Charlotte Ballet is the oldest professional ballet company in
North Carolina
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. It was founded as North Carolina Dance Theatre in
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem is a city in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the fifth-most populous city in North Carolina and the 91st-most populous city in the Uni ...
by Robert Lindgren, who was then Dean of Dance at the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts, in 1970. It moved to Charlotte in 1990 and rebranded as Charlotte Ballet in 2014. It currently has 26 dancers and is the parent company of the Charlotte Ballet Academy.
Artistic staff
* Alejandro Cerrudo - Artistic Director
* Douglas Singleton - Executive Director
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Patricia McBride - Associate Artistic Director & Master Teacher
* Traci Gilchrest Kubie - Rehearsal Director
Dancers
Company
Charlotte Ballet II
Trainees
Repertoire
Charlotte Ballet has performed an extensive repertoire over the years. With two of the company's leaders,
Patricia McBride and
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux having extensive ties to
George Balanchine
George Balanchine (;
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* born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze;, Romanization of Georgian, : April 30, 1983) was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers ...
and
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.
Among his nu ...
and major contemporary dance choreographer
Dwight Rhoden being the choreographer-in-residence, Charlotte Ballet has become a major hub for neoclassical and contemporary work.
George Balanchine
George Balanchine (;
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* born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze;, Romanization of Georgian, : April 30, 1983) was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers ...
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Agon
() is the Greek personification for a conflict, struggle or contest, describing a concept of the same name. This could be a contest in athletics, in chariot or horse racing, or in music or literature at a public festival in ancient Greece. i ...
* Allegro Brillante
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Apollo
Apollo is one of the Twelve Olympians, Olympian deities in Ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek and Ancient Roman religion, Roman religion and Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, mu ...
* Concerto Barocco
* Divertimento No. 15
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The Four Temperaments
* La Sonnambula
* A Midsummer Night's Dream
* Pas de Dix
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Raymonda Variations
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Rubies
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Scotch Symphony
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Serenade
In music, a serenade (; also sometimes called a serenata, from the Italian) is a musical composition or performance delivered in honour of someone or something. Serenades are typically calm, light pieces of music. The term comes from the Ital ...
* Square Dance
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Stars and Stripes
* Stravinsky Violin Concerto
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Tarantella
Tarantella () is a group of various Southern Italy, southern Italian Italian folk dance, folk dances originating in the regions of Calabria, Campania, Sicilia, and Apulia. It is characterized by a fast Beat (music), upbeat tempo, usually in Ti ...
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Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
* Valse Fantaisie
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Walpurgisnacht
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Western Symphony
''Western Symphony'' is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to American folk tunes arranged by Hershy Kay. It premiered on September 7, 1954 at the City Center of Music and Drama in N ...
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Who Cares?
Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (; born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa; 11 March 1818) was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. He is considered one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history ...
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Swan Lake
''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoje ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, links=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failu ...
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Sleeping Beauty
"Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fi ...
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Raymonda
''Raymonda'' () is a ballet, grand ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Alexander Glazunov (his Opus number, opus 57) and libretto by Lydia Pashkova. ''Raymonda'' was creat ...
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Paquita
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Don Quixote
, the full title being ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'', is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is considered a founding work of Western literature and is of ...
Jiří Kylián
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary dance choreographers in Czech history.
Life
Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czecho ...
* Sechz Tänze
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Forgotten Land
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (; born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1965 she formed the company Twyla Tharp Dance, which merged with American Ballet Theatre in 1988. She regrouped the compa ...
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Nine Sinatra Songs
* The Golden Section
Alvin Ailey
* The River
* Night Creature
Dwight Rhoden
* The Groove
* Spun to The Sky
* Bop Doo Wah
* Alleged Dances
* Artifice
* Othello
* Peace Piece
* Sit In Stand Out
* Gateways
* Ballad Unto
* Broken Fantasy
William Forsythe
* In the middle, somewhat elevated
Sasha Janes
* Sketches from Grace
* Lascia la Spina Cogli la Rosa
* We Danced Through Life
* Shelter
* You're So Fine
* Queen
* Last Lost Chance
* Utopia
* Facsimile
* The Weight of Darkness
* At First Sight
* Rhapsodic Dances
* The Four Seasons
* Dangerous Liaisons
* The Seed and Soil
* Chaconne
Alonzo King
* Salt
* Map
Other classics
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Nutcracker (Choreographed by Salvatore Aiello, then Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
* Cinderella (Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
* Romeo and Juliet (Choreographed by Jean Pierre Bonnefoux)
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Carmina Burana
''Carmina Burana'' (, Latin for "Songs from Benediktbeuern" 'Buria'' in Latin is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreveren ...
(Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
* The Little Mermaid (Choreographed by Mark Diamond)
* Peter Pan (Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
* Wuthering Heights (Choreographed by Sasha Janes)
* Carmen (Choreographed by Sasha Janes)
Education
Charlotte Ballet is the parent company to the Charlotte Ballet Academy, formerly the North Carolina Dance Theatre School of Dance. The school was founded in September 1993. By 1997, 3 satellite locations had been established to accommodate the then 5 level divisions and an Open Division.
The school now offers a conservatory program, developed in 2004, for serious dance students who wishes to incorporate their dance classes with their academics.
References
External links
NC Dance Theatre's Facebook Page
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Ballet companies in the United States
Ballet schools in the United States
Culture of Charlotte, North Carolina
Dance in North Carolina
Performing groups established in 1970
1970 establishments in North Carolina