Ballet Office Has Moved!

The Minnesota Ballet office in our new quarters:
Minnesota Ballet
Wells Fargo Building
230 W. Superior St. Suite 50
Duluth, MN 55802

Building Level AB
Office Hours: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Office phone: 218-529-3742

Student Summer Showcase July 27

School of the Minnesota Ballet
Student Summer Showcase
Noon July 27, 2018
Duluth Public Library Plaza

Free Public Presentation

The School of the Minnesota Ballet steps outside to present its Student Summer Showcase featuring upper-level students demonstrating ballet, jazz, tap, character (European folk dance), and musical theater dance. Students from the choreography class perform their own works-in-progress.

Wine & Cheese April 26!

Thursday, April 26
5:30 – 8 p.m.
Depot Great Hall
$45 presale/$50 at door

Sampling wines and micro beers is only the start. Nibble on hors d’oeuvres from some of the area’s finest restaurants. In the hilarious Heads or Tails competition, compete for a wall of wine. Bid on all sorts of auction items including a spot in the 2019 Celebrity Dance Challenge.

Click here to buy tickets online.

Two School Presentations Coming!

DANCE DAY at the DEPOT
Saturday, April 28, at 3 p.m.
Depot Great Hall
FREE Public Presentation
The School of the Minnesota Ballet celebrates dance with a free special event for the public. Advanced students perform special works, upper-level students demonstrate dance technique, and the entire audience can join in social dances or watch the fun.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Friday, May 11, at 7 p.m.
DECC Symphony Hall
The annual performance showcases student progress over the year and features a special work by the two highest levels. Performing choreography by their teachers are students from pre-ballet, ballet, Young Men’s Athletic Dance, Creative Dance for children with developmental challenges, and the Teen/Adult Division.
Tickets: adult $15, child $8
Tickets & Info: 218-529-3742

Two School Presentations Coming!

DANCE DAY at the DEPOT
Sunday, April 30
3 p.m.
Depot Great Hall
FREE Public Presentation
The School of the Minnesota Ballet celebrates dance with a FREE special event for the public. Advanced students perform special works, upper-level students demonstrate dance technique, and the entire audience can join in social dances or watch the fun.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Friday, May 12
7 p.m.
DECC Symphony Hall
The annual performance showcases student progress over the year and features a special work by the two highest levels. Performing choreography by their teachers are students from pre-ballet, ballet, Young Men’s Athletic Dance, Creative Dance for children with developmental challenges, and the Teen/Adult Division.
Tickets: adult $14, child $7
Tickets & Info: 218-529-3742

And There’s More…

Firebird will also include new repertoire works.

Tickets: Ballet Office: (218) 529-3742
DECC Ticket Office: (800) 628-8385 or (218) 727-4344
Ticketmaster online: www.ticketmaster.com

Our New Website!

Please take some time to look around the several new features of our brand new website! The site is still getting a few tweaks, so if you find anything amiss please tell us at: info@minnesotaballet.org

Thank you.

Student Summer Showcase — July 27, 2018

Student Summer Showcase

School of the Minnesota Ballet

School of the Minnesota Ballet students perform on the library stage

Student Summer Showcase
Noon July 27, 2018
Duluth Public Library Plaza

Free Public Presentation

Spend lunch hour with upper-level students of the School of the Minnesota Ballet as they demonstrate styles from ballet to jazz to musical theater dance. Choreography class students present their own works-in-progress.

Welcome to Minnesota Ballet

The Minnesota Ballet’s mission, through its professional company and school, is to inspire a love and appreciation for dance, to advance the art of ballet, to increase access to the art form, and to use its resources to benefit the greater community.

Minnesota Ballet 2017 – 2018 company

A Director’s Decade

This season marks my 25th anniversary with the Minnesota Ballet. When I joined the “New” Duluth Ballet in 1992 as Ballet Master to serve with Allen Fields, the new Artistic Executive Director, I thought I’d be here for a few years, learning to be a better choreographer and ballet master, while still dancing in all performances.

But as I became a part of the community, I saw this area’s incredible embrace of the arts. How welcoming and eager for artistic cultural experiences and how encouraging to artists.

Now, as I celebrate my 10th anniversary as Artistic Executive Director, I am in awe of what you have allowed us to accomplish. Because of the value this community and state put on the arts, the quality of the dancers, productions, and school programs continues to flourish.

In celebration, in October we are presenting a mixed program of works reflecting the artistic diversity forming the core of what I believe we are all about. Masterworks like George Balanchine’s Tarantella, and Salvatore Aiello’s Clowns and Others. A work that was special to me while I was in full-out dance mode here—Allen Fields’ Court Dances, not seen since 1996. And a premiering work by emerging choreographer Isaac Sharratt, from Milwaukee Ballet.

In December our beloved Nutcracker, with the Minnesota Ballet Orchestra, so exciting for us and you! And in March, a longtime realization of a dream: bringing the full Swan Lake to our community, this most enduring classic with its themes of love, betrayal, sorcery and pageantry, to the iconic Tchaikovsky score.

I am so proud of this company, its artists, Board of Directors and our patrons, who have made the arts and dance an integral, invaluable part of the culture and quality of life we so enjoy here.

Thank you!
Robert Gardner, Executive Artistic Director

2017 – 2018 Performing Season Sponsor:

Operational support for the Minnesota Ballet is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Operational funding is received from the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation, Miller-Dwan Foundation, Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation, and The Depot United Campaign. Minnesota Ballet is also generously supported by many businesses and individuals of our community.

This activity made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the programs of the Minnesota Ballet is provided to all individuals regardless of race, national origin, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, or disability in admission, access, or employment.

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