World Ballet Day 2018 to kick off!

World Ballet Day 2018 is going LIVE! Be sure to tune in on Facebook from 11 a.m. AEST to kick off this 22-hour live stream event with The Australian Ballet in Melbourne. It will then go to The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow at 4 p.m. (AEST) and The Royal Ballet in London at 9 p.m. (AEST).

Plus, there will be Facebook Live feeds from Paris Opera Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in NYC, Houston Ballet in Texas, the English National Ballet and many, many more. See the full schedule of guest companies below.

Join the Facebook Event World Ballet Day 2018 to keep up! Be a part of the action and post with the hashtag #WorldBalletDay.

WORLD BALLET DAY 2018 GUEST COMPANIES:

AUSTRALIA and ASIA 

The National Ballet of Japan, Tokyo – 11:00-11:15 JST (UTC +9hrs) 

West Australian Ballet, Perth – 14:30-14:40 AWST (UTC +8hrs)

Queensland Ballet, Brisbane – 15:00-16:00 AEST (UTC+10hrs)

Royal New Zealand Ballet, Wellington – 15:00-16:00 NZST (UTC +12hrs)

MAINLAND EUROPE 

Nasjonalballetten UNG / Norwegian National Ballet 2, Oslo – 14:00 – 14:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 

The Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen – 14:15-14:45 CEST (UTC +2hrs)

Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich – 14:30-15:00 CEST (UTC +2hrs)

Das Stuttgarter Ballett, Stuttgart – 15:00-15:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs)

Wiener Staatsballett, Vienna – 15:15-15:45 CEST (UTC +2hrs)

Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, Paris – 15:30-16:00 CEST (UTC +2hrs)

Het Nationale Ballet – Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam – 16:00-16:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 

Kungliga Operan, Stockholm – 16:15-16:45 CEST (UTC +2hrs)

Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw – 17:00-17:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs)

UNITED KINGDOM 

Scottish Ballet, Glasgow – 11:00-11:30 BST (UTC +1hr)

Birmingham Royal Ballet – 13:00-13:30 BST (UTC +1hr)

English National Ballet, London – 14:00-14:30 BST (UTC +1hr)

Royal Academy of Dance, London – 14:30-15:00 BST (UTC +1hr)

Northern Ballet, Leeds – 16:00-16:30 BST (UTC +1hr)

AMERICA, CUBA and CANADA

Ballet Concierto De PR, San Juan – 10:00-11:00 AST (UTC -4hrs)

Carlos Acosta Acosta Danza, Cuba – 12:00-12:40 EDT (UTC -4hrs)

Houston Ballet, Texas – 12:30-13:30 CDT (UTC -5hrs)

Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle – 11:00-11:30 PDT (UTC -7hrs)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York – 15:00-15:30 EDT (UTC -4hrs)

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal – 16:00-17:00 EDT (UTC -4hrs)

Image courtesy of The Australian Ballet.