• 1946 Ballet Society, New York City, premiere
• 1951 New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
  
   premiere
• 1960 Royal Swedish Ballet
  Royal Swedish Ballet
  The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773 as a part of his national cultural project in response to the French and Italian dominance in this field; he also founded the Royal Swedish Opera and the...
  
  
• 1961 Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  
• 1962 Ballett der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
• 1962 Teatro alla Scala, Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
  
• 1963 Paris Opera Ballet
  Paris Opera Ballet
  The Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it...
  
  , Palais Garnier
  Palais Garnier
  The Palais Garnier, , is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier...
  
  
• 1963 Royal Danish Ballet
  Royal Danish Ballet
  The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, it originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded, and was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance...
  
  
• 1964 Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• 1964 National Ballet, Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
  
   (1963—1974)
• 1966 Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf
  Düsseldorf
  Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
  
  
• 1967 Teatro dell' Opera di Roma
• 1968 Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
  
  
• 1968 Den Norske Opera Ballet, Norway
• 1969 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 1969 National Ballet of Canada
  National Ballet of Canada
  The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The National is regarded as one of the premier classical...
  
  
• 1970 Ballett der Deutschen Oper, West Berlin
  West Berlin
  West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
  
  
• 1970 Geneva Ballet, Grand Théâtre de Genève Ballet
• 1970 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 1973 The Royal Ballet
• 1974 Ballet West
  Ballet West
  Ballet West, Salt Lake City, Utah was founded in 1963 by Glenn Walker Wallace, who served as its first president. It was called the Utah Civic Ballet company. Willam F...
  
  
• 1974 Ballett der Stadtischen Buhnen, Frankfurt
  Frankfurt
  Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
  
  
• 1974 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is a Canadian ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec.It was founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Conductor and composer Michel Perrault served as the organization's first music director. In 2000, Gradimir Pankov became Artistic Director...
  
  
• 1974 San Francisco Ballet
  San Francisco Ballet
  The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
  
  
• 1975 Ballet West
  Ballet West
  Ballet West, Salt Lake City, Utah was founded in 1963 by Glenn Walker Wallace, who served as its first president. It was called the Utah Civic Ballet company. Willam F...
  
  
• 1975 Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• 1975 Teatro Communale Ballet
• 1976 Ballet de l'Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg
  Strasbourg
  Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
  
  
• 1976 Ballet de Nancy, France
• 1976 Birmingham Royal Ballet
  Birmingham Royal Ballet
  Birmingham Royal Ballet is one of the three major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside the Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet....
  
  /Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
• 1976 Chicago City Ballet (closed)
• 1976 Chicago Lyric Opera
• 1976 The Royal Ballet
• 1977 Balet Hrvatsko Narodno Kazaliste

Croatian National Theater, Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

• 1977 Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  
• 1977 Paris Opera Ballet
  Paris Opera Ballet
  The Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it...
  
  , Palais Garnier
  Palais Garnier
  The Palais Garnier, , is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier...
  
  
• 1977 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 1977 Royal Danish Ballet
  Royal Danish Ballet
  The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, it originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded, and was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance...
  
  
• 1977 Stora Teaterns Balett, Gothenburg
  Gothenburg
  Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
  
  , Sweden
• 1977 Zurich Ballet, Ballett des Opernhauses Zurich
• 1978 Ballett der Deutschen Staatsoper, East Berlin
  East Berlin
  East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945. The American, British and French sectors became West Berlin, a part strongly associated with West Germany but a free city...
  
  
• 1978 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is a Canadian ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec.It was founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Conductor and composer Michel Perrault served as the organization's first music director. In 2000, Gradimir Pankov became Artistic Director...
  
  
• 1978 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 1979 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 1979 Stora Teaterns Balett, Gothenburg
  Gothenburg
  Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
  
  , Sweden
• 1980 Ballett der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Munich
  Munich
  Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
  
  
• 1980 New York Dance Theatre
• 1981 Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  
• 1981 San Francisco Ballet
  San Francisco Ballet
  The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
  
  
• 1981 The Royal Ballet
• 1982 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is a Canadian ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec.It was founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Conductor and composer Michel Perrault served as the organization's first music director. In 2000, Gradimir Pankov became Artistic Director...
  
