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Mar 13
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Spring Gala Sponsorship 2019

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Spring Gala 2019 Sponsorship

Sponsoring Verb Ballets’ Spring Gala on April 12, 2019 is a great way to help sustain Verb Ballets in highly visible way for your company, organization or family foundation. This benefit will go directly towards supporting Verb Ballets operations, performances and outreach programs. Verb Ballets is a 501(c)3 Tax Exempt organization. All Sponsorships must be received by April 1, 2019 to be included in the program for the evening. For any questions, please contact Denise Seyranian at 216-397-3757 or dseyranian@verbballets.org.

$10,000 PRESENTING SPONSOR
12 Gala Tickets
20 complimentary tickets to a Verb Ballets season performance
Private studio viewing for up to 20 guests
Top billing on all benefit materials and website
Event night signage and recognition

$5,000 PLATINUM LEVEL SPONSOR
6 Gala Tickets
10 complimentary tickets to a Verb Ballets season performance
Logo on all benefit materials and website
Event night signage and recognition

$2,500 GOLD LEVEL SPONSOR
4 Gala Tickets
4 complimentary tickets to a Verb Ballets season performance
Logo on all benefit materials and website
Event night signage and recognition

$1,500 SILVER LEVEL SPONSOR
2 Gala Tickets
2 complimentary tickets to a Verb Ballets season performance
Logo on all benefit materials and website
Event night signage and recognition

OTHER SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Dancer Meals $2,000
Entertainment sponsor $2,000
Decor Sponsor $2,000
Printing Sponsor $2,000
Valet Sponsor $1,000

Mar 13
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Spring Gala 2019

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Spring Gala 2019

Friday, April 12, 2019 7:00-10:00pm

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

Join event chair Deb Neale as we support Verb Ballets and dedicate our new home and studio on Friday, April 12, 2019.  The Spring Gala will be a dedication and celebration looking forward to our next steps in creating a vibrant center for dance. With the creation of the new home and studio we expanded educational programming and now offer classes for all ages through our Dance for Everyone program. We invite you to join us for a celebration to dedicate the new home and Fund-A-Need to support the company’s future.  Your support of Verb Ballets annual Spring Gala will provide vital support necessary to maintain the high level of artistic perfomances, company’s operations, educational programming our community has enjoyed for over 30 years.

Sponsorship and tickets are available now! For more information on Gala Sponsorship click here. General event inquiries can be directed to Denise Seyranian at 216-397-3757 or dseyranian@verbballets.org.

RSVP for the Spring Gala 2019

Tickets to the Spring Gala are on sale now!  For full details on sponsorship click here.

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Events of the Evening

7:00PM
Amazing grazing of sumptuous preparations by Trifles Catering

8:00PM
Performance by Verb Ballets of Ravel’s Bolero

8:15PM
Fund -A-Need Live Auction by Bob Hale

9:00PM
Mingle with Verb Ballets dancers
Specialty coffee and dessert bar

Gala Committee

Deborah L. Neale, Gala Chair
Laura Cleveland
Leslie Davidson
David M. Dusek
Mary Anne Garvey
Leslie Kaufman
Frederick Lautzenheiser
Debra Light

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

Studio located inside The Dealership
3558 Lee Rd. Shaker Heights, OH 44120

Valet Parking

Mar 07
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Dance for Everyone Spring Open House

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Join us to for the Spring community open house at the new Verb Ballets Center for Dance on Sunday, March 24, 2019 from 2:00-4:00pm. Verb Ballets welcomes students of all ages wishing to study dance with its Dance For Everyone Community Dance Program. Verb Ballets offers monthly youth classes in addition to drop-in teen and adult classes. We welcome the community in for free class samplers, meet the teachers, studio tours and a special performance by the Adverb Project. Learn more about additonal summer camp opportunities.  The open house is at the Verb Ballets Center for Dance located at 3558 Lee Road in Shaker Heights inside The Dealership. 

The Dance for Everyone Program allows people to nurture wellness, create a sense of identity and expression through dance and participate in healthy exercise. We offer a diverse array of ballet, stretch and jazz classes. The program provides classes on an ongoing basis. Drop ins are welcome for teen and adult classes. Children’s classes will run with monthly sessions.

