ABOUT USDance Alive National Ballet is a gem of a company. Featuring an international roster of award winning dancers the company brings to the stage truly riveting dance. DANB presents a brilliant home series, award-winning outreach programs, and a regional series in surrounding counties and has been named the official State Touring Company of Florida since 1976 (for a record holding 36 years consecutively) and the designated ‘Arts Ambassadors of Gainesville, Florida’. In 2009, DANB established non-profit status in Puerto Rico. Dance Alive National Ballet has toured the continental United States and Costa Rica under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts, Allied Concert Services, Conciertos Internacionales, the Florida Department of State and is represented by the reputable firm of Siegel Artist Management. Unique in the international touring community, it is that rare classical ballet troupe that is small enough to fit most stages and budgets. As a result DANB has an astounding rate of return engagements.
Dance Alive National Ballet’s repertoire ranges from the quintessential classics such as the bravura pas de deux from ‘Don Quixote’ to the great George Balanchine’s neo-classical masterpiece ‘Apollo’ to the other end of the dance spectrum with Cirque du Soleil’s Rick Tjia’s contemporary look at the complex relationship between horse and master in his electrifying ‘Aeia Bridled’. Throughout this choreographic tapestry are woven the ballets of Artistic Director Kim Tuttle and Choreographer-in-residence Judy Skinner, masters of their art who particularly enjoy creating original ballets on the dancers.
Led by Artistic Director, Kim Tuttle, highly respected choreographer, the company vision is clear and vital. Ms. Tuttle was formerly on the staff of the Stuttgart Ballet and Ballet Master of the Zurich Ballet before taking the reins of Dance Alive National Ballet as its Artistic Director in 1986 and bringing it to its position of national prominence. Joining her is choreographer-in-residence Judy Skinner, a gifted and prolific choreographer who is also the Director of Grants and Arts Education for the company. Ms. Skinner is indisputably part of the team that creates the company style and general direction.
Dance Alive National Ballet has a strong educational and outreach component. The company offers dance through school performances, residencies and lecture-demonstrations with first-rate programming and curriculum materials.
DANB has a unique and important partnership with AOTO, Art of the Olympians, an organization comprised of past and present Olympians who are also exhibiting visual artists. DANB and AOTO have partnered in performances, outreach programs and fund-raisers. March 5, 2011 DANB was invited to perform at his Grand Gala by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. Among the Olympians who have combined their talents with DANB are Liston Bochette III, Al Oerter, Larry Young Bob Beamon, Peggy Fleming and Cameron Myler. The newly constructed ‘Al Oerter Center for Excellence’ which opened in February of 2010 in Ft. Myers, FL. houses the AOTO exhibit and has been made available to DANB upon request.
The 15 dancers of Dance Alive National Ballet have a non-stop energy and love for dance that is at the source of the company’s undeniable success. Elegant, exciting, dramatic, virtuosic, and reveling in the pure beauty of their art, they ARE dance. Whether performing in the exciting BALLET SPECTACULAR, the family favorite THE NUTCRACKER, the children’s ballet, LADY BUG: ACTION HERO or the exquisite ‘LUMINOUS’, they are 100% committed to bringing the best they, and dance, have to offer. Along with a committed staff and Board of Trustees, the future of Dance Alive National Ballet is bright and secure. Dance Alive National Ballet is based in Gainesville, FL., home of the University of Florida ‘Gator Nation’. |
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