Listed below are the most recent promotions, appointments, and departures, in addition to notable awards and accomplishments, from September 2025.
Comings & Goings
ODC/Dance staging director Mia J. Chong has been named co-artistic director, efficient in December.
Dutch Nationwide Ballet affiliate director of expertise growth Ernst Meisner will succeed Ted Brandsen as creative director in August 2026. Christopher Powney will succeed Meisner as creative director of the Junior Firm.
Craig Salstein and Andrew Veyette have been named repertory administrators at New York Metropolis Ballet. Senior repertory director Rosemary Dunleavy retired on the conclusion of the 2024–25 season.
Jamie Burns has been appointed director of Baryshnikov Arts efficient October 14, succeeding former president and government director Sonja Kostich, who departed for Houston Ballet in August.
Sharon Bar-Lev would be the subsequent chief government officer of Batsheva Dance Firm, succeeding Dina Aldor in December.
Michelle Butler has been appointed deputy government director at The Sarasota Ballet.
Dallas Black Dance Theatre government director Zenetta Drew has introduced her retirement. Her departure date might be introduced as soon as the seek for her successor begins in January.
Dr. Sarah Nguyễn has been named director of archives at Jacob’s Pillow.
Laura Fernandez Gromova, Madison Younger, António Casalinho, Alessandro Frola, Kentaro Mitsumori, and Victor Caixeta have joined Vienna State Ballet as principals, Margarita Fernandes, Rosa Pierro, and Vladyslav Bosenko as soloists, and Alessandro Cavallo and Rinaldo Venuti as demi-soloists.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal Lucien Postlewaite will retire on the finish of the 2025–26 season.
Michael Keegan-Dolan and Oona Doherty have withdrawn from their positions as Sadler’s Wells affiliate artists in response to the group’s monetary ties to Barclays.
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers will shut following ultimate spring performances in March.
Awards & Honors
On the MTV Video Music Awards, Robbie Blue gained the award for Finest Choreography for his work on Doechii’s “Nervousness.”
On the Inventive Arts Emmy Awards, Robbie Blue gained the award for Choreography for Selection or Actuality Programming (for The Grammy Awards) and Marguerite Derricks the award for Choreography for Scripted Programming (for “Étoile”).
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck had been among the many inaugural recipients of New York Metropolis’s Mayor’s Workplace of Media and Leisure’s Made in NY Awards for Theatre and Dwell Efficiency.
Recipients of 2025 Nationwide Dance Undertaking Manufacturing Grants, which incorporates $45,000 towards the creation of recent dance works, $10,000 unrestricted assist, and $10,000 in assist of manufacturing residencies or group engagement, embrace Rosy Simas Danse, Sweat Variant, Jamal Jackson Dance Firm, Benjamin Akio Kimitch, Vanessa Hernández Cruz, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Joti Singh, MoBBallet, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Jacob Jonas The Firm, Emily Johnson, Rashida Bumbray, Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud/The Love Makers Firm, DANCE IQUAIL!, jaamil olawale kosoko, Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington, Tere O’Connor Dance, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Chitra Subramanian, and Escuela de Bomba y Plena Tata Cepeda. As well as, finalists Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Calpulli Mexican Dance Firm, Degenerate Artwork Ensemble, Brownbody, Limón Dance Firm, Dohee Lee, Fox Whitney, The Vangeline Theater, amara tabor-smith, GALLIM, Sozo Influence, Heather Kravas, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Sekou McMiller, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Roderick George, Soles of Duende, Joanna Kotze, Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists, and Heidi Latsky Dance obtained $10,000 unrestricted grants.
Hannah Galway and Ben Rudisin obtained Nationwide Ballet of Canada’s 2025 Dancers First Award, which features a $5,000 money prize for every dancer.