  
• 1982 Los Angeles Ballet
  Los Angeles Ballet
  The Los Angeles Ballet, located in Los Angeles, California was founded in 2006.It is led by the husband and wife team of Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary, who serve as artistic directors. Christensen danced with the Royal Danish Ballet, and he and Neary both performed with the New York City...
  
  
• 1982 Royal Swedish Ballet
  Royal Swedish Ballet
  The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773 as a part of his national cultural project in response to the French and Italian dominance in this field; he also founded the Royal Swedish Opera and the...
  
  
• 1983 Ballet du Nord (France)
• 1983 Ballett der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
• 1983 CAPAB Ballet

since renamed the Cape Town City Ballet Company

• 1983 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 1983 Royal Danish Ballet
  Royal Danish Ballet
  The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, it originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded, and was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance...
  
  
• 1984 Cleveland San Jose Ballet
• 1984 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 1984 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 1984 San Francisco Ballet
  San Francisco Ballet
  The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
  
  
• 1984 National Ballet of Canada
  National Ballet of Canada
  The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The National is regarded as one of the premier classical...
  
  
• 1984 Theatre & Philharmonie Essen, West Germany
  West Germany
  West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
  
  
• 1985 Ballet Dallas
• 1985 Ballett der Deutschen Oper, West Berlin
  West Berlin
  West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
  
  
• 1985 Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• 1985 Cincinnati Ballet
  Cincinnati Ballet
  The Cincinnati Ballet is a professional ballet company founded in 1958 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The current artistic director is Victoria Morgan.-Founding:...
  
  
• 1985 Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  
• 1985 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 1985 Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
  Buenos Aires
  Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
  
  , Argentina
• 1985 The Australian Ballet
• 1986 Ballet de Basler Theaters, Switzerland
• 1986 Ballet del Teatro Lirico Nacional, Madrid
  Madrid
  Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
  
  
• 1986 Ballet du Nord, France
• 1986 Banff Center, Alberta
  Alberta
  Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
  
  , Canada
• 1986 Finnish National Ballet
  Finnish National Ballet
  Finnish National Ballet is a professional ballet company at the Finnish National Opera, in Helsinki, Finland. The company was founded in 1922 and it currently employs 73 dancers. It is the only Finnish company that regularly performs a classical ballet repertoire...
  
  
• 1986 L'Opéra des Pays de Loire
• 1986 Minnesota Dance Theater
• 1986 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
  The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is an American professional ballet company based in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.- History :...
  
  
• 1986 Teatro alla Scala, Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
  , Italy
• 1987 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 1987 Heinz Bosl Stiftung Muenchen
• 1987 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is a Canadian ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec.It was founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Conductor and composer Michel Perrault served as the organization's first music director. In 2000, Gradimir Pankov became Artistic Director...
  
  
• 1987 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 1987 Washington Ballet
  Washington Ballet
  The Washington Ballet is an ensemble of professional athletic classical ballet dancers. It was founded in 1976 by American ballet pioneer Mary Day, and has been under the artistic directorship of Septime Webre since 1999.-The Mary Day years :...
  
  
• 1988 Ballet du Nord (France)
• 1988 Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• 1988 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 1988 L'Opera des Pays de Loire
• 1988 Opéra de Nantes
• 1988 Star Dancers Ballet Company, Japan
• 1989 Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
  
  
• 1989 Cleveland San Jose Ballet
• 1989 NAPAC Ballet, Natal Performing Arts Council—Durban

South Africa

• 1989 Teatro alla Scala, Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
  
• 1989 National Ballet of Canada
  National Ballet of Canada
  The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The National is regarded as one of the premier classical...
  
