Dance with the Best
Canyon Concert Ballet is looking for community members in the Northern Colorado area with positivity and a passion for our mission to join our fabulous and fun board of directors!
Our board of directors meet monthly (currently through Zoom) and are our greatest champions for our mission of bringing dance to the community.
Board roles & responsibilities are listed here and to join the board, please fill out this application.
Thank you!
Canyon Concert Ballet is excited to announce our Interim Artistic Director for the 2020-2021 Season: Erica Mugoye!
Erica Mugoye started dancing at Canyon Concert Ballet in 1990, and has performed in more than 50 CCB productions. She has been teaching at CCB since 2000, and has been our Assistant to the Artistic Director as well as the Company Manager and Ballet Instructor. Ms. Mugoye trained under well known dance instructors Gabriella Komleva, of the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, Galina Yordanova, resident guest teacher and choreographer for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Canada, Carol Roderick, Director of the CSU Dance Teachers’ Institute, and Lorita Travaglia, Ballet Mistress for Colorado Ballet. In addition to ballet, Ms. Mugoye has studied many forms of dance including Jazz, Modern, Contact Improvisation, Spanish, Swing, Salsa, Character, Tap, and Hip-Hop.
We are so excited to have her in this role at CCB! Please join us in congratulating her!
We are streaming live classes every day this week for you to enjoy! Some classes will be on Zoom, while others will be through Instagram Live. We hope to upload most Zoom classes on our YouTube channel as well for later viewing.
Zoom Class: To attend a Zoom class all you need to do is create a free Zoom account here. After you create your account you can return to this email, copy the ID Number that appears next to the class you wish to attend and return to Zoom. From there click “Join a Meeting” on the top right side of the screen and paste the link and click join. And just like that, you will be in class!
Because of Zoom’s security measures, all classes will require the students to have a password to come in. Below you will see the ID number of the class and its password. For the remainder of the month, these classes will have the same ID and password. If anything changes we will email you. CCB wants to continue to be here for our CCB families and for the rest of the community. Because of this, we will continue to have this classes offered to non CCB families. Feel free to share it with others that you think would want to join.
Besides Zoom requiring a password for the meetings, they have also enabled waiting rooms. This means the instructor has to click to allow someone in. Because we do not want classes to be disturbed we ask students to please arrive on time. The instructor will not allow people to come in after 10 minute as we have received the feedback that it was disruptive. CCB will continue to do what it can to keep your dancer happy and engaged for as long as we need to.
Thank you for your energy and we hope you enjoy the classes! During this time, we are paying our amazing teachers their normal salaries in the hopes to help support them. Please consider making a donation in honor of your favorite class/teacher so we can continue to support them! Thank you!
We are streaming live classes every day this week for you to enjoy! Some classes will be on Zoom, while others will be through Instagram Live. We hope to upload most Zoom classes on our YouTube channel as well for later viewing.
Zoom Class: To attend a Zoom class all you need to do is create a free Zoom account here. After you create your account you can return to this email, copy the ID Number that appears next to the class you wish to attend and return to Zoom. From there click “Join a Meeting” on the top right side of the screen and paste the link and click join. And just like that, you will be in class!
Because of Zoom’s security measures, all classes will require the students to have a password to come in. Below you will see the ID number of the class and its password. For the remainder of the month, these classes will have the same ID and password. If anything changes we will email you. CCB wants to continue to be here for our CCB families and for the rest of the community. Because of this, we will continue to have this classes offered to non CCB families. Feel free to share it with others that you think would want to join.
Besides Zoom requiring a password for the meetings, they have also enabled waiting rooms. This means the instructor has to click to allow someone in. Because we do not want classes to be disturbed we ask students to please arrive on time. The instructor will not allow people to come in after 10 minute as we have received the feedback that it was disruptive. CCB will continue to do what it can to keep your dancer happy and engaged for as long as we need to.
Thank you for your energy and we hope you enjoy the classes! During this time, we are paying our amazing teachers their normal salaries in the hopes to help support them. Please consider making a donation in honor of your favorite class/teacher so we can continue to support them! Thank you!
Canyon Concert Ballet firmly believes that Black Lives Matter and is in full support of the anti-racism movement sparked by the multiple horrific events these past few months.
Historically, Canyon Concert Ballet has tried to be as inclusive as possible, including actively seeking out and hiring diverse guest dancers, instructors, and choreographers, allowing and encouraging tights and shoe colors that are appropriate and welcoming for the dancer, providing dance class tuition scholarships and free tickets to performances to K-12 students on free and reduced lunch, and celebrating diverse dancers and dance groups through our social media channels. However, we can do more, and we can do better.
We believe the process to improve our efforts begins with increased education and awareness, which is why Canyon Concert Ballet has encouraged its faculty and staff to watch the three-part documentary “Race – the Power of an Illusion”. It is absolutely eye-opening, and we invite you to watch it as well. It is available through Kanopy for free (linked) with your Poudre Library card (or very likely your local library if you are not in the Fort Collins area). Executive director, Jenna Riedi, is also taking an online course this summer through the University of Illinois titled, “Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History”.
Canyon Concert Ballet will also dedicate a portion of our monthly board of director meetings to exploring ways we can be more inclusive, and more empowering for those who are BIPOC in our community. We welcome your participation in this continuing conversation and your partnership in support of the larger fight against racial injustice and inequality worldwide.
Dear CCB Community,
One of the many reasons why I wanted to be a part of CCB was because of their commitment to nourish, expand and enrich artistic opportunities to the NoCo community and their mission to make dance accessible to all who wish to learn. As a brown, Latina woman living thousands of miles away from my history and culture I am grateful to have found a second home in CCB, in Colorado. As we are seeing and witnessing, this sense of love and welcoming is not what many others experience.
I want to let you know that I know I can do more and will do more to have a more diverse and inclusive culture at CCB. I am committed to reach more communities that do not get to experience the performing arts as often as they wish and bring BIPOC teachers to share their history and dance with the CCB students. As I continue with CCB, I will find more ways to make dance and the CCB culture a rich one that encourages equity, inclusivity and diversity in a fun and celebratory atmosphere. Please reach out to me if you have other ideas or would like to help CCB do better.
With my open heart and arms,
Analia Alegre- Femenias Weber
School Director
We felt this CNET article covers in-depth ways we can all help and we wanted to share them with you. Thank you.
