Jenkintown, PA—Metropolitan Ballet Company (MBC) will host Settlement Music School and PHILADANCO! D/2 in MBC’s annual, Variations/Collaborations: An Evening of Music and Dance, at 7:00 pm on Saturday, March 24, 2018, at Kurtz Center of the William Penn Charter School, 3000 West School House Lane, Philadelphia. Tickets are now on sale for $20 in advance or $25 at the door; learn more and purchase tickets at www.metropolitanballetcompany.org.…
Continue ReadingJenkintown, PA—Young dancers studying at Metropolitan Ballet Academy (MBA) in Jenkintown, PA, achieved great success in the 2018 Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), winning high honors at the annual competition’s regional Semi-Finals held in Philadelphia January 4-7, 2018. 47 MBA dancers, including 14 young men from MBA’s renowned Boys’ Scholarship Program, will continue on to compete at the prestigious YAGP Finals in New York City, which will take place in April 2018.…
Continue ReadingMetropolitan Ballet alumni guest artists Melissa Gelfin, soloist with Cincinnati Ballet, and Peter Weil, of Pennsylvania Ballet, both Jenkintown natives, will perform in leading roles.
Sergey Pupyrev, former Principal dancer with the Russian State Ballet in Moscow, now Metropolitan Ballet Academy faculty member, stars as Doctor Coppélius.
Jenkintown, PA – Metropolitan Ballet Company (MBC) will open its 2017-18 season with the classic storybook ballet, Coppélia (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes), featuring two of its alumni now dancing professionally as guest artists in the beloved comic ballet’s leading roles.…
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