• MCB is among the largest ballet companies in the United States, with 52 dancers and a fiscal year 2006-2007 budget of $12.8 million.

• The Company has four Home Counties in South Florida: Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach, plus Collier (on Florida's west coast), where MCB is presented as the resident ballet company at the Naples Philharmonic Center. In addition to its Repertory Series and performances of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ in the four counties, Miami City Ballet also performs the Nutcracker in Clearwater, Florida.

• Founding Artistic Director Edward Villella was the first American-born male star of New York City Ballet (1957-1975); his career established the male's role in classical dance in the U.S. Mr. Villella's vision and style for the Company are based on the neoclassical 20th-century aesthetic established by choreographer George Balanchine. In 1997, Mr. Villella received the highest and most prestigious cultural honor that can be bestowed upon an artist by the United States, the National Medal of Arts, presented by President Clinton. In 1997, he was named a Kennedy Center Honoree and was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Dancers’ Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga in 2004. In 2003 Miami City Ballet premiered Mr. Villella’s four-act ballet, The Neighborhood Ballroom.

• The Company's repertoire has 93 ballets, including 12 world premieres. It includes: George Balanchine's masterworks, most notably Prodigal Son, Apollo, Agon, The Four Temperaments, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Symphony in C, Ballet Imperial and the full-length Jewels and works by contemporary choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, and Trey McIntyre. Ballets by Frederick Ashton, Petipa, Bournonville, Edward Villella and others also highlight the repertoire. The Company repertoire also includes classical works such as Giselle, Coppélia and Don Quixote.

• Approximately 14,000 season subscribers are joined by about 17,000 single-ticket buyers to enjoy the Company in regular series from October through April. Annually, more than 30,000 view MCB's million-dollar holiday spectacular, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™ performed in Florida.

• The dancers of Miami City Ballet are an international mix. The Company's 52 dancers have come to MCB from Boston Ballet, Ballet Nacional de Caracas, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Ballet of Belgium and from world-famous training facilities such as the School of American Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Schools of the Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Miami City Ballet School, among others.

• Miami City Ballet has toured all over the United States and with this season's touring included, will have danced in more than 100 U.S. cities. National performances include the Kennedy Center, the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival in Atlanta, Wolf Trap Farm Park, Orange County (CA) Performing Arts Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Shubert Theater (CT), McCarter Theater (NJ), SUNY at Purchase (NY), ArtPark, the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, and the Los Angeles Music Center North American festival appearances include Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., DanceAspen, the Ravinia Festival, the Chautauqua Festival, and The Madison Festival of the Lakes.

• Internationally, MCB has performed in Europe, Great Britain, South America, Central America, and Israel, including the 1994 & 1995 Edinburgh International Festivals (Scotland), the 1990 Lyon Biennale Internationale de la Danse (France), the Festival Internacionel de Cultura Paiz (Guatemala), and a two-week engagement at TorinoDanza 2000 (Italy). The Company performed in March 2003 as one of six companies participating in the Kennedy Center’s International Ballet Festival with the Bolshoi,
Kirov, Royal Danish Ballet, Adam Cooper and Company and American Ballet Theatre.

• In 2005 the Company began a Contemporary Dance Series under the direction of David Palmer and Yanis Pikieris the former artistic directors of Maximum Dance Company.

• MCB was the seventh & final major American dance company to receive a Kennedy Center Ballet Commission; choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett created Mystery of the Dancing Princesses, which premiered at the Kennedy Center in April 1995.

• In January 2000, Miami City Ballet took occupancy of its Miami Beach headquarters. The 63,000 square foot facility houses eight rehearsal studios (two of which combine to create a 200-seat theatre), increased school facilities, wardrobe department and costume shop, a fully-equipped therapy room, and greater administrative space. The building is a design of the award-winning architect, Bernardo Fort-Brescia of ARQUITECTONICA.

