Canyon Concert Ballet

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Nutcracker at Home

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Have a fabulous night in with The Nutcracker! While we are not able to film our beautiful cast for a 2020 Nutcracker, we still want to celebrate the season. On Friday, December 11 at 7:00pm mountain time we plan to premiere our 2019 Nutcracker on our YouTube Channel (linked here). The video will be available through the rest of the month of December.

We encourage you to make it a special matinee/evening, and we want to help with some prize packages while also supporting our mission as a nonprofit dance school and ballet company! Schedule any amount donation for our Colorado Gives Day fundraiser to be entered to win! You could win: a gift certificate for a meal to be delivered or picked up, beer from a local brewery, and some surprise goodies, all delivered to your doorstep.

To qualify for a prize package, you must preschedule your Colorado Gives Day donation of any amount by 11:45pm on Monday, December 7 and live in/near the areas listed below. Winners will be notified Wednesday, December 9 and the packages will be delivered Thursday or Friday (12/10 or 12/11).

Thank you to the amazing businesses who donated to support Nutcracker at Home!!

Fort Collins

  • $25 gift card from Pulcinella Pizzeria and a growler with fill from Zwei
  • $25 gift card from Pulcinella Pizzeria and a crowler from Gilded Goat
  • $50 gift card from Pulcinella Pizzeria and a six pack from Crooked Stave
  • $50 gift card from Pulcinella Pizzeria and a six pack from New Belgium Brewing
  • $25 gift card from Oreganos and and a six pack from New Belgium Brewing (we have two of these prizes!)

Loveland

  • $30 gift card from Henry’s Pub and a six pack from New Belgium Brewing

Boulder

  • $50 gift card from Boss Lady Pizza and a six pack from New Belgium Brewing (we have two of these prizes!)

Fort Collins/Greeley/Loveland

  • $50 gift card from NoCo Nosh and a six pack from New Belgium Brewing

39th Annual The Nutcracker

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CCB is planning on both virtual live-stream and limited in-person options for The Nutcracker this year!

In-person and Virtual shows:

  • Friday, December 4 at 7pm
  • Saturday, December 5 at 1pm & at 7pm
  • Sunday, December 6 at 11am & at 5pm

Tickets (both in-person and virtual) will go on sale November 10, 2020 at the Lincoln Center box office.

In-person shows will be socially distanced, and can only have 100 in the audience for each show. Tickets will be limited to 8 per purchaser. Pricing is as follows:

  • In-person tickets: $50
  • Virtual tickets (one per household/device): $20

For more information and to purchase your tickets, please visit: https://www.lctix.com/ccb-39th-annual-nutcracker

As particularly American embraced tradition, CCB’s treasured production of The Nutcracker includes 94 dancers, 250 beautiful costumes, special effects, fantastic lighting, and sets. It has dazzled old and new audiences in Fort Collins for almost 40 years. Start your holiday off with a special treat that is sure to please audiences of all ages with mystery, battles, and beautiful ballerinas in sparkling tutus.

Please note, this year’s The Nutcracker will not feature the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra.

About The Nutcracker

“The Nutcracker” follows a young girl, Clara, through her adventures on Christmas Eve during a party visited by her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer. Life size dolls and toy soldiers create an evening that grows even more fantastical as she falls asleep and witnesses toy soldiers battling mice and rats. A journey through the Land of Snow leads her to a world led by the Sugar Plum Fairy, and filled with dancing candies and sweets performing for her and her soldier prince.

COVID-19 Precautions

For everyone’s safety, this event will comply with Larimer County’s current event guidelines. All attendees will be required to wear a facial covering and remain socially distanced (6 feet apart) from other parties. Purchasers will be limited to 8 tickets within a single order, and vacant seats will be automatically added around seat reservations to create the appropriate 6 feet distance between purchasing parties. Please stay home if you are feeling symptomatic or have had known exposure to COVID-19. If you are unable to attend, please call the Lincoln Center Box Office at least 24 hours in advance of the performance.

Livestreams

The livestream performances will air live at the time the show begins, and cannot be paused or replayed. If you purchase tickets to the livestream, you may watch this event on any device that can access the internet, including laptop and desktop computers, iPhones, iPads, other SmartDevices, and SmartTVs. Purchasers will receive more information about how to watch and access the livestream upon purchase of a livestream ticket.

Ballet & Beer: Latin Nights

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Friday, September 25 at 6:30pm and at 8:00pm

At The Lyric Cinema, 1209 N. College Ave, Fort Collins

Canyon Concert Ballet is thrilled to kick off our 41st season with our 4th annual Ballet & Beer: Latin Nights!

This year’s Ballet & Beer will be a celebration of Latin music, the beautiful Lyric Cinema, and of course, lots of dancing. Premieres of new works by Analía Alegre-Femenías Weber and Jenna Smith will take audiences on a journey through a variety of dance styles, including the traditional Puerto Rican dance “The Bomba”. Grab your favorite dance partner, because audiences will have the chance to participate (safely) in the fun! The evening will take place outdoors, and will be safely distanced.

