WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The Washington Ballet Theatre officially opens its new season in October. At the helm of the company is a woman who is known as one of the premier dancers in America, Julie Kent.

Movie-goers will recognize Julie Kent for her big-screen role in the 2000 film "Center Stage." Ballet aficionados know her as one of the most accomplished dancers of all time. Next year, she makes ...

Julie Kent has a familiar face, though some Houstonians can't quite place how they know her. One shopper recently approached Kent at Blue Mercury, a local beauty boutique, to say, "You look like my ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. On Oct. 21, the Washington Ballet announced that Julie ...

NEW YORK — "You'll note," says Julie Kent, with a wry smile, "that I get the second hug, after the dog." The former ballerina has just walked into her Upper West Side apartment on a recent evening, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Kent succeeds Melissa Allen Bowman who served as the Summer Intensive artistic ...

New Year’s Wants, with a Nod to William Blake Marty Supreme’s American Hustler Audio By Carbonatix In the current National Review, we have a piece called “Prima Ballerina.” It’s about Julie Kent, who ...

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WASHINGTON — She donned a sneaky disguise so that the Kennedy Center audience wouldn’t freak out, knowing a ballet legend was sitting in its midst. It was the best way for Julie Kent — a Bethesda ...

How do you follow up a career as one of the most celebrated ballet dancers in the world? Become the artistic director of another, major metropolitan ballet company. That was the career path Julie Kent ...

WASHINGTON — She first performed it with Mikhail Baryshnikov in New York. Now, renowned ballerina Julie Kent stages her first season of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” as the new artistic director of ...

Julie Kent’s first season as artistic director of the Washington Ballet will be marked by contemporary masters and classics beloved over her distinguished dance career, the former ballerina said in an ...