Tulsa Ballet Announces Its 2024/2025 Season

Tulsa Ballet is proud to announce the six shows it will bring to the stage for the 2024/2025 Season. The season includes the return of local favorites, a bold new interpretation of a classic story designed specifically for Tulsa Ballet, and a strong focus on bringing unique and exciting productions to the stage.

The season kicks off with Creations in Studio K, which will feature new works solely from women choreographers: Alice Topp, Young Soon Hue, and Stephanie Martinez. In planning this Creations, Tulsa Ballet Artistic Director Marcello Angelini said, “I am thrilled to dedicate the first program of the season to three very accomplished female choreographers. Each one of them brings something special to the program, which will make the 2024 Creations in Studio K performances strikingly unique.”

November will see the return of the immensely popular Dracula by choreographer Ben Stevenson. Called “ghoulishly entertaining” by the Tulsa World, the gothic ballet Dracula returns to Tulsa for the first time since 2018, with awe inspiring stunning theatrics, spooky vampire brides who soar through the air, and an exploding chandelier. First created by Stevenson in 1997, Tulsa Ballet has performed this production three times to sold out audiences.

Tulsa Ballet’s The Nutcracker, which premiered in 2021, returns in December. This interpretation of the classic tale features exciting choreography, colorful costumes, larger-than-life moving sets, and live accompaniment by the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra!

The spring sees a first for Tulsa Ballet, with a brand new production of Alice in Wonderland.

“Alice in Wonderland will be the event of 2025, in our city, state and country,” says Angelini. “I have been looking at a dance version of Alice in Wonderland for over twenty years. Each one of them has something beautiful and magical, but none of them really “worked” for me, so…we’re making our own version!” The team for this new production includes three-time Tony Award winner designer Christopher Oram, who has designed everything from opera to theater to musicals, including the Disney musical Frozen. Composer Alexandra Harwood’s storied career includes the soundtrack of numerous British movies and series for the BBC, including the score for the BBC Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small. Of course, the key individual of this team is choreographer Kenneth Tindall. Tindall, one of the most in-demand dance makers of our times, most recently created the World Premiere of Carmen on Tulsa Ballet in 2022.

March will see the return of The Three Musketeers to Tulsa, for the first time in nearly a decade. A rip-roaring ballet with a classic love story at its heart, Angelini describes it as the perfect production to follow Alice. “To balance out a work like Alice, where the title character and the entire story revolves around a young girl, we needed a work that is all about young men. There is only a ballet that truly showcases the technique, artistry and exuberance of our brilliant male dancers and that work is called The Three Musketeers!”

The 2024/2025 Season will close with Signature Series, which will include Classical Symphony by Yuri Possokhov, Divenire by Nicolo Fonte, and the upcoming commission Legends Pop, which will debut at Icons & Idols in May. About these productions, Angelini said, “Yuri Possokhov’s Classical Symphony, is probably the most challenging dance a classical ballet company can perform, one that mixes the pure classical form of the Russian tradition with the speed, agility, performing quality and lightness of the American. Divenire by Nicolo Fonte awed the Berkshire audiences at the Jacobs Pillow festival in the summer of 2023, earning the company rave reviews. To close such a consequential program, what could be more electrifying than the music of the pop singing legends of the last 50 years, all danced by the dancers of Tulsa Ballet with the choreography of Kenneth Tindall? About 500 people will be able to see Legends of Pop at Tulsa Ballet’s Icons & Idols in the spring of 2024. Everybody else will be able to enjoy it in the spring of 2025!”

Season subscriptions have already begun for the 2024/2025 Season. Season tickets for new and returning subscribers can be purchased by calling the Tulsa Ballet Box Office at 918-749-6006 or online at tulsaballet.org.

Quick Facts: Tulsa Ballet 2024/2025 Season

Creations in Studio K

Choreography by Alice Topp, Young Soon Hue, and Stephanie Martinez at Studio K Theater.
September 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 at 7:00 p.m. | September 14, 15, 21, 22 at 2:00 p.m.

Dracula

Choreography by Ben Stevenson at Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
Preview October 31 at 7:00 p.m. | November 1, 2, at 7:30 pm | November 3 at 2:30 p.m.

The Nutcracker

Choreography by Val Caniparoli and Ma Cong at Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
December 13, 14, 20, 21 at 7:00 p.m. | December 8, 14, 15, 20, 21 at 2:00 p.m. | December 22 at 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Alice in Wonderland

Choreography by Kenneth Tindall at Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
Preview February 27 at 7:00 p.m. | February 28, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. | March 2 at 2:30 p.m.

The Three Musketeers

Choreography by Andre Prokovsky at Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
Preview April 3 at 7:00 p.m. | April 4, 5 at 7:30 p.m. | April 6 at 2:30 p.m.

Signature Series

Choreography by Yuri Possokhov, Nicolo Fonte, and Kenneth Tindall at the John H. Williams Theatre at the Tulsa PAC.
Dates TBA

TICKETS: Season tickets are available now – single tickets will be available August.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Tulsaballet.org or (918) 749-6006