Houston Ballet, operated by Houston Ballet Foundation, is a professional ballet company based in Houston, Texas.
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16 Facts About Houston Ballet
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That same year, Houston Ballet performed Frederic Franklin's Nutcracker for six post-Christmas performances in Jones Hall.
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Houston Ballet staged more than 20 of his one-act ballets while engaging some of the most important choreographers of the time: Ronald Hynd, Barry Moreland, Hans van Manen, John Cranko, and Sir Frederick Ashton.
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Houston Ballet shared Jones Hall with the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, and the Society for the Performing Arts.
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In 1989, Houston Ballet appointed British choreographers Sir Kenneth MacMillan as Artistic Associate and Christopher Bruce as Associate Choreographer.
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Stevenson increased the number of guest choreographers by contracting works from internationally known dance-makers: Glen Tetley, James Kudelka, Paul Taylor, Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian, Lila York, William Forsythe, Natalie Weir, Brian Enos, Nacho Duato, David Parsons, Houston Ballet-born David Rousseve, Farrell Dyde, Gillian Lynne, and Stanton Welch.
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Houston Ballet formed his own company in Idaho in 2005, after serving eight years as Houston Ballet's Choreographic Associate.
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Under Conner's leadership, Houston Ballet retired its accumulated deficit and quadrupled the company's endowment.
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Houston Ballet performed all of the title roles and had several ballets created on her.
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Li Cunxin became one of Houston Ballet's shining stars, dancing with the company for 16 years.
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In 2015, Houston Ballet implemented a five-year strategic plan with goals to expand the company to 65 dancers by 2020.
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Winifred Wallace, one of the Founding Trustees of Houston Ballet, had a dream: to build a women's auxiliary, or guild, to assist the goals and needs of the Foundation.
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Houston Ballet's dream came true on January 22,1973, when the Houston Ballet Guild held its first meeting.
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Houston Ballet Guild has grown from its original membership of 22 to more than 380 members with an active board of more than 50 women and men.
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On March 10,2010, Houston Ballet hosted a party with dancers, staff members, donors, and friends to sign the last construction beam.
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