Kids Dance

Upcoming Performances

Kids Dance returns to The Joyce Theater June 7 – 10 2018!

KIDS DANCE – The NY Times called us “a New York City Treasure” WOW! That is so cool. And we’re back with new dances to show you — and some goodies from last year too. First, our 7th and 8th grade dancers are learning APPLE PIE and our high schoolers will dance  THE JIG IS UP (I hope I grow up to look like them). Also, Mr. Feld is choreographing POINTING 2 and POINTING 3 to go along with POINTING 1 he made last year. Yup, you guessed it — it’s in pointe shoes! And, IT’S THE EFFORT THAT COUNTS and MESHUGANA DANCE too. Anyway, I have to go now because I’ve used up all the alphabet letters they allow (they’re so strict.) So bye. See ya at The Joyce in June — I hope, I hope, I ho…

Performance Schedule:

Thursday, June 7, 2018 (Opening Night), 7pm
Friday, June 8, 2018, 7pm
Saturday, June 9, 2018, 2pm and 7pm
Sunday, June 10, 2018, 2pm and 7pm

Ballet Tech family members will be able to purchase tickets through the school. 

Otherwise, you can purchase tickets by visiting The Joyce Theater’s website.

About Kids Dance

Kids Dance is Ballet Tech’s student performance troupe. Created in 1994, Kids Dance provides our students with the opportunity to learn choreography and develop performance skills, activities that are essential to the development of a professional dancer. Kids Dance presents programs for families and young audiences, and performs annually at the Joyce Theater. Kids Dance has also recently performed at City Center, the New Victory Theater, and the Delacorte in Central Park.

Recent Performances

June 8 – 11, 2017: The Joyce Theater

June 13, 2016: Tribeca Performing Arts Center – NYC DOE Manhattan Borough Arts Festival

June 9 – 12, 2016: The Joyce Theater

April 11, 2016: The New Victory Theater – Gala performance for the New 42

September 28, 2015: City Center – Gala performance for Career Transitions for Dancers

Library of Choreography

For aspiring piano students there are Bach’s two and three-part inventions and Bartok’s Mikrokosmos, both designed to develop skills and refine evolving sensibilities. With that model in mind, Ballet Tech has resolved to build a library of new choreography imagined for and designed on emerging dancers. This will be a repertory of original dances, dreamed up and composed by premiere dance makers, for fledgling dancers to hone their skills and ignite their imaginations. And, of course, intended to delight the eye and enchant the fancy of audiences of all ages.

Launched in 2016, Julia Eichten’s Monsieur and Brian Brooks’s Panorama were the first additions to the library.

In 2017 three new works were added:
Pointing, by Eliot Feld
The Wild Current, by Laura Careless
It’s The Effort That Counts, by Stephanie Terasaki, Conner Bormann and Riley O’Flynn

Repertory

Choose from the list below to know more about the ballets that make up the Kids Dance repertory: