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Julie Kent (born Julie Cox, 1969) is an American ballet dancer; she was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre from 1993 to June 2015. In 2016, she was named the artistic director of The Washington Ballet. She became co-artistic director at the Houston Ballet in July 2023.
Oct 21, 2022 · It was big news in the dance industry six years ago when the star dancer Julie Kent, after a 29-year career with American Ballet Theater, said she would take a job as the artistic director...
Julie Kent became the Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet in July 2016. She is the longest-serving ballerina in American Ballet Theatre’s 83-year history.
Jun 21, 2015 · They were tributes to Julie Kent, who danced her farewell performance with American Ballet Theater on Saturday night after 29 years with the company — a final “Romeo and Juliet” — and stirred...
Jun 29, 2016 · After dying for the last time on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, body limp on a cold slab of marble beside her Romeo, Julie Kent rose as she had countless times before to receive the audience’s acclaim.
Jun 18, 2015 · Julie Kent became a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre in 1993, the year I was born. Tomorrow, she will take her final bow on my 22nd birthday. I say this not to emphasize her age — she simultaneously possesses agelessness and maturity in her dancing.
Oct 21, 2022 · After six years as artistic director, Julie Kent is leaving the Washington Ballet at the end of the 2022-2023 season, the company announced Friday. In July, Kent will become an artistic...
Mar 25, 2016 · As Julie Kent plans overhaul of Washington Ballet, she bids farewell to ABT and looks forward to passing on what she’s learned there.
Ms. Kent also starred in the films Dancers (1987) and Centerstage (2000). From 2016-2023, she was Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet where she brought important classical and contemporary masterworks into the repertoire, commissioning over 26 world premieres.
May 23, 2017 · WASHINGTON — Almost exactly two years ago, the ballerina Julie Kent stood onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House, eyes brimming with tears, and bade farewell to her 30-year dancing career at...
