BBYC performs to crowd of over 500!

Thank you to everyone who supported our show. It just keeps getting better, up, up and away Bayer Ballet Youth Company!

International arts funder awards 10,000 grant to local youth ballet

MEDIA RELEASE DATE: June 10, 2010
Contact:  Inna Bayer, Artistic Director and Founder, The Bayer Ballet Academy and The Bayer Ballet Youth Company 
email: inna@ bayerballetacademy.com

Mountain View, CA
The Bayer Ballet Company is proud to announce that it was awarded a $10,000 production grant by the Guzik Foundation to underwrite its upcoming production A Summer Dance Carousel, June 20, 2010, 5pm at the Smithwick Theatre in Los Altos.

Based in Palo Alto, California, the Guzik Foundation, established by Nahum Guzik in 1993, provides grants to individuals and organizations for study and research in the fields of medicine and the arts. Its support of the arts is primarily through awards and grants of financial support in the early stages of individuals' career-building. The foundation also awards scholarships, assisting students in the pursuit of a post-secondary or advanced degree in arts and science.

Such a treat! Thank you La Boulanger!

Yum! La boulanger just agreed to provide backstage snacks for the cast AND sell intermission snacks to the crowds at Summer Dance Carousel -- June 5, 2010 at 5 PM, Smithwick Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos. MMMMM

Thanks also due to indefatigable volunteer Alex Peterson. One good thing after another!

 

Psst! Discount code for $17 tickets for show is up on our Facebook page!

Psst! Discount code for $17 tickets for show is up on our Facebook page! Good through Wednesday, June 9th, 2010.

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Guest artists announced for Summer Dance Carousel!

Maykel Solas, principal dancer, Ballet San Jose
Maykel Solas joined Ballet San Jose for the 2005-2006 Season.

Most recently, Maykel was a Principal Dancer with the Ballet Municipal de Lima where he danced all the most important roles in the complete productions of GISELLE, SWAN LAKE, LA BAYADERE, LE CORSAIRE, THE NUTCRACKER and other classical and neoclassical repertoire. He has toured with this company to Quito and Guayaquil in Ecuador and to the first Ballet Festival of Barranquilla, Colombia in 2005.Other companies Maykel has performed with include: Ballet Municipal de Lima, Peru (Principal Dancer); Ballet Nacional del Peru (Principal Dancer); Compaia Nacional de Danza, Mexico City (Soloist); and Ballet Nacional de Cuba

Maria Jacobs-Yu, principal dancer, Ballet San Jose
Maria Jacobs-Yu, now Principal dancer, joined Cleveland Ballet as a trainee in 1996 and is in her 13th season of dancing under Artistic Director, Dennis Nahat. Maria's first principal role in her first season in the company was the role of Maria in Nahat's NUTCRACKER. Among other roles that Maria has been featured in, include the principal female in Juliet in ROMEO and JULIET, George Balanchine's THEME AND VARIATIONS, the Waltz Girl in Balanchine's SERENADE, the principal girl in Flemming Flindt's THE TOREADOR, and Tsarina Tatiana in Nahat's NUTCRACKER.
Photo by John Gerbetz

Shannon Marie-Roberts, San Francisco Ballet
A native from South Lake Tahoe Shannon Marie Roberts joined the San Francisco Ballet in 2004 at the age of 16. She has worked with world renowned Choreographers including Helgi Tomasson, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, John Nuemeier, William Forsythe, David Bintley, Yuri Possokhov, James Kudelka,Val Caniparoli, and has danced numerous roles in ballets by Agnes De Mille, Jerome Robbins, and George Balanchine. She has danced all over the world including France, Iceland, China and of course the US. (And was a student of Inna Bayer when Inna Bayer taught character dance at the SF Ballet School.)
Photo by David Allen

Reduced price for children and seniors

You've been telling us that the price for seniors and children was too high, so we reduced the price to $25 each. With just 26 days until the Summer Dance Carousel 2010 you need to buy your tickets soon to ensure good seats.There are still seats available in the side orchestras and in the rear sections.

Summer Dance Carousel 2010 prices
$33 Adults
$25 Children and seniors, reduced from $28
No code required. Seats are moving, get your tickets now!

Our prices are higher than schools giving recitals and lower than professional companies - it puts us in an unusual spot and makes us a great entertainment value because our production quality is so high (sets, costumes, pro dancers, rehearsals, original story ballet in Part II and, the amazing results of Inna, Stacy and Christina's application of the Vaganova method. But most of all, the application of dedication, work and persistence that the kids apply to their native talent. It is a great entertainment value. We know you remember and can tell the story to people who haven't seen it yet.

People love to feel a part of something exciting and if we can just get them in their seats, the kids will knock their socks off.