From George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp and Alonzo King to extraordinary world premieres, journey through a century of ballet. Plus, the return of Swan Lake!
Your favorite South Florida flavored holiday tradition is back! Be a holiday hero and save your seats today at the lowest prices of the season.
Dec 8 – 30 | Buy Tickets
Experience the magic of ballet your way with PointePass. Get six tickets to be used however and whenever you want — you pick the ballet(s), date(s), theater(s).
For the winter season, our exquisite dancers continue to perform cherished pieces from the ballet canon along with new works created by some of today’s most promising choreographers.
Feb 3 – 18 | Buy Tickets
Register today for our Children’s Division classes, open to all children ages 3 – 8. A perfect way to begin to foster the love of dance in your little one.
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Add on Sparkles & Sweets to your Nutcracker tickets and enjoy adult and child-friendly beverages, sweets and treats at the pre-performance and intermission party. Available at 7pm before select performances at the Arsht Center ($99 pp).
Dec 19 – 21 | Buy Tickets
Last season MCB revamped the Balanchine classic. Gone was the phone-it-in first Act. The new sets and costumes by Ruben and Isabel Toledo were not only gorgeous, they multiplied the references to the Hoffmann short story, deepening the ballet.
This transformational support — $3 million over five years — will be used to further strengthen the Miami City Ballet’s cultural relevance in Miami by supporting a new administrative and leadership infrastructure emphasizing experimentation, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This Nutcracker builds on Balanchine’s choreography and has a huge cast. The Miami City Ballet is bringing its full company of 52 dancers, plus seven pre-professional and three student dancers, Miami City Ballet Executive Director Tania Castroverde Moskalenko said. In addition, there are nearly 60 local student dancers (some still in elementary school) from the Colburn School and the Gabriela Foundation’s everybody dance! program, as well as performers from the Los Angeles Children’s Choir.
“If the evening’s three pieces share anything in common, it is the intense difficulty and pin-point precision required of the dancers. And they really deliver. ”
“The opening gala began with “Serenade,” Balanchine’s windswept embodiment of Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade in C Major for String Orchestra,” …Miami City Ballet did the honors impressively, with Simone Messmer being carried off for the elegiac ending of the 4-part suite keenly framed by the center’s intimate space.”
“Miami City Ballet proved that it belongs in the festival. An offshoot of City Ballet, the Miami company understands what Balanchine discovered and taught: how exactitude needn’t sacrifice warmth; how even in Romanticism, rhythmic accuracy allows momentum to build.”
