2023/2024 Season
Performance experience is a critical part of MYB’s training and our production standards simulate those of professional companies.
We provide the region with professional quality ballet productions several times a year. MYB’s performances like The Nutcracker and other classic ballets immerse the students and audiences in classical ballet history while productions like the Spring Concert expose them to innovative choreography with new works created by faculty and guest artists. Together with other performances and public appearances, MYB reaches an audience of over 15,000 people annually exposing the community to the beauty of ballet.
Performance experience is a critical part of MYB’s training and our production standards simulate those of professional companies.
We provide the region with professional quality ballet productions several times a year. MYB’s performances like The Nutcracker and other classic ballets immerse the students and audiences in classical ballet history while productions like the Spring Concert expose them to innovative choreography with new works created by faculty and guest artists. Together with other performances and public appearances, MYB reaches an audience of over 15,000 people annually exposing the community to the beauty of ballet.
Performances
The Mini-Nut
Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center
7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring
December 2, 3 &9
at 11:00am, 1:00pm & 3:00pm
The Mini-Nut is MYB’s abbreviated version of The Nutcracker geared towards younger audiences. This one hour version is a great introduction to ballet for our youngest theatre goers. The performance is approximately one hour long with no intermission. A perfect holiday mini-treat!
The Nutcracker
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College, 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville
Dec 15 at 7:00pm
Dec 16 & 17 at 1:00pm & 5:00pm
Dec 21 & 22 at 7:00pm
Dec 23 at 1:00pm & 5:00pm
Magical dolls, life-sized mice, dancing snowflakes, and an enchanting kingdom of sweets return to stage this holiday season for Maryland Youth Ballet’s full-length production of The Nutcracker. Set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless score, the incredible dancing and dazzling costumes bring to life the classic story of Clara and her Nutcracker Prince.
Studio Company Concert
Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center
7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring
March 2, 2024
MYB’s Studio Company helps to bridge the gap between student and professional by maximizing personal coaching and performing. Studio Company dancers are selected by invitation from the upper levels of the school. This March MYB’s Studio Company will present a mixed repertoire concert that will include excerpts from the classic ballet Coppélia staged by Francoise Thouveny-Doyle as well as modern and contemporary works from MYB faculty member Christopher Doyle and MYB Student, Jacob Cowan.
Spring Concert
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College, 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville
April 27 at 1:00pm & 5:00pm
April 28 at 1:00pm
Each year MYB’s Spring Concert includes an exciting compilation of dance featuring such classical favorites as Swan Lake Act II, Les Sylphides, La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty Act II, and Paquita. MYB faculty members as well as local choreographers like Lucy Bowen McCauley, Christopher Doyle, Alvin Mayes and the late Eric Hampton have set contemporary ballets for the professional level students. The concert offers MYB students a challenging performance opportunity and offers audience members a captivating evening of dance. This Spring the Concert will feature Coppélia and Meadow.
Spring Concert
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College, 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville
April 27 at 1:00pm & 5:00pm
April 28 at 1:00pm
Each year MYB’s Spring Concert includes an exciting compilation of dance featuring such classical favorites as Swan Lake Act II, Les Sylphides, La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty Act II, and Paquita. MYB faculty members as well as local choreographers like Lucy Bowen McCauley, Christopher Doyle, Alvin Mayes and the late Eric Hampton have set contemporary ballets for the professional level students. The concert offers MYB students a challenging performance opportunity and offers audience members a captivating evening of dance. This Spring the Concert will feature Coppélia and Meadow.
Year-End
Montgomery Blair High School
51 University Blvd E, Silver Spring
June 9, 2024
Celebrate the end of the school year school with MYB’s performance demonstration from students in the Youth and Pre-Professional Divisions.
Summer Concerts
Summer 2024
MYB’s Summer Festival program culminates with a storybook ballet performance at Wolf Trap’s Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods as well as several free community performances in our studio Black Box Theatre.
Festival Performance 2024 – Rumpelstiltskin
July 26-28, 2024 at 10:00 am
Wolf Trap’s Children’s Theater-in-the-Woods
All performance dates and times are subject to change.