Ballet company

Ballet company

A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballets.

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

Famous ballet companies

Europe

Russia

* [http://www.kremlin-gkd.ru The Kremlim Ballet Theatre. Moscow]
* Ballets Russes
* Kirov Ballet / Mariinsky Ballet
* Bolshoi Ballet
* St Petersburg Ballet Theatre - Konstantin Tashkin
* Ballet de Moscu


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* Birmingham Royal Ballet
* English National Ballet
* Northern Ballet Theatre
* Royal Ballet, London
* Scottish Ballet
* Rambert Dance Company, formerly the "Ballet Rambert", now a contemporary dance company

Other countries

* Bavarian State Ballet
* Cluj-Napoca Romanian Opera Ballet
* Dutch National Ballet
* Estonian National Opera
* Hungarian National Ballet
* 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
* Ballet van Vlaanderen
* Corpo di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala
* Aterballetto
* Compagnia di Balletto del Teatro San Carlo

The Americas

* Alberta Ballet Company
* Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
* American Ballet Theatre
* American Negro Ballet
* Atlanta Ballet
* Ballet San Jose
* Ballet British Columbia
* Cincinnati Ballet
* Charleston Ballet Theatre
* Chicago Festival Ballet
* National Ballet of Cuba
* Dance Theatre of Harlem
* Houston Ballet
* Indiana Ballet Company
* Joffrey Ballet
* Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
* Miami City Ballet
* Midland Festival Ballet
* Mystic Ballet
* National Ballet of Canada
* New York City Ballet
* New York Theatre Ballet
* Pennsylvania Ballet
* Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
* Pacific Northwest Ballet
* National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico
* Royal Winnipeg Ballet
* San Francisco Ballet
* Tulsa Ballet

Oceania

* The Australian Ballet
* The Royal New Zealand Ballet

Asia

* Austrian Ballet Company-Tokyo
* National Ballet of China
* Shanghai Ballet Company
* Yana Lewis Dance Company

Africa

* Cape Town City Ballet
* South African Ballet Theatre
* Ballet Theatre Afrikan


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