New England Ballet Theatre (NEBT) proudly publicizes its 2025/2026 Season, an bold and artistically wealthy lineup that displays the corporate’s rising inventive imaginative and prescient and deepening neighborhood roots. Guided by the motto “Classically Conventional, Uniquely Unique,” NEBT’s upcoming season blends timeless tales with contemporary views, presenting daring new works, honoring ballet historical past, and celebrating native heritage.
Inventive & Government Director Rachael Gnatowski shared, “This season is deeply private and creatively expansive. We’re honoring the previous, investing in rising voices, and bringing ballet to extra folks, whether or not on stage, in colleges, or locally.”
NEBT opens the 2025-2026 season with a reimagined Firebird, October 11-12, impressed by the legendary Ballets Russes and Inventive Director Rachael Gnatowski’s familial connection to the corporate by way of dancer Waleria Gnatowska. This system additionally options Reflections on the Water, a ballet by Michael Uthoff, restaged by Thomas and Jeanne Giroir; a revival of Tracy Dorman’s evocative Voices of Spring, showcasing unique costumes from CT Valley Regional Ballet; and an excerpt from Christopher Fleming’s new ballet impressed by The Image of Dorian Grey, with unique music by David Goldstein, forward of its full premiere in Fall 2026.
Rejoice the magic of the vacations with NEBT’s beloved household ballet, The Improbable Toyshop. Now in its fifth season, The Improbable Toyshop options pleasant native references and heartwarming storytelling. NEBT is thrilled to share that this 12 months they’re providing a brand new sensory-friendly efficiency designed to make the magic of ballet extra accessible to all. This efficiency will even embrace college students from their new adaptive program Bridges to Ballet. Performances will probably be at Higher Hartford Academy of the Arts December 5-7.
Subsequent March, NEBT’s annual New York Metropolis efficiency Ballet Unbound returns with an expanded imaginative and prescient. For the primary time, the corporate’s Efficiency Ensemble from the Faculty of NEBT will share the stage, giving college students the chance to carry out alongside professionals in one of many world’s main dance venues – The Ailey Citigroup Theater. This system features a world premiere by Connecticut native Julia Antinozzi, not too long ago named considered one of Dance Journal’s “25 to Watch” and contemporary from a residency on the New York Choreographic Institute; a brand new work by Juliana Godlewski, recipient of NEBT’s Younger Choreographer Award; and an unique creation by Rachael Gnatowski, that includes placing black-and-white tutus designed by Fiona Burlin.
The season concludes subsequent Spring with an unique full-length adaptation of The Little Mermaid, a sweeping and emotional journey beneath the waves, dropped at life by way of NEBT’s signature mix of classical approach and theatrical storytelling. This manufacturing will characteristic college students from The Faculty of NEBT, in addition to college students chosen from an open audition.
NEBT additionally proudly welcomes 5 new dancers this season and introduces a standard firm rating system (Principal, Soloist, Corps de Ballet, Apprentice), underscoring its dedication to skilled excellence and inventive progress.
Tickets accessible beginning September 1, 2025. Go to www.neballettheatre.com for tickets, efficiency instances, casting, and program particulars.
