Grand Rapids Ballet
Community Updates: Friday, August 4
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 08-04-2023 under NEWS
Grand Rapids Public Museum Announces Diversity Panel, Overnight Perseid Meteor Shower Events On Monday, the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) announced that it will be holding a diversity panel next weekend. According to Monday's press...
Community Updates: Friday, July 21
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 07-21-2023 under NEWS
Investigation into Saturday's Fatal Shooting Continues, 36-Year-Old Victim Identified On Saturday, the Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) announced that it had responded to and was investigating a shooting that occurred in the early...
Community Updates: Friday, February 10
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 02-10-2023 under NEWS
Grand Rapids Police Department, Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness, and Housing Kent Give Reports/Presentations at Tuesday's Public Safety Committee Meeting At 12:30pm on Tuesday, February 7, the Grand Rapids Public Safety Committee met...
Community updates: Friday, July 24
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 07-24-2020 under NEWS
Grand Rapids hospitals, agencies open free clinic to serve people experiencing homelessness Six local organizations have joined together to provide free medical services for individuals experiencing homelessness in the Grand Rapids area. Called the...
The Nutcracker remains an entrancing tradition
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 12-16-2019 under OPINION
Over time, traditions can start to feel eternal. It happened with The Nutcracker: today the play is no less associated with Christmas than the Bethlehem Star, but that wasn't always the case. The ballet, which based its story on "The...
Firebird Soars
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 10-19-2019 under OPINION
If ballet is the art of translating music into movement, the first piece in Grand Rapid Ballet's powerful Firebird was pure ballet. TItled Mozart Symphony, it translated lively, elegantly wrought music into graceful motion,...
'Wild Sweet Love' to usher in Sofranko-Era at Grand Rapids Ballet
by (Steve Sucato)
Submitted 10-16-2018 under LOCAL LIFE
For Grand Rapids Ballet’s season opening program, the first under new artistic director James Sofranko, the company will present Wild Sweet Love, October 19-21 at GRB’s ’ Peter Martin Wege Theatre. The diverse program including...
Grand Rapids Ballet's 'The Nutcracker,' featuring the Grand Rapids Symphony, is a West Michigan tradition
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 12-14-2016 under NONPROFITS
The Nutcracker Ballet is one of the most enduring of all American holiday traditions. Never mind that the original story was written by a German, that the music was composed by a Russian or the choreography was created by a French choreographer and...
Celebrate! Community Day at the Grand Rapids Ballet revitalizes art and culture
by (Artists Creatin...)
Submitted 04-22-2016 under NONPROFITS
Last month, the Grand Rapids Ballet was filled with a diverse group of artists and a wide variety of art. Celebrate! is a community event hosted annually by Artists Creating Together, Girls Choral Academy, Cook Arts Center (through Grandville Avenue...
Freedom from fear: Musician/dancer shares his art of achieving what was thought impossible
by (katelewisceramics)
Submitted 12-31-2015 under LOCAL LIFE
Shamar Alef Ben-Yasara’El, given name William Griffin III, was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Starting at a young age, his mother enrolled him in summer art classes at Kendall. He was a member of the Grand Rapids Ballet ...