2007-08 Performance Season

The Maple Youth Ballet is proud to present its inaugural 2007-08 performance season under the direction of Artistic Director Charles Maple and Executive Director Kathy Crade.

We are honored to present these upcoming performances for the surrounding Orange County community:

• December 8 & 9, 2007: Nutcracker, A New Beginning… production at the Northwood High School Performing Arts Theatre in Irvine. Performances are at 2pm & 7pm on Saturday and at 2pm on Sunday. More information
• March 29 & 30, 2008: Our full-length production of the ballet Coppelia at the Northwood High School Performing Arts Theatre in Irvine. Performances are on Saturday & Sunday, March 29 & 30. More information
• June 1, 2008: Spring Student Showcase production featuring varied choreography by modern & classical masters, as well as original works by our Classical and Professional Division students! To be held at 2pm-4:30pm at the University High School Theatre in Irvine..

Other Featured Guest Performances In 2008

Just Announced! The Maple Youth Ballet is thrilled to receive permission from The George Balanchine Trust to stage & perform Balanchine's stunning ballet Serenade as part of our 2008-09 performance season. Serenade is the first original ballet Balanchine created in America in 1935 and is one of the signature works of New York City Ballet's repertory. Serenade will be staged by Maple Conservatory faculty member & Balanchine Trust repetiteur Shawn Stevens.


Serenade performed by the New York City Ballet
Photo credit: Photo © Paul Kolnik

The Maple Youth Ballet is honored to be invited as guest artist in the following prestigious productions in which they will perform Balanchine's timeless classic Valse Fantaisie.

The Maple Youth Ballet thanks The George Balanchine Trust for granting permission to perform Valse Fantaisie, to the Jacobs School Ballet Department at Indiana University for lending costumes designed for Valse Fantaisie, and to our own Shawn Stevens for lending her expertise as Balanchine Trust repetiteur by staging this "fast & furious" ballet.

South Bay Ballet
Saturday & Sunday, March 1 & 2 at the Armstrong Theatre

South Bay Ballet's annual production of BRAVO! The Contemporary & Classical Dance Experience on Saturday, March 1 at 7pm and Sunday, March 2 at 2pm at the James Armstrong Theatre at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. The program will feature original works by Lorin Johnson, Robert Kelly, Diane Lauridsen and Jon Cristofori performed by South Bay Ballet.  View the photos »

Dance Peninsula Ballet
Friday & Saturday, April 18 & 19 at the Norris Center

Ballet Showcase production by Dance Peninsula Ballet at the Norris Center for the Performing Arts in Rolling Hills Estates, California. Performances are on Friday, April 18 at 8pm and on Saturday, April 19 at 2:30pm.

Dance Peninsula Ballet presents its company members in classical ballet and contemporary dances choreographed specifically for its Ballet Showcase. This year's Showcase will highlight several dances choreographed by Valerie Huston, a dance faculty member at University of California at Santa Barbara. Other works to be performed have been choreographed by Marina Kalinina, DPB Ballet Mistress, Alexander Kalinin and Tita Boulger, DPB Artistic Coordinator.

Media City Ballet
Sunday, April 27 at the Alex Theatre

Ballet Russe Remembered production by the Media City Ballet on Sunday, April 27 at 7:30pm at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California. Media City Ballet revisits the depth and beauty of the Ballet Russe repertory with its daring, artistic choices, its gorgeous delivery and promise.

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The program will include: Alexander Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Carl Maria Von Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose, Variations from Alexander Glazunov's Raymonda, Pas de Deux from Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Shehérézade and Jacques Offenbach's Can-Can from Gaîté Parisienne.

The Colburn Dance Institute
Saturday, May 10 at the Japan America Theatre

View the performance flierThe Colburn Dance Institute at The Colburn School in Los Angeles presents their Professional Training Program's Spring Concert on Saturday, May 10 at 3pm at the Japan America Theatre in downtown Los Angeles (in Little Tokyo between 2nd & 3rd Streets).

The program will feature students from the Colburn Dance Institute's Professional Training Program performing an eclectic mix of classical ballet and contemporary dance, including a choreographic study from Jirí Kylián's Arcimboldo, excerpts from the master works Diamonds by George Balanchine, and Raymonda by Marius Petipa, as well as the Maple Youth Ballet performing Balanchine's Valse Fantaisie.

Questions?

For questions on our upcoming performances, contact the Maple Youth Ballet Box Office.