Kids Dance

Kids Dance is Ballet Tech’s student performance troupe. Created in 1994, Kids Dance provides students with the opportunity to learn choreography and develop performance skills – activities that are essential to the development of a professional dancer – putting their education into practice in their acclaimed programs for families and young audiences. Students perform ballets choreographed by Ballet Tech founder Eliot Feld, dances from the Kids Dance repertory, and new choreography created for them by Ballet Tech faculty members and guest artists. Kids Dance performs annually at the Joyce Theater. Kids Dance has also performed at City Center, the New Victory Theater, and the Delacorte in Central Park, and has toured to Jacob’s Pillow, The Kennedy Center, Chicago, and Southern California.

Upcoming Performances

Kids Dance will be back at The Joyce June 12-15, 2025.

A lively ensemble of dancers dressed in bright, colorful costumes on stage, featuring a dancer in the center in a split leap with his head arched back.

An ensemble of young performers stand together on stage, wearing Mondrian-inspired tops, black bottoms, and ballet footwear. They strike a pose in unison, reaching an arm up in the air and snapping their fingers.

“A New York City Treasure.”

— The New York Times

An ensemble of performers dance in two clumps, one in font of the other, wearing pale blue unitards and socks with funky patterns. They reach their arms above their heads in opposite directions, stretching horizontally from their fingers to their toe, extending a leg to the side.

Recent Performances Highlights

June 14-15, 2024: Battery Park Playscape
May 30-June 2, 2024: The Joyce Theater
May 20, 2024: The Apollo Theater – NYC DOE Manhattan Borough Arts Festival
June 8-11, 2023: The Joyce Theater
May 19-20, 2023: Battery Park Playscape
June 9-12, 2022: The Joyce Theater
June 3-7, 2022: Battery Park Playscape
June 6-9, 2019: The Joyce Theater
June 7-10, 2018: The Joyce Theater
June 5, 2018: The Apollo Theater – NYC DOE Manhattan Borough Arts Festival
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
July 30-Aug 1, 2014: The New Victory Theater – Victory Dance
September 6-8, 2013: Public Works at the Delacorte

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 boffo dance makers, for fledgling dancers to hone their skills and whet their imaginations. And, of course, intended to delight the eye and enchant the fancy of audiences of all ages.

Our 2024 additions include a six-part dance titled Homeland which includes Maps and The Journey (by Dionne Figgins), الفجر/Dawning (by Karisma Jay and Men Ca), 面向东/Facing East (by Kathy Xia), Nordlichter/Northern Lights (by Brian Reeder), and Cruce/Crossing (by Ximena Salgado).

The library also includes works by:

Brian Brooks
Laura Careless
Julia Eichten
Dionne Figgins
Eliot Feld
John Heginbotham
Curtis Holland
Robert LaFosse
Men Ca
Brian Reeder
Michael Snipe Jr.
Stephanie Terasaki, Conner Bormann and Riley O’Flynn

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