New Online School Registration

The School of the Minnesota Ballet has online registration!

Registration for Semester I and II will open on Monday, August 14.

To create an account to register, please visit:
https://campscui.active.com/orgs/MinnesotaBallet. You will need this link only the first time you access this system.

After you have created your account, bookmark this link: https://campsself.active.com/MinnesotaBallet. This is the link you will always use when you register for School of the Minnesota Ballet classes!

Saturday Sampler Schedule

Saturday Sampler September 9
Ballet’s Depot Studios
506 West Michigan Street

It’s great chance for children, teens, and adults to try a free class or two and for ballet students new to the school to be placed at the most appropriate level.

No reservations needed. No need to wear special dancewear for the Sampler; come in comfortable clothing.

Information: Call the Ballet, 218-529-3742

These times are for Sampler classes only:
10:00-10:30 Creative Movement (age 3-5 yrs)
10:30-11:00 Pre-Ballet (age 6-7 yrs)
11:00-11:30 Ballet Technique (ages 8-10
11:30-12:00 Ballet Technique (age 11-adult)
12:00-12:30 Beginning Tap (age 10-adult)
12:30-1:00 Jazz (age 12-adult)
1:00-1:30 Modern (age 12-adult)

Celebrity Dance Challenge Results

To see who won what in the 11th Annual Celebrity Dance Challenge, click on Performances/Celebrity Dance Challenge.

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.

Next performance / event

Director’s Choice: Clowns and Others

Friday, October 20, at 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 21, at 7 p.m.
Symphony Hall
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center

It’s a season celebrating Robert Gardner’s 25th anniversary with the company and his 10th as Artistic Executive Director. It all starts with a Director’s Choice performance featuring Salvatore Aiello’s delightful Clowns and Others, George Balanchine’s fiery Tarantella, Aiello’s starkly contemporary The Waiting Room, Allen Fields’ regal Court Dances, and a premiering work by emerging choreographer Isaac Sharratt, dancer with the Milwaukee Ballet.

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.
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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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