On Jan 18, 2015, Works & Process at the Guggenheim presented MIAMI CITY BALLET: JUSTIN PECK & SHEPARD FAIREY. Choreographer Justin Peck along with Miami City Ballet dancers and Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez, and street artist Shepard Fairey participated in Works & Process at the Guggenheim leading up to the Company’s March 27th world premiere of Heatscape.
Miami City Ballet dancers spend their days rehearsing in sunlit studios surrounded by swaying palm trees. But this winter, our dancers dig out their winter coats and boots as they embark on a tour of Canada with stops in Vancouver (Feb 19-21) and Ottawa (Mar 5-7).
In October, Miami City Ballet welcomed 40 visiting students from the HARID Conservatory, a professional training school for young dancers, located in Boca Raton. The day began with the students watching company class, led by Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez. Then it was off to tour the MCB Wardrobe Department with Costume Designer & Director Haydée Morales, where the students were shown all the wardrobe preparation that goes into each season.
The visit gave HARID students the opportunity to become familiar with the inner workings of a professional ballet company and was an exciting experience for all involved.
MCB School’s Explore Dance is a free, 28-week educational outreach program
designed to promote the arts to our community’s youth through weekly classes at Fienberg-Fisher Elementary School. MCB School accepts 30 children into the program, teaching them the fundamentals of ballet based on the School’s official Ballet Preparatory curriculum. The program concludes in May 2015 with with a special performance by the Explore Dance children before their peers at Fienberg-Fisher, plus a lecture and demonstration by the MCB School Ensemble at the MCB Studios.
One of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters, Juliet, is a young girl who believes in eternal love, so much so that she trades her life for it. She is a girl we all know well, but what does it mean to a ballet dancer to get to become Juliet on stage? How does one prepare?
Read what becoming Juliet means to MCB corps de ballet dancer, Emily Bromberg, below.
And, watch our video, “Insights: Becoming Juliet” to find out how principal dancers Jennifer Kronenberg and Patricia Delgado channeled their inner Shakespeare character in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet.
What happens when you take five Miami City Ballet dancers, drop them in water, and capture it on camera? Photographer George Camper found out for this spread in Venice Magazine, featuring MCB dancers Emily Bromberg, Leigh-Ann Esty, Lexie Overholt, Ariel Rose and Chase Swatosh!