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Performances

Spring Show 2026

Performances: Friday June 5 at 7:00pm, Saturday June 6 at 2:00pm, & Sunday June 7 at 7:00pm, all at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton

This year’s spring show, with original choreography by our director, Mikayla Archambeau, is being developed in collaboration with a string quartet led by our music director, Geoffrey Archambeau.

Repertoire:
Amaterasu, by Sato Matsui
String Quartet No. 1, by Heitor Villa-Lobos
String Quartet in One Movement, by Amy Beach
Two Pieces for String Quartet, by Dmitri Shostakovich

Musicians:
Hillary Dumond, violin
Laura Arpiainen, violin
Geoffrey Archambeau, viola
Rebecca Hartka, cello

Four ballet dancers practice in a studio with mirrors, wearing black and pink leotards and white tights.
Rehearsals are under way!

Recent Shows

Amherst Ballet performance poster for 'Bach & Ballet' featuring details about the original performance, including the date, location, and featured artists. Includes images of Mikayla Archambeau (Dance & Choreography), Geoffrey Archambeau (Viola), and Sarah Puckett (Piano).

Bach & Ballet

March 2026

Dancer & choreographer Mikayla Archambeau, violist Geoffrey Archambeau, and pianist Sarah Puckett: J. S. Bach’s Suite No. 3 for solo cello (BWV 1009), Manuel De Falla’s 6 Canciones Populares, and Alain Hovhaness’ Chahagir (Torchbearer).

Promotional poster for 'The Snow Maiden' by Amherst Ballet featuring five dancers in various ballet poses, with performance details including date, time, and location.

The Snow Maiden

December 2025

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.”

Promotional poster for 'Working to Transcend' featuring live music and dance performances by Amherst Ballet, including details about concert dates and locations.

Working to Transcend

Spring 2025

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

Past Repertoire

2024MayMerry Pranks and Fairy Tales: “Pas de Trois des Odalisques from Le Corsaire,” “Will Be Summer from Cologne,” “Mother Goose Suite,” and “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.”
2023JuneEmpress of Thunder: “Rebel Without a Pause,” “Emotions,” “The Vegetables,” “Reflections,” “The Pixel Pixies,” “Untitled Solo,” and “Empress of Thunder.”
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”