Ballet: 2009-2010 Season

Upcoming Events

• Pennsylvania Ballet: George Balanchine's The Nutcracker

  Nov 24 - 29, 2009 | On Sale 8/12/09,
  Pennsylvania Ballet presents the D.C. premiere of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™ featuring magnificent new sets and lavish costumes. The Philadelphia Inquirer says this "dressed-up Nutcracker dazzles."

• New York City Ballet

  Dec 9 - 13, 2009 | On Sale 10/7/09,
  New York City Ballet performs two programs of mixed repertory with works by Balanchine, Martins, and Robbins, including Mozartiana, Les Gentilhommes, Dances at a Gathering, and more.

• American Ballet Theatre

  Jan 26 - 31, 2010 | On Sale 10/7/09,
  American Ballet Theatre, "one of the most beautiful sights in dance" (New York Post), dances a program of mixed repertory and a full-length ballet to be announced at a later date.

• Mariinsky Ballet

  Feb 9 - 14, 2010 | On Sale 12/9/09,
  Russia's world-renowned Mariinsky Ballet returns to perform Konstantin Sergeyev's 1952 version of the full-length staging of the beloved fairy tale ballet, The Sleeping Beauty.

• Bolshoi Ballet

  Feb 16 - 21, 2010 | On Sale 12/9/09,
  Bolshoi Ballet performs former director Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus, a "cinematically paced adventure yarn" (The New York Times) that showcases "a great company at the absolute peak of its form" (The Telegraph).

• The Suzanne Farrell Ballet

  Mar 3 - 7, 2010 | On Sale 12/9/09,
  The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, "one of the most courageous projects in ballet today" (The New York Times), presents two mixed repertory programs, including Balanchine's Haieff Divertimento and Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun.

• Ballet Across America II

  Jun 15 - 20, 2010 | On Sale 4/7/10,
  The successful Ballet Across America returns, featuring Morphoses, Houston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Ballet Arizona, Tulsa Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, and North Carolina Dance Theatre.