Ballet

Live theater lovers have two dozen productions to choose from this week, including ten new shows, a holiday tradition and two different performances of the Nutcracker ballet.

Southwest Florida's new professional ballet company produces Carmen as a loving tribute to the late, great choreographer Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros.

Myth and the music of Mendelsohn will transform the Tribbe Arts Center at Shell Point into an enchanted forest filled with magic and intrigue when Gulfshore Ballet performs A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Members of the Cleveland Ballet visited Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida, Tuesday morning. The Ballet is in Southwest Florida to give a benefit performance in Naples March 1st at a private event. At the hospital, dancers visited with patients, their families and caregivers. They also gave a short demonstration of ballet movements.

In this week’s “Spotlight on the Arts” segment, WGCU’s Tom Hall explores Florida Gulfshore Ballet and Gulf Coast Symphony’s upcoming performances of “The Nutcracker.”

Southwest Florida’s new, first, and only professional ballet company Florida Gulfshore Ballet is holding a fundraising performance event at Artis-Naples, Nov. 18 to benefit local arts organizations impacted by Hurricane Ian. We talk with Florida Gulfshore Ballet artistic directors Iliana Lopez and Franklin Gamero about the event, their vision for the new ballet company, and their own impressive careers as professional ballet dancers.

Dancers take the stage June 24 at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre for a festival of dance performances in honor of the late Jeanne Bochette who died in…