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The Snow Maiden

Join us for The Snow Maiden, a folk tale with roots in pre-Christian Northern Europe. Our retelling is set to selections from three works by Tchaikovsky: The Serenade for Strings, Symphony No. 1 in G-minor (Winter Reverie), and Incidental Music for the play, “The Snow Maiden.”

Saturday, December 13, 3:00pm
Amherst Regional High School
21 Matoon Street, Amherst

Sunday, December 14, 3:00pm
Amherst Regional High School
21 Matoon Street, Amherst

Five dancers posing together in a studio, wearing colorful costumes for a ballet performance.
Company dancers in rehearsal for The Snow Maiden
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Recent Shows

Promotional poster for the spring show 'Working to Transcend' featuring silhouettes of dancers, event details, and names of musicians.

Spring 2024

Rebecca Clarke’s “Sonata for Viola and Piano” (1919) and Florence Price’s “Piano Quintet in A-minor” (1936).

A promotional poster for the Amherst Ballet performance titled 'Merry Pranks and Fairy Tales', featuring two dancers in costume, one in a long maroon dress and the other in a green top and dark pants. The event is scheduled for May 11, 2024, at Hopkins Academy in Hadley, MA.

Merry Pranks and Fairy Tales

Spring 2024

“Pas de Trois des Odalisques from Le Corsaire,” “Will Be Summer from Cologne,” “Mother Goose Suite,” and “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.”

A woman in a flowing red dress sits by the water, with her back to the camera, reaching out toward the surface. The text at the top reads 'THE EMPRESS OF THUNDER' and the bottom includes event details and a QR code for tickets.

Empress of Thunder

Spring 2023

“Rebel Without a Pause,” “Emotions,” “The Vegetables,” “Reflections,” “The Pixel Pixies,” “Untitled Solo,” and “Empress of Thunder.”

