Continental Ballet Company
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Tickets go on sale today, May 1st for our annual student recital. Reserved seating is available so order early! Tickets are $8.00. Call 952-563-8562.
Click here to order tickets on our website.
Information booklets are being sent home with students this week. This will contain important details regarding the dress rehearsal, photos and recital. Watch for this booklet to come home with your student. Additional copies are available at our registration office.
We need your support! Please join us for this evening event to learn what goes into producing a ballet. For almost 25 years CBC has been performing both full length classical ballets and divertissements in the Midwest. We can’t do it alone.
Your donations are much appreciated. Come see how you can help and be exposed to a unique side of the ballet.
- Select pieces of Ms. Velthuisen’s choreography will be performed.
- Barefoot Wine & Bubbly tastings.
- Backstage tour.
- Pointe shoe fitting demonstration.
- Live tutu making display.
- The art of creating tiaras for the performances.
- Learn the history of CBC.
- Formal attire encouraged, but not required.
When: Friday, February 17th at 7:00 PM
Where: Bloomington Center for the Arts
Cost: $25
2012
Happy New Year to all our students and student families! We are making a few changes to our class schedule and also adding some new class offerings. Please check with Alicia, our Registrar, for the newest schedule. Our student recital will be June 21st and tickets will go on sale May 1st. Although that is several months away, we will be measuring and ordering costumes for the recital in the next several weeks.
For those new to our Company, we want you to know that in addition to teaching lessons we have a professional performing company. The Company will be presenting the ballet Swan Lake the last two weekends in March.
FUNDRAISING: To help with production costs we are having several fundraising activities. One event that the students can help with is selling raffle tickets. These are only $2 and you could win a $1000 cash; a $500 shopping spree at the Mall of America; or a Toro snow blower.
Swan Lake Prize Package! The student selling the most raffle tickets will win dinner for two at a local restaurant, two tickets to Swan Lake and have their photo taken with cast members on stage. Raffle tickets are available through our Registration Office – just check with Alicia.
We will be holding classes on Monday, January 17th even though some schools are closed for the Martin Luther King Holiday. If you will be out of town or for some reason not able to attend class, please call our Registration Office and let Alicia know. 952-563-8562
We welcome new and returning students to our fall classes. It is always exciting and busy at the start of the fall season. Since most of our students took a break during the summer months, instructors have been asked to start out classes slow. Some students and parents have begun to question whether they are in the right level class.
PLEASE – be patient. We are purposely starting these fall classes slow and precise. Teachers need a few weeks with the students to determine if they are properly placed. Please do not take it upon yourself to move to a different level. Stay with the class and let our professional instructors do the evaluation. A slow technique class will benefit any dancer – even a professional – especially when you have been out of the studio for several weeks.
So continue to come to the classes that were recommended. Work slow and steady to regain your turnout and technique. Teachers will re-evaluate for October. Thank you!
We are very honored to announce that Continental Ballet Company has been approved for funding for a 2012 Operating Support Grant.
This is the first time we have received financial support from the Minnesota State Arts Board. We are looking forward to a great season and appreciate receiving this grant.
Thank you!
Our regular studio classes are on break. We will resume our daily class schedule on September 6th. During the summer months we are offering a Princess Camp for pre-school students and an Intensive Summer Study for our intermediate/advanced students in July/August. We will check our emails and voicemail regularly during these summer months.
You can register online for fall classes or come see us in person on August 4th at our Invitation to the Dance. This will feature a performance by our summer students and a special preview performance from CBC dancers who are participating in the Fringe Festival. We will have class registration and our teachers available at this event.
Students: Join us on Saturday, June 11th for pictures!
Students should come in costume, with long hair in a bun and short hair neatly pulled back. Hairspray and hairpins should be used generously. Please carry your dance shoes and put them on when you get inside.
Students who didn’t pick up their costume in class this week, can make arrangements to come in another day or pick it up on Saturday before your scheduled photo shoot. If you have any questions, please call Alicia in the Registration Office at 952-563-8562.
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Thank you!Accessibility Information
Assistive listening devices and seating for individuals using wheelchairs are available upon request at all of our performances.