Schedule of Activities

March 24, 2019

2:00-2:30pm
Creative Movement (Ages 3-5)
Studio B
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2:00-2:30pm
Adverb Project Performance
Studio B
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2:30-3:00pm
New to Ballet (Adult Class)
Studio A
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2:30-3:00pm
Pre-Ballet Class (Ages 5-7)
Studio B
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3:00-4:00pm
Muscial Theatre Class (Ages 12- Adults)
Studio A
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3:00-3:30pm
Stretch and Strength (Teen/ Adult Class)
Studio B
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3:30-4:00pm
Ballet (Ages 7-12)
Studio B
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The Adverb Project will perform during the community open house at 2:00pm. The Adverb Project is a group comprised of adults who have kindled an appreciation of dance and wants to share their love of movement. An extension of Verb Ballets’ community dance program, The Adverb Project is a performance ensemble comprised of adult learners. Led by Artistic Associate Director, Richard Dickinson, the project offers ongoing workshops to learn choreography and performance technique. The ensemble performs throughout the year in-studio and senior living facilities.

Dance For Everyone

Classes in ballet, stretch and jazz for children, teens and adults!

With a rich 30-year history, Verb Ballets is one of the oldest dance companies in the region. The internationally acclaimed and regionally loved professional ballet company engages audiences to experience the beauty of movement and stimulate creativity. In addition to renowned performances the company cultivates dance appreciation through community classes, educational residencies, senior movement classes, and college course partnerships. The company has been named one of Five Great Tiny Troupes in America by Dance Magazine and was one of the 25 dance companies in America to watch. Under the director of Dr. Margaret Carlson, Producing Artistic Director and Richard Dickinson, Associate Artistic Director the company mounts exciting projects that embrace diversity, history and cultural exchange.

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

3558 Lee Rd. Shaker Hts, Ohio 44120

 

Studio Entrance

Entrance to the studio is located in the garages behind The Dealership. Pull in north driveway on right hand side of the building. Ample free parking is available.

Mar 06
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Cuban Ballet Masterclass with Laura Alonso

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Cuban Ballet Masterclass with Laura Alonso

March 16, 2019 1:00pm

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

Verb Ballets is pleased to present a masterclass taught by Laura Alonso. This Advanced/ Intermediate Advanced Cuban Ballet class is intended for ballet or dance students from 13 years old and up, including adults. The class is specially designed to expand the classical vocabulary, movement potential and kinetic awareness of the student. The class constantly challenges students to refine their technique while learning more specific and technically advanced movements about the Cuban Ballet method. Ballet shoes are required. The studio is located at in the same building as The Dealership. Free parking available.

DETAILS

March 16, 2019 1:00pm

STUDIO

Verb Ballets Center for Dance
3558 Lee Rd.
Shaker Heights, OH 44120

TICKETS

Class is $25
Tickets are sold through EventBrite
Processing fee will apply

Laura Alonso, World Renown Teacher and Coach
Laura Alonso, daughter of world-famous ballerina Alicia Alonso, is known as teacher, coach and an expert at staging the classics. Ms. Alonso had a 25-year performing career with Ballet Nacional de Cuba. As an award-winning teacher and coach, she travels the world teaching and staging the classics. Ms. Alonso has served as an international coach, jury member and teacher at the Jackson International Ballet Competition, the Concours Internationalede Dance de Paris, France, the Alicia Alonso International Ballet Competition and other competitions. Alonso founded the international dance school, Centro Pro Danza and directs the professional company ProDanza. Laura Alonso is in Cleveland to continue the international collaboration with Verb Ballets and ProDanza as the Cleveland Havana Ballet Project in a month-long cultural exchange. Laura Alonso has reunited with the dancers of Verb Ballets for the third year and is in studio to set works in the Cuban Ballet method. This project is supported through the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion: Cuba Edition.The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project returns to Cleveland with Cuban dance legend, Laura Alonso. Verb Ballets and Pro Danza continue their international collaboration with a month-long cultural exchange in Cleveland. Laura Alonso will reunite with the dancers of Verb Ballets for the third year.