  
• 1989 Theatre & Philharmonie Essen, Germany
• 1990 Ballet de Nancy, France
• 1990 Ballet of Flanders

Koninklijk Ballet Van Vlaanderen

Royal Flemish Ballet

• 1990 Israel Ballet
• 1990 Kansas City Ballet
  Kansas City Ballet
  Founded in 1957, Kansas City Ballet is a 25-member professional ballet company under the direction of Artistic Director William Whitener and Executive Director Jeffrey J. Bentley. Kansas City Ballet performs three mixed repertory seasons per year as well as the ever-popular Nutcracker...
  
  

formerly State Ballet of Missouri

• 1990 Malmö Stadsteater, Sweden
• 1990 Royal Swedish Ballet
  Royal Swedish Ballet
  The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773 as a part of his national cultural project in response to the French and Italian dominance in this field; he also founded the Royal Swedish Opera and the...
  
  
• 1990 Star Dancers Ballet Company, Japan
• 1990 Theatre & Philharmonie Essen, Germany
• 1991 Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  
• 1991 Heinz Bosl Stiftung Muenchen
• 1991 Milwaukee Ballet
  Milwaukee Ballet
  The Milwaukee Ballet is a professional ballet company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1969 by Roberta Boorse and held its first performance on April 24, 1970. It is currently ranked among the top twelve ballet companies in the United States...
  
  
• 1991 NAPAC Ballet, Natal Performing Arts Council—Durban

South Africa

• 1991 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 1991 San Francisco Ballet
  San Francisco Ballet
  The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
  
  
• 1991 Teatro dell' Opera di Roma
• 1991 Texas Ballet

formerly Fort Worth Dallas Ballet

• 1992 Ballet de Santiago
• 1992 Banff Center, Alberta
  Alberta
  Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
  
  , Canada
• 1992 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 1992 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is a Canadian ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec.It was founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Conductor and composer Michel Perrault served as the organization's first music director. In 2000, Gradimir Pankov became Artistic Director...
  
  
• 1992 The National Ballet of Canada
• 1992 Washington Ballet
  Washington Ballet
  The Washington Ballet is an ensemble of professional athletic classical ballet dancers. It was founded in 1976 by American ballet pioneer Mary Day, and has been under the artistic directorship of Septime Webre since 1999.-The Mary Day years :...
  
  
• 1993 CAPAB

since renamed the Cape Town City Ballet Company

• 1993 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
• 1993 Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida. It was created in 1986 by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Edward Villella and flourishes today as one of America's most respected ballet companies...
  
  
• 1993 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 1993 Paris Opera Ballet
  Paris Opera Ballet
  The Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it...
  
  , Palais Garnier
  Palais Garnier
  The Palais Garnier, , is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier...
  
  
• 1993 Sacramento Ballet
• 1993 Texas Ballet

formerly Fort Worth Dallas Ballet

• 1994 Ballet du Nord, France
• 1994 Ballett der Deutschen Oper, Berlin
• 1994 Milwaukee Ballet
  Milwaukee Ballet
  The Milwaukee Ballet is a professional ballet company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1969 by Roberta Boorse and held its first performance on April 24, 1970. It is currently ranked among the top twelve ballet companies in the United States...
  
  
• 1994 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 1994 Royal New Zealand Ballet
  Royal New Zealand Ballet
  The Royal New Zealand Ballet is based in Wellington, New Zealand.The Royal New Zealand Ballet is a company of 32 dynamic dancers, performing an eclectic repertoire of outstanding dance, for national and international audiences, whilst continuing to build a style that is ultimately unique to the...
  
  
• 1995 Ballet de l'Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg
  Strasbourg
  Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
  
  , France
• 1995 Ballett der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Munich
  Munich
  Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
  
  
• 1995 Hartford Ballet
• 1995 Star Dancers Ballet Company (Japan)
• 1995 Teatro Comunale (Florence, Italy)
• 1996 Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• 1996 Cincinnati Ballet
  Cincinnati Ballet
  The Cincinnati Ballet is a professional ballet company founded in 1958 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The current artistic director is Victoria Morgan.-Founding:...
  
  
• 1996 Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  
• 1996 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is a Canadian ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec.It was founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Conductor and composer Michel Perrault served as the organization's first music director. In 2000, Gradimir Pankov became Artistic Director...
  