Past Repertoire

2022JuneThe Mask of Zora: “Mirrors Duet from Raymonda,” “Variation from Napoli,” and original works “Missing You” and “The Mask of Zora.”
2021JulyDreams
2020JuneThe Butterfly Effect
2019December On Winter’s Wing
2019AprilMidsummer Night’s Dream
2018December“ConcorDance” at the UMass Museum of Contemporary Art
2018MayMoving Parts: “Variations from Le Corsaire”, “Variation from Paquita”, “Pulsing Coexistence”, “Virus”, “Water Suite”, “Catch and Release”, “Fellow Mortal”
2017DecemberSnow White
2017JuneMagic Flute
2016DecemberSnegurochka, The Snow Maiden
2016MayMusic, Motion, & Emotion: “Schon”, “Phosphenes”, “Fourtellings”, “Habibi”, “La Bayadere Betrothal Scene”
2015DecemberSleeping Beauty
2015JunePineapple Poll (in collaboration with the Valley Light Opera)
2015MayMoving Parts: “Scenes from Childhood”, “Entr’acte”, “1 Trillion Down”, “Animated Frescoes from The Little Humpbacked Horse”, “Grand Defile”
2014DecemberCinderella
2014MayJuxtaposition
2011March“Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major by Franz Schubert” in collaboration with the Pioneer Valley Symphony
2011March“Hansel & Gretel”, “Prelude, op. 28, no. 7 from Chopiniana”, “What Happens When”, “Markitenka”, “Character Dances”, “The Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major by Franz Schubert”
2010MayClassical & More…: “Chopiniana”, “Variation from La Sylphide”, “Emily of Amherst selected excerpts”, “Trio”, “Breaking Through Life”, “Rhapsody of Youth”, “Bach Variation with Glenn Gould”, “Krater, Ewer, Amphora”
2009December“Tchaikovsky – Character Dances from Nutcracker”, “Chopiniana – A ballet to the suite Les Sylphides” in collabration with the Pioneer Valley Symphony
2009May“Emily of Amherst”
2008MarchDance Diversity: A Collage of Works: “The Five Elements”, “Che Che Cole”, “Space Oddity”, “Excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty”
2007March30th Anniversary Celebration of Dance: “Dances From the Earth: The Arctic & The Rainforest”, “Vivre”, “Hungarian Festival of Dance”, “Excerpts from Don Quixote”
2006March“Dances From the Earth: The Arctic”, “Dances From the Earth: The Rainforest”, “Excerpts From The Firebird”
2005DecemberTook part in “Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker”
2005MayBarefoot Books Ballet Stories: “Swan Lake”, “Shim Chung: The Blind Man’s Daughter”
2004DecemberTook part in “Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker”
2004May“Nature’s Waltz”, “Theorem”, “Too Darn Hot!”, “High Tone Places”, “Forge”, “Out of Darkness”, “The Sleeping Beauty”
2003DecemberTook part in “Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker”
2003May“Ribbon Festival”, “Alam Al-Mithral”, “Cello Suite”, “Italian Concerto”, “Concierto Del Viento”, “Forge”, “Coppelia”
2002March25th Anniversary Gala: “An Evening of Music and Dance with Johann Sebastian Bach”, “Ribbon Festival”, “Miles A La Mode”, “Creation of Narnia”
2001May“An Evening of Music and Dance with Johann Sebastian Bach”
2000March“The Magician’s Nephew”
1999April“A Sweep of Dark”, “Chinese Dance”, “Octet”, “Rainbow Etude”, “Les Deux Arabiques”, “Archean”
1998May“Fairies in The Garden”, “Walking with Emma and Jake”, “A Sweep of Dark”, “Sevilla”, “Archean”
1997March/April“Flower Fairy Ballet”, “Nebula”, “Atlantic Sky”, “Ribbon Festival”, “Bicycle Waltz”, “Sevilla”, “Divertimento”, “Favorite Israeli Waltzes”, “Celebration Waltz”
1995April“Concerto”, “Vices or Assets?”, “June is Busting Out All Over”, “Gently”, “Matisse’s Circus”
1994February“Sevillanas”, “Hoe Down”, “Beat on Time”, “Salsa Nuestra”, “Sea Study”, “Cello Concerto”
1993May“Cello Concerto”, “Hands of Life”, “Dancing with Dubuffet”
1992April15th Anniversary Gala: “Beat on Time”, “Sevillanas”, “The Emperor’s Nightingale”, “Cello Concerto”, “Hoe Down”, “Thrid Rhyme”, “Victorian Marketplace”
1990June“Language”, “Spring and The Danube”, Sevillanas”, “Excerpts from Swan Lake”, “Don Quixote”, “Salsa Nuestra”
1989June“Violin Concerto in A Minor”, “Pas de Trois”, “Spiral”, “Transitions”, “The Dream”, “Variation”, “Paderewski Theme With Variations”
1988March“Selections from Carnival of Animals”, “Uncle Wiggily and the Duck Pond”
1987May“Graffiti”, “Third Rhyme”, “After Miro”, “Persimmon”, “12 Variations on a Star”, “Amaranth”, “Cello Concert in D”
1987April“Peter and The Wolf”
1986December“Punch and Judy and The Magic Puppeteer”
1986April“The Emperor’s Nightingale”
1985December“Punch and Judy and The Magic Puppeteer”
1985July“Beat on Time”, “Harvest”, “Hans and The Ladies”, “Defiant”, “Elegie in White”, “After Miro”, “Canticle”, “Evolutions”
1984October“Beat On Time”, “Yiddish Songs”, “Defiant”, “Harvest”, “Elegie in White”, “Evolutions”, “Three Scriabin Preludes”, “Chase the Clouds Away”
1984April“Graffiti”, “Homage to Miro”, “Canticle”, “Cahoots”, “Ritual Moves”
1983“Les Sylphides”, “Jazzamatazz”, “Undine’s Solo”, “One Thousand Cranes”
1982“Cat’s Cradle”, “Vignettes”, “Carnival of Animals”, “Trilogy”, “Joie de Vivre”, “Persimmon”, “How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?” “Vigil”, 
1981“The Emperor’s Nightingale”, “Symphonie Espagnole”, “Tom Saywer’s Saturday”, “Dancers”, “The Way It Is”
1980“Amherst Poets”, “Variations on 10 Movements”, “Degrees of Freedom”, “Punch and Judy”, “Blue Tomorrow? Jazz It!”, “Saturday Morning”, “Spring Rhapsody”
1979“Soma#27･17･56･4･21･52”, “Uncle Wiggily and the Duck Pond”, “Grand Pas de Duex from Don Quixote”, “Handel Suite”, “Joie de Vivre”, “Windflow”, “Street Cries of London”, “Orion’s Belt”
1978“Cat’s Cradle”, “Blue Bird Pas de Deux”, “The Golden Goose”, “Persimmon”, “A beginning”, “Blake Prospect”, “Judgment of Jeb”