Performances
With over 100 works in our repertoire, Metropolitan is
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Variations/Collaborations 2025
UPCOMING
Join Metropolitan Ballet Company for an unforgettable evening of stunning dance performances at Variations/Collaborations 2025! This dynamic event showcases choreography by renowned artists Nicole von Arx, Da'Von Doane, Sarah Mettin, and Mykola Zhukovin.
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This year, we are also thrilled to welcome American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School as our special guest artists, bringing their exceptional talent and artistry to the stage.
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Kurtz Center for Performing Arts
William Penn Charter School
3000 West School House Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19144
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March 29, 2025 - 7:00pm
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General Admission: $25
Performances
Metropolitan presents a high quality season of performances each year throughout the community. The Family Concert Series, with its strong literary component, fosters an early interest in dance. Variations/Collaborations with Settlement Music School presents an innovative fusion of live art forms. The Spring Showcase celebrates the accomplishments of all of our students, and illustrates the progression of classical study from our youngest dancers through our pre-professional artists.
FAMILY CONCERT SERIES
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Featuring five performances each November designed to introduce dance to young audiences, the Family Concert Series provides the opportunity to engage with dance through both popular and timeless children’s literature, as told through a broad range of dance forms and styles that entertain and enrich audience members of all ages. The programs often include collaborations with respected professionals in the field, such as Robin Preiss Glasser, a former professional dancer, renowned children’s book illustrator, best known for her Fancy Nancy series of children’s picture books.
THE NUTCRACKER
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Metropolitan students have numerous opportunities to audition for several different productions of the beloved winter season tale of The Nutcracker. Our students have appeared in Philadelphia Ballet’s George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at the Academy of Music, Wilmington Ballet Academy of Dance The Nutcracker at the DuPont Theatre, Moscow Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Annenberg Center, and a production of The Ukrainian Nutcracker in collaboration with Voloshky Dance Ensemble.
VARIATIONS/COLLABORATIONS
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Cutting-edge choreography and brilliant live music. Since 2001, Metropolitan Ballet Company has presented its annual March/April collaboration with Settlement Music School—an innovative fusion of live art forms and contemporary dance commissions/premieres that highlights the talents of our young dance and musical artists in the beautiful Kurtz Center of the William Penn Charter School.
COMPETITIONS & OUTREACH
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Metropolitan students participate each year in a variety of additional performing experiences including competitions and community outreach events such as Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), National Ballet Competition, BalletX events, Jenkintown Arts Festival and more.
SPRING SHOWCASE
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Our annual Spring Showcase in June serves to inspire further study and celebrates the accomplishments of our students and company in four high-quality performances at Josephine Muller Auditorium at Abington Friends School.
Met’s young dancers are a joy to work with. They’re inquisitive and eager to understand the “why’s” behind the choreography. On stage, their diligence and exuberance add up to a spirited performance.
KANJI SEGAWA
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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