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Anthology
2025-02-06 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Denver) | Boise State University SPEC, 1800 W University Dr, Boise, ID, 83706, United States
Often an audience favorite, Anthology offers rich variety in a collection of short works. This season, the common thread in this program is one of distinctly American influences. In different ways, each of these works exemplify the many facets of American dance as we know it today.
We are excited to revive Six Figures, created by company soloist Ashley Baker during our digital season in 2021. Ashley created this work for the screen and is excited to reimagine it for a live audience.
Created for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Something About Night offers poignant scenes of dancers sharing moments of refuge in an increasingly loud world. We are thrilled to have this work return to our stage this season.
Cherice Barton is a new voice in Ballet Idaho’s repertoire, but she is anything but new to the world of choreography. Barton’s experience ranges from concert dance to film, Broadway, and television. Based in Los Angeles, she has worked with famous figures like Katy Perry and George Lucas, and we are thrilled to see what Cherice creates in Boise with our talented artists.
Also back by popular demand, we will close our program with the incredible Extremely Close, choreographed by Alejandro Cerrudo featuring music by the iconic American composer, Phillip Glass. One of Cerrudo’s most performed works, this work has proven to be an enduring classic of the contemporary dance cannon, leaving the audience captivated with its hypnotic drama.
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All Balanchine II
2025-02-05 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
The Company honors the centenary of Maria Tallchief’s birth with three Balanchine works created on the great ballerina. Tallchief danced in the 1952 premiere of Scotch Symphony, a romantic ballet in which Balanchine paid homage to the dramatic landscape and atmosphere of the Scottish Highlands. A pas de deux inspired by the full-length Sylvia returns to the repertory after 30 years, and features intricate classical steps that highlighted her spectacular technique. And Tallchief was also renowned for her performance in the title role of Firebird, an allegorical fantasy set to Stravinsky’s brilliant score.

All Stravinsky
2025-02-04 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-01 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-28 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-26 15:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
A program devoted to works set to music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky is highlighted by two unique Jerome Robbins gems: The Cage, which depicts a swarm of insect-like female creatures descending upon their unwitting male prey, and Concertino, a trio that was originally performed as the third section of Robbins’ Four Chamber Works. Balanchine’s Danses Concertantes, a spirited ballet with richly detailed costumes and hints of commedia dell’arte-inspired humor, opens the program, and his classic leotard ballet Stravinsky Violin Concerto, one of Balanchine’s greatest achievements, brings the affair to a rousing finish.

New Combinations
2025-02-02 15:00 - 17:30, 2025-01-30 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-29 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
The annual program celebrating Balanchine’s birthday traditionally features a world premiere, in this case the 25th dance from Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck, for which Dan Deacon will be providing a commissioned score. The program opens with Christopher Wheeldon’s From You Within Me, set to Arnold Schoenberg’s early work Verkläkte Nacht, featuring a cast of a dozen dancers and painter Kylie Manning’s atmospheric drops at the front and back of the stage. Balanchine is represented by one of his most strikingly enigmatic works, Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, a pas de deux for a woman swathed in a huge, billowing skirt, personifying the “door” of the title, and a man as the “sigh,” illustrating the otherworldly Pierre Henry score.

New Moves
2025-02-02 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-01 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-01 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-01-31 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-01-30 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Michael and Ginger Frost Theater, 500 W. Pershing Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Witness the future of ballet! This limited-run showcase offers audiences the opportunity to see tomorrow’s sought-after choreographers today, as they explore bold new ways of expression and create never-before-seen dance creations.
New Moves offers an up-close and visceral experience for both the audience and the dancers. You will feel the athleticism, beauty, power, and passion of contemporary ballet in a way that you may have never experienced before.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to witness the evolution of dance and see emerging artists in action. Get your tickets now and be a part of the future of ballet.

Manon
2025-02-01 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-02-01 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-01-31 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-01-30 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-29 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-28 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-26 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-01-25 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Building on the SF Ballet premiere of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth, this season we bring Manon, considered one of his most notable and widely celebrated works. Showcasing his expertise of narrative choreography and acute insight into human psychology, this is MacMillan at his best.
The story of Manon’s struggle to escape poverty makes it one of the most dramatic and devastating ballets, showcasing the juxtaposition between her impoverished origins and the lavish world she longs to inhabit—paying the ultimate price for true love and freedom.
Due to mature themes, this ballet is recommended for ages 14 and up.
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The Sleeping Beauty
2025-02-01 19:30 - 22:30, 2025-02-01 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-31 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
This brand-new production of The Sleeping Beauty promises to enchant with scenic design by glass artist Preston Singletary and costumes by Paul Tazewell (Hamilton, West Side Story, PNB’s Swan Lake).
Step into a world of magic and monarchs in this historically-informed re-imagining of a classic tale. Walk with Princess Aurora through a Pacific Northwest–inspired fairyland, as she fulfills her destiny in a ballet full of adventure, dreams, and love.
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All Balanchine I
2025-02-01 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-01-25 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Balanchine’s multifaceted talent is showcased in a program uniting three classic works. Concerto Barocco, from 1941, is set to Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, and features crystalline choreography for the two lead ballerinas, each representing the voice of one violin, as well as a male dancer and a small corps de ballet. For Allegro Brillante Balanchine returned to a favorite composer, Tschaikovsky, to create a scintillating dance that combines lyricism and buoyancy. Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet features a cast of more than 50 dancers in a ballet that, in four distinct movements, pays homage to the Romantic era as epitomized by Brahms’s music, filtered through the distinct modernist style of Arnold Schoenberg.

CARMEN.maquia
2025-01-25 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-01-25 14:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Always a TITAS favorite, Ballet Hispánico brings to Dallas the premiere of a reimagined, evening-length version of the critically acclaimed CARMEN.maquia. It is a Picasso-inspired contemporary take on Bizet’s beloved classic. The physically charged and sensual choreography fuses contemporary dance with nods to the Spanish paso doble and flamenco. Highly original and full of elaborate partnering, CARMEN.maquia is a bold and electrifying reimagining of the tragic tale. TITAS is honored to present the premiere of the evening-length version of CARMEN.maquia.

Winter ’25
2025-01-25 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cornish Playhouse, 201 Mercer St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Join us for a winter season that celebrates the convergence of tradition, innovation, and the transformative power of dance. Whim W’Him showcases the creative brilliance of choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe, a proud member of the Tla’amin First Nation; the visionary direction of Robyn Mineko Williams; and the innovative genius of Founder and Artistic Director, Olivier Wevers.
