Houston Ballet's First Co-Artistic Director

A friendship of more than 20 years, coupled with several professional intersections over that time, has had no small part in the selection of Julie Kent as the first Co-Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet. Kent, a former ballerina with American Ballet Theatre, and most recently artistic director of The…

A friendship of more than 20 years, coupled with several professional intersections over that time, has had no small part in the selection of Julie Kent as the first Co-Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet. Kent, a former ballerina with American Ballet Theatre, and most recently artistic director of The Washington Ballet will be working with longtime Artistic Director Stanton Welch in a collaboration that will free Welch up to choreograph more ballets as Houston Ballet continues its impressive growth…