by Amy Brandt | May 5, 2023 | News, The Latest
Festival Ballet Providence has announced a major rebranding effort, starting with a name change. As of today, the company is officially Ballet Rhode Island, or Ballet RI for short. The new name is part of a wider effort to build stronger ties across the state of Rhode...
by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 15, 2021 | Onstage, The Latest
This holiday season, Festival Ballet Providence is rolling out a brand-new Nutcracker. Running December 17–26 at Providence’s Veterans Memorial Auditorium (The VETS), the production features fresh choreography by FBP artistic curator Yury Yanowsky, new costume and...
by Julia Rosica | Sep 15, 2020 | Career, Dance Magazine, Instagram, News, The Latest, Training
A new training program at Festival Ballet Providence called Leap Year is welcoming pre-professional and professional dancers who don’t have a studio or company to dance for this season. The endeavor is the brainchild of Kathleen Breen Combes, FBP’s...
by Julia Rosica | Aug 27, 2019 | Career
American Repertory Ballet’s Ryoko Tanaka remembers her first class in the United States. She was 18 years old and a scholarship student at the Milwaukee Ballet summer intensive. “At barre, I reached out during demi-plié, and I saw the guy across...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 6, 2019 | Career, Profiles
On Sunday, June 9 Boston Ballet principal Kathleen Breen Combes will take her final bow onstage before stepping behind the curtain into a new role: executive director of the Rhode Island–based Festival Ballet Providence. Originally from Rockville Center, New...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 12, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Joffrey Ballet Presents a Brand New “Anna Karenina” The Joffrey Ballet debuts Yuri Possokhov’s Anna Karenina February 13–24. Based on Leo...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 25, 2018 | Everything "Nutcracker", News
Every ballet star’s stage career must eventually come to an end. This season, Festival Ballet Providence celebrates the retirement of one of its Nutcracker’s best loved performers: Archie the dog. This Yorkshire Terrier, owned by FBP artistic director...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 22, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. NYCB Spring Season Opens NYCB’s 2018 Spring Season opens on April 24. The next six weeks are filled with all of what NYCB has to offer including classic works by...