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Miami City Ballet is among the largest ballet companies in America: 55 dancers, an annual budget of approximately $12 million and a 12,000-member subscriber base during October through April. The company was founded in 1985 by Toby Ansin and renowned dancer Edward Villella who remains its artistic director. Its repertoire encompasses 97 ballets including 13 world premieres. Works range from classics like Giselle to new commissions by Twyla Tharp. Its stage has featured the works of choreographers Paul Taylor, Frederick Ashton and Jerome Robbins, but the company has a special affinity for the work of George Balanchine including an annual traveling production of The Nutcracker.
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Miami City Ballet is among the largest ballet companies in America: 55 dancers, an annual budget of approximately $12 million and a 12,000-member subscriber base during October through April. The company was founded in 1985 by Toby Ansin and renowned dancer Edward Villella who remains its artistic director. Its repertoire encompasses 97 ballets including 13 world premieres. Works range from classics like Giselle to new commissions by Twyla Tharp. Its stage has featured the works of choreographers Paul Taylor, Frederick Ashton and Jerome Robbins, but the company has a special affinity for the work of George Balanchine including an annual traveling production of The Nutcracker.
MCB began performing in 1986 in the cramped Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, moved five years later to Little Havana's Dade County Auditorium and spent much of its recent tenure at the Jackie Gleason Theater on Miami Beach.
In October 2006, it became the first resident company to perform at the newly-opened Carnival Center with its production of Don Quixote in the Ziff Ballet Opera House. One benefit of the new home one of the largest stages in the country -- is the ability to use a full live orchestra more frequently.
Perhaps the most-misnamed ballet company in the country, the Miami City Ballet may be based at Miami's Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, but it spends a large portion of its season performing in Broward and Palm Beach counties, along with standing visits to Naples and Clearwater, and guest appearances across the country and around the world.
This South Florida ballet company has an extensive outreach program working with children in schools and the company has trained professional dancers at the Miami City Ballet School on Miami Beach since 1993.
MCB maintains offices in the Broward and Kravis performing arts centers, but its main headquarters is in the Ophelia & Juan Js. Roca Center, 2200 Liberty Avenue, Miami Beach. Its administration number is (305) 929-7000 and its website is http://www.miamicityballet.org.
MCB began performing in 1986 in the cramped Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, moved five years later to Little Havana's Dade County Auditorium and spent much of its recent tenure at the Jackie Gleason Theater on Miami Beach.
In October 2006, it became the first resident company to perform at the newly-opened Carnival Center with its production of Don Quixote in the Ziff Ballet Opera House. One benefit of the new home one of the largest stages in the country -- is the ability to use a full live orchestra more frequently.
Perhaps the most-misnamed ballet company in the country, the Miami City Ballet may be based at Miami's Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, but it spends a large portion of its season performing in Broward and Palm Beach counties, along with standing visits to Naples and Clearwater, and guest appearances across the country and around the world.
This South Florida ballet company has an extensive outreach program working with children in schools and the company has trained professional dancers at the Miami City Ballet School on Miami Beach since 1993.
MCB maintains offices in the Broward and Kravis performing arts centers, but its main headquarters is in the Ophelia & Juan Js. Roca Center, 2200 Liberty Avenue, Miami Beach. Its administration number is (305) 929-7000 and its website is http://www.miamicityballet.org.
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New spin on 'The Nutcracker' airs tonight
South Florida Sun-SentinelIts narrative seeds are German, and its balletic roots go back to Imperial Russia, but as a Christmas staple, The Nutcracker is wholeheartedly American. It premiered in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater in 1892, created by fabulist E.T.A. Hoffman,...Tags: Kristi Yamaguchi, David Smith, Dancing, Dance, Television
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Main Events for the week of Dec. 12
Idols in Concert Your not-quite-favorite contestants sing holiday favorites. The American Idol also-rans include Diana DeGarmo, David Hernandez, Kimberly Locke and Chikezie Eze. Where: Coral Springs Center, 2855 Coral Springs Drive When: 8 tonight...Tags: Music Industry, Kravis Center, Tickets, Fiction, Jim Belushi
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Economy forces 'Nutcracker' to dance to a recording
Of The Morning CallThis year's Repertory Dance Theatre production of the ''The Nutcracker'' did go on last weekend but something was missing from the traditional spectacle of sugar plum fairies, toy soldiers and leaping ballerinas. Facing cash-strapped donors and an...Tags: Tickets, Theater, Dance, Schools, Arts
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Society Scene Events Calendar for Broward County
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Miami City Ballet's three-pointe plan arrives
The New York TimesThe art of program building in ballet, often supposed to be a thing of the past, is not dead. Miami City Ballet's current program — Swan Lake Act II, The Four Temperaments and In the Upper Room, the third of its couplings of choreography by George...Tags: Kravis Center, Twyla Tharp, Imperial and Royal Matters, Poetry, George Balanchine
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Review: Miami City Ballet performs Twyla Tharp and Elvis Costello's 'Nightspot'
Here's a suggestion: Let's ditch the nightclub as a setting for ballet. No more predictable tales about the trials of courtship or the ballroom as a metaphor for life.
Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella's smart and spirited South Florida company,...Tags: Music Industry, Twyla Tharp, Rock and Roll, Bars and Clubs, Dance
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Preserving Balanchine's intentions
"She's a snake," says former ballerina Yvonne Mounsey, describing the Siren in George Balanchine's 1929 ballet "Prodigal Son," a role that ranks as classical ballet's most fearsome dominatrix. In 1950, Balanchine restaged the work for New York City Ballet...Tags: Maria Tallchief, Peter Martins, Dance, Antony Tudor, Arthur Mitchell
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Ballet companies enrich community with classical dance instruction
SouthFlorida.comWhen Colleen Smith decided 15 years ago to open a ballet school, she knew she wanted to provide aspiring dancers with something exceptional. She joined several other classical ballet companies in South Florida in teaching serious students to dance and...Tags: Arts, Classical Music, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Theater, Dancing
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Top 5 dance shows this fall
South Florida Sun-SentinelMIAMI CITY BALLET Mercuric Tidings: Dec. 5-7, Kravis; Jan. 9-11, Arsht; Jan. 16-18, Broward Center; In the Night and Symphony in C: March 13-15, Broward Center; March 27-29, Kravis ; April 3-5, Arsht; special performances with the Cleveland Orchestra,...Tags: Kravis Center, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Theater, Alvin Ailey
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L.A. Dance Invitational: highs and lows
Special to The TimesTalk about bipolar! The highs were lofty and the lows, well, definitely approached a nadir at the ninth edition of the Los Angeles Dance Invitational, on Saturday at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center. Having gone through various incarnations since...Tags: So You Think You Can Dance (tv program), Dancing, Sarah Palin, Edward Villella, Dance
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How Twyla Tharp's moves met Danny Elfman's music
Special to The TimesAN EXPANSIVE new work from one of the world's leading choreographers, set to an original score by a high-profile composer making his first foray into the world of dance -- this is hardly American Ballet Theatre's usual fare these days. The multi-part...Tags: Music Theater, Folk Music, Theater, Lou Harrison, Broadway
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Twyla Tharp-Elvis Costello work to open 'Dance at the Music Center'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe West Coast premiere of a Twyla Tharp collaboration with rock star composer Elvis Costello, "Nightspot," and the return of the Kirov Ballet will highlight the 2008-09 series. "Nightspot," to be danced by Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet, will...Tags: Judith Jamison, Movies, Twyla Tharp, Billy Joel, Alvin Ailey
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