Continental Ballet Company http://www.continentalballet.com Established in 1988. Founded by Riet Velthuisen. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:32:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Memorial Day Weekend – No classes http://www.continentalballet.com/2012/05/16/memorial-day-weekend-no-classes/ http://www.continentalballet.com/2012/05/16/memorial-day-weekend-no-classes/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:32:16 +0000 Jenny http://www.continentalballet.com/?p=2632 Our studio will be closed with no classes on Friday, May 25 through Monday, May 28th.   Enjoy this time with your family and take a moment to remember members of the military who are honored on Memorial Day.

]]> Our studio will be closed with no classes on Friday, May 25 through Monday, May 28th.   Enjoy this time with your family and take a moment to remember members of the military who are honored on Memorial Day.

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Six week session starting:

Sunday, June 10

4:30 – 5:30 PM

$90 for the six week course   Barre Fitness

]]> Join us for our Barre Fitness class.  Looking to change up your work out routine?  Train like a dancer.  Taught by a certified group fitness instructor and former ballet dancer.

Six week session starting:

Sunday, June 10

4:30 – 5:30 PM

$90 for the six week course   Barre Fitness

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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.  [...]]]> 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.

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If you did not perform with the Company but are interested in participating in these classes, please contact us for a schedule and tuition rates.

Instructors will include Riet Velthuisen and Marcia Keegan.

]]> Dancers who performed with Continental Ballet Company during our 2011-2012 season are invited to continue their training with morning classes.

If you did not perform with the Company but are interested in participating in these classes, please contact us for a schedule and tuition rates.

Instructors will include Riet Velthuisen and Marcia Keegan.

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About Swan Lake

Swan Lake is one of the most beloved of classical ballets. [...]]]> Swan Lake will open Saturday, March 24th at Bloomington Center for the Arts and will run though Sunday, April 1st with four performances. We’re looking forward to presenting this classic, beautiful ballet!

 

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About Swan Lake

Swan Lake is one of the most beloved of classical ballets. The ballet is set to the beautiful music by Tchaikovsky. Director/Founder Riet Velthuisen has re-staged this ballet to fit into a two hour format. Complete with beautiful costumes and sets, this full-length production is a feast for the eyes. The story of Swan Lake begins at a birthday celebration for Prince Siegfried. The Queen asks her son to choose a bride from among the guests. The Prince cannot decide so instead he goes hunting with his new crossbow. While hunting he is bewitched by the beauty of a flock of swans. He encounters a beautiful maiden dancing by a pond at night. The maiden is Odette, who was cursed by an evil sorcerer to be a human by night, and a swan by day. Siegfried falls in love with Odette and promises to rescue her and marry her. Shortly afterwards, Siegfried is attending a ball and in walks the sorcerer’s daughter, Odile, dressed as a black swan and looking exactly like Princess Odette. Odile, is also in love with the Prince and with her father’s help, gets Siegfried to pledge to marry her. Odette hears of this, is heartbroken and runs off. The Prince runs to find her and…..well to find out the ending, you will have to come to the ballet!

 

Tickets and Performances

(Click any of the dates below to purchase tickets.)
Saturday, March 24th @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, March 25th @ 3:00 PM
Saturday, March 31st @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 1st @ 3:00 PM

Tickets are $24 for regular admission, $18 for senior/student admission and $12 for child (under 13) admission.

Swan Lake performances are held in the Schneider Theatre at the Bloomington Center for the Arts.

1800 West Old Shakopee Road
Bloomington, MN 55431
 
 

Poster and Sharing

To view a printable poster, please click here. We’d appreciate any distribution or posting of this poster where ever it is allowed.

Also, we’d appreciate sharing our tickets page on Twitter & Facebook and with your friends & family!

 

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Your donations are much appreciated. Come see how you can help and be [...]]]> 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

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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 [...]]]> 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

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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!

 

]]> http://www.continentalballet.com/2011/09/09/fall-classes-begin/feed/ 0 Continental Ballet Receives Minnesota State Arts Board Funding! http://www.continentalballet.com/2011/08/30/minnesota-state-arts-board-funding/ http://www.continentalballet.com/2011/08/30/minnesota-state-arts-board-funding/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:01:05 +0000 jacob http://www.continentalballet.com/?p=1883 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 [...]]]> 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!

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You can [...]]]> 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.

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