Ballet

Sarasota Cuban Ballet will perform 'Dracula' October 31 through November 2. This will be the third consecutive year that Sarasota Cuban Ballet is performing the ballet, which was created by Rolando Yanes and Monica Isla.

This weekend, Gulfcoast Studio Company presents Classical + Contemporary in the Sarasota Cuban Ballet Auditorium on Cattlemen Drive. Tribute to seminal patron Donna Maytham highlights this emotional program.

Since the second week in June, dancers from around the globe have been training at Sarasota Cuban Ballet’s annual summer intensive. Now, they’re gearing up for On Stage 2025, a showcase performance at the Sarasota Opera House on July 19. Joining the summer intensive dancers this year are three headliners.

After nine years at Gulfshore Ballet, Kai Perkins wanted more than anything to go to the School of American Ballet. But could she convince her mom to let her live in Manhattan at the tender age of 14?

Live theater lovers have two dozen productions to choose from this week, including ten new shows, a holiday tradition and two different performances of the Nutcracker ballet.

Southwest Florida's new professional ballet company produces Carmen as a loving tribute to the late, great choreographer Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros.

Myth and the music of Mendelsohn will transform the Tribbe Arts Center at Shell Point into an enchanted forest filled with magic and intrigue when Gulfshore Ballet performs A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Members of the Cleveland Ballet visited Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida, Tuesday morning. The Ballet is in Southwest Florida to give a benefit performance in Naples March 1st at a private event. At the hospital, dancers visited with patients, their families and caregivers. They also gave a short demonstration of ballet movements.

In this week’s “Spotlight on the Arts” segment, WGCU’s Tom Hall explores Florida Gulfshore Ballet and Gulf Coast Symphony’s upcoming performances of “The Nutcracker.”

Southwest Florida’s new, first, and only professional ballet company Florida Gulfshore Ballet is holding a fundraising performance event at Artis-Naples, Nov. 18 to benefit local arts organizations impacted by Hurricane Ian. We talk with Florida Gulfshore Ballet artistic directors Iliana Lopez and Franklin Gamero about the event, their vision for the new ballet company, and their own impressive careers as professional ballet dancers.