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Holt Ballet Conservatory, located at 400 Providence Mine Road, Building N2, Nevada City, California, provides Nevada County with quality, authentic, and joyful training in the arts of classical ballet. Holt Ballet’s Fall Term, 2024, offers comprehensive classes in all levels of ballet, from classes for 3 and 4 year olds who by introducing them to concepts in musicality, rhythm, and social cooperation, through programs that support pre professional training for college or career bound classical ballet dancers. HBC includes entry level morning classes for adults who want to train to acquire the skills of the accomplished ballet dancer, or to use ballet training concepts to sculpt and strengthen muscle and bone into capable and healthy exercisers. HBC also boasts, in additional to a full curriculum in classical ballet, production ballet, production contemporary and musical theater for advanced and beginning dancers, as well as classes in classical ballet for adults, progressing ballet technique, stretch and strength, and opportunities to showcase the dancers’ training in its winter Clara and the Nutcracker. HBC’s staff include teachers with backgrounds that include experience as classical ballet artists with performing careers, and also extensive training in the concepts of early childhood education and beyond. Take a class and find a hidden talent or fulfill a dream, or sign up your children and let them discover the world of art, story telling, and physical...
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Don Quixote has been incorporated into multiple seasons of performances. From excerpts to full staging of the ballet in it’s entirety, the story and choreography has always been an exciting part of Holt Ballet’s...
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Dances Among the Roses
Purchase Tickets for Dances Among the Roses A Holt Ballet Conservatory collaboration with St. Joseph’s Cultural Center presents Dances Among The Roses: An Outdoor Celebration of Dance, June 19, 2021. We will revive material from Holt Ballet Conservatory’s repertory and perform in the rose garden surrounding St. Joseph’s Cultural Center in downtown Grass Valley. The program for the performance is available here. A dance performance in the rose garden is our response to the challenges presented by restrictions associated with the Covid-19 virus. We look forward to exploring the possibilities involved with site-specific choreography. We hope you all want to be a part of this fun and challenging experience. All dancers train with Holt Ballet Conservatory, and range from age 6 through adult. Rehearsals have been underway since March. Glorious music from Vivaldi, Prokofiev, Deldevez, Minkus, Kanneh-Mason, and Chopin will accompany the dancers.Each of the performances will be approximately 40 minutes long with seating limited to 28 chairs, arranged in a single line. Seating is around the perimeter of the lawns, behind a trimmed hedge. The setting is a rustic garden and path, with gravel, packed dirt, and some sections of old, weathered concrete. The audience will be moving through the garden area, with the performers, and three separate seated locations will be provided. We will endeavor to accommodate special accessibility needs, and request that any special needs be identified in advance.Since the performance will be outside in the open air, we will be subject to the variables of the early summer weather conditions. We advise audience members to bring a broad brimmed hat, to protect from direct sun. Typical temperatures for this date have been in the low to mid-80s.The Historic Rose Gardens have over 200 rose bushes, some over 100 years old. There are crepe myrtle trees, old holly trees, a rare white pomegranate tree, yew and other old-fashioned garden...
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Holt Ballet Conservatory
400 Providence Mine Road, Building N2
Nevada City, CA 95959
(530) 278-5131
Holt Ballet Conservatory offers outstanding classical ballet training for youths through adults by following a comprehensive syllabus endorsed by American Ballet Theatre's national curriculum, the Vaganova training method, and the California State Framework for the arts.