Arizona Ballet Theatre, via its school and studios in Tucson, provides quality educational experiences in performance-oriented ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap and theater arts. The performing arts are invoked and made possible through an emphasis on strong technique and artistic-based instruction. I was a professional dancer with the Boston Ballet Company at age fourteen. Our Ballet Program is for dancers of all ages and abilities, from pre-ballet through intermediate, professional, and adult dancers. Our Pre-Ballet program with our own Megan Hurst, a certified UA graduate and TUSD Teacher, is amazingly effective. Our Adult Ballet Program features classes for beginner, intermediate, former company member, and combined. Our Modern Dance Program features Norman Walker, an American Modern Dance Icon ( and his Dancers). Mister Walker choreography is world famous. ABT is extremely strong in technique and features lots of individual attention. We address foot flexibility enhancing and molding exercises. We excel in exciting choreography that flows beautifully. And as everyone in Tucson knows, Our Dancers Can Really Move!

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Welcome to Arizona Ballet Theatre - "Magic of Dance 2009" DVDs On Sale - Special Price for You ... Thirty Dollars

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Delightful Arizona Ballet Theatre Video Clips Are On You Tube

Here is a sample of "Homage 2009" taken from our "Magic of Dance 2009" DVD.
Pick up your copy in the lobby.
Or email me to arrange to have one sent to you.



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Before we start, here's A Surprise You Tube Video.
Surprise Surprise... Fantasy Nerds Can Really Tap!
Choreography by Tori MacKenzie, to Michael Jackson's Song "Bad" (;-)
It's on our DVD,The one you you you all will come in and buy today!
Please Remind Your Family and Friends they should buy this fantastic DVD too. It's A Very Very "Bad" Fantasy for We Nerds

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Chic has asked me to remind you that Theatres Are Expensive to Rent - I Have the Final Invoice - He says, "You are very important to ABT!! Please Come In and Buy Your Family's DVDs Today!!!"


Say" Baruch HaShem, Shazaam, Ali Baba, Take Me To Your Leader, Kayn Ahora, Anaheim, Azuza, and Cucamonga" Three Times Fast and Click HERE for "The Magic of Dance 2009" Dress Rehearsal and Performance Slideshows + ABT's Summer Class Schedule


Arizona Ballet Theatre Celebrated New Years Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, and Memorial Day...

All were Part of Our On-going Tribute to Our Veterans, Who Are Our Nation's Heroes!

Remember 9/11...

Let your fingers dance right now, and please click this logo every day.

Sponsors contribute for each day you click inside.

Make ABT's Breast Cancer Team Happy.

It costs you nothing!

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Miss Cecily Starts Her Day With Adult Ballet! - How alliterative! (It's not really alliteration, is it?... but it does rhyme.)

Miss Cecily's Daily Blog, providing current information and thoughts to our Arizona Ballet Theatre dancers and their families, is on her new website.

www.arizonaballet theatre.com.

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And now our latest Tutu Shots.

New Long Tutu for Mia in a Lovely Cream or Off-White Shade.

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Mint green tutus - Including one for Willa

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Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Evening Performance of "The Magic of Dance 2009" Tonight! + Dress Rehearsal Slideshows

For "The Magic of Dance 2009" Dress Rehearsal and Performance Slideshows and the latest news of Arizona Ballet Theatre's 2009 Summer Class Schedule and Summer Kids Camp 2009 click here to take a very fast magic carpet ride to Miss Cecily's new website



Here is Arizona Ballet Theatre's Photo Set on "flickr."

It's such fun to see your very own photos, both in class and performing, isn't it?


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ABT's Jump Start Ballet class is fun & empowering indeed!!

Send me an email if you are interested in attending our next Jump Start Class. But don't worry, it's fine and dandy to come without sending me any email!! I will continue to "take apart" our Basic ABT Ballet Vocabulary as I teach you the "Miss Cecily Combinations" that will facilitate your smooth move into the fabulous World of Ballet.