Register for the Masterclass with Laura Alonso

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

3558 Lee Rd
Shaker Heights, OH 44120

The studio is located at in the same building as The Dealership. Please use Verb Ballets entrance on right hand side of building. Free parking available.

Mar 06
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Laura Alonso Returns to Verb Ballets

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The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project returns to Cleveland with Cuban dance legend, Laura Alonso. Verb Ballets and Pro Danza continue their international collaboration with a month-long cultural exchange in Cleveland. This project blossomed in 2016-17 season when Alonso came to Verb Ballets to train the dancers in the Cuban ballet method for two months through the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion: Cuba Edition. The company directors Dr. Margaret Carlson and Laura Alonso then came together last season to join the companies for a one of a kind artistic exchange of Cuban and American repertory that toured Cuba. The cultural exchange will continue in the United States this season with a principal dancer of ProDanza coming to Verb Ballets.

 

Year 1 : 2016-17 Season

Verb Ballets hosted Laura Alonso for a two month residency through The Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion: Cuba Edition. Verb Ballets’ Dr. Margaret Carlson, Producing Artistic Director and Richard Dickinson, MFA, Associate Director had the opportunity to go to Cuba and visit Laura Alonso before she arrived in Cleveland. Through the work of Laura Alonso’s mother, Alicia Alonso, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba was founded and created one of the best ballet training grounds in the world. Laura Alonso’s professional company ProDanza resides in Havana. Her company continues to thrive with beautiful and hardworking professional dancers with honed technique despite the rough working conditions. 

Year 2 : 2017-18 Season

The company directors Dr. Margaret Carlson and Laura Alonso then came together to join the companies for a one of a kind artistic exchange of Cuban and American repertory. Last season this groundbreaking partnership toured Cuba for two weeks with performances at The Alicia Alonso Grand Theater of Havana and the El Teatro Nacional by the combined companies. This unique internatioanl collaboration was featured on Pointe Magazine.

Year 3 : 2018-19 Season

The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project returns to Cleveland with Cuban dance legend, Laura Alonso. Verb Ballets and Pro Danza continue their international collaboration with a month-long cultural exchange in Cleveland. Laura Alonso and her principle dancer Luz Marina Hidalgo Alejo will travel to Cleveland to reunite with the dancers of Verb Ballets for the third year of this international collaboration.

Opportunities to see The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project

Laura Alonso

Laura Alonso, daughter of world-famous ballerina Alicia Alonso, is known as teacher, coach and an expert at staging the classics. Ms. Alonso had a 25-year performing career with Ballet Nacional de Cuba. As an award-winning teacher and coach, she travels the world teaching and staging the classics. Ms. Alonso has served as an international coach, jury member and teacher at the Jackson International Ballet Competition, the Concours Internationale de Dance de Paris, France, the Alicia Alonso International Ballet Competition and other competitions. Alonso founded the international dance school, Centro Pro Danza and directs the professional company Pro Danza.   

Feb 19
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Cleveland Havana Ballet Project

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Cleveland Havana Ballet Project

SHOW DETAILS

March 15, 2019 7:00pm

THEATRE

Verb Ballets Center for Dance
3558 Lee Rd.
Shaker Heights, OH 44120

TICKETS

SOLD OUT
Tickets $45 includes a reception following
Tickets are sold through EventBrite
Box Office fee will apply

March 15, 2019 7:00pm

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project returns to Cleveland with Cuban dance legend, Laura Alonso. Verb Ballets and Pro Danza continue their international collaboration with a month-long cultural exchange in Cleveland. Laura Alonso will reunite with the dancers of Verb Ballets for the third year. Be the first to see the presentation of the new Cuban ballets set by Laura Alonso. This unique opportunity on Friday, March 15, 2019 at 7pm will provide an intimate studio performance of premières followed by a reception with Laura Alonso. This event is very limited!

The studio is located at in the same building as The Dealership. Free parking available.

Get tickets for Cleveland Havana Ballet Project Evening

Seating is general admission. Tickets are sold through EventBrite. Box Office fee will apply.

