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World Ballet Day Is Back for 2025

World Ballet Day is back! And this time, it’s raising the “barre” with a new theme. Nearly every year, the 24-hour WBD celebration includes broadcasts of classes, rehearsals, interviews, and performances from ballet companies around the globe. After taking a break in 2024, the event returns on Wednesday, November 12, with a focus on accessibility. According to a press release from The Royal Ballet, this year’s WBD is about more than making ballet available to audiences worldwide; it’s about increasing “radical accessibility” in the art form itself.

“Access Becomes Art: World Ballet Day 2025” encourages ballet companies to present work that promotes accessibility through collaborations embracing disabled perspectives. One example, presented by The Royal Ballet, is a world premiere featuring blind artist and scholar Devon Healey in collaboration with choreographers Sir Wayne McGregor, Tiler Peck, Bim Malcomson, and Rebecca Myles Stewart. Set to a soundscape incorporating Healey’s Immersive Descriptive Audio and music by Max Richter, the piece examines blindness as a stimulus for innovation and creativity. Additionally, Dutch National Ballet will premiere a new work choreographed by DNB coryphée Luca Abdel-Nour: a duet featuring junior company member Javier Cubero with wheelchair dancer Eli Bras.

Takashi Kikuchi and Leo Dixon in a World Ballet Day rehearsal. Photo courtesy The Royal Ballet and Opera.

While in previous years The Royal, San Francisco Ballet, and The Australian Ballet have co-hosted the event, this year each company will present its own response to the WBD theme. As usual, participants will stream footage from their individual platforms.

Viewers can tune in for free via the companies’ websites and social media channels. So set your alarms and join us in tuning in!

Here are the companies participating this year:

Asia Pacific

The Australian Ballet

Ballet Indonesia Foundation

Bangkok City Ballet Company

Korea National Ballet

Queensland Ballet

Europe

Paris Opéra Ballet

Dutch National Ballet

Estonian National Ballet

Norwegian National Ballet

Teatr Wielki/Polish National Ballet

Vienna State Ballet

United Kingdom

Acosta Dance Foundation

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing

Northern Ballet

Royal Academy of Dance

The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet School

Americas

American Ballet Theatre

Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico

BalletMet

Boston Ballet

Charlotte Ballet

Houston Ballet

Kansas City Ballet

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

Louisville Ballet

Miami City Ballet

National Ballet of Canada

Sacramento Ballet

San Francisco Ballet

São Paulo Dance Company

Texas Ballet Theater

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Tapas Das: Tapas Das, a young entrepreneur of our times started TWIST N TURNS in 2005. A person who is kind, generous, creative and down to earth wanted to start his own one of a kind dance academy. According to him, Dance is a language of movements that involves space, time and the human body. He was born and grew up in Kolkata, the cultural hub of India. Being appreciated in the field of dance all his life, he is extremely talented. He has been dancing since the age of four. Once he finished his high school, he learned jazz/modern and contemporary dance. His horizons were broadened even more when he started dancing Bollywood with Beat Busters for 4 years, which then was the most upcoming dance crew in Kolkata. After that exposure, he studied how to be a dance teacher, which later started helping him impart his knowledge about dance. Thus, in 2005, with the help of family and friends, he started TWIST N TURNS. Starting with a mere number of 40 students, today TWIST N TURNS currently has over 500 students. Over the time Tapas has taught and performed all over the country. He has performed in cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Jhansi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Udaipur etc. He has been an active participant in the Salsa India Congress in the cities of Bangalore and Bombay, and he has also visited various International Salsa Congresses in Europe, namely in Berlin ,Singapore, Hong Kong,Dubai. He is been also trained recently at Broadway Dance Center (New York), Alvin Alley (New York) and Steps on Broadway (New York). He is not only a dancer or teacher. He is a successful choreographer and has coordinated various shows without difficulty in our country. His leadership skills are exceptional, thus he is where he stands today. His aim in life would be to become a dance educator. He wants to share his tremendous knowledge in the right way to the right people. He is also, simultaneously running other brands like Zumba Kolkata, Bollywood Studio ArtistWala.com and India International Dance Institute.