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Review: Mixed Program Opens Louisville Ballet’s 65th Season
September 19, 2016 ...with a year-long celebration. The programming kicked off this weekend with “Stars and Stripes,” which included the works of American-adopted Balanchine, modern dance icon Twyla Tharp and a world premiere... -
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Review | Ballet’s ‘Stars + Stripes’ eye-popping
September 19, 2016 ...to a new level in a dance Friday on the stage of the Kentucky Center’s Whitney Hall. But that melding of design and dance also figured into the company’s first... -
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REVIEW- Dance imparts emotion of The Bard’s sonnets
August 18, 2016 Courier-Journal, Elizabeth Kramer- August 11, 2016 For the first time, the Louisville Ballet danced an outside concert on the Central Park stage, illustrating the works of Shakespeare with enthralling new... -
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Bonnie Dance in Fokine’s ‘The Dying Swan’ from Louisville Ballet’s first production
July 7, 2016 Our performance story began on March 16, 1952 as Bonnie Dance danced Fokine’s The Dying Swan for our first audience. As dance writer George Hubbard wrote about the experience, “There... -
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Stage + Studio, A Louisville Ballet Blog: Imagination by Annie Honebrink
July 7, 2017 This week, we take a look into Louisville Ballet’s Annie Honebrink’s mind and what imagination means to her in the scope of dance. The world of make-believe has always fascinated... -
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Remembering Bonnie Dance Thornton
June 22, 2017 Louisville Ballet remembers Bonnie Dance Thornton, our first prima ballerina from 1952. Bonnie Dance, known today as Bonnie Thornton, has left her mark with Louisville Ballet. She performed Fokine’s The... -
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Louisville Ballet announces the Commonwealth Choreography Award
May 5, 2026 ...via email at adunsford@louisvilleballet.org About Louisville Ballet Founded in 1952, Louisville Ballet is Kentucky’s official state ballet and a nationally recognized professional dance company. Committed to changing lives through dance,...