Events
The Academy of Ballet Arts performs and participates in numerous events each year. Our St. Petersburg Ballet Company performs our annual production of the Nutcracker as well as a Spring Dance Concert each year. Our dancers perform at a number of venues in the Tampa Bay area throughout the year.
Dancers and instructors from our studio participate in the Great American Teach-In each November. We perform at First Night in St. Petersburg and at numerous other area events.
2024 Spring Show
Saturday, May 4th at 7 PM &
Sunday, May 5th at 3 PM
The St. Petersburg Ballet Company presents their annual Spring Show.
In this show you will see the first release of brand-new choreography by Michelle Kuusela, Marsha Wilson, and Brieanna Hynish, exploring the beauty of friendship and love. These heart -touching pieces are mesmerizing incarnations of emotions that dance can capture in art form. Our concert features everything from contemporary ensembles and pas de deux, to classical works. We will also present Act 2 from the romantic ballet Giselle. A ballet featuring a beautiful musical score, love, heartbreak, and triumph. This is a performance enjoyable by all, with something for the child-like wonder, the music enthusiast, and the lover of dance.
Program
Spring Show Act I
Giselle: Restaged by Michelle Kuusela
The ghost-filled ballet tells the tragic, romantic story of a beautiful young peasant girl named Giselle and a disguised nobleman named Albrecht, who fall in love, but when his true identity is revealed by his rival, Hilarion, Giselle goes mad and dies of heartbreak. After her death, she is summoned from her grave into the vengeful, deadly sisterhood of the Wilis, the ghosts of unmarried women who died after being betrayed by their lovers and take revenge in the night by dancing men to death by exhaustion (a popular theme in Romantic-era ballets). Led by Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis, they target Albrecht when he comes to mourn at Giselle's grave, but her great love frees him from their grasp. They gain their power in numbers as they effortlessly move through dramatic patterns and synchronized movements and control the stage with their long tulle dresses and stoic expressions, creating an ethereal atmosphere that builds as they gradually close in on Albrecht. By saving him from the Wilis, Giselle also saves herself from becoming one of them.
Giselle: Delilah Kuusela
Myrtha: Lauren Smalling/Kayla Steh
Albrecht: Javier Riefkohl Garcia
Hilarion: Troy Reamsnyder
Wilis: Demi-Soloists: Clare Gramlich & Ana Verano/Sloane Perler
Wilis: Corps: Kayla Steh/Lauren Smalling, Sloane Perler/Ana Verano, Amy Louise Davis, Lyla Notchick, Gwen Connors,
Reese Honsinger, Zuri Jenkins, Anna Honsinger, Yara Hemadeh, Greta Walker, Valerie Brice, Corina Schriver
Spring Show Act II
Yellow Moon: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Delilah Kuusela, Kayla Steh, Lauren Smalling, Clare Gramlich, Ana Verano, Sloane Perler
Heat & Dark: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Reese Honsinger, Gwen Connors, Amy Louise Davis, Lyla Notchick
No Man’s Land: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Anna Honsinger, Yara Hemadeh, Greta Walker, Sunny Highshaw, Breslyn Vermillion, Elena Muhari, Valerie Brice
Crying Breath: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Delilah Kuusela & Javier Riefkohl Garcia
Who’s Got the Pain: Choreography by Troy Reamsnyder
Sunny Highshaw, Yara Hemadeh, Elena Muhari, Declan Andringa
To Become: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Coco Bryan, Annie Cabral, Ella Borton, Ariella Davis, Lillian Stephenson, Olivia Mantilla, Zoey Contreras, Izabella Johnson, Alice LaVenture, Madeleine Bouchard
Alps: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Delilah Kuusela, Kayla Steh, Lauren Smalling, Clare Gramlich, Ana Verano, Sloane Perler
Requiem for a Tower: Choreography by Brieanna Hynish
Breslyn Vermillion, Sunny Highshaw, Elena Muhari, Brooke Sherman, Yara Hemadeh, Valerie Brice, Declan Andringa, Zuri Jenkins
La La Land: Choreography by Marsha Wilson
Delilah Kuusela, Kayla Steh, Lauren Smalling, Clare Gramlich, Ana Verano, Sloane Perler, Reese Honsinger, Gwen Connors, Amy Louise Davis, Lyla Notchick
The St. Petersburg Ballet Company is the official company-in-residence at The Academy of Ballet Arts (a 501(c)3 Nonprofit).
