New Haven Ballet
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DateSaturday, May 25, 2024
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Event Starts1:00 PM
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VenueShubert Theatre
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Location247 College Street, New Haven, CT
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Doors OpenLobby doors open one hour prior to showtime, theatre doors open approx. 30 minutes prior to show. Latecomers may be asked to wait in the lobby until a time that will cause the least disturbance to the audience members already seated.
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Event Details
Beauty and the Beast, with music by various composers, choreography by Lisa Kim Sanborn, and performed by New Haven Ballet School students. We invite you to experience this fully restaged popular romantic story featuring all your favorite characters, including Belle, Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Gaston, and the Beast. This fantastic ballet features professional, larger-than-life sets and beautiful costumes. It reminds us that true beauty is defined by the kindness we carry inside our hearts and not what the world may see as a beautiful exterior. Premiered at the Shubert Theatre New Haven on May 19, 2018.
Paquita, Grand Pas Classique, with music composed by Ludwig Minkus, choreography after Marius Petipa, and performed by the New Haven Ballet Company, composed of advanced-level students.
Shared Ability led by Kerry Kincy.
About New Haven Ballet
New Haven Ballet is the premiere school for classical ballet training throughout Greater New Haven, providing the highest caliber professional classical ballet training and dance education in southern Connecticut for over thirty years. As one of New Haven’s major arts organizations, New Haven Ballet plays a vital role in the community through outreach and school programs, a student performance ensemble, and collaborations with artists within the community and beyond. New Haven Ballet students have been accepted to prestigious ballet summer intensive programs, including: School of American Ballet, Boston Ballet, Chautauqua Institute, The Rock School, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, and many others. Students have also been offered professional trainee positions and enjoyed professional careers in dance.
In addition to New Haven Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker, the Company has a vast classical repertoire, including excerpts from Sleeping Beauty, La Sylphide, Raymonda, La Bayadère, Giselle, Le Corsaire, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Paquita. Artistic Director Lisa Kim Sanborn has also choreographed several full-length children’s ballets, including Beauty and the Beast, which premiered at the historic Shubert Theatre in 2018, Peter Rabbit in 2019, and a children’s version of Don Quixote in 2022, and Coppélia in 2023. Neo-classical ballets include former New York City Ballet’s Tom Gold’s Bach Suite, Symphonic Nonsense, and Joplin Suite.
New Haven Ballet presents free community performances and regularly performs at festivals, including the Q House, Branford Festival, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.