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Name
  
Charlotte Ballet

Website
  
[1]

Year founded
  
1970

Artistic Director
  
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux

Associated schools
  
Charlotte Ballet Academy

Formation
  
Company Apprentice Trainee

Charlotte Ballet is the oldest professional ballet company in North Carolina. It was founded by Robert Lindgren former Dean of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1970. It currently has 22 dancers and is the parent company of Charlotte Ballet Academy.

Contents

Artistic Staff

  • Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux - President & Artistic director
  • Douglas Singleton - Executive Director
  • Patricia McBride - Associate Artistic Director & Master Teacher
  • Sasha Janes - Associate Artistic Director
  • Dwight Rhoden - Resident Choreographer

    • Repertoire

    Charlotte Ballet has performed an extensive repertoire over the years.

    Balanchine Work

  • The Four Temperaments
  • Agon
  • Stars and Stripes
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Divertimento No. 15
  • Stravinsky Violin Concerto
  • Apollo
  • Serenade
  • Rubies
  • Who Cares?

    • Petipa

  • Swan Lake
  • Sleeping Beauty

    • Twyla Tharp

  • Nine Sinatra Songs
  • The Golden Section

    • Other Classics

  • Nutcracker (Choreographed by Salvatore Aiello, then Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
  • Cinderella (Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
  • Romeo and Juliet (Choreographed by Septime Webre)
  • Carmina Burana (Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
  • The Little Mermaid (Choreographed by Mark Diamond)

    • 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

    Charlotte Ballet Wikipedia
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