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Major funding for Miami City Ballet is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Miami-Dade County support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami- Dade County Board of County Commissioners with the support of the City of Miami Beach Department of Tourism and Cultural Development, Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Miami Beach Mayor and City Commissioners. Support for Miami City Ballet in the Palm Beaches is generously sponsored in part by the Board of County Commissioners, the Tourist Development Council and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. Broward County funding is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council and Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau. The Company is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.
Cover: Location courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club. Miami City Ballet dancers. Photo © Karolina Kuras. Inside: Audience Images. Photos © Alexander Iziliaev. Location courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club. Miami City Ballet dancers. Former Miami City Ballet dancers Yann Trividic and Patricia Delgado in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Choreography by George Balanchine. © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo © Daniel Azoulay. Ashley Knox and Renan Cerdeiro in I’m Old Fashioned. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. © The Jerome Robbins Rights Trust. Photo © Karolina Kuras. Photo © Karolina Kuras. Nathalia Arja in Firebird. Choreography by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Photo © Karolina Kuras. Miami City Ballet dancers in Don Quixote. Photo © Daniel Azoulay. Miami City Ballet dancers in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®. Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo © Alexander Iziliaev. Lourdes Lopez Artistic Director
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Prices per ballet start at $23. SASSY & SPIRITED SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE
SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE MIAMI (BALANCHINE/RODGERS) Arsht Center Fri. October 18 Balanchine’s sassy and spirited Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Sat. October 19 and Richard Rodgers’ tantalizing Broadway score open Sun. October 20 the season with a bang in a 1930s speakeasy. A hilarious (2pm – matinee) parody of hijinks and high kicks, gangsters and cops, in this ballet about the tap dancer and the impossible FT. LAUDERDALE stripper he falls in love with. Broward Center Sat. October 26 MERCURIC TIDINGS Sun. October 27 (2pm – matinee) (TAYLOR/SCHUBERT)
In tribute to the late Paul Taylor, Miami City Ballet WEST PALM BEACH performs this celebration of “body in motion” in this Kravis Center “exhilarating, blisteringly fast dance.” (Miami Herald) Fri. November 8 Sat. November 9 STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO (2pm – matinee) (BALANCHINE/STRAVINSKY) Sat. November 9 (7:30pm) Here, Stravinsky’s music provided the perfect platform for Sun. November 10 Balanchine to push his stylistic experiments. This is all-out (1pm – matinee) dancing and expression with pure technique.
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COMPANY PREMIERE OF MIAMI I’M OLD FASHIONED Arsht Center Fri. January 10 (ROBBINS/GOULD) Sat. January 11 Two larger than life stars, Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth Sun. January 12 dance and glide on a huge screen alongside Miami City (2pm – matinee) Ballet dancers. WEST PALM BEACH COMPANY PREMIERE OF Kravis Center Fri. January 17 THIS BITTER EARTH Sat. January 18 (WHEELDON/RICHTER, OTIS) (2pm – matinee) Utterly riveting and deeply moving, set to the gorgeously Sat. January 18 (7:30pm) haunting music of Max Richter and Dinah Washington. Sun. January 19 (1pm – matinee) TSCHAIKOVSKY PAS DE DEUX (BALANCHINE/TCHAIKOVSKY) FT. LAUDERDALE Broward Center SYMPHONIC DANCES Sat. January 25 (RATMANSKY/RACHMANINOFF) Sun. January 26 (2pm – matinee) A dramatic, fast-paced work by one of the world’s most sought-after, visionary choreographers Alexei Ratmansky. Set to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s lush, powerful score of the SUBSCRIBE miamicityballet.org/welcome | 305-929-7010 same name. LOVE & MAGIC FIREBIRD
COMPANY PREMIERE OF MIAMI FIREBIRD Arsht Center Fri. February 14 (BALANCHINE, ROBBINS/STRAVINSKY) Sat. February 15 A fantastical and thrilling story about magic, love, danger Sun. February 16 and liberation. Enter this mystical world of a young hunter, (2pm – matinee) a Princess in captivity, and the immortal, magical Firebird in one of the greatest of all fairy tales. WEST PALM BEACH Kravis Center Fri. February 21 NINE SINATRA SONGS Sat. February 22 (THARP/SINATRA) (2pm – matinee) Nine Sinatra Songs radiates glamour, excitement, seduction Sat. February 22 (7:30pm) and fun as seven swirling couples, bedecked in Oscar de la Sun. February 23 Renta’s fabulous costumes, take center stage with the best (1pm – matinee) of Ol’ Blue Eyes. FT. LAUDERDALE COMPANY PREMIERE OF Broward Center RODEO: FOUR DANCE EPISODES Sat. February 29 (PECK/COPLAND) Sun. March 1 (2pm – matinee) Rodeo features just one woman and fifteen men! From Justin Peck, America’s leading young choreographer, this groundbreaking work takes to Aaron Copland’s beloved score. ELECTRIFYING & EXQUISITE DON QUIXOTE
DON QUIXOTE WEST PALM BEACH (PETIPA/MINKUS) Kravis Center Fri. March 20 Into the town square rides the immortal Don Quixote, Sat. March 21 searching for his idea of womanhood and accompanied (2pm – matinee) by his faithful sidekick, Sancho Panza. This is a vibrant, Sat. March 21 kaleidoscopic delight with ruffled skirts swirling, toreadors (7:30pm) strutting, street dancers cavorting plus flower girls, a Sun. March 22 troop of gypsies and more in this unforgettable, fully- (1pm – matinee) staged production. MIAMI With its maddeningly hummable Minkus score, Don Arsht Center Quixote is a never-ending stream of pleasure, climaxed Fri. April 17 Sat. April 18 by the famous Pas de Deux and punctuated by one of Sun. April 19 Petipa’s most beautiful vision scenes. It’s classical dancing (2pm – matinee) at its most exquisite—and demanding. The leaps! The balances! The bravura! FT. LAUDERDALE Broward Center Sat. April 25 Sun. April 26 (2pm – matinee)
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THE NUTCRACKER MIAMI (BALANCHINE/TCHAIKOVSKY) Arsht Center Fri. December 13 Miami City Ballet’s holiday spectacle transports you to a (7pm) dazzling winter wonderland in the new production of Sat. December 14 (2pm, 7pm) George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®. Step into this Sun. December 15 magical world of toy soldiers, colorful characters, and (1pm, 6:30pm) the enchanting “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy”, set to Tues. December 17 the music of Tchaikovsky performed by a live orchestra. (7pm) Wed. December 18 Create unforgettable memories with friends and family – (7pm) make it your cherished holiday tradition! Thurs. December 19 (7pm) Fri. December 20 (7pm) Sat. December 21 (2pm, 7pm) Sun. December 22 (1pm, 6:30pm)
WEST PALM BEACH Kravis Center Fri. December 27 (2pm, 7pm) Sat. December 28 (2pm, 7pm) SUBSCRIBE miamicityballet.org/welcome | 305-929-7010 Sun. December 29 (1pm, 6:30pm)