1. Staff

2. Asian classical ballet traditions

3. Africa

4. Asia

5. Caribbean

6. Europe

7. Middle East

8. Oceania

9. North America

10. South America

11. See also

12. References

A ballet company is a type of dance troupe which performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year (typically thirty or forty weeks) are the norm. A company generally has a home theatre where it stages the majority of its performances, but many companies also tour in their home country or internationally.

Ballet companies routinely make a loss at the box office, and depend on external financial support of one kind or another. In Europe most of this support comes in the form of government subsidies, though private donations are usually solicited as well. In North America private donations are the main source of external funding.

Many ballet companies have an associated school which trains dancers. Traditionally the school would provide almost all of the company's dancers, something which helped to create clear distinctions in style between companies, but 21st century ballet has open hiring practices, and many ballet companies have a very international staff.

Staff

The head of a ballet company is called the artistic director. He or she is usually a retired dancer, and often he choreographs some of the company's productions himself. In a large company he will have one or more assistants. Day to day coaching of the dancers is the responsibility of one or more ballet masters and ballet mistresses. Some companies also employ répétiteurs and dance notators. There is often a resident choreographer.

All but the smallest companies divide their dancers into at least three grades. The most common names for the two higher grades in English are principal and soloist, and the junior dancers form the corps de ballet. Some companies (especially in North America) have trainees or apprentices, who rank below the corps de ballet, and may be unpaid. Some companies further subdivide these grades, and the terminology used varies from company to company. In the 19th century and early to mid 20th century the top female dancer was often recognised as the prima ballerina, but this practice has ceased. Male and female dancers were historically split into separate hierarchies (for more information see ballerina). Today, many companies choose to use a gender-neutral hierarchy. Some companies (mainly in Russia and countries strongly influenced by Russian ballet) employ specialist character dancers: unlike ballerinas female character dancers do not dance en pointe. The largest ballet company in the world is the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow, which employs over 240 dancers, as of 2010. The largest companies in Western Europe and North America employ around one hundred.

Many companies have a music director, generally a conductor by profession, though this is often a part-time position. The music director has a lower status in ballet than he has in opera, where he is the head of the company. Freelance conductors are hired to conduct specific productions as and when required. Large companies have their own orchestra, which is often shared with an opera company resident in the same theatre or opera house. Smaller companies hire a local orchestra on a contract basis for each season of performances, or hire a scratch orchestra for specific performances, e.g. when they are on tour. During company classes and rehearsals music is provided by one or more staff or freelance pianists.

All but the smallest companies have a separate administrative staff that deals with marketing, accounts, personnel issues, logistics and so on. Larger companies employ a permanent staff of craftsmen and craftswomen such as prop makers and costume makers, and technical staff such as lighting technicians and stage managers. Smaller companies hire freelancers for these roles as and when required. Some companies also have physiotherapists, masseurs, and physical trainers on the staff.

Asian classical ballet traditions

The term "ballet" is sometimes used to refer to dance styles in any culture's classical tradition, mainly in reference to classical styles of dance performed in parts of Asia. Classical Ramayana Hindu ballet is often performed in Indonesia. The Royal Ballet of Cambodia is an example of a ballet company in the Eastern tradition.

The companies listed below are ballet companies that perform according to the European tradition, although some international companies also perform contemporary ballets that merge Western and Eastern themes and dance techniques.

Africa

• Algerian National Ballet

• Cairo Opera Ballet Company

• Tunisian National Ballet

• Ballet Theatre Afrikan
• Bovim Ballet
• Cape Town City Ballet
• South African Ballet Theatre

Asia

• Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theater

• Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater

• Guangzhou Ballet
• Liaoning Ballet
• National Ballet of China
• Shanghai Ballet
• Suzhou Ballet
• Tianjin Ballet

• Hong Kong Ballet

• Genecela Dance Centre
• Namarina Youth Dance

• Israel Ballet

• Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo
• Ballet Chambre Ouest
• Higaki Ballet Company
• Houmura Tomoi Ballet
• Iwaki Ballet Company
• Jinushi Kaoru Ballet Company
• K-ballet
• Matsuoka Reiko ballet
• Matsuyama Ballet
• NBA Ballet Company
• Noism
• Noma Ballet Company
• Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre
• Ochi International Ballet
• Osaka Ballet Academy
• Sadamatsu Hamada Ballet
• Sasaki Michiko Ballet Studio
• Star Dancers Ballet
• Tani Momoko Ballet
• The Inoue Ballet Foundation
• The Matsuyama Ballet
• New National Theatre Tokyo
• Tokyo Ballet
• Tokyo City Ballet

• Aukhan Kazakh National Ballet Theatre

• Ballet Manila
• Ballet Philippines
• Philippine Ballet Theatre

• Singapore Dance Theatre

• Korea National Ballet Company
• Seoul Ballet Theatre
• Universal Ballet

• Taiwan Ballet Company
• Capital Ballet Taipei
• Chamber Ballet Taipei
• Kaohsiung City Ballet

• Royal Thai Ballet

• Alisher Navoi Opera and Ballet Theatre

Caribbean

• National Ballet of Cuba

• Ballet Clasico Nacional de Santo Domingo

• National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico
• Western Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico

Europe

• Vienna State Ballet
• Graz Opera Ballet
• Salzburg Ballet

• National Ballet Theatre of Belarus

• Royal Ballet of Flanders

• National Opera and Ballet

• Croatian National Theatre Ballet

• National Theatre Ballet (Prague)
• Prague State Opera Ballet

• Royal Danish Ballet

• Estonian National Opera Ballet
• Vanemuine Theatre

• Finnish National Ballet

• Paris Opera Ballet
• Ballet du Capitole (Toulouse)
• Ballet de Lorraine
• Ballet de l'Opéra National du Rhin (Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Colmar, France)
• Ballet de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux
• Ballet National de Marseille
• Lyon Opera Ballet
• Marseille Opera Ballet
• Malandain Ballet Biarritz

• Greek National Opera

• Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
• Ballet am Rhein (Düsseldorf & Duisburg)
• Bavarian State Ballet, from 1988: Bayerisches Staatsballett
• Berlin State Ballet
• Dresden Semperoper Ballet
• Frankfurt Ballet
• Hamburg Ballet
• Leipzig Ballet
• Stuttgart Ballet

• Hungarian National Ballet
• Pécsi Ballet
• Győri Ballet
• Sopron Ballet

• Monica Loughman Ballet
• Ballet Ireland

• Aterballetto (Reggio-Emilia, Emilia-Romagna)
• La Scala Theatre Ballet
• Rome Ballet
• Teatro Nuovo Turino
• Tuscany Ballet (Florence)
• Compagnia di Balletto del Teatro San Carlo

• Kosovo Ballet

• Latvian National Opera Ballet

• Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet

• Moldova National Opera Ballet

• Les Ballets de Monte Carlo

• Dutch National Ballet

• Norwegian National Ballet

• Krakow Opera Ballet
• Polish National Ballet
• Poznan Opera Ballet
• Wroclaw Opera Ballet

• Centro de Dança do Porto
• National Ballet of Portugal - CNB

• Romanian National Opera Ballet
• Cluj-Napoca Romanian Opera Ballet

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901164346/http://www.kremlin-gkd.ru/ The Kremlim Ballet Theatre. Moscow]
• Ballet de Moscu
• Ballets Russes
• Bolshoi Ballet
• Eifman Ballet
• Kirov Ballet / Mariinsky Ballet
• St Petersburg Ballet Theatre - Konstantin Tashkin
• Mikhaylovsky Theatre
• Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
• Stanislavski Ballet

• Serbian National Ballet

• Slovak National Theatre Ballet

• Slovenian National Ballet

• Ballet Nacional de España
• Barcelona Ballet
• Compañía Nacional de Danza
• Madrid Ballet

• Gothenburg Opera Ballet
• Royal Swedish Ballet

• Basel Ballet
• Geneva Ballet
• Lucerne Dance Theatre
• Zurich Ballet

• Istanbul State Ballet

• Birmingham Royal Ballet
• English National Ballet
• Northern Ballet
• The Royal Ballet
• Scottish Ballet

• Donetsk Ballet
• Kiev Ballet

Middle East

• Cairo Opera Ballet Company (Egypt)

• Les Ballets Persans (Iranian National Ballet re-established in Sweden)

• Israel Ballet

Oceania

• The Australian Ballet
• Ballet Theatre of Queensland
• Melbourne Ballet Company^[1]
• Melbourne City Ballet
• Queensland Ballet
• West Australian Ballet

• The Royal New Zealand Ballet

North America

• Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
• Alberta Ballet
• Ballet BC
• National Ballet of Canada
• Royal Winnipeg Ballet

• Ballet de Monterrey
• National Company of Ballet

• American Ballet Theatre
• American Repertory Ballet
• Anaheim Ballet
• Atlanta Ballet
• Ballet Arizona
• Ballet Austin
• Ballet San Jose
• Ballet Idaho
• Ballet Florida
• Ballet Memphis
• Ballet Met Columbus
• Ballet Nouveau Colorado
• Ballet Tucson
• Ballet West
• Boston Ballet
• Carolina Ballet
• Cincinnati Ballet
• City Ballet of San Diego
• Charleston Ballet Theatre
• Chicago Ballet
• Colorado Ballet
• Dancentre of Edinburg
• Dayton Ballet
• Delta Festival Ballet
• Edward Morgan Ballet
• Eugene Ballet
• Festival Ballet Theater
• Houston Ballet
• Indiana Ballet Company
• Joffrey Ballet
• Kansas City Ballet
• Los Angeles Ballet
• Louisville Ballet
• Madison Ballet
• Miami City Ballet
• Milwaukee Ballet
• Mystic Ballet
• Nashville Ballet
• Nevada Ballet Theater
• New Jersey Ballet
• New Orleans Ballet Theatre
• New York City Ballet
• New York Theatre Ballet
• Next Generation Ballet Tampa
• North Carolina Dance Theater
• Oklahoma City Ballet
• Oregon Ballet Theatre
• Orlando Ballet
• Pennsylvania Ballet
• Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
• Pacific Northwest Ballet
• Paradosi Ballet Company
• National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico
• Richmond Ballet
• Sacramento Ballet
• San Francisco Ballet
• Sarasota Ballet
• Texas Ballet Theater
• Tulsa Ballet
• Washington Ballet

South America

• Ballet Argentino
• Colon Theater Ballet

• São Paulo Companhia de Dança
• Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro

• Chilean National Ballet

• Incolballet

• Ballet Municipal de Lima

See also

• Classical ballet
• Neoclassical ballet
• Contemporary ballet

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