City Youth Ballet - Johnson City, TN

Welcome to City Youth Ballet’s Fall 2010 season! Below is our class schedule. Please call our artistic director Susan Pace-White to register (423) 434-2145. Classes begin August 16. Please note, the Johnson City Ballet Academy, the training school for the City Youth Ballet, has been incorporated into the CYB so we are now one organization called the City Youth Ballet.

Mondays:
3:30-4 Hip-Hop/Jazz
4-5:30: Ballet Levels II, III, IV
5:30-7: Beginning Pointe
5-7: Ballet V

Tuesdays:
Pre-Ballet: 3:45-4:30
Ballet I: 4:30-5:30
Jazz: 5:30-6:00
Ballet II: 6:00-7:00
Ballet III and IV: 4:30-6
Ballet V: 6-7:30

Wednesdays
Hip-Hop/Jazz: 3:30-4:00
Ballet III and IV: 4:00-5:30
Ballet V: 4:30-6:00

Thursdays
Beginning Pointe: 3:30-5:00
Ballet II, III, IV: 5-6:30
Ballet V: 4:30-6:30

Fridays:
Open Ballet: 3:30-5
Stretch and Conditioning 5-6:30

A partnering and pas ballet class begins September 16 for Advanced Ballet students.

Five dancers with the City Youth Ballet and its training school, the Johnson City Ballet Academy, performed at the Celebration of Dance, a regionwide production showcasing dancers from local ballet companies and dance studios. The event, hosted by Bristol Ballet, was held at the Paramount Center in Bristol.

Kathryn Kenneson, Gwynn Root, Allan Smith, Taylor Vanders, and Ginny Whaley performed classical variations and an original piece choreographed by ballet instructor Pat Holden. The dancers are students of Susan Pace-White, City Youth Ballet artistic director, and director of the Johnson City Ballet Academy.

The City Youth Ballet will host an audition January 23 for the South Carolina Dance Conservatory’s summer intensive. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. The audition class will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. at the CYB studio, 3501 W. Market Street. Cost is $25 for the class, payable to the consevatory. The intensive is open to dancers ages 11 and up.

The South Carolina Dance Conservatory hosts summer dance intensives in ballet, technique, performance, and jazz. Instructors from the University South Carolina as well as artistic directors and dancers from several major ballet companies lead classes. Video auditions are accepted. For more information, e-mail Marissa Freeman at FreemanM@mailbox.sc.edu

Clara and all her friends from the Nutcracker’s Land of Sweets invite you to spend an afternoon at Clara’s Tea. You’ll enjoy refreshments, watch excerpts from the CYB’s December 12 production of “The Nutcracker” and even dance with Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy.

The afternoon is set for Saturday, November 14, 2-4 p.m., at The Charles, 301 E. Main Street across from Hands On! Museum in downtown Johnson City. Tickets are $7 a person and can be purchased at the door.

Colorful cupcakes, cookies, and punch will be served at tables adorned in pink linens and set with festive Nutcracker dolls. After refreshments, members of the senior and junior companies of the City Youth Ballet will perform some of the ballet pieces from the Nutcracker production. Then, tea party-goers can take the stage with Clara and learn a few dances themselves.

All proceeds from the afternoon will help offset production costs for “The Nutcracker,” set for December 12 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. at the Veterans Administration Memorial Theater. Tickets will be available at Clara’s Tea and at the door.

Free parking for this event is available behind Nelson’s Art Gallery at State of Franklin Road and Colonial Way. The parking has been donated by URA Associates.

For more information call (423)434-2195

The City Youth Ballet will join with the East Tennessee Regional Symphony on October 21 to present the children’s tale “Peter and the Wolf.” The story will be told with orchestra music and in ballet with company members of the City Youth Ballet.

A school performance will be held at 10 a.m. on the campus of Milligan College. More information to come.