Royal Ballet of Flanders: Difference between revisions

| founding_director = Jeanne Brabants

| website = [{{URL|1=http://www.operaballet.be/?lang=en Official Website]|2=www.operaballet.be}}

| company_manager = Kiki Vervloessem

| artistic_director = [[Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui]]

| deputy_director artistic_staff_name = Tamas Moricz

| ballet_mistress = Joëlle Auspert,Gabor Kapin,Olivier Patey

| choreographers = Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; Pina Bausch, William Forsythe, Hans Van Manen, AkhramAkram Khan, Ohad Naharin, Marcia Haydee, Crystal Pite, Edouard Lock, Demis Volpi, Jaroen Verbruggen,

| formation = {{ubl|Principals<br/>|Soloists<br/>|Corps de Ballet}}

The '''Royal Ballet of Flanders''' is a dance company based in [[Antwerp]], [[Belgium]], specializing in [[classical ballet|classical]], [[neoclassical ballet|neoclassical]] and [[contemporary ballet]]. In its current incarnation, the company was established in 1969. It tours internationally.

The current Royal Ballet of Flanders was established by Belgium's federal Ministry of Dutch Culture in 1969.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cohen|first=Selma Jeanne|title=International encyclopedia of dance: a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195123098|pages=422}}</ref> Previously, Belgium had two professional classical ballet companies, the Royal Ballet of Flanders and {{ill|Ballet Royaleroyal de Wallonie|fr}}. The Ballet Royaleroyale de Wallonie, founded in 1966, was brought under the direction of [[Frédéric Flamand]] in 1991, who renamed the company [[Charleroi/Danse]] and shifted the focus of the troupe entirely onto [[modern dance]].

[[Jeanne Brabants]] was the founder and original Artisticartistic Directordirector of the Royal Ballet of Flanders. She was succeeded as Artisticartistic Directordirector by Rus Valery Panov, then Robert Denvers.<ref>{{cite book|last=Flemish-Netherlands Foundation "Stichting Ons Erfdeel"|title=The Low Countries: Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands, a Yearbook, Volume 18|year=2010|publisher=Pennsylvania State University|pages=271}}</ref>

In September 2012, Assis Carreiro was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders and since her arrival has commissioned and produced works by Wayne McGregor, Jacopo Godani, Edward Clug, Glen Tetley, [[Ashley Page]], among others. Previous Artistic Director [[Kathryn Bennetts]] took her post in 2005 and raised the company's international profile by adding contemporary works including those of William Forsythe to its repertoire and touring more extensively. AnWinning the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in the category Dance Companies under her direction in 2009 as well as the London Circle Critics National Dance Award in 2012 for Outstanding company during her last season made the company an award-winning company, it has since been described as "today one of the best companies in Europe".<ref>{{cite news|last=Sulcas|first=Roslyn|title=Ascendant ballet troupe may trip over finances|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/arts/dance/royal-ballet-of-flanders-struggles-in-belgium.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=March 12, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 18, 2011}}</ref>

In September 2015 AntwerpenAntwerp based choreographer [[Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui]] took the new artistic directorship, along with co-director Tamas Moricz ( William Forsythe dancer).) Together they have became the new artistic co-directors to a reforming Ballet of Flanders under the new aegis of the opera ballet Kunsthuis. The company repertoire has been since shifting to a predominantly contemporary mix of dance works., Focusingfocusing on new works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and touring.

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