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The Wizard of Oz
2025-02-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-23 13:00 - 15:30, 2025-02-26 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Cincinnati Music Hall, 1241 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, United States
There’s no place like Music Hall for choreographer Septime Webre’s The Wizard of Oz. Join Dorothy on the yellow brick road but watch out for the Wicked Witch and her flying monkeys! This production features fantastic special effects and gorgeous sets and costumes. With music from Matthew Pierce performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

International Woman
2025-02-21 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-22 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce St, Fort Worth, TX, 76102, United States
Shibuya Blues
Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores the yearning for connection in today’s fast-paced world. Ranging in mood from exhilarating to pensive, Shibuya Blues powerfully examines modern life—and modern dance.
Lamentation Variations
Inspired by legendary choreographer Martha Graham’s wrenching elegy in movement, Lamentation, three distinctive guest choreographers have created their own interpretations as part of the Graham Trust’s continuing commemoration of the tragedy of 9/11.
Maple Leaf Rag
Among Martha Graham’s last works and set to the music of Scott Joplin, the exuberance and whimsy of Maple Leaf Rag will thrill audiences of all ages.
Jabula
Australian choreographer Natalie Weir’s Jabula celebrates motion and dance through a vibrant combination of choral, percussion, and traditional African music.
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transcenDANCE
2025-02-21 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-22 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW, Washington, DC, 20566, United States
TranscenDANCE combines a diverse array of choreographic styles, promising a night of unparalleled dynamism and artistic expression. Experience the raw emotion and timeless beauty of Ulysses Dove’s Vespers, a work that explores the powerful spiritual movement of both the living & lost. Delve into the innovative fusion of Hip-Hop, R&B, and Pop with a live DJ in Jennifer Archibald’s groundbreaking world premiere. Plus, take a journey with Artistic Director Edwaard Liang’s evocative exploration of time in his original work titled Seasons.
Join us for a truly unique and inspiring evening that celebrates the power of dance to transcend the human experience and captivate the spirit of the audience.

The Sleeping Beauty
2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Jackson Hall, TPAC, 505 Deaderick St, Nashville, TN, 37243, United States
Step into a world of enchantment with Nashville Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty. This timeless classic comes to life in a dazzling production that combines Tchaikovsky’s beautiful music with the story’s beloved characters and themes of love, triumph, and the battle between good and evil. Experience the magic of Princess Aurora’s journey, from her cursed slumber to the awakening kiss, in a performance that celebrates the power of true love with music by The Nashville Symphony. This timeless tale, perfect for audiences of all ages, is sure to captivate hearts and inspire dreams.
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Giselle
2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-22 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., Portland, OR, 97201, Unites States
In one of the most beloved classical ballets of all time, a small-town girl falls in love with a visiting stranger who betrays her. When she dies of grief, her spirit joins that of other wronged women, known as the Wilis. They band together to fight against those who have hurt them, forcing Giselle to choose between vengeance and love. The world premiere of this new adaptation choreographed by Tiit Helimets and Dani Rowe is an otherworldly ballet about hope, heartbreak, and forgiveness.
Featuring the OBT Orchestra
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NYC Ballet's Swan Lake
2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-23 15:00 - 17:30, 2025-02-25 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-26 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-27 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Generally acknowledged as the quintessential classical ballet, and certainly the most popular, Swan Lake never fails to enchant audiences with its mythical tale of a lovelorn prince who falls under the spell of a swan, Odette, a young woman transfigured by the sinister Von Rotbart. The Company’s full-length production, first presented in 1999 and choreographed by longtime Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins, draws on the staging by the preeminent classical masters Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. But Martins’ version also highlights the Company’s matchless gift for dancing complex choreography at intoxicatingly brisk tempos.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
2025-02-22 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Gallo Center for the Arts, 1000 I Street, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, Complexions Contemporary Ballet is appearing at the Gallo Center for a second consecutive season—and introducing a new work, For Crying Out Loud, featuring the music of U2!
Using the raw and unfiltered music of Songs of Surrender, U2’s latest release, choreographer and Complexions co-founder Dwight Rhoden brings the vibrancy of the stories told by the music and lyrics into a landscape of expression—drawing on the grit and honesty of these iconic songs stripped down to their acoustic best. The performance is both moving and uplifting, leaving the audience with a sense of hope for what’s to come.
Rhoden and the legendary Desmond Richardson, both former dancers with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, founded the company in 1994. They brought a singular and somewhat shocking approach to reinventing dance through a groundbreaking mix of methods, styles and cultures.
Today, Complexions represents one of the most recognized, diverse, inclusive and respected performing arts brands. Having presented an entirely new and exciting vision of human movement on five continents, to more than 20 million television viewers and to well over 300,000 people in live audiences, Complexions is poised to continue its mission to bring unity to the world one dance at a time.

Momentum: A Mixed Bill
2025-02-22 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland Hall for the Performing Arts, 801 Chase St, Annapolis, MD, 21401, United States
The Ballet Theatre of Maryland presents Momentum: A Mixed Bill!
This exciting performance features all world premieres by BTM company members and guest choreographers. Momentum fosters new works from emerging choreographers while also leaving room for established creators to experiment. The result is bold, dynamic, and often ground-breaking.
New works range from classical to contemporary, which stretches our dancers’ skills in new and inventive ways. From pointe shoes to bare feet, there isn’t another performance that showcases the versatility of the Ballet Theatre of Maryland like Momentum.

Made on Hope
2025-02-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-23 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Black Box Theater, 825 Hope Street, Providence, RI, 02906, United States
World premiere choreography created by artists of Ballet Rhode Island.

Batsheva Dance Company: MOMO
2025-02-22 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-02-23 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zellerbach Hall, 101 Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Among the world’s most exciting makers of contemporary dance, Ohad Naharin brings his powerhouse company to Berkeley for the Bay Area premiere of a daring new work. In the company’s words, “MOMO has two souls. One sends long roots to the depths of the earth—a soul that embodies archetypes and myths of hardened, raw masculinity, and the other is in a constant search for an individual and distinct DNA; one moves within its own autonomous and independent force field and the other is a constellation of elements that spin around the same nucleus—alternately drifting away and towards it, making room for necessary tenderness and catharsis.” Recordings of Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet’s Landfall and Philip Glass’ Metamorphosis: Two provide the slow simmering musical backdrop, alongside a song/prayer by Venezuelan musician Arca.
