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• The Royal Ballet are due to begin a new strategy to encourage new audiences to watch ballet. Recorded performances of The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo & Juliet and Sylvia, will be screened at cinemas throughout the United Kingdom during June, July and August 2008. If the scheme is successful, further performances will be transmitted live from the Royal Opera House.

• New York City Ballet will hold their first Dancers’ Choice performance Friday, June 27th, in support of the Dancers’ Emergency Fund and will feature a world premiere by NYCB Soloist Adam Hendrickson to music composed by NYCB corps dancer Aaron Severini.

• • On Wednesday, May 29, 2008, City Ballet gave the world premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's Concerto DSCH, named in honor of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Concerto No. 2 in F major is the score for the ballet.

• Cape Town City Ballet held a gala performance of the The Merry Widow on Saturday, 24 May, at 7:00 p.m. The Latvian dancers, Elza Leimane and Raimond Martinov, appeared as guest artists and were accompanied by the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra.

• NYCB held their 2008 Spring gala on Tuesday, April 29, at 7:00 p.m. The program included:

• • George Balanchine's Circus Polka with Robert La Fosse in a guest appearance as the Ringmaster

• • Jerome Robbins's The Four Seasons with:

Winter Megan Fairchild Adam Hendrickson Antonio Carmena

Spring Sara Mearns Philip Neal

Summer Rachel Rutherford Tyler Angle

Fall Ashley Bouder Benjamin Millepied Daniel Ulbricht

• • And Robbins' West Side Story Suite with:

Faye Arthurs Georgina Pazcoguin Gretchen Smith

Robert Fairchild Amar Ramasar Damian Woetzel

• NYCB danced for the first time in over twenty years at the London Coliseum on Wednesday, March 12, 2008, where they will remain through Saturday, March 22.