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

3558 Lee Rd
Shaker Heights, OH 44120

The studio is located at in the same building as The Dealership. Please use Verb Ballets entrance on right hand side of building. Free parking available.

Feb 19
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Cleveland Havana Ballet Project in Akron

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Cleveland Havana Ballet Project

SHOW DETAILS

March 17, 2019 2:00pm

THEATRE

Akron-Summit County Public Library Auditorium
60 South High Street
Akron, OH 44326

TICKETS

$10 Tickets
Tickets are sold through EventBrite
Box Office fee will apply

March 17, 2019 2:00pm

Akron-Summit County Public Library Auditorium

Verb Ballets presents a perfomance of The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project on Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 2:00 pm at the Akron-Summit County Public Library Auditorium. The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project returns to Northeast Ohio with Cuban dance legend, Laura Alonso. She will collaborate with Verb Ballets for a month-long cultural exchange setting Cuban ballets on the dancers. The Akron performance will feature works from her company’s repertory. The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project toured Cuba last season and was nationally noted by Pointe Magazine for this one of a kind partnership.

Get tickets for Cleveland Havana Ballet Project in Akron

Seating is general admission. Tickets are sold through EventBrite. Box Office fee will apply.

Akron-Summit County Public Library

Main Auditorium
60 South High Street, Akron, OH 44326

Parking deck is available next to the library

Feb 19
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Live @ Noon

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SHOW DETAILS

March 8, 2019 12:00pm

THEATRE

Verb Ballets Center for Dance
3558 Lee Rd.
Shaker Heights, OH 44120

TICKETS

$15 Adults
$10 Children
Includes dessert

Live @ Noon with Laura Alonso

March 8, 2019 12:00pm

Join Verb Ballets for an exclusive working rehearsal on Friday, March 8, 2019, at noon with Cuban dance legend Laura Alonso. Verb Ballets and ProDanza of Cuba continue their international collaboration with The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project. Laura Alonso will come to Cleveland for a month-long cultural exchange setting Cuban ballets on the dancers of Verb Ballets. This unique opportunity will provide insight into rehearsing the Cuban ballet style.

Pack a lunch to enjoy during the rehearsal and dessert will be provided. Doors open at 11:45pm and viewing begins at noon. The studio is located in the same building as The Dealership. Free parking available.

Get tickets for Live @ Noon

Laura Alonso

Laura Alonso, daughter of world-famous ballerina Alicia Alonso and renowned teacher and coach Fernando Alonso, is herself known as a teacher, coach and an expert at staging the well-known classics. For seven years she served as the personal coach and teacher for international prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso. Dance Theatre of Harlem artistic director, former prima ballerina and former editor of Pointe magazine, Virginia Johnson, calls her an, “international master teacher extrordinare.”

Ms. Alonso’s 25 year performing career with Ballet National de Cuba included soloist work in all of the traditional classics. Today she travels around the world teaching and staging the classics for pre-professional as well as professional companies such as London’s Royal Ballet School and The Royal Danish Ballet.

Although born in the United States, Alonso is a resident of Havana where she has an international dance school, Centro Pro Danza, which welcomes 1,500 students, and a professional performing company, ProDanza.

A teacher of world-class experience, Ms. Alonso has taught for professional ballet companies all over the world including Cuban National Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, the Australian Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Toronto Ballet, the Alberta Ballet. She was a member of the faculty at the Regional Dance America’s National Festival in 1997 as well as at the RDA/NE Festival 1998 and the RDA/SE 1999. For seven years, she served as the personal coach for international ballerina Alicia Alonso.

Ms. Alonso was honored with an award as the best coach at the Jackson International Ballet Competition in 1990. Her student, Jose Manuel Carreno, won the Grand Prix de Ville, the highest award possible. Ms. Alonso has served as coach, jury member and teacher at the Jackson IBC and as jury member of the Concours International de Dance de Paris, France, the Alicia Alonso International Ballet Competition and other competitions around the world.

Along with her expertise in working with professionals and aspiring professionals, Ms. Alonso is extremely gifted at working with young dancers of all ages and experiences. She is willing to instruct anyone who wants to learn and has transformed students in just a few classes. Alonso’s mission is to bring the highest quality dance to students everywhere.

