In
honor and celebration of Miami City Ballet's Manhattan debut
at New York City Center on January 24, 2009, Lora and Fred Drasner
held an extraordinary evening of festivities. The evening included
an invitation-only, black-tie pre-performance dinner followed by Miami
City Ballet's opening performance, featuring “Rubies,” Square
Dance, and Symphony in C. Following the performance,
a champagne and dessert reception was held in the mezzanine lobby of
New York City Center.
Miami City Ballet held six performances at New York City Center. The
theater has long been known and beloved by New York audiences not only
as one of the City's preeminent performing art institutions but
also as an accessible and welcoming venue for dance and theater.
Miami City Ballet (MCB), under the Artistic Direction of Edward Villella
since its founding in 1986, is among the largest ballet companies in
the United States. The company has four home counties in South Florida:
Broward, Miami - Dade, Palm Beach and Collier, where MCB is the resident
ballet company of the Naples Philharmonic Center. MCB tours extensively
across the Untied States and Internationally. Its Miami City
Ballet School, opened in 1993, trains students for a professional career
in ballet, and its education program reaches thousands of young people
annually. The dancers of Miami City Ballet are an international
mix and come from some of the worlds top training facilities and dance
companies, including American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Nacional de Cuba,
Ballet Nacional de Caracas, Schools of the Paris Opera Ballet, Royal
Danish Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet, among others.
