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Atlanta Ballet’s 2018–19 season will feature four world premieres, including a new version of Nutcracker and pieces by choreographers Liam Scarlett and Ricardo Amarante. The company also announced today that it will add 10 new dancers for its main…
For a century and a half, a handful of Russian classical ballets have been staged, restaged, reworked and reimagined. A testament to the staying power of aristocratic opulence and escapism on a grand scale, these are the ballets that…
With Firebird, Atlanta Ballet presented a compelling, if slightly uneven, program of three works at the Cobb Energy Centre from April 14 to April 16, a performance that revealed a company in transition. News broke on ArtsATL about a…
Editor’s note: Atlanta Ballet company dancer Alessa Rogers agreed to chronicle her journey from the audition process to final rehearsals for this weekend’s production of choreographer Yuri Possokhov’s Firebird at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Also on the…
The first full season under new Atlanta Ballet artistic director Gennadi Nedvigin will feature classic ballets from George Balanchine and Marius Petipa, plus a modern version of Don Quixote and three world premieres — one by retiring long-time company…
In a final tribute to John McFall’s 21-year legacy as Atlanta Ballet’s artistic director, the company’s 2015-16 season closed with MAYhem: Kissed, a triple bill that proved as eclectic and eccentric as the man himself. The program — a…
Last weekend, Atlanta Ballet capped its 2014-15 season with MAYhem, a program that reflected the company’s versatility as part of a varied vision: Angel’s Share, a new commission by emerging choreographer John Heginbotham; Classical Symphony, Yuri Possokhov’s tribute to…
For weeks over the winter, Jackie Nash watched her boyfriend, Heath Gill, immerse himself in the lead role in the Atlanta Ballet world premiere of Camino Real, which beautifully translated a Tennessee Williams play to dance. Gill played Kilroy,…