The Palladium
253 Fifth Ave. N.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 822-3590
2024 Spring Show
Saturday, May 4th at 7 PM &
Sunday, May 5th at 3 PM
Reserved Tickets: $30
The St. Petersburg Ballet Company presents their annual Spring Show.
In this show you will see the first release of brand-new choreography by Michelle Kuusela, Marsha Wilson, & Suzanne Pomerantzeff, exploring the beauty of friendship and love. These heart -touching pieces are mesmerizing incarnations of emotions that dance can capture in art form. Our concert features everything from contemporary ensembles and pas de deux, to classical works. We will also present the “Dream Scene” from Don Quixote, a ballet featuring a beautiful musical score, a corps de ballet, and three whimsical variations. This is a performance enjoyable by all, with something for the child-like wonder, the music enthusiast, and the lover of dance.
Program
Spring Show Act I
Giselle: Restaged by Michelle Kuusela
Giselle: Delilah Kuusela
Myrtha: Lauren Smalling/Kayla Steh
Albrecht: Javier Riefkohl Garcia
Hilarion: Troy Reamsnyder
Wilis: Demi-Soloists: Clare Gramlich & Ana Verano/Sloane Perler
Wilis: Corps: Kayla Steh/Lauren Smalling, Sloane Perler/Ana Verano, Amy Louise Davis, Lyla Notchick, Gwen Connors, Reese Honsinger, Zuri Jenkins, Anna Honsinger, Yara Hemadeh, Greta Walker, Valerie Brice, Corina Schriver
Spring Show Act II
Yellow Moon: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Delilah Kuusela, Kayla Steh, Lauren Smalling, Clare Gramlich, Ana Verano, Sloane Perler
Heat & Dark: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Reese Honsinger, Gwen Connors, Amy Louise Davis, Lyla Notchick
No Man’s Land: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Anna Honsinger, Yara Hemadeh, Greta Walker, Sunny Highshaw, Breslyn Vermillion, Elena Muhari, Valerie Brice
Crying Breath: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Delilah Kuusela & Javier Riefkohl Garcia
Who’s Got the Pain: Choreography by Troy Reamsnyder
Sunny Highshaw, Yara Hemadeh, Elena Muhari, Declan Andringa
To Become: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Coco Bryan, Annie Cabral, Ella Borton, Ariella Davis, Lillian Stephenson, Olivia Mantilla, Zoey Contreras, Izabella Johnson, Alice LaVenture, Madeleine Bouchard
Alps: Choreography by Michelle Kuusela
Delilah Kuusela, Kayla Steh, Lauren Smalling, Clare Gramlich, Ana Verano, Sloane Perler
Requiem for a Tower: Choreography by Brieanna Hynish
Breslyn Vermillion, Sunny Highshaw, Elena Muhari, Brooke Sherman, Yara Hemadeh, Valerie Brice, Declan Andringa, Zuri Jenkins
La La Land: Choreography by Marsha Wilson
Delilah Kuusela, Kayla Steh, Lauren Smalling, Clare Gramlich, Ana Verano, Sloane Perler, Reese Honsinger, Gwen Connors, Amy Louise Davis, Lyla Notchick
The St. Petersburg Ballet Company is the official company-in-residence at The Academy of Ballet Arts (a 501(c)3 Nonprofit).
The Palladium
253 Fifth Ave. N.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 822-3590
