Artistic director : Dartanion Reed
Hartford City Ballet began 2008 as the center piece in Basel, Switzerland's Night at the Museumsnacht and some 30,000
spectators. In February, Hartford Children's Theater hosted Hartford City Ballet's annual Winter Ball, Le Triomphe
De L'Amour. Photographs displayed during February's standing room only presentation chronicled early beginnings, backstage,
on-stage, during rehearsals and preparation, high moments and low, the distress and the all of the excitement through creation
of the Hartford City Ballet. Following that performance, Hartford City Ballet went to Tijuana, Mexico to take part in an international
exchange of culture and ideas with Cubans unable to enter the United States due to the Embargo.
School of Hartford City
Ballet's Advancing Academic Achievement Scholarship, made possible through a City of Hartford grant, is a multidisciplinary
10 week program providing an educational base in ballet and the performing arts to its students of any race, color, and national
or ethnic origin, and producing and presenting cultural and artistic performances to the community and more. City of Hartford's grant
has successfully been expanded to include Theater classes for Hartford Children's Theater. May 8 at 3:00 pm, School of Hartford City
Ballet performed in the Atrium of City Hall.