - 21, 2010
Eisenhower Theater
$29.00 - $84.00

The Joffrey Ballet: The Nutcracker
The Joffrey Ballet dancers perform Robert Joffrey's "dazzling" version of Tchaikovsky's family classic, featuring charming Victorian scenery and costumes.

Nov 24 - 28, 2010
Opera House
Approx. 2 hours
$45.00 - $150.00

American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre's elegant stars continue to prove ballet's enduring power with Ratmansky's evening-length work The Bright Stream and a mixed program as part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Jan 18 - 23, 2011
Opera House
$25.00 - $99.00

Mariinsky Ballet: Giselle
Boasting an artistic legacy that spans more than 200 years, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Ballet returns with the classic evening-length ballet Giselle, choreographed by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, and Marius Petipa.

Feb 8 - 13, 2011
Opera House
$29.00 - $150.00


Source: http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/ballet/

International Ballet Festival of Havana

The International Ballet Festival of Havana is a ballet festival held in the Great Theater of Havana, Cuba every two years. Created in 1960 by a joint effort of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the Instituto Nacional de la Industria Turística and the cultural organizations of the government, the International Ballet Festival of Havana was added to the plans of massive diffusion of arts started after the popular Cuban revolution on January 1, 1959. The Festival, with its character, has allowed people to enjoy the performances and the works of prestigious figures of the world of the dance and has also shown to the visitors the high level reached by the Cuban ballet.

In the year 2000 it celebrated its 42nd anniversary. This defines it as one of the oldest of all held in the world. Created in 1960 it quickly became one of the most transcendental events of the national Cuban culture and of the international dance as well.

After more than four decades of work, the International Ballet Festival of Havana goes forward keeping its creative potentiality in the promisory future of the 21st century.

Ballet dance: Famous International Ballet Competitions

PRIX DE LAUSANNE: Prix de Lausanne is a selective competition for dancers ages 15–18 who are ready—or nearly ready—to enter the professional ballet world, but have not yet danced professionally.

USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: One of the world’s most prestigious dance events, the USA International Ballet Competition is a two-week “olympic-style” competition where tomorrow’s ballet stars vie for gold, silver, and bronze.

VARNA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: The International Ballet Competition - Varna was established in 1964. Its first edition was held from 2 to 13 July at the Open-Air Theatre in the same city - the biggest sea resort of Bulgaria. It is the first professional international ballet Competition in the world.

HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: This Competition will be organised by the Helsinki International Ballet Competition Association in cooperation with the Finnish National Opera and Finnish National Ballet School.

PARIS INTERNATIONAL DANCE COMPETITION

PARIS JAZZ CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL

JAZZ DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY COMPETITION