Verb Ballets Center for Dance

3558 Lee Rd
Shaker Heights, OH 44120

The studio is located at in the same building as The Dealership. Please use Verb Ballets entrance on right hand side of building. Free parking available.

Feb 06
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Kay Eichman in Studio

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Verb Ballets is excited to welcome Kay Eichman in studio. Eichman joined Cleveland Ballet in 1976, in its first season at the Hanna Theatre. A distinguished 15-year career ensued, including principal roles in numerous traditional and contemporary works. The program will close with the comapny premiere of Kay Eichman’s new neoclassical ballet, Mendelssohn Italian Symphony. The sophisticated and fast moving work requires brilliant technique.  Her new ballet is inspired by her memories of dancing to the same symphony with Cleveland Ballet.

Kay Eichman

Kay Eichman received her early ballet training from Pat Leclercq in New Orleans. She later studied on scholarship at the National Ballet, Washington DC; the National Ballet of Canada; The Conservatoire de Nice, France; and Joffrey’s American Ballet Center in New York. Kay left the Joffrey II company to join Cleveland Ballet in its inaugural season, A distinguished 15-year career ensued, including principal roles in numerous traditional and contemporary works. Among these were Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, The Four Temperaments, Agon, Concerto Barocco, and Serenade. Kay also spent one season in Germany as Principal Guest Artist with the Giessen Ballet. As a teacher, she has served on the faculties of the School of The Minnesota Ballet, The University of Akron Dance Program, and currently at the Dance Institute of Akron. During her tenure at the Cleveland School of the Arts, Kay served as guest artist, teacher, ballet mistress, and co-director of the Dance Department. In addition to teaching at numerous local studios, she has also taught company class for Verb Ballets, August Wilson, and Greene Works Project. Kay was on the faculties of IABD conference, Joffrey Ballet Jazz & Contemporary Summer Session, and Dance Caravan; and served as a talent judge throughout the United States with “Dance Explosion,” “Dynamite,” and others. She is now the Ballet Mistress for the Tri C Arts Academy.

Don't miss the company premiere!

Saturday, February 9, 2019 : The Breen Center for the Performin Arts : Tickets $10-35

Jan 31
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Margaret Mullin in Studio

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Margaret Mullin, a renowned soloist with Pacific Northwest Ballet, received a prestigious fellowship from the Princess Grace Foundation. Mullin began her training at Ballet Arts Tucson with Mary-Beth Cabana, a former Cleveland Ballet Principal Dancer. At the age of 13 she first saw Ian Horvath’s Laura’s Women performed. She was so struck by the profound beauty of the ballet she counldn’t get it out of her head 11 years later. She then joined forces with Nel Shelby to create the documentary No Dominion, The Ian Horvath Story.

Margaret Mullin came to Cleveland to set Ian Horvath’s No Dominion on Verb Ballets the first week of January. Ian Horvath choreographed his final work No Dominion, for the Jose Limon Dance Company in 1988. Set to Sir William Walton’s cello concerto, the work for an all-male cast is a reflection on his impending death from AIDS. No Dominion takes its title from the poem “And Death Shall Have No Dominion,” by Dylan Thomas. This peice will be featured on the two programs celebrating the life and work on Ian Horvath in February.

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Margaret Mullin

Margaret Mullin is from Tucson, Arizona. She studied on scholarship at Ballet Arts Tucson with Mary-Beth Cabana and at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and she attended summer courses at Ballet Tucson and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She was the recipient of a Thurber Scholarship Award in 2003 and 2004, the 2007 Founding Director Scholarship Award from Angela Whitehill of Burklyn Ballet, and a 2011 Princess Grace Award recipient. Ms. Mullin joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2008. She was promoted to corps de ballet in 2009 and soloist in 2013.

Ms. Mullin has choreographed works for Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Choreographers’ Showcase and NEXT STEP. In 2012, she choreographed her first ballet, Lost in Light, for the Company. She has also choreographed works, performed as a guest artist (including a leading role in Antony Tudor’s Continuo), and served as guest teacher for Ballet Tucson and Ballet Arts School in Tucson.