  
• 1996 Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida. It was created in 1986 by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Edward Villella and flourishes today as one of America's most respected ballet companies...
  
  
• 1996 Nashville City Ballet
• 1996 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 1996 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
  The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is an American professional ballet company based in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.- History :...
  
  
• 1996 Seoul Ballet Theatre
  Seoul Ballet Theatre
  Seoul Ballet Theatre is one of four professional ballet troupes in the Republic of Korea. It was founded in 1995 as the country's first private professional ballet company . In that year, it gave its first performances . In addition to regular performances, the company gives outreach...
  
  
• 1996 Stuttgart Ballet
  Stuttgart Ballet
  Stuttgart Ballet was the first major German ballet company. It rose to fame in the 1960s under Artistic Director John Cranko. The company, which is renowned for presentations of full-length narrative ballets including Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew, John Neumeier's Die...
  
  

Ballett der Wurttembergischen Staatsoper—Stuttgart, Germany

• 1996 Texas Ballet

formerly Fort Worth Dallas Ballet

• 1996 Universal Ballet Company
  Universal Ballet Company
  The Universal Ballet was founded in Seoul, South Korea in 1984. One of only four professional ballet companies in South Korea, the company performs a repertory that includes many full length classical story ballets, together with shorter contemporary works and original full-length Korean ballets...
  
  , Korea
• 1997 American Repertory Ballet
  American Repertory Ballet
  The American Repertory Ballet is a New Jersey ballet company. The current director is Douglas Martin.-Artistic directors:*Douglas Martin 2010–present *Graham Lustig 1999-2010 *Septime Webre 1993-1999 *Marjorie Mussman 1992-1993 *Dermot Burke 1986-1992...
  
  
• 1997 Ballet Arizona
  Ballet Arizona
  Ballet Arizona is a professional ballet company in Phoenix, Arizona directed by Ib Andersen. The company was created in 1986 by a merger of three smaller Arizonan dance companies that were struggling to survive...
  
  
• 1997 Birmingham Royal Ballet
  Birmingham Royal Ballet
  Birmingham Royal Ballet is one of the three major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside the Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet....
  
  /Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
• 1997 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 1997 Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
  Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
  Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, is a Theatre in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April 1780. It was in this theatre that the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée premiered in 1789, and where a young Marius Petipa staged some of his first ballets....
  
  
• 1997 Houston Ballet
  Houston Ballet
  The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. The foundation also maintains a ballet academy, the Ben Stevenson Academy, which trains more than half of the company's dancers...
  
  
• 1997 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 1997 The National Ballet of Canada
• 1997 Tulsa Ballet Theatre
• 1998 Ballet of Flanders

Koninklijk Ballet Van Vlaanderen

Royal Flemish Ballet

• 1998 Chautauqua Institution
  Chautauqua Institution
  The Chautauqua Institution is a non-profit adult education center and summer resort located on 750 acres in Chautauqua, New York, 17 miles northwest of Jamestown in the western part of New York State...
  
  , New York
• 1998 Den Norske Opera Ballet, Norway
• 1998 Kansas City Ballet
  Kansas City Ballet
  Founded in 1957, Kansas City Ballet is a 25-member professional ballet company under the direction of Artistic Director William Whitener and Executive Director Jeffrey J. Bentley. Kansas City Ballet performs three mixed repertory seasons per year as well as the ever-popular Nutcracker...
  
  

formerly State Ballet of Missouri

• 1998 Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida. It was created in 1986 by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Edward Villella and flourishes today as one of America's most respected ballet companies...
  
  
• 1998 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 1999 Ballet de Nancy (France)
• 1999 Banff Center, Alberta
  Alberta
  Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
  
  , Canada
• 1999 Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
  
  
• 1999 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 1999 Milwaukee Ballet
  Milwaukee Ballet
  The Milwaukee Ballet is a professional ballet company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1969 by Roberta Boorse and held its first performance on April 24, 1970. It is currently ranked among the top twelve ballet companies in the United States...
  
