With summer intensives right around the corner, the Ballet Palm Beach Academy ensures that the safety and well-being of students will always be its top priority. Ballet Palm Beach Academy Founder and Artistic Director Colleen Smith explains, “Our students are everything to us. Now more than ever, it is important to let our students return […]
(June 17, 2020) Palm Beach Symphony has announced that Ballet Palm Beach Founder and Artistic Director Colleen Smith has been awarded the 2020 Randolph A. Frank Prize for the Performing Arts and will receive the entire prize amount of $10,000. The award ceremony will stream live to the public beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 25 at https://www.palmbeachsymphony.org/frank-prize. […]
Amidst the pandemic outbreak, Ballet Palm Beach, among many other local businesses and organizations, decided to close its doors for the safety of its dancers, teachers, and academy students. Though quarantine was not the most ideal situation for its youngest ballerinas, the Ballet Palm Beach Academy powered through the setbacks, offering its students free, virtual […]
(May 10, 2020) As Ballet Palm Beach comes to the end of what would have been our last day of our 2019 / 2020 Season, I wanted to say THANK YOU! Having tiptoed our way through this very unusual time, I know we will begin next season with a renewed sense of gratitude for one […]
(Palm Beach Gardens, FL –April 29, 2020) Ballet Palm Beach Academy, the official school of the county’s professional ballet company, Ballet Palm Beach, connected to quarantined students with the “Tutu Project” in honor of International Dance Day. Colleen Smith, both Artistic Director of the professional ballet company and School Director of the Academy, organized the […]
Ballet Palm Beach, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Palm Beach Opera and Palm Beach Symphony collaborate to create online video of Barry Manilow’s “One Voice” presented by the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County West Palm Beach, Fla. (April 20, 2020) – Major arts organizations of Palm Beach County, Florida are connecting with their community and audiences […]
On Friday January 31st, 2020, Ballet Palm Beach introduced the Anka Fund for Dancers at its annual fundraiser, Dance Revealed II–Swept Away Soiree, held at the Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The cocktail event, sponsored in part by Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design, Robin Woodard, Flowermart, and Big Time Restaurant […]
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL – BALLET PALM BEACH (BPB) today announced that esteemed patron Ms. Anka Palitz has inaugurated the first-ever fund to seed support for the company’s professional dancers throughout their careers. BPB’s Founder and Artistic Director Colleen Smith said: “We are so grateful to Anka for her generosity to and advocacy for BPB […]
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