As our 40th Season unfolds, we’ll be sharing stories, interviews, photographs, and more to commemorate BBT’s milestone anniversary. We hope you follow along as we look back on four decades of ballet and beyond to Berkeley Ballet Theater’s future. Submit your stories and photos to be featured on the blog by emailing info@berkeleyballet.org.
“Through it all the glue that holds us together is our remarkable community. Mirroring the city we live in, our group is intelligent, compassionate, engaged, diverse, creative, open, and courageous. Dealing with a challenge like PD encourages “realness,” and we share a lot of that.” - Susan Weber, Director of BBT’s Dance for PD® program
Read More“When you do not receive the ‘yes’ you were hoping for, it is an ideal time to reflect but not obsess. Accept and appreciate the characteristics you cannot change about yourself that make you who you are, and observe the qualities of the dancers who were accepted and explore incorporating them into your own work.” - Liz Farotte Heenan, School Director
Read More“BBT to me was more than a ballet school. It was kind of my therapy and within the community, I had people I needed.“ - Yuki Yamanishi
Read More“I studied composition with Julian and he told me after the performance that the combination of music and movement was greater than the sum of their parts. So true. And Miss Sally has provided so many opportunities for students and audiences to experience that magical synergy.” - Tienne Lee
Read More“But what gave it staying power was the push-pull of Sally’s pure dances against the warmth and ideas of Robbie’s dramaturgy…As the New York Times critic Alastair Macaulay put it in an admiring review ten years ago: BBT gave ‘a Nutcracker experience in some ways fuller – more touching, more about human connections – than San Francisco Ballet’s.’” - Paul Parish
Read More“During the eight years that I’ve had the opportunity to be at BBT, I’ve noticed that it's the in-between moments that make being a part of BBT extraordinary.” - Ali Taylor Lange, Executive Director
Read More“As our 40th Season unfolds, we’ll be sharing stories, interviews, photographs, and more to commemorate BBT’s milestone anniversary. You’ll be able to follow along and share your own memories with the community through our online journal, social media scrapbook, and alumni events.” - Robert Dekkers, Artistic Director and Ali Taylor Lange, Executive Director
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