by Stephanie Kramer | Oct 26, 2022 | News, Profiles, The Latest
John Neumeier is celebrating his 50th anniversary as artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet. It’s a festive season—and one that was originally going to be his last. But last week the company announced that Neumeier will stay on another year to facilitate a smooth...
by Dance Magazine | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Since her high-profile move from The Royal Ballet to English National Ballet in 2013, Romanian star Alina Cojocaru has been quietly forging her own path. In addition to creating major roles at ENB, including in Akram Khan’s Giselle, the beloved 38-year-old...
by Lauren Warnecke | Jan 15, 2019 | News, Profiles
You might say, “You just had to be there,” about the Joffrey Ballet’s 2017 world premiere of John Neumeier’s reimagined Orphée et Eurydice with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. But on January 18, audiences from around the country will have a...
by Anna Maples | Nov 4, 2018 | News
November 10–18 , the National Ballet of Canada presents the North American premiere of John Neumeier’s Anna Karenina at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto. Co-produced with Hamburg Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet, NBoC is the last of the three companies to...
by Courtney Escoyne | Oct 25, 2018 | Just for fun
When American Ballet Theatre announced yesterday that it would be adding Jane Eyre to its stable of narrative full-lengths, the English nerds in the DM offices (read: most of us) got pretty excited. Cathy Marston’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Apr 4, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
Updated 11/8/22. Is there anything more heart-wrenching than a tale of doomed lovers? It’s no wonder that so many enduring ballets don’t end in happy embraces. John Neumeier’s modern Sylvia plumbs the depths of the story for its most melancholy...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 18, 2018 | News
What’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. The Bolshoi Premiere of John Neumeier’s Anna Karenina Last July Hamburg Ballet presented the world premiere of John Neumeier’s Anna Karenina, a modern adaptation on Leo...
by Lauren Warnecke | Jan 8, 2018 | Career, Company Life
The first time Ashley Wheater was courted to be artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet, he said “Thanks, but no thanks”—he was very happy at San Francisco Ballet, where he’d spent eight years as a principal dancer and 10 more on the artistic...
