LAFAYETTE BALLET

Lafayette Ballet Company is a small pre-professional group of committed young dancers. We concentrate on teamwork, performance integrity, and enhancing classroom skills with challenging new works, traditional repertoire and pieces tailored to showcase the talents of our current dancers. For 30 years pre-pandemic we have presented an annual full length Nutcracker. The future is uncertain in the arts. Fewer people are willing to commit to the schedule of training and involvement. We nurture the talents and aspirations of those who do. Lafayette Ballet is a registered Not-For-Profit 501(c)3 organization in the State of Indiana. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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Please feel free to reserve and to come to our open WINTER Performance: A Taste of Sweets and Danzas Antiguas. DEC 18 AND 19, 2024 at the Ballroom - 226 N. 6th Street. 7:30PM. This is a performance of TWO works.      Reservations for limited seating is available. EMAIL RESERVATION

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE:



A TASTE OF SWEETS from the NUTCRACKER ACT 2 (25 minutes) - Nothing celebrates the holiday season quite like the Nutcracker. The whole world already knows the music from an infinite number of exposures in popular culture. However, it is the beauty and variety of presentations from the 2nd Act of the full length ballet that really show the color, technique and the cultural scope of the ballet presentations of the late 19th century. Tchaikovsky was a genius composer whose creativity and musical colorizations of the score astound us still.

Intermission 20 minutes

DANZAS ANTIQUAS (35 minutes)
This ballet was conceived in respect for a lost moment of our shared culture: The Golden Age of Spain. The 15th Century before the onset of the Inquisition and pervasive push for colonization was a time of sharing. The lands of the Iberian Peninsula were populated with the classical scholars of Northern Africa along with the families of Muslim Arabs, the Christians coming to experience the wonder of Santiago de Compostelo - the mecca to Saint Michael, the itinerant peoples of Ra heritage, the peasants who worked the land and held to their old beliefs, and the diaspora of the Jews from Eastern Mediterranean lands. This is the 3rd time Lafayette Ballet has presented the wonderous blend of music, mystery and culture.

Ballet is an art form, and as an art form it needs to present material and emotional issues which invite the veiwers to a new perspective. Music and dances are from traditional sources and strive to honor the beauty of this culture, and its contributions to a great deal in our dance culture.

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We hope to see you at the performance, and that you keep this December night for the celebration of our talented dancers and the mission that they share of beauty, humor, musicality and integrity .

A word about downtown parking. There is actually a fair amount of parking downtown, but the most obvious spots close to 226 N 6th Street are often taken in the evening for restaurants, theatre events, and residents. Please check the map and locate some reasonable places so you don't get caught driving in circles and arrive late.