Since "the ballet vocabulary is the same if you're eight or eighty, you will really learn a lot! As the poster says, you will learn all you need. It allows you to "join in any ballet class with confidence.™ "

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Please contact us to reserve a spot in our new Kinder-Ballet Class section that we are now planning. Tell your family and friends about it. We will open a new section when we have a reasonable number of students signed up and ready to start. We know the class will grow once we start it up.

In response to a number of requests, I am also planning a new - Mommy and Me - Daddy and Me Class - for two year olds. So, please alert your relatives and friends about this one too.

Thanks.

Special Announcement!

::: If You Attended Our Nutcracker In The Land Of The Sweets Party, And Took Photos,

You Can Receive Two Gorgeous 8x10 Glossy Prints of Your Dancer - FREE :::


Have you read ABT's Nutcracker In the Land Of The Sweets™ Page? It briefly tells the story and introduces the cast, and the music. It has some delightful photos and tells things from my perspective when I was the last female Mouse King in The Boston Ballet's Nutcracker, under my fantastic teacher E. Virginia Williams.


Or, if you prefer to see what's happening right now, just concentrate on Miss Cecily... For "The Magic of Dance 2009" Dress Rehearsal and Performance Slideshows and the latest news of Arizona Ballet Theatre's 2009 Summer Class Schedule and Summer Kids Camp 2009 click here to take a very fast magic carpet ride to Miss Cecily's new website


Our phone number is (520)322-8019 - Click here to send me an instant email.

Ballet Dancers Really Do Turn Out Better™

Every Arizona Ballet Theatre Dancer Is A Princesss!!! or A Prince!!! -- Señora Cecilia

Start Your Tucson Summer-Autumn Day With ABT Adult Ballet

Jump Start YOUR Ballet Dream In Captivating Color!! -- ¡HOLA BAILARINES!

- Adult Dancer's Alert - OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER-AWARENESS MONTH

Here is a one panoramic shot of ABT's Nutcracker In The Land Of The Sweets™ Party in Studio 301


Panoramic picture of Studio 301

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And, here is one more of the many photos taken at the party...

Thinking Hard At The Barre™

Thinking Hard at The Barre-Nutcracker Combined Ballet Class - Studio301

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::: Now, Receive Two Gorgeous 8x10 Glossy Prints of Your Dancer - FREE :::


To see more, Say Shazaam - Baruch Ha Shem, Oh Oh Oh, hang on and For "The Magic of Dance 2009" Dress Rehearsal and Performance Slideshows and the latest news of Arizona Ballet Theatre's 2009 Summer Class Schedule and Summer Kids Camp 2009 click here to take a very fast Magic Carpet Ride to ABT's Blog entry for Today.







Grow we must, said Con Ed. And, this ISP's (Internet Service Provider's) Server is becoming rather unreliable. So, please Click here to try out our brand new Arizona Ballet Theatre Website. I hope you like it.

When you have time, "bookmark" the new website, and use it as your first choice. You will be much happier with a reliable server, and so will my Webmaster! (;=)

Thanks. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Click here to email your questions, suggestions, and bug alerts directly to Chic, my "acting webmaster". He will be happy to assist you to resolve any website issues.

Our Lovely ABT Studios are located at 2512 E 6th Street, near the corner of Tucson Boulevard, in Tucson.

Our phone number is (520)322-8019 - Click here to send me email.

This website is officially decommissioned from day-to-day mission critical operations. It is now our archival storage location. We can reactivate it at a moment's notice, should there be a problem with our new carrier's servers. We do like having separate, off site redundancy. So, the photos on this page are by definition "old news." If you would like to see recent photos, of our May 31st and June 1st Performances of "Classics 2008," please Click HERE. More photos are being added there, almost daily. I think you will enjoy them.



One last thing... I can't resist posting this excerpt here... It's a short sample of "Homage" from our "Classics 2008" shows at the Stevie Eller Theatre, on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson. The full piece is 30 minutes long.

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To have a lot of fun and view all our Nutcracker In The Land of The Sweets Party™ 2008 photos, Classics 2008 photos and videos, and our Fall 2008 Semester class photos and videos, you really want to go Here, and Here.

