Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet

Our dancers are having wonderful experiences at their summer intensives around the country! 🩰☀️

Take a look at some of our friend’s adventures! 🏔️💃🏙️🕺

Congratulations Taylor Naturkas!!! ♥️🤍✨

Introducing our July/August digital cover star, Miami City Ballet principal Taylor Naturkas! 🌟

In May, during Miami City Ballet’s season-closing program, Taylor Naturkas, a 23-year-old newly appointed principal, bounded from leaps to rounds of turns, crisscrossing the stage with skittering pointework and fluid glides. The Broadway-bright work, “Grand Glittering Gershwin,” to the titular composer’s piano concerto in F, was a premiere by MCB School resident choreographer and faculty member Durante Verzola.

It was a fitting way for Naturkas to cap off her sixth season with the company, where she’s been on the fast track since joining the corps de ballet in 2020. After her latest performance of George Balanchine’s “Rubies” in March, artistic director Gonzalo Garcia announced her promotion to principal on Miami’s Arsht Center stage.

Read Naturkas’ cover story here: https://pointemagazine.com/taylor-naturkas/ .tab=0 🌟

📸: Photo by Gary James
📝: Guillermo Perez



Description: Taylor Naturkas, wearing a burgundy practice tutu, brown leotard and pink shrug, crosses her right leg over her left at the knee, standing en pointe. She arches backward slightly, her right arm extended above her head and her left arm softly framing her face.

Tickets are now on sale for our Graham100 performance at Bay View’s Hall Auditorium on August 22! 💫 💃

This performance features two of Graham’s iconic works, “Appalachian Spring Suite” (1944) and Lamentation” (1930). This performance also includes Peter Sparling’s original work, “Our Own American Document,” modeled after Graham’s 1938 masterwork, “American Document.”

This is CTAC School of Ballet’s FINAL Graham100 performance!! If you missed the preformance in May, you can’t miss this one. If you saw the one in May, you know you have to see it again! Tickets available here: https://crookedtree.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F49800

A special thank you to the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation, Charlevoix County Community Foundation, Women Moving Millions and Hestia Women’s Giving Circle for their support of the Graham100 project.

PC: Roger Tallman

Our summer classes begin tomorrow! ☀️🩰We are so excited to have several of our alums guest teaching with us this summer.

Olivia Pearsall — dancer with Kansas City Ballet II
Taylor Naturkas — principal dancer with Miami City Ballet
Greyson Janka — rising senior at George Mason University
Louis Millard — dancer with Boston Ballet II
Amelie Hanson — rising sophomore at Grand Valley State University

Registration is open all summer!:
https://www.crookedtree.org/classes/ctac-school-ballet/ballet

* Pre-professional and Intermediate Ballet Workshops: June 22 — August 15 (8 weeks, select anywhere from 1-8 weeks)
* Beginning and Beg/Int Ballet Workshops: July 13 — 31 (3 weeks, select anywhere from 1-3 weeks)
* Adult Ballet: June 23 — August 11 (8 weeks)

A big thank you to Hestia Women’s Giving Circle for supporting our young women in “Dance Legends: Little Traverse Bay Celebrates Graham100” through a $1,000 grant!✨💃

Our dancer Ailinn Mullaney (who is performing the role of the Bride in Graham’s Appalachian Spring Suite on August 22) accepted the award with Heather Raue this past Wednesday.

We are honored and grateful to be supported by this wonderful group of local women. ♥️
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Tickets for the August 22 performance at Hall auditorium are coming soon! We thank you for your patience, as we are just coming off of two back to back shows.

Image details for photo 2:
Ailinn Mullaney and Benjamin Cheney in Martha Graham's "Appalachian Spring Suite"
Photo credit: Roger Tallman

Thank you, Bella Luna Studio!
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