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, 2023: The Joyce Theater
May 19, 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
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 2023 additions include Men Ca’s Embers of…, Brian Reeder and Robert LaFosse’s Ad Lib City, Dionne Figgins and Curtis Holland’s 1956, and Dionne Figgins and the 2023 8th grade class’ Achoo, Adieu.
The library also includes works by:
- Julia Eichten
- Brian Brooks
- Stephanie Terasaki, Conner Bormann, and Riley O’Flynn
- Laura Careless
- Eliot Feld
- John Heginbotham
- Michael Snipe Jr.
Repertory
Choose from the list below to know more about the ballets that make up the Kids Dance repertory:
- 1956
- 23 Skidoo
- 3 Commedia Dances
- A Stair Dance
- A Yankee Doodle
- About Sprouts
- Achoo, Adieu
- Ad Lib City
- Apple Pie
- Dotty Polkas
- Embers of…
- Excursions
- Guardians
- Half Time
- Hello Fancy
- Infrastructure
- It’s The Effort That Counts
- Joggers
- Kidsobolus
- KYDZNY
- Manhattan Research
- Meshugana Dance
- Monsieur
- Panorama
- Patootie
- Pointing
- Quickstep
- Sleep Study
- Tarantella
- The Envelope
- The Jig Is Up
- The Wild Current
- Upside Dance