Appropriate for all ages! Tickets are non-refundable, and the show will happen rain or shine (extreme weather where it is no longer safe for the dancers will cancel the performance). The show is outside and will be one hour long.

Attendees are required to wear masks and socially distance from other groups/attendees. Please bring your own chairs/blankets for seating. Please do not attend if you are not feeling well or have any COVID symptoms.

Thank you to Fort Fund and Colorado Creative Industries for their support!

More information and tickets available here!

Audition for 2020 Nutcracker!

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Canyon Concert Ballet, Fort Collins’ premier ballet company is holding auditions for our 2020 Nutcracker! We are requiring all auditions to sign up ahead of time for a time slot to ensure social distancing during the auditions.  

If you have any questions or need any additional information, please email our amazing Interim Artistic Director, Erica Mugoye, at assistant<at>ccballet.org. 

Date:
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Location:
CCB’s main studios at 1031 Conifer St.

Audition Information

Auditions are Saturday, August 29 at our main location, 1031 Conifer Street in Fort Collins.  Audition forms are available in the CCB office at 1031 Conifer Street and can be emailed to you (please email us at info<at>ccballet.org if you need a form!).  Please make sure you are using the appropriate level form, and bring your completed form with you on audition day.  

You are required to sign up for an audition time slot this year.  Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/FTBmFMNJBtQLu9V27 

  • Ballet Level 7 & 8:  12:00pm – 12:30pm
  • Ballet Level 6:  12:45pm – 1:15pm
  • Ballet Level 5:  1:30pm – 2:00pm
  • Ballet Level 4:  2:15pm – 2:45pm OR 3:00pm – 3:30pm
  • Ballet Level 3:  3:45pm – 4:30pm OR 4:45pm – 5:30pm

Unfortunately, due to the pandemic and needing to keep our cast size smaller this year, we will not be accepting any dancers below Level 3 this year.  We are so very sorry and cannot wait to have a full cast next year!!

Performance and Rehearsal Information

At this time, the Nutcracker is planned for Friday-Sunday, December 11-13, 2020 at The Lincoln Center, with rehearsals and tech being the week following up to that weekend.  The rehearsal on Thursday, December 10 may be attended again this year as a sponsor night.  We are not planning on the condensed matinees this year.  Please know we may need to be flexible with The Lincoln Center, but at this time we do have these dates!

COVID-19 Information

We are working closely with the Larimer County Health Department to make sure our rehearsals and performances are as safe as possible.  We are waiting on final approval at this time, but once we have finalized information for our approved rehearsal plan, we will share it right away.  The audition process will be following our current class protocols, linked here. 

A Preview of Rubies: A 40th Anniversary Celebration

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CCB’s spring ballet, April 24-25th, features the Fort Collins Symphony with two brand new choreographies to the iconic work of Aaron Copland and Antonín Dvořák.  Conducted by Maestro Wes Kenney and directed by artistic director, Alicia Laumann, the evening is sure to enchant and enrich audiences.

In 1942, Aaron Copland began work on his Pulitzer Prize winning piece, Appalachian Spring.  It was a work commissioned by dance giant Martha Graham who had previously worked with the composer and who wanted to choreograph a ballet on the American experience.  Martha’s ballet tells the story of a sparsely populated religious pioneer town and is set in designer Isamu Noguchi’s highly distilled yet evocative pioneer scene.   

Though Copland’s score is indelibly linked to Graham’s ballet, the score itself has gone on to widespread and enduring popularity.  The score, with only 13 instruments, invokes an early morning sunrise, a simple hymn-like melody and a country fiddle dance.  Local choreographer, Judy Bejarano, founder and director of IMPACT dance, has been commissioned to set a brand new work to this score for CCB’s spring concert, accompanied by the FCSO.  It will include a core cast of 10 dancers. In it, Bejarano acknowledges the American themes of Copland’s score working through meta ideas of arrival, assimilation and settling. When asked about the commission, Alicia Laumann, writes: “Being quite familiar with Judy’s grounded yet lush modern movement vocabulary, which she often combines so eloquently with discreet and communicative gesture, I knew that she was the perfect choreographer to take on Copland’s score.”

The second half of the program will again be accompanied by the FCSO.  Ms. Laumann’s new work is set to Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22.  The score was composed by an optimistic, young husband and father in 1875.  In fact, he composed it in just 14 days! The piece is alternately charming and joyful, passionate and dreamy and concludes with an hommage to his native Bohemian folk music.  Laumann’s piece, simply titled “Dvořák’s Serenade,” features 27 dancers arrayed in ruby red, jeweled dresses in honor of CCB’s 40th anniversary. Laumann says about her new work, “My piece is a celebration of Dvořák’s music through color, vibrant neoclassical vocabulary and a few of my own little hommages to Slavic folk dance which typically includes intricate footwork and inventive hand holds.  My hope is that it will be a feast for the eyes and ears.”

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