♦ Location: Columbus, Ohio – United States
♦ Artistic Director: Remi Wörtmeyer
♦ Founded in 1978 by Daryl Kamer
BalletMet 2025-2026 Season
The BalletMet 2025-2026 season, the first one curated by Remi Wörtmeyer, will showcase eight works that have never before been seen in Columbus including several by the Artistic Director himself.
“My first season with BalletMet has been spent getting to know this incredible company and community. For our 48th season, we are bringing the best of the world to Columbus with a mix of classical fairy tales, boundary-pushing neo-classical and contemporary dance, and reimagined story ballets.”
Remi Wörtmeyer, Artistic Director of BalletMet
The season begins and ends with with Wörtmeyer premieres. The first program – REMI REMI REMI – is a triple bill of pieces which make their Columbus debuts. Miroirs and Concerto Mondrian will join the world premiere of his Rite of Spring, a production combining the well-known Stravinsky score with street art by Columbus native Lance Johnson.
The closing program is Wörtmeyer’s new version of La Bohème inspired by Puccini’s opera of the same name; yet instead of being set in 19th-century Paris, this ballet will take place in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
For the Love of Dance! will feature a work by Company Dancer Leiland Charles along with Juanjo Arquez’s Ignite and Alexei Ratmansky’s Seven Sonatas.
Two full-length ballets complete the season – the perennial showing of Gerard Charles’s The Nutcracker and Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan. The former highlights BalletMet Dance Academy students while the latter fills the stage with sets and costumes by Emma Bailey.
BalletMet 2024-2025 Season
The BalletMet 2024-2025 season – the final one curated by current Artistic Director Edwaard Liang – sees the return of full-length fan favorites as well as world premieres created by Dwight Rhoden and Jennifer Archibald.
“This season will be another year full of beautiful choreography and exciting stories and we couldn’t be more thrilled to share it with Columbus. And with just as much excitement, we cannot wait to welcome our new artistic director this year to help bring our 47th season to life.”
Sue Porter, Executive Director of BalletMet
Daivd Nixon’s Dracula, Gerard Charles’ Nutcracker, and Liang’s The Sleeping Beauty along with Julio Monge revival of Jerome Robbin’s West Side Story are sure to please story-loving ballet audiences. The latter is a collaboration with other local arts organizations such as the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Columbus.
BalletMet’s 47th season closes with a triple-bill featuring the return of Ulysses Dove’s Red Angels and the new works by Rhoden and Archibald in a program titled Black Voices.
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