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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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El Cascanueces: una joya del ballet clásico
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Miami City Ballet's three-pointe plan arrives
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Ballet companies enrich community with classical dance instruction
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Top 5 dance shows this fall
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