Select a section: Calendar | Registration | School of the Minnesota Ballet Adult Division | Summer Programs | Online Payment Page Join Our Mailing List! The School of the Minnesota Ballet is the most sophisticated ballet academy in the Northland region. Children from age three to adult can learn to dance. The staff of the ballet utilizes a positive approach to the dance arts while developing discipline in our young students and future professionals. Spend lunch hour outdoors with the School of the Minnesota Ballet Student Summer Showcase Noon Friday, July 24 Duluth Public Library Plaza (Across from The Depot) The performance showcases the school’s upper-level students as well as Summer Intensive students from as far away as Arkansas, California, Hawaii, and Alaska. Students will demonstrate ballet technique, jazz, modern, tap, and character (Eastern European folk dance). Students from the choreography class will perform their own works-in-progress. Admission is free. The Nutcracker Experience Dance students from the School of the Minnesota Ballet have the opportunity in early October to audition for The Nutcracker. This full-length performance has roles for approximately 75 young dancers ages 8-18. Rehearsals begin in October and require extra Saturday classes. With great excitement, children are cast in the first act party scene as young guests (perhaps even as Marie) or in the playful prologue scene, or as tiny wooden soldiers fighting the menacing mice; some are selected as Mother Ginger children or as little shepherdesses for the second act. Students also have many other opportunities to advance their performing skills in the School of the Minnesota Ballet. Thank you to all the students who auditioned so admirably on October 4, 2008.

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