Ballet choreographers

A group of artists in the Aegean province of İzmir has implemented a street dance project with the slogan "dance knows no borders and no place" amid the pandemic period.

Coming together for the project held as part of April 29, World Dance Day, they danced in the city's squares, parks, bazaars and side streets.

A former star choreographer for Britain's famed Royal Ballet Company has died aged 35, his family announced on April 17, a day after Denmark's Royal Theatre pulled his show over claims of "offensive behavior".

The art of ballet, known as the symbol of elegance, beauty and will, moved from classrooms surrounded by full-length mirrors and ballet bars to living rooms of houses during the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected and caused changes in many branches of art.

Dance can also be a science. I can't stop exploring dance. By dedicating yourself to it you immerse into a world of unbounded knowledge. "There's always something new coming, and you want to reach out for it," the choreographer Assn. Dr. S.P. Anna Pampulova says.

To mark International Dance Day, the Turkish State Opera and Ballet (DOB) has shared a video clip featuring the performances of ballet dancers, who took the stage for several ballet masterpieces in Turkey.

A local public opera and ballet in southern Turkey is set to stage Romeo and Juliet ballet for the first time this season. (Source: Anadolu Agency)

The world-renowned Bejart Ballet Lausanne returns to the Athens Concert Hall with Maurice Bejart's "Magic Flute," which is being staged in Greece for the first time. In his take on the famous Mozart opera, the legendary French-born choreographer juxtaposed the innocence of childhood with the structured rigidity of the adult world. Shows start at 8 p.m.

A Turkish ballet dancer is gearing up to train young dancers in France next week.

Swiss ballet company Bejart Ballet Lausanne will take the stage at the Odeon of Herod Atticus for two memorable shows - "Seven Greek Dances" and "Bolero" by the late dancer-choreographer Maurice Bejart.

Meet the next generation of dancers, as students from the Greek National Opera's dance school perform self-choreographed and classical works at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC). Under the leadership of Yannis Dontsakis, the school offers courses in classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance, pas de deux, dance theory, choreography and more.