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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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