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Up Next: Subscribe for Season 16!

    A season subscription is the easiest way to experience AMB’s magical Season 16! Subscriptions start at just $85*, and you can customize the type and number of tickets you purchase to each show. Your tickets will be delivered effortlessly by email, in plenty of time for every performance. You get the best seats in your selected level and pay no box office fees!

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    June 9-27: AMB 2025 Summer Intensive
    Immerse yourself in dance!

    Three intensive weeks of ballet, pointe, variations, jazz, modern, contemporary, and repertory are in store for dancers ages 11-25 in this challenging and rewarding program, held at the beautiful Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center in Council Bluffs. Also: the Junior Intensive, a one-week program for dancers ages 10-13!

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    AMB School
    The Metro’s only dance school affiliated with a professional ballet company

    As the official school of American Midwest Ballet, the AMB School offers a comprehensive program for everyone who loves dance. Aspiring professionals, just-for-fun young dancers, and passion-driven adult dancers will find a welcoming home with us!

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    Ballet is so much more than a series of steps put to music. It is the dedication to creating something beyond ourselves, the joy of inspiring and training the next generation of dancers, and the warmth of connection with our audiences.

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    Recent News

    Nutcracker Community Auditions Coming August 2 & 9

    Save these dates for auditions for community roles in The Nutcracker: auditions August 2 and costume fittings August 9 (attendance is required at both.) More information coming soon!

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    Summer Intensive Faculty Announced

    Broadway star Dylis Croman; Gerald Arpino Foundation executive director and former Joffrey ballerina Kim Sagami; and dancer, choreographer, educator and filmmaker Caroline Dahm, plus artists of American Midwest Ballet, will be the guest faculty of the 2025 AMB Summer Intensive. Read more…

    Couldn’t Your Life Use a Little More Magic?

    AMB’s Season 16 will feature a crown jewel of the distinctive Bob Fosse style; a stirring elegy by Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino; and William Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedy… plus, of course, The Nutcracker!

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    This One’s for the Boys!

    Discover Dance, AMB’s program of free classes introducing grade-schoolers to ballet, is launching a new program just for boys, offered in partnership with the NorthStar Foundation. Read more…

    What’s Making Everyone Feel So Good?

    Erika Overturff remembers exactly where she got the inspiration for Feeling Good.

    “I first heard the song ‘Feeling Good’ in a TV commercial,” she said. “I instantly loved it”. Read more…

    Anything Can Happen on a Park Bench!

    Choreographer Ray Mercer has introduced us to a restless spectre in Ghost Light and high-velocity romance in Speed Date. Time to slow things down a bit…? Not a chance! Mercer’s signature blend of human insight, athletic artistry, and split-second timing is on display in Significant Encounters. Read more…

    “Black Swan” lets Katerina and Wyatt Indulge in their Dark Side

    The Black Swan pas de deux is a dramatic plunge into the seductive power of temptation and darkness. Katerina Schweitzer and Wyatt Weeces are determined to make the most of the experience  Read more…

    It’s Time to Book Your Trip to Wonderland!

    Master choreographer Kennet Oberly created this delightfully original ballet by combining favorite characters and situations from Lewis Carroll’s classics Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

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