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American Ballet Theatre

(Encyclopedia)American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th and 21st cents. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 ...

Royal Danish Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Royal Danish Ballet, one of the oldest major ballet companies, established at the opening of Denmark's Royal Theater in Copenhagen in 1748. Its ballet school, which trains the group's dancers, has als...

Paris Opéra Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Paris Opéra Ballet: see Opéra.

Sadler's Wells Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Sadler's Wells Ballet: see Royal Ballet. ...

San Francisco Ballet

(Encyclopedia)San Francisco Ballet, America's first classical ballet company, est. 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet by the dancer Adolph Bolm. Based at the War ...

Robert Joffrey Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Robert Joffrey Ballet: see Joffrey Ballet. ...

Vic-Wells Ballet

(Encyclopedia)Vic-Wells Ballet: see Royal Ballet. ...

National Ballet of Canada

(Encyclopedia)National Ballet of Canada, the leading Canadian ballet company. Based in Toronto, it was founded (1951) by Celia Franca (1921–2007) and modeled on Sadler's Wells (now the Royal Ballet). Its repertoi...

National Ballet of Cuba

(Encyclopedia)National Ballet of Cuba: see Alonso, Alicia. ...

New York City Ballet

(Encyclopedia)New York City Ballet (NYCB), one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th and 21st cents. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. In 1948 th...