New England Ballet Theatre CT

07/11/2025

🚨FREE Performance Alert🚨

We’ll be performing TONIGHT @ 6:30PM at Fairfield Museum and History Center as a guest company with the 🩰💃🏻

See you there!

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07/09/2025

☀️Summer Performance Schedule🏖️

NEBT is elated to be joining the as a guest company for a second summer of FREE outdoor performances🩰😎

Returning to the stage: What We Carry by Sarah Grace Mastro. This powerful and emotional piece tells a story of grief, loss, resilience, and the weight of our shared humanity. ⁠What We Carry made its debut this past season in our production of Emerging Works.💥

👀SWIPE to see the performance schedule, catch us at every show!

📸 by Alice Chacon⁠

06/28/2025

Calling all dancers!🩰 We’ll be hosting our Summer Saturday Series starting next week!✨ Starting 7/5, stop by NEBT from 10:30am-12:00pm to take class from our very own company dancers!

Drop-in rate is $20, registration through our website is strongly encouraged.

🗓️Schedule🗓️

7/5: Martina Nero
7/12: Emily Wiseman
7/19: Zoe Simons
7/26: Mira Sidhu
8/2: Rachael Gnatowski
8/9: Fiona Burlin
8/16: Asher Taylor-Dawson
8/23: Rachael Gnatowski

06/16/2025

The calm before the storm✨… Some shots from La Sylphide🧚🤍

📸: .paff.photography

06/13/2025

🚨INTRODUCTIONS🚨 We would like to formally introduce NEBT’s Board of Directors! We are so happy to have these wonderful people support our company and strive to maximize our impact in our community through the power of dance!

▪️Jaime Widmer, President
▫️Tom Devitt, Vice President

▪️Rachael Gnatowski (Artistic & Executive Director)
▫️Chelsea Neelon
▪️Tracy Doorman
▫️Bill Teel

06/11/2025

Still dreaming about our stellar weekend of La Sylphide🧚 This production saw a record number of ticket sales for NEBT!✨ Thank you to all for supporting the arts in our community!

While our professional company is now on break, we’re still dancing all summer long! Check our website to learn more about what programs are running this summer! Link in bio!🔗

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06/11/2025

So excited to announce that we have been awarded a grant by the Avon Greater Together Community Fund through the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Thank you! 🎉

🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 grantees! 🎉

Learn more here: www.hfpg.org/avoncf

Greystone Foundation
Interval House CT
Special Olympics Farmington Valley
Avon Free Public Library (fiscal sponsor for the Farmington Valley Regional Juneteenth Committee)
Seniors Job Bank of CT
UR Community Cares, Inc.
Playhouse 44
New England Ballet Theatre CT
Gifts of Love
SpiritHorse Therapeutic Riding Center of Canton, Inc.
Operation Fuel, Inc.

06/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce our 2025/2026 Season!

❤️ FIREBIRD
An original take on this iconic fairytale, catch NEBT's Firebird in October 2025 at University of St. Joseph's in West Hartford.

🩵 THE FANTASTIC TOYSHOP
A holiday classic, NEBT's renown family-friendly holiday ballet returns this December 5-7 to Hartford.

🤍 BALLET UNBOUND
New Voices, New Visions: Ballet Unbound is our mixed-repertoire production featuring new choreography, including the Young Choreographers Award recipient's work! Coming to audiences in the new year both in Hartford and in NYC!

🩷 RISING VOICES
A celebration of student choreograph, Rising Voices is our academy's production. In addition this year's production will include a new ballet, Foul Weather, inspired by Fractured Fairytales by Bill Teel.

💙 THE LITTLE MERMAID
Lastly we present The Little Mermaid! Based off the original Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, this story ballet will close out our 6th season.

📸 by Michela Semenza

06/09/2025

What an incredible weekend! We had 1 gala, 2 performances of La Sylphide, and countless of memories made!🧚

We are so grateful to everyone who made our end of season production so memorable!✨

Didn’t get a chance to see the show this weekend? Consider making a donation to NEBT so we can continue to provide high-quality productions in the 25/26 season! Visit our website to learn more!

First photo by .paff.photography

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06/08/2025

We had an AMAZING opening night! Thank you to everyone for coming and joining us in experiencing this magical classic!🧚

Didn’t have a chance to watch? You can still snag a ticket for today’s performance of La Sylphide, at 2pm! Head to the link in our bio to learn more!🔗🎟️

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