Have a Ball, and... Thanks!.

One Foot Atop Another Mid Curtsey
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Group After Sunday Matinee Muses Jumping in Norman Walker's Three More Muses
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Signature of homage Megan, Tori, and Kaley
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Megan Jumping in Norman Walker's A great moment during Norman's rehearsal Dance Partita by Norman Walker - All Jumping
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Here are some older, archival, photos of activities related to our Arizona Ballet Theatre, School of Schools, Spring 2008 Classes, and Performances of Choreographic Homage 2007. Please note that dancers of all ages in our pre-ballet, ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap, and theater arts classes participated, as well as professional level and adult dancers who continue to take classes in our Tucson studios.

Posing in Sous Sus Croisse, in Shiny New First Pink Satin Pointe Shoes! Posing in Sous Sus Croisse, Arm Fifth en Haut, in Shiny New First Pink Satin Pointe Shoes!
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Jumping for Joy
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Pre Ballets Backstage in Homage 2007 Costumes Homage Act I Finale
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Friday, July 11th, 2008 - News, and A Saturday Night Reminder

Our phone number is (520)322-8019 - Click here to send me email.

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HAPPY ADULTS START THEIR TUCSON SUMMER DAY WITH ABT BALLET - WE LIVE OUR BALLET DREAM!! -- ¡HOLA BAILARINES!

GOOD MORNING HAPPY FOCUSED DANCERS, DREAMERS, AND ACTIVE COOL PEOPLE!!! -- ¡HOLA BAILARINES! ( ;-)

 

Good Morning Monsoon Mavens and Dancers Everywhere,

  • Don't forget Family Tango Fun Saturday July 12th at our lovely ABT Studios from 6 to 7:30. Michael Walker, tango teacher and Classics 2008 performer, will be in charge with "Moi!" by his side. Twenty Dollars per Family, large or Small. I'll be there. Will you? Looking forward to an enjoyable time with you!
  • I'll see everyone at 9AM for Adult/teen Ballet followed by Mini Pointe until 11:15. Perhaps by then the sun will be peeking through the cloud cover. Lovely.
  • The Fall Schedule 2008 is
  • Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 - Invitation To All Homage 2008 Performers, Wearing Lavender and Light Blue Tutus - See New Photo

    Our phone number is (520)322-8019 - Click here to send me email.

    Ballet Dancers Turn Out Better™



    HAPPY ADULTS START THEIR TUCSON SUMMER DAY WITH ABT BALLET - WE LIVE OUR BALLET DREAM!! -- ¡HOLA BAILARINES!

    GOOD MORNING HAPPY FOCUSED DANCERS, DREAMERS, AND ACTIVE COOL PEOPLE!!! -- ¡HOLA BAILARINES! ( ;-)

     

    Hello and Good Morning,

  • I hope everyone is planning on attending Our FAMILY TANGO TIME this coming Saturday from 6 pm until 7:30 with Master Argentine Tango teacher, Michael Walker, and Moi! The Effervescent Miss Cecily - for some Family Fun!
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  • I'll see my steady Ballet students for Morning Ballet Technique Class this morning at 9:00.
  • Learn-To-Turn at 4:30,

    and,

  • Pointe at 5:30.
  • Effective next Tuesday, July 15, my Tween/Teen Ballet class will return to its normal, and henceforth, year-round spot, from 5:30 - 6:30 with Thirty minutes of Pointe until 7 pm. - This class is for ages 10 and up;

  • For my special summer invitation to

    All Homage 2008 Performers in "Classics 2008," click here.

    Cecily

  • Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 - There I Was, In The Summer, In Greenwich Village, With Bobby Blankshine and My Mom

    Our phone number is (520)322-8019 - Click here to send me email.

    Ballet Dancers Turn Out Better™



    Monday, July 7th, 2008 - Good Morning Dancers & Monsoon Lovers

    Our phone number is (520)322-8019 - Click here to send me email.

    Ballet Dancers Turn Out Better™



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