Dance Performing Opportunities
Professional Dance Productions
Patel Conservatory offers performing opportunities that enable students to improve technically and artistically. All dance performances incorporate professional choreography, coaching, sets and costumes in theaters at the Straz Center--one of the finest performing arts centers in the nation.
Next Generation Ballet and the Patel Conservatory Youth Ballet
Next Generation Ballet's annual spring show is staged as a professional dance production. Past productions have incorporated the finest of ballet’s repertoire and have brought in guests from around the world to work with students on the staging of these pieces.
Each winter The Great Imperial Ballet, The Nutcracker is presented. This elaborate production, available by audition only, features more than 100 students from Patel Conservatory Youth Ballet. With lavish and inventive costumes and sets, this newly imagined holiday tale will continue to be Tampa's family favorite. From the moment the lights dim, you will be transported to a magical place filled with a glowing Christmas tree, mischievous Mongolian mice, crystalline waltzing snowflakes, elaborate Faberge eggs and toy soldiers. The experience of this glittering classic ballet will stay with you forever and warm your spirit throughout the holiday season. In 2011 the production will be presented in Tampa at the Straz Center’s Morsani Hall December 16, 17 and 18.
Intermediate to advanced PCYB students perform alongside Next Generation Ballet new artists in On the Edge on Friday, March 23, 2012 at 8pm in Ferguson Hall. This contemporary/tap/cutting edge dance showcase demonstrates the versatility of the performers and incorporates students from the Hip Hop program. These same students will demonstrate the strength of their classical training in the indelible classic, Swan Lake, in Ferguson Hall on May 12. This full length ballet will feature original staging after the original work by Marius Petipa and beautiful sets and costumes.
The Spring Recital features our youngest students, including those in Creative Movement 1, Creative Movement 2, Primary and Intro. to Ballet for Boys. Students enrolled in Boys 1, Preparatory, Level 1A and Level 1B will showcase their skills in both ballet and tap or jazz. Level 2A and Level 2B students will perform their jazz pieces in this recital. A brief sampling of works danced by advanced students are incorporated into the recital so the younger students and their family members can see the progression of the school. In 2012, the Spring Recital will be held in Ferguson Hall on May 11.
The Dress Up & Dance recital takes place in the studio and begins with a class demonstration to show skills learned throughout the year. It concludes with a 2-3 minute recital dance, led by the instructor, which will prepare them for a formal recital at the end of the Creative Movement 1 class.
Please see the PCYB student handbook or level information sheets for more detailed information about performing, the purchase of costumes and recital fees.
New Artist and Trainee dancers also perform with Opera Tampa.
Open Enrollment Dance Classes
All classes have the opportunity to perform in the classroom or on the stage.
Classes for Youth and Teens have the opportunity to perform in the Youth Student Showcases held in the fall, spring, and summer. The Youth Student Showcases display the talents of a small selection of classes, including musical theater, dance, acting and music. in the spring, these dance classes perform in the dance showcase in Ferguson hall, along with students from the Patel Conservatory Youth Ballet.
The Hip-Hop Show Team has additional performance opportunities throughout the Tampa Bay community. These are announced on the Show Team calendar.
Certain classes hold Open Classrooms for family and friends to view the students progress in a classrooms setting.
Adult Dance Classes
All classes have the opportunity to perform in the classroom or on the stage.
The Adult Dance Classes have the opportunity to perform in the Adult Student Showcases held in the fall, spring, and summer. The Adult Student Showcase brings students in music, dance, musical theater and acting out of the classroom and onto the stage to share the performing arts on which they have been working.
Certain classes hold Open Classrooms for family and friends to view the students progress in a classrooms setting.