by Kyra Laubacher | Apr 21, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
In the summer of 2017, Carolina Ballet founding artistic director Robert Weiss and renowned composer J. Mark Scearce huddled together at the back of an Italian restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina. Riding the high of their successful 2016 world premiere ballet...
by Gavin Larsen | Aug 20, 2018 | Career, Company Life, Director's Notes
In 1996, a classified ad in Dance Magazine read: “Carolina Ballet…seeks an Artistic Director to lead the next phase of its development as a professional company.” Robert Weiss, who had been a New York City Ballet principal dancer and spent seven years as...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 12, 2018 | Career, News, Profiles, Viral Videos
Valentine’s Day makes February the perfect month for ballet companies to perform Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s famous tale of star-crossed lovers. A few companies presented their versions earlier this month and many are on their way in the next few...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Swan Lake with only nine swans in the corps de ballet—and not one of them wearing a tutu? When Jan Burkhard, now in her third season with Carolina Ballet, first heard about this out-of-the-box version of the classical ballet created in 2005 by the...