  
• 1999 North Carolina Dance Theatre
• 2000 Ballet West
  Ballet West
  Ballet West, Salt Lake City, Utah was founded in 1963 by Glenn Walker Wallace, who served as its first president. It was called the Utah Civic Ballet company. Willam F...
  
  
• 2000 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 2000 Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  
• 2000 Teatro alla Scala, Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
  , Italy
• 2000 Texas Ballet

formerly Fort Worth Dallas Ballet

• 2001 Cincinnati Ballet
  Cincinnati Ballet
  The Cincinnati Ballet is a professional ballet company founded in 1958 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The current artistic director is Victoria Morgan.-Founding:...
  
  
• 2001 Dance Connecticut, Inc.
• 2001 Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  
• 2001 Sacramento Ballet
• 2001 Washington Ballet
  Washington Ballet
  The Washington Ballet is an ensemble of professional athletic classical ballet dancers. It was founded in 1976 by American ballet pioneer Mary Day, and has been under the artistic directorship of Septime Webre since 1999.-The Mary Day years :...
  
  
• 2002 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 2002 Grand Theatre de Bordeaux
  Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
  Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, is a Theatre in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April 1780. It was in this theatre that the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée premiered in 1789, and where a young Marius Petipa staged some of his first ballets....
  
  
• 2002 North Carolina Dance Theatre
• 2002 Oper Leipzig
  Oper Leipzig
  Oper Leipzig is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig, Germany.The Leipzig Opera traces its establishment to the year 1693, making it the third oldest opera venue in Europe after La Fenice and the Hamburg State Opera...
  
  
• 2003 Ballet National de Marseille
• 2003 Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  
• 2003 Houston Ballet
  Houston Ballet
  The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. The foundation also maintains a ballet academy, the Ben Stevenson Academy, which trains more than half of the company's dancers...
  
  
• 2003 Israel Ballet
• 2003 Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet
  Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida. It was created in 1986 by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Edward Villella and flourishes today as one of America's most respected ballet companies...
  
  
• 2003 Paris Opera Ballet
  Paris Opera Ballet
  The Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it...
  
  , Palais Garnier
  Palais Garnier
  The Palais Garnier, , is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier...
  
  
• 2003 Star Dancers Ballet Company, Japan
• 2003 The Australian Ballet
• 2003 The Royal Ballet
• 2004 Kirov Ballet
• 2004 National Ballet of China (Central)
• 2004 Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  
• 2004 San Francisco Ballet
  San Francisco Ballet
  The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
  
  
• 2004 Stuttgart Ballet
  Stuttgart Ballet
  Stuttgart Ballet was the first major German ballet company. It rose to fame in the 1960s under Artistic Director John Cranko. The company, which is renowned for presentations of full-length narrative ballets including Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew, John Neumeier's Die...
  
  

Ballett der Wurttembergischen Staatsoper—Stuttgart, Germany

• 2004 The Scottish Ballet
• 2004 Washington Ballet
  Washington Ballet
  The Washington Ballet is an ensemble of professional athletic classical ballet dancers. It was founded in 1976 by American ballet pioneer Mary Day, and has been under the artistic directorship of Septime Webre since 1999.-The Mary Day years :...
  
  
• 2005 Ballet Arlington, now called Metropolitan Classical Ballet
• 2005 Norwegian National Ballet
• 2005 Sacramento Ballet
• 2006 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
• 2006 Oregon Ballet Theatre
• 2006 Royal Ballet
• 2007 Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
  
  
• 2008 Los Angeles Ballet
  Los Angeles Ballet
  The Los Angeles Ballet, located in Los Angeles, California was founded in 2006.It is led by the husband and wife team of Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary, who serve as artistic directors. Christensen danced with the Royal Danish Ballet, and he and Neary both performed with the New York City...
  
  
• 2008 Paris Opera Ballet
  Paris Opera Ballet
  The Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it...
  
  
• 2008 Royal Winnipeg Ballet
  Royal Winnipeg Ballet
  The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America....
  
  
• 2008 Indiana University Ballet Theatre

External links

• Balanchine Foundation website

• Balanchine Trust website

• NYCB website