Sarasota Cuban Ballet

From musicals to ballet, from improv to fright nights, this Halloween, six Southwest Florida shows offer something eerily novel.

Sarasota Cuban Ballet opens 2026-27 Auditorium Series with "Classical + Contemporary." The program includes "Canto Vital," featuring four male dancers, and "Pas de Quatre," featuring four of the company's leading ballerinas.

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Sarasota Cuban Ballet presents “The Nutcracker” at the Sarasota Opera House on Friday. That performance will obviously feature classic choreography and the beauty of Tchaikovsky’s score. But as Administrative Director Barbara Worth explains, there’s more to this production.

This year, there are 27 performances of this holiday favorite by eight ballet companies and three symphony orchestras.

In 2022, the Sarasota Cuban Ballet formed a studio company as a pilot program. That company has now evolved into a professional youth company that will develop young professional dancers and provide them with paid performance opportunities.

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.

Each year since its founding in 2013, Sarasota Cuban Ballet has been holding an intensive summer training program at its studio on Cattlemen Road. Admission is by audition only, and according to co-founder and instructor Ariel Serrano, this year’s enrollees are a pretty elite group.