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Don’t miss the feature story by WTNH News 8’s Anne Craig about NHB’s The Nutcracker! Click Here to View
Don’t miss the feature story by WTNH News 8’s Anne Craig about NHB’s The Nutcracker! Click Here to View
New Haven Ballet is thrilled to perform at the City of New Haven’s Tree Lighting Ceremony on Thursday, November 30, at 5:00 p.m. We hope you will join us on the New Haven Green to help celebrate this holiday tradition. Look for the performance to be featured on the 6:00 News on Chanel 30 NHB Connecticut. Additional festivities include an appearance by Santa, a petting zoo, and carnival rides.
WTNH’s news 8’s Anne Craig visited with New Haven Ballet students to learn about all that goes into preparing for The Nutcracker. Ms. Craig’s story about New Haven Ballet’s Nutcracker will appear on Chanel 8’s News at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 30. Make sure to tune in! Click here for WTNH’s website.
NHB is thrilled to welcome Alejandro Ulloa to our faculty.
Mr. Ulloa began his professional career in Managua, Nicaragua. Under the direction of Maestro William Herrera, Mr. Ulloa became principal dancer of Gran Ballet Quetzaltnahuatl, trained at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet, and then joined the Compañía Ballet de Nicaragua where he became a principal dancer. In 2010, he was invited to be part of the contemporary company Danza Contemporánea Universitaria UNAN-Managua. In 2012, Mr. Ulloa joined the Mystic Ballet located in Mystic Connecticut, where he danced principal roles choreographed by Sergei Vanaev, Brian Enos, Gabrielle Lamb and Lauren Edson, performed in venues such as: MGM Foxwoods Casino located in Connecticut, Jacob’s Pillow Festival in Lenox Massachusetts, APAP Festival in New York City, Bitef Theather and Terazije Theater in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2015, Mr. Ulloa and Maestro Herrera launched the first ballet and neoclassical ensemble in a Nicaraguan University and he became the Cultural Promoter for the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, as well as Director for the “Taller de Líneas Clásicas”. In this year he also became co-producer, teacher and choreographer for Compañía Ballet de Nicaragua and Gran Ballet Quetzaltnahuatl, as well as ballet and contemporary professor at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet de Nicaragua. Mr. Ulloa was principal dancer for the 40th and 45th anniversary of Teatro Nacional Ruben Dario- Nicaragua, as well as guest artist for the 50th anniversary of Universidad de Campeche-Mexico, the 20th anniversary of Fundacion Ballet de El Salvador, Gainesville Ballet’s “Carmen” in 2016 (Virginia- USA), Danse Etoile’s “Le Bayadere” (Costa Rica). He has performed with Connecticut Ballet, New England Ballet and Island Moving Company, taught for the Connecticut Ballet Center, Connecticut Theater Dance, Nutmeg Performing Dance Center, ballet master for New England Ballet and the New England Dance Arts, guest choreographer for the Connecticut Lyrical Opera. Mr. Ulloa was part of the” Art and science unite as psychological treatment in adults and youth workshop” developed by the Yale Hispanic Mental Health Clinic and was award in 2016 “Artist of International Projection of the Year” by the Nicaraguan Artist Association. Mr. Ulloa joined NHB’s faculty in 2017.
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