Ron Cunningham News

Sacramento - The Mar. 27th opening night performance of the Sacramento Ballet's “Carmina Burana” was nothing short of a mind-blowing, mind-altering, jaw-dropping display of movement, physicality, beauty, color, talent, and finally tuned choreography.

Sacramento - The Sacramento Ballet opened Thursday, Feb. 13, with a Valentine's Day weekend program. The program of three ballets billed "Wild Sweet Love" was designed for the world class Sacramento Ballet with "Cupid" in mind.

Sacramento - The Sacramento Ballet brought the audience of the Community Center to its feet on opening night of its Valentine's weekend program with a flawless performance of Trey McIntyre's “Wild Sweet Love.”

Sacramento - Alexandra Cunningham is a remarkable woman. She has danced professionally with the Sacramento Ballet for nine years under the watchful eyes of two of the world's greatest artistic directors.

Sacramento - On Thursday, Dec. 19, Alexandra Cunningham was at the barre going through the normal warm-ups and routines along with the other dancers in Studio 1 at the Sacramento Ballet studio complex.

Sacramento - “The Nutcracker,” the popular ballet set to music composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, opened in at the Community Center Theater, Sat., Dec. 7, with an afternoon matinee followed by an evening show.

Sacramento - Last night, the Sacramento Ballet dancers did a run through of the popular seasonal ballet, “The Nutcracker,” which opens Saturday, Dec. 7th, for a 13 performance run .

Sacramento - The Sacramento Ballet held a matinee performance of the classic fairytale “Cinderella,” Saturday, Nov.2, just one week after the 2013-14 season opener of “Rubies," “The Firebird,” and “The Rite of Spring.”

Sacramento - Last Thursday night's 2013-2014 season opener of the Sacramento Ballet celebrated the genius of Igor Stravinsky and his music with three works.

Sacramento - Sacramento Ballet artistic directors, Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda, pulled out all stops in last Thursday night's three ballet season opener with The Rite of Spring, the century old ballet choreographed to music by Igor Stravinsky, as the finale.

Sacramento - Ron Cunningham is a truly inspirational artist. His canvas is limited only by the size of his stage, and his brushes are people moving to the rhythm of the music vivifying a tale. And this gifted man showed me that ballet is for everyone.