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Press Releases
April 3 , 2008 2008-09 Company Auditions
February 25 , 2008 Free Young People's Performances
February 18 , 2008 Coppélia - Exciting Guest Artists!
January 16 , 2008 Warm Up with the Winter Rep!
December 8 , 2007 The Nutcracker Sold Out Again!
November 17 , 2007 Alexandra Ballet Dancer Receives Dance Theatre of Harlem Image Award
November 7 , 2007 The Nutcracker Comes to Life at the Saint Louis Galleria!
November 1 , 2007 IOCC Gets Sneak Peek of MainStage Performance
October 15 , 2007 American Ballet Theatre Selects Alexandra Ballet Dancer
October 6 , 2007 Alexandra Ballet to Perform at Polonez Ball
September 23, 2007 Alexandra Ballet Will be Dancing in the Street
September 20, 2007 Classic 99's Rhapsody in Bloom
August 30 , 2007 2007-2008 Season
Multimedia
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• Alexandra Ballet's Promotional Video
HEC-TV's coverage of Alexandra Ballet in Behind the Minds. You can watch Behind the Minds every Wednesday and Friday at 7:00 pm.
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Tom Sudholt of Classic99 - KFUO FM hosts Alexandra Zaharias and CiCi Houston in Friday Mornings with the Arts (03/16/2007)
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Alexandra Ballet Photo Gallery
2005 RDA Mid-States Festival Photo Gallery
News You Cannot Find Elsewhere
Alexandra Ballet announces the 2007-2008 season
Coppelia, choreographed by Marek Cholewa, will be AB's main stage production in March, 2008. Winter Repertoire will include Konservatoriet and excerpts from Les Patineurs. Konservatoriet will be staged by Kennet Oberly, based on the choreography of August Bournonville, and Les Patineurs by Petrus Bosman, based on the choreography of Sir Frederick Ashton. AB will perform Nutcracker at Marquette High School in December in collaboration with Chesterfield Arts. Last year's production sold out fast, so reserve your tickets early this year. Please watch for more information on these productions and others to be announced soon at our Web site. More on the Firebird inferno

Catch Alexandra Ballet on HEC-TV
Tune into HEC-TV (the Higher Education Channel - Charter Cable TV Channel 013 in St. Louis City and Channel 026 in St. Louis County) at 7:00 PM on August 23, 25, or 30, 2006 for their informative series, Behind the Minds. It focuses on progressive and innovative educational programs some area schools are participating in, and Alexandra Ballet's annual Young People's Performances at the Touhill Performing Arts Center is the focus of the first piece. We are grateful to HEC-TV's Director Dennis Riggs, and to journalist Jill Farmer for the opportunity to share our story. Click here to watch the video on-line!

Raising The Barre
Be sure to check St. Louis Magazine's July 2006 issue, featuring Artistic Director Alexandra Zaharias in Raising the Barre! In addition to a wonderful article by Lynnda Greene, you will find photographs of Miss A taken in 1970 and 1980. The magazine's Web site does not have a link to the article, so you will have to find a hardcopy.
Alexandra Ballet Hosted RDA 2005 Mid-States Festival
Alexandra Ballet hosted dancers from fourteen ballet companies, representing Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, in St. Louis between May 19-21, 2005 for three days and three nights of master classes, seminars, and evening performances as part of Regional Dance America's 2005 Mid-States Festival, Gateway to Dance. Opening Showcase, Concert, and Gala Performances were all held at at Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall, Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Please visit the Festival Web Site for more on the Festival!

Alexandra Ballet Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Alexandra Ballet celebrated its 20th anniversary with a spectacular repertory program on March 12, 2005 at 7:30 PM and March 13 at 2:00 PM at the Anheuser-Busch Hall of Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. The Company dancers, joined by guest artists Maya Makhateli and Nathan Vander Stoep of Colorado Ballet, enchanted the audiences.

....such high quality - consistent among all ages, too. And the costumes and sets!!!! Am utterly astonished at what you've accomplished over these years....thank you for all, the performance, but most of all what you do for the community.
Lynda Green - St. Louis Magazine

Alexandra Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty Gets Raving Reviews
The three shows on March 6–7, 2004 at Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center received standing ovation from the audience. Guest artist Ogulcan Borova, gold medalist in 2003 New York City International Ballet Competition, together with Jinny Campbell and company dancers, dazzled the audiences. Click here to read the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's review.

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