Central New York Ballet is an artist-centered, inclusive professional ballet company in Syracuse dedicated to uncompromising artistic excellence, offering performances, education, and mentorship while serving audiences from all backgrounds and making dance accessible to the community.
Central New York Ballet is a professional ballet company based in Syracuse, New York. The organization describes itself as artist-centered and inclusive, dedicated to artistic excellence and changing lives through dance. It states that it is a new organization with deep roots, and that its dancers and artistic staff have decades of combined experience. The company says it seeks to inspire beauty through dance, give dancers more control over their artistic lives, and foster brilliance for dancers and audiences from all walks of life, including BIPOC communities.
The company presents both classical ballet repertoire and new works. Productions have included The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Vision of Sound, an annual program of new music with modern dance. Other performances have featured works by choreographers including Aldo Kattón, Jared Brunson, and Felipe Panamá. The company performs at venues including The Everson Museum of Art.
Central New York Ballet offers education and mentorship to student dancers and other young artists, and provides community outreach programs. The organization has presented performances at elementary schools in the Liverpool School District and at locations including The MOST, community centers, and libraries. The company received a capital improvement grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to create a permanent home in Syracuse’s GereBlock Building.
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Central New York Ballet is an artist-centered, inclusive professional ballet company dedicated to uncompromising artistic excellence. The organization describes itself as a new company with deep roots, with dancers and artistic staff having decades of combined experience in ballet companies. The management team includes business owners, attorneys, and arts professionals. The company seeks to inspire beauty through dance, give dancers more control over their artistic lives, and foster brilliance for dancers and audiences from all walks of life, including BIPOC communities. It weaves together cultures to present new works and classical repertoire. The company was founded in January 2024 and is led by Artistic Director Claire Solis, with Sherri Campagni as Rehearsal Director and Company Teacher, and Gigi Murphy as President. The organization received a capital improvement grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to create a permanent home in Syracuse’s GereBlock Building.
The organization is located in Syracuse, New York, with a mailing address at 5056 Skyline Drive, Syracuse, NY 13215. The company is establishing a permanent home in Syracuse’s GereBlock Building and performs at venues including The Everson Museum of Art Hosmer Auditorium.
Central New York Ballet offers professional ballet performances featuring classical repertoire and new works, education and mentorship programs for student dancers and young artists, community outreach performances, and Rhythm Works Integrative Dance classes for children with special needs. The company provides a collaborative environment for professional and student dancers, choreographers, musicians, visual artists, costume designers, and photographers to create art experiences.
The organization serves people from all backgrounds and all ages, aiming to make dance accessible to all members of the community. Services are available to student dancers, young artists, professional dancers, choreographers, musicians, visual artists, costume designers, photographers, children with special needs, and audiences including BIPOC communities.
The organization serves all ages, from children with special needs through Rhythm Works Integrative Dance classes to student dancers, young artists, and professional dancers. The company offers education and mentorship to student dancers and other young artists while maintaining a professional company of experienced dancers.
The organization offers education and mentorship opportunities for student dancers and other young artists. Professional dancers can join the company, which plans to expand its professional artist ranks. The company provides a safe and productive artistic environment for collaboration among artists of all mediums.
The organization references ABT Certified Teacher training in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT National Training Curriculum among its staff credentials. However, the website does not provide a detailed company curriculum, class sequence, or specific teaching syllabus beyond references to education, mentorship, and teacher training credentials.
Yes, the organization offers professional ballet performances including classical works such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, as well as contemporary and modern dance programs. Productions feature both classical repertoire and world premiere contemporary works by various choreographers. The company also presents community outreach performances at schools, community centers, libraries, and other venues throughout Central New York.
You can contact Central New York Ballet by email at info@cnyballet.com or by mail at CNY Ballet, 5056 Skyline Drive, Syracuse, NY 13215. For community outreach inquiries, email outreach@cnyballet.com.