Portland Ballet is proud to present one of Shakespeare’s most enchanted stories–A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Witness how dancers gracefully articulate this whimsical tale of mischievous fairies and lovelorn couples! Set to a euphonic score by Mendelssohn, the dancers of Portland Ballet bring this timeless tale to life with abundant charm, a little comedy, and plenty of grandeur.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run coupled with Nell Shipman’s contemporary work Impetus, which first premiered in 2021.
Portland Ballet is proud to present one of Shakespeare’s most enchanted stories–A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Witness how dancers gracefully articulate this whimsical tale of mischievous fairies and lovelorn couples! Set to a euphonic score by Mendelssohn, the dancers of Portland Ballet bring this timeless tale to life with abundant charm, a little comedy, and plenty of grandeur.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run coupled with Nell Shipman’s contemporary work Impetus, which first premiered in 2021.
This innovative program mixes dance performance with demonstration to illuminate all that goes into a performing arts production! Illustrated this year through the comedic story ballet La Fille Mal Gardée, audiences will discover the tale of Lise—as she tries to outsmart her meddling mother. Presented by Artistic Director Nell Shipman and the dancers of Portland School of Ballet, Building Ballets walks audience members of all ages through the processes of creating and performing a ballet.
Fun fact: La Fille Mal Gardée is French for “The Wayward Daughter”!
RUN TIME: 45 minutes, with no intermission.
Join Portland Ballet this holiday season for its gorgeous production of the beloved classic, in which a young girl travels through her dreams to the Land of the Sweets alongside her favorite gift—a Nutcracker. This version is unique to Portland, with the first act drawing upon the Victoria Mansion’s own history and characters. Don’t miss the chance to see this lush holiday production, perfect for the whole family.
*When purchasing tickets please make sure you are selecting the venue as Westbrook Performing Arts Center*
Join Portland Ballet this holiday season for its gorgeous production of the beloved classic, in which a young girl travels through her dreams to the Land of the Sweets alongside her favorite gift—a Nutcracker. This version is unique to Portland, with the first act drawing upon the Victoria Mansion’s own history and characters. Don’t miss the chance to see this lush holiday production, perfect for the whole family.
*When purchasing tickets please make sure you are selecting the venue as Westbrook Performing Arts Center*
Join Portland Ballet this holiday season for its gorgeous production of the beloved classic, in which a young girl travels through her dreams to the Land of the Sweets alongside her favorite gift—a Nutcracker. This version is unique to Portland, with the first act drawing upon the Victoria Mansion’s own history and characters. Don’t miss the chance to see this lush holiday production, perfect for the whole family.
*When purchasing tickets please make sure you are selecting the venue as Westbrook Performing Arts Center*
Join Portland Ballet as it follows Alice down the rabbit hole for its premiere of Adventures in Wonderland. Drawing upon the classic by Lewis Carrol, the peculiar world of Wonderland is brought vividly to life through the art of ballet and a curious cast of beloved characters. A new ballet choreographed by Artistic Director, Nell Shipman—don’t miss this enigmatic production created for audiences of all ages!
Join Portland Ballet as it follows Alice down the rabbit hole for its premiere of Adventures in Wonderland. Drawing upon the classic by Lewis Carrol, the peculiar world of Wonderland is brought vividly to life through the art of ballet and a curious cast of beloved characters. A new ballet choreographed by Artistic Director, Nell Shipman—don’t miss this enigmatic production created for audiences of all ages!
Portland School of Ballet’s Year End Showcase features students in Pre-Ballet up through PSB’s Pre-Professional Division. The performance will include classwork demonstrations by each level to showcase the progression from the earliest years of training through the most advanced. The second Act of our Showcase will include a reprise of Don Quixote from our Building Ballets series without the lecture/demonstration aspect. Audience members will be able to enjoy the students of PSB performing an abridged version of this classical ballet.
A choreographic collaboration between Artistic Director, Nell Shipman, and Annie Kloppenberg, Associate Professor of Dance at Colby College, takes as its inspiration Maine’s landscape, history, and lighthouses as portals to explore our relationship to the land, water, wayfinding, and navigation in an original contemporary ballet.
The performance features an expanded Portland Ballet Company with dancers from Colby, who have joined the company for the month of January to develop this work and an original score by composer Caitlin Scholl, created and performed in collaboration with Colby student musicians.
The collaboration between Shipman, whose work has been called “refined and engrossing” (Portland Press Herald) and Kloppenberg, “a choreographer of nuances” (Boston Globe), will yield a richly layered work that treats Maine as history and home.
