New Haven Ballet company will perform at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas on Sunday, June 9, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. on the New Haven Green Main Stage in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. The performance will feature excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty. Admittance is FREE and open to the public.
We hope you will join us!
New Haven Ballet invites you to attend its DanceAIR performance on Friday, May 24, 2019, at ECA ACES Performance Arts Hall, 55 Audubon Street, New Haven, at 6:00 p.m. This performance is FREE and open to the public.
DanceAIR is an outreach program that provides dance instruction to New Haven Public School 2nd graders and awards scholarships to those who complete the program.
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Ballet Technique Master Classes with Kaitlyn Gilliland–
LEVEL 2 BALLET TECHNIQUE CLASS
Monday, April 1, 2019 | 4:30-6:00 p.m.
LEVEL 1 BALLET TECHNIQUE CLASS
Monday, April 1, 2019 | 6:00-7:00 p.m.
The Community Foundation Building, Studio 70, 70 Audubon Street, New Haven
Fee: FREE to NHB students enrolled in Levels 1 or 2
About Kaitlyn Gilliland Kaitlyn Gilliland began her dance training at the Minnesota Dance Theatre and continued her studies at the School of American Ballet, where she received the Mae L. Wien Award for outstanding promise in 2004. From 2006 to 2011, Ms. Gilliland performed corps, soloist, and principal roles with the company and was named the New York City Ballet’s Janice Levin Dancer Honoree for 2009-‐2010. Following her departure from New York City Ballet, Ms. Gilliland appeared with several New York City-‐based dance companies, joining Twyla Tharp for her 2015 50th Anniversary National Tour and two subsequent performance seasons and Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project for their 2017-‐2018 season. Ms. Gilliland served on the faculty of the School of American Ballet and as an instructor for The New York City Public School for Dance (The Ballet Tech School). In May of 2015, she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a degree in Psychology. She is currently an MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management and Program Director for Minnesota Dance Theatre’s CAN Dance Education Program.
The goals of the program include increasing New Haven Ballet’s accessibility, creating an opportunity for New Haven Ballet and differently abled artists to meet, interact, and share their experiences and skills, and fulfilling New Haven Ballet’s mission:
“To provide the greater New Haven Community with exceptional classical ballet training, performances, and outreach programs, which nurture appreciation of ballet and foster the joy of dance.”
WHAT: Weekly dance workshop for differently abled artists
WHEN: Saturdays, March 9 through May 11, 2019
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Community Foundation Building, Lower Level (LL), 70 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT
WHO: Differently abled artists aged 10+ years
FEE: $215 (Financial assistance available. No student turned away based on inability to pay)
New Haven Ballet is excited to welcome Mary Ann Mayer on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Ms. Mayer will offer ballet technique classes to Levels 2, 3 and 4 students at the Whitney Arts Center, 591 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT. This FREE workshop is offered to all NHB students enrolled in Levels 2, 3 and 4.
We encourage all to attend!
What: Ballet Technique Master Classes with Mary Ann Mayer
Who: Levels 2, 3 & 4 students
Cost: FREE
Location: 591 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Level 2 class 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Level 3 class 11:30-1:00 p.m.
Students wear class uniform
Ms. Emily Coates will teach a Master Class Tuesday, March 5, 2019, from 4:30-6:00 pm for NHB levels 5-8 students in Danspace, 70 Audubon Street, New Haven.
Emily Coates Biography
A dance artist and writer, Emily Coates has directed the Dance Studies curriculum at Yale University since its inception in 2006. A recipient of the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching, she teaches dance in dialogue with theater, film, visual art, and physics, for Theater Studies and the Yale School of Drama. She has performed internationally with New York City Ballet (NYCB), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp, and Yvonne Rainer. Career highlights include dancing three duets with Baryshnikov, in works by Mark Morris, Karole Armitage, and Erick Hawkins. She was among the last generation of NYCB dancers to work closely with Jerome Robbins. She has presented her solo and collaborative creations at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Zankel Hall, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, in the Movement Research Fall Festival and Performa Biennial, and created new work for Ballet Memphis, among other venues. Her essays have appeared in PAJ, Theater, and The Huffington Post. With particle physicist Sarah Demers, she is currently co-writing a book on physics and dance forthcoming from Yale University Press, with support from an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for Public Understanding of Science, Technology, and Economics. Their science-art video Three Views of the Higgs and Dance, funded by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, premiered in 2013. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English and holds an M.A. in American Studies from Yale.
New Haven Ballet students experienced a wonderful day together visiting New York City Ballet! After a wonderful class presented by NYCB Principal Dancer, Ask la Cour, students enjoyed lunch, shopping for gifts at the Koch Theater and a stunning performance of The Sleeping Beauty at Lincoln Center!
Artistic Director, Lisa Sanborn, is thrilled to welcome former NYCB dancer, Kaitlyn Gilliland, to New Haven Ballet on Friday, March 1, 2019. Ms. Gilliland will teach a Ballet Technique class followed by a Pointe Technique/Variations class.
Level 6/7/8 Ballet Technique Class – 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Level 6/7/8 Pointe Technique/Variations – 6:00-7:30 p.m.
All Level 6/7/8 students are invited and encouraged to attend Ms. Gilliland’s class. Students are asked to wear their dress code black class leotard, pink tights, ballet shoes, pointe shoes, short black skirt, and hair secured away from the face in a high bun. The fee to participate is $10.
We strongly encourage all to attend!
New Haven Ballet has invited 2019 Yale Arts Fellow, Sarah Xiao, to present a contemporary workshop to Level 6, 7 & 8 students on Saturday, February 23, 2019, at 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
This FREE workshop is open to all Level 6, 7 and 8 students enrolled at NHB. The workshop will be held in the Danspace Studio, 70 Audubon Street (LL), New Haven, CT.
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