• Miami City Ballet School, opened on Miami Beach in January 1993, trains students for a professional career in ballet. The School has an enrollment of 375 students, and no child of talent is turned away for lack of funds. In June 1997, Miami City Ballet accepted the first School graduate for a professional position with the Company. The School launched the Miami City Ballet School Summer Intensive Program in July 2001. The Summer Program draws approximately 200 students from around the world.

• Linda Carbonetto Villella, MCB School Director, was a Canadian National Figure Skating Champion and an Olympic and World competitor. She worked with Rose Kennedy on the first Special Olympics for handicapped individuals. When she retired from competitive skating, she toured internationally as a star of the Ice Capades and later worked as choreographer for televised specials starring skater Dorothy Hamill. Her career accomplishments as a figure skater placed her in the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame in May 1990.

• The Company's Education program is experienced by thousands of young people annually, who are treated to lecture demonstrations narrated by Edward Villella. Pre-performance talks by Villella or one of the Artistic Staff are held prior to each main stage repertory performance.

• Miami City Ballet artists are rehearsed to perform not only with great speed, energy and technical clarity, but also with the combination of force and delicacy needed to interpret musical scores from Bach to Stravinsky.

• Miami City Ballet has a tri-county Board of Trustees, whose members represent the Company's home counties of Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach.

• Toby Lerner Ansin, the Miami arts advocate who helped to create Miami City Ballet, received the 1997 Florida Arts Recognition Award in recognition of her initiative, leadership, and excellence in supporting the arts and culture in Florida.

• Miami City Ballet's inaugural performance was on October 17, 1986, at Miami's Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
2006-2007 Board of Trustees

Executive Council of Board of Trustees
Mike Eidson, President, Miami-Dade
Marvin Ross Friedman, Executive Vice President, Miami-Dade
Rosalind Richter, Vice President, Miami-Dade
Mike Schultz, Vice President, Palm Beach
Karen Mitchell, Vice President, Broward
Ron Esserman, Treasurer, Miami-Dade
Nancy Jean Davis, Representative, Miami-Dade
Jorge M. Gonzales, Representative, Miami-Dade
Patricia Walker, Representative, Miami-Dade
Gerry Klein, Representative, Broward
Sondra Landes, Representative, Broward
Harriet Leach, Representative, Broward
Saul Magram, Representative, Broward
Kendall Spencer, Representative, Broward
Murray Zedeck, Representative, Broward
Sheldon Bearman, Representative, Palm Beach
Susan Bloom, Representative, Palm Beach
Betty Hess, Representative, Palm Beach
Miriam Knapp, Representative, Palm Beach
Patricia E. Lowry, Representative, Palm Beach
Fern G. Rose, Representative, Palm Beach

Toby Lerner Ansin, Founder
Sheldon Anderson
Adrien Arpel
Robert Avian
Lisa Berg
Betty Madigan Brandt
Tina Carlo, Ex-Officio PEP President
Jerome J. Cohen
Pamela W. Cole
Luis A. Cordero
Ingrid Lange Costanzo
Audrey S. Diamond
Robert H. Dickinson
Moises Egozi
Barbara K. Eroncig
Pamela J. Garrison
Jill Gersten-Stiss
Francinelee Hand
Florence Hecht
Charles "Jim" Horowitz
Roni Jacobson
Darla Karlton
Mildred Klein, Ex-Officio Guild President
Robert T. Kofman
Gerri LeBow
Rhoda Levitt
Michael A. Marquez
Lisa Perri-Molina
Stacey L. Orange
Leo H. Phillips, Jr.
Lisa Pliner
Juan Js. Roca M.
Ophelia A. Roca
Margaret Rockefeller
Diane E. Siegel
Lois Siegel
Gail Slomin
Sara Solomon
Sherry Spalding
Nick Studds
H.I.H. Princess Thi-Nga of Vietnam
Nina-Dawne Williams
Diana S. C. Zeydel

Honors Board

Hector D. Fortun
Gale G. Howden
Gary King

Past Presidents

Stuart S. Danoff
Mark S. Steinberg
Harvey Smalheiser
John E. Porta
Rhoda Levitt
Ron Esserman
Susan Fox-Rosellini
Janá Sigars-Malina

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