Photo by Noel Valero Michelle Thompson Ulerich will start off this season’s star-studded Master Class series on Sunday, November 1 at 3:00 pm with her class on ballet technique. Originally from California, Michelle Thompson Ulerich trained at San Francisco Ballet for nine years. She also received training from the Kirov Academy of Ballet, American Ballet …
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Former Principal of Boston Ballet, Anaïs Chalendard will teach a ballet technique class on Wednesday, November 4 at 5:15 pm. Anaïs Chalendard started to train with Carole Bentolila in Roanne as a student of Max Bozzoni, étoile and teacher at the Paris Opera school. Anaïs moved to Marseille and continued her training under the instruction …
https://amherstballet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Zumba.mp4 This season, our alumna, Anna Plummer is offering Zumba® classes at Amherst Ballet. Anna is an alumna of Amherst Ballet and recently earned her B.A. in Theater & Dance and English at Amherst College. Training and intensives at the National Theater Institute, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Goodspeed Musicals, Massachusetts Academy of Ballet, Barrington Stage Company, …
AB students can now receive training in codified Graham technique taught by AB alumna, Adele Fisk. Adele is a performer and choreographer interested in the healing power of dance both seen and experienced. After graduating from Amherst Ballet in 2015 she moved to New York City to attend the Ailey Fordham BFA Program from which …
This season, Allana Scudder joins the faculty of Amherst Ballet to teach Hip Hop. Allana is a UMass senior majoring in Dance and was recommended highly by Shakia Johnson, the Five Colleges professor. Allana first sparked interest in dance through an Alvin Ailey dance camp where she began her formal dance training in ballet, modern, …
We are pleased to announce that Iris Berkman will join the AB faculty in the 2020-2021 season. Iris has been teaching Creative Dance in the valley since 1995. Born and raised in Israel, she initially studied with Immanuel and Yosefa Bryant of Bat Sheva Dance Company, and danced professionally with their own company. She was …
Registration for the 2020-2021 season is now open at your Portal for the Dance Studio Pro. To ensure every dancer’s safety, we have adjusted in-person classes and will offer all of them online at the same time. With in-person classes, we allow no more than five students in the lower studio and seven in the …
Amherst Ballet launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $15,000. Supported by almost half a century of history in the Pioneer Valley, Amherst Ballet renewed its vigor this last fall with the new artistic director Madeleine Bonn and talented faculty members including Junichi Fukuda and Stephany Shumway. Bonn created a comprehensive dance curriculum which excited and …
On July 31, Amherst Ballet released the long awaited online performance, “The Butterfly Effect,” set to the music by Max Righter, “Spring,” in Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi–The Four Seasons. Madeleine Bonn, Artistic Director of Amherst Ballet and the producer of the performance, first came up with the idea of creating an online virtual show …
Dear Friends: Amherst Ballet stands in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in the ongoing protests against police brutality and the systemic discrimination experienced by blacks and other minorities in this country. We believe that underlying these recent events is a complex set of intertwined sociopolitical, economic, psychological, and cultural factors. While historically specific …
Ballet Dancer at Oper Wuppertal; Aalto-Musiktheater Essen; Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Music: “Musica nocturna de las Calles de Madrid” by Boccherini
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