Sarasota Ballet — Local services in Sarasota

Will return. A town with 54,842 residents, their ballet company is quite exceptional. Although they perform at various sites, including their Opera House, this venue, next to Ringling Museum, is their main home. Many patrons do dress up for the occasion. This ballet company was founded in 1987 by dancer Jean Weidner-Goldstein (Your observer; Tribune). The current director Iain Webb (1959-) was once a dancer, started out with Royal Ballet (1931-) of UK. Tonight's performance P4 Quintessential has three individual segments: 1 Rococo Variations | Choreography by Renato Paroni | Music by Tchaikovsky 2 Brandenburgs | Choreography by Paul Taylor | Music by Bach 3 World Premiere | Choreography by Gemma Bond | Music by Rachmaninov Modern ballet with classical music - a good combo. The Tchaikovsky piece is in light blue tutu; the second and the third are modern costume, skimpy skintight. I enjoyed the first two, especially the second one by Rachmaninov. Reportedly many come to see the third. Oh well, I’m not a Bach fan -:) Rachmaninov’s music sounds tumultuous, struggles, pathos but this ballet interpretation is beautiful and well done. I also like their costume the best, simple clean line is aesthetically pleasing. All dancers are more or less of the same physique, with good skill. I don't really follow ballet but saw Misty Copeland once. No one in this ballet company is of Misty Copeland’s fame but the dancers are very enjoyable to watch. Out of curiosity, I googled the following annual budget: 1 $102m The New York City Ballet's (NYCB) 2024 2 $45m The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) where Copeland dances 3 $9m Sarasota … oh well - someone is doing...

The Sarasota Ballet is a treasure which delights with every fresh viewing. The venue is gorgeous and offers wonderful sight lines from a variety of seats. I am from out of state and always enjoy coming here when I am in town.

Most recently I went to see the Mark Morris Dance Group show which included his works Pacific, Ten Suggestions, Candleflowerdance, and Going Away Party. All four pieces were exquisitely done and evocative in vastly different ways. The dancers were top notch. I especially was moved by Candleflowerdance. The performances here stay with you for a long time.

I found the audience here to be respectful and quiet. That is always a pleasant occurrence in public art spaces.

Well recommended. Sarasota should be proud of their amazing...

Beautiful theatre! The staff was all very polite and helpful! The play was definitely interesting lol 😆. I did enjoy the experience all together, even with the hiccup right before the second act. I would 100% recommend to go see! I'm not an overly-sensitive person, but i do think some of the parts could be triggers and should be noted that it contains those in with the rest of the "warnings." I don't want to be specific and ruin the show, but I'm open to share with them directly if they'd like.

You guys did amazing!...