The Maple Youth Ballet is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization under Section
Since 2007, the Maple Youth Ballet has been honored to present professional-quality performances at affordable prices to Orange County and the surrounding Southern California communities. Below are just some of our past performances from previous seasons.
For questions on our upcoming performances, contact the Maple Youth Ballet Box Office.
Maple Youth Ballet's A Taste of BalletThank you ALL for coming to our A Taste Of Ballet performances! Our Maple Youth Ballet dancers were superb, the audience loved it, and we can't wait to do it again at our inaugural dance festival Kaleidoscope! An Invitation to the Dance, A Classical and Contemporary Dance Experience on Saturday, May 9th!
Saturday, March 28 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, March 29 at 2:00 pm
Northwood Performing Arts Theatre in Irvine
The Maple Youth Ballet is proud to present its spring production
A Taste of Ballet is a wonderful opportunity to introduce audiences, young and old alike, to the graceful and athletic art form of ballet and the world's most famous dances in an abbreviated format at affordable ticket prices for the entire family!
A Classical and Contemporary Dance ExperienceSaturday, May 9 at 7:00 pm
Northwood Performing Arts Theatre in Irvine
Take more than a dozen outstanding dance companies, spice it up with the work of several inspried choreographers and sprinkle liberally with intriguing music. And the result is Kaleidoscope!, An Invitation To Dance!
The Maple Youth Ballet is proud to present Kaleidoscope!, our inaugural invitational dance festival that unites an array of talented dance companies from across Southern California for the first time!
Kaleidoscope! will feature the Maple Youth Ballet and the following talented guest artists:
Anaheim Ballet • Body Current Dance • Chapman University Dept. of Dance • Hartin Dance • Infinite Movement Ever Evolving • LA County High School for the Arts • Los Angeles Youth Ballet Theatre • Media City Ballet of Los Angeles • Motion Tribe • State Street Ballet • Trudl Zipper Dance Institute of the Colburn School • V&T Dance • UC Irvine Dept. of Dance
The Maple Youth Ballet will guest perform with the Trudl Zipper Institute at the Japan America Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, May 16 at 7:00pm and Sunday, May 17 at 3:00pm.
Trudl Zipper Dance Institute's Professional Training Program students will perform classical and contemporary dance including:
Joining the Maple Youth Ballet as special guest artists are The Calder Quartet and Yangyue Fang.
Admission is FREE! Visit the Japan America Theatre website for a map & directions.
Visit the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute website
The Maple Youth Ballet is honored to be invited to perform in Ballet Etudes' Winter Dance Concert & Choreographer's Workshop on Wednesday, February 25 at 7pm at the Rose Center Theatre in Westminster (view venue map & directions).
The Maple Youth Ballet will perform George Balanchine's timeless classic Valse Fantaisie and debut a new ballet by Charles Maple, Diamonds 2.5.
February 7, 2009 The Maple Youth Ballet is honored to be invited by the Los Angeles Youth Ballet Theater and Theatrics Dance Company to Momentum, An Evening of Dance on Saturday, February 7 at 8pm at the Plaza Del Sol Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge. The Maple Youth Ballet will perform George Balanchine’s timeless classic and "fast-and-furious" ballet Valse Fantaisie. View the flier (pdf).
Our full-length The Nutcracker production, featuring original choreography by Artistic Director Charles Maple. This year's performances will take place for five performances and will debut brand-new stage sets and sumptuous costumes designed by award-winning designer Jenny Tomich. View more details
View Our Photos of Our Nutcracker Stage Sets & Costumes!
Maple Youth Ballet's full-length The Nutcracker production will debut brand-new stage sets and sumptuous costumes designed by award-winning designer Jenny Tomich! View the photos
The Maple Youth Ballet was honored to present these main production performances to Orange County and the surrounding communities:
March 29 & 30, 2008: Our full-length production of the ballet Coppelia at the Northwood High School Performing Arts Theatre in Irvine. More informationThe Maple Youth Ballet was honored to be invited as guest artist in the following prestigious productions in which they performed Balanchine's timeless classic Valse Fantaisie.
The Maple Youth Ballet thanks The George Balanchine Trust for granting permission to perform Valse Fantaisie, to the Jacobs School Ballet Department at Indiana University for lending costumes designed for Valse Fantaisie, and to our own Shawn Stevens for lending her expertise as Balanchine Trust repetiteur by staging this "fast & furious" ballet.
Saturday & Sunday, March 1 & 2, 2008 at the Armstrong Theatre South Bay Ballet's annual production of BRAVO! The Contemporary & Classical Dance Experience on Saturday, March 1 at 7pm and Sunday, March 2 at 2pm at the James Armstrong Theatre at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. The program will feature original works by Lorin Johnson, Robert Kelly, Diane Lauridsen and Jon Cristofori performed by South Bay Ballet. View the photos »
Ballet Showcase production by Dance Peninsula Ballet at the Norris Center for the Performing Arts in Rolling Hills Estates, California. Performances are on Friday, April 18 at 8pm and on Saturday, April 19 at 2:30pm.
Dance Peninsula Ballet presents its company members in classical ballet and contemporary dances choreographed specifically for its Ballet Showcase. This year's Showcase will highlight several dances choreographed by Valerie Huston, a dance faculty member at University of California at Santa Barbara. Other works to be performed have been choreographed by Marina Kalinina, DPB Ballet Mistress, Alexander Kalinin and Tita Boulger, DPB Artistic Coordinator.
Media City BalletBallet Russe Remembered production by the Media City Ballet on Sunday, April 27 at 7:30pm at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California. Media City Ballet revisits the depth and beauty of the Ballet Russe repertory with its daring, artistic choices, its gorgeous delivery and promise.
The program will include: Alexander Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Carl Maria Von Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose, Variations from Alexander Glazunov's Raymonda, Pas de Deux from Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Shehérézade and Jacques Offenbach's Can-Can from Gaîté Parisienne.
View the performance flierThe Colburn Dance Institute at The Colburn School in Los Angeles presents their Professional Training Program's Spring Concert on Saturday, May 10 at 3pm at the Japan America Theatre in downtown Los Angeles (in Little Tokyo between 2nd & 3rd Streets).
The program will feature students from the Colburn Dance Institute's Professional Training Program performing an eclectic mix of classical ballet and contemporary dance, including a choreographic study from Jirí Kylián's Arcimboldo, excerpts from the master works Diamonds by George Balanchine, and Raymonda by Marius Petipa, as well as the Maple Youth Ballet performing Balanchine's Valse Fantaisie.
For questions on our upcoming performances, contact the Maple Youth Ballet Box Office.
