Just out of curiousity, and since I'm also interested in learning more about American companies: can anyone give me a list of companies that are well known throughout the US besides the ones that are listed on the American Ballet Companies board? And how are their levels in comparison with one another? Do we include the Tulsa Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Pennsylvania Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Colorado Ballet? What else? I haven't seen any of them, so I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me about some of them. Thanks in advance!!

Terry, you can go back to the Ballet Alert mainpage, scroll all the way to the bottom, and click on "links", which will bring you to an assortment of different collections of links to American and other company sites. Be advised that these collections do not seem to differentiate between professional and youth companies, but sometimes, there is a curious overlap of artistic standards where one sees a civic ballet actually stronger than some professional ones. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Thank you Mel!!

(Sorry I'm entering this late)

The Open Directory Project, which aspires to be the largest human-directory on the web, breaks its listings down geographically and -- at least in the case of American companies -- by professional standing. It lists 80 professional and 128 regional and civic companies in the US.