Ballet company
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A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballets.
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[edit] Members
A ballet company usually consists of:
- Artistic director
- Ballet mistress or Ballet master
- Choreographer
- Prima ballerinas
- Ballerinas
- Principal dancers
- Soloists
- Corps de ballet
- Regisseur
- Character dancers
- Répétiteur or Dance notator
- Music director
- Orchestra
- Executive director
[edit] Famous ballet companies
[edit] Europe
[edit] Russia
- The Kremlim Ballet Theatre. Moskau
- Ballets Russes
- Kirov Ballet / Mariinsky Ballet
- Bolshoi Ballet
- St Petersburg Ballet Theatre - Konstantin Tashkin
[edit] United Kingdom
- Birmingham Royal Ballet
- English National Ballet
- Northern Ballet Theatre
- Royal Ballet, London
- Scottish Ballet
[edit] Other countries
- Ballet Rambert
- Bavarian State Ballet
- Cluj-Napoca Romanian Opera Ballet
- Dutch National Ballet
- Estonian National Opera
- Lyon Opera Ballet
- Marseille Opera Ballet
- Moldova National Opera Ballet
- Nederlands Dans Theatre (NDT)
- Paris Opera Ballet
- Romanian National Opera Ballet
- Royal Danish Ballet
- Stuttgart Ballet
- Vienna State Opera Ballet
[edit] The Americas
- Alberta Ballet Company
- American Ballet Theatre
- American Negro Ballet
- Atlanta Ballet
- Atlanta Festival Ballet
- Ballet San Jose
- Ballet British Columbia
- Charleston Ballet Theatre
- National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico
- National Ballet of Cuba
- Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Houston Ballet
- Joffrey Ballet
- Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
- Miami City Ballet
- Midland Festival Ballet
- National Ballet of Canada
- New York City Ballet
- Pacific Northwest Ballet
- Royal Winnipeg Ballet
- San Francisco Ballet
[edit] Oceania
- The Australian Ballet
- The Royal New Zealand Ballet
[edit] Asia
- Austrian Ballet Company-Tokyo
- Shanghai Ballet Company
[edit] Africa
- South African Ballet Theatre
- Ballet Theatre Afrikan