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.
“I stayed at BBT because I saw that kids here get to have an experience that I wished I'd had when I was their age. I like how good the training is. I think the faculty are pretty extraordinary and the opportunities the kids have to participate in and perform are incredible.” - Ali Taylor Lange, Executive Director
Read More“When I was a professional dancer, which was quite a long time ago, there were dancers in ballet companies in the 70s who could say to their directors, ‘you know I'm really just a classical dancer. You can put me in Giselle, Swan Lake, Nutcracker (things that are based on classical technique). I'm not so comfortable doing the Twyla Tharp work or the Mark Morris work.’ And, at that time, that was possible. A director could honor that request or that sensibility, and there were people who started to define themselves that way. You can't do that now, everybody's got to be able to do contemporary work.” - Susan Weber, Dance for PD® Director, Studio Company Advisor
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