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Sierra Nevada Ballet
Northern Nevada's Premier Ballet Company
Brew Brats and Ballet opens THIS WEEKEND!! Get your tickets for this eclectic evening of dance, good eats and LIVE MUSIC! Featuring ballet, modern, jazz dance and more, there is something for everyone! April 20 Brewery Arts Center and May 3, 4, 5 at Reno Little Theater! Get your tickets today! sierranevadaballet.org/brew-brats-ballet-spring-2024/
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BREW, BRATS & BALLET a Celebration of New Choreography![]()
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Enjoy a casual atmosphere, original dance, live music, and a beer and a brat to boot on May 3 and 4 at 7:30 PM and May 5 at 2 PM at Reno Little Theater. This exciting program has become a signature SNB annual tradition. Featuring new eclectic choreographic offerings from eight different choreographers. Audience members will have the opportunity to hear (first-hand and up close and personal) from each choreographer about their creative process and the program will finish up with a relaxed informal question-and-answer discussion interaction between choreographers and audience members.![]()
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$25 ballet ticket only![]()
$35 package (includes one beer + one brat)*![]()
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*brat package sales will go offline on 4/25 in order to give a number to the caterer and limit food waste. Very few a la carte brats will be available for purchase day of show. ![]()
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Get tickets here:![]()
www.renolittletheater.org/tickets-special-events
The next Broadway Our Way show, High School Musical 2 Jr., is already in rehearsals and, let us tell you, these kids are bringing it! They are all so talented and bring such great energy to this fun show. Check out this amazing cast list! ![]()
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Cast![]()
Henry Schambari as Troy Bolton![]()
Reno Biondi as Chad Danforth![]()
Bryce Hurley as Zeke Baylor![]()
Arvin Motamed as Jack Scott![]()
Sophia Villegas as Gabriella Montez![]()
Molly Raymond as Taylor McKessie![]()
Charlie Schambari as Martha Cox![]()
Reese Hughes as Kelsi Nielsen![]()
Olivia Pace as Sharpay Evans![]()
Jaxon Elliot as Ryan Evans![]()
Story Gaudard as Blossom (Sharpette)![]()
Madison Taylor as Violet (Sharpette)![]()
Lily Thompson as Peaches (Sharpette)![]()
Ava Lee as Lily (Sharpette)![]()
Iris Stege as Fulton![]()
Elise Brown as Ensemble![]()
Eli Espinosa as Ensemble![]()
Becca Goldenberg as Ensemble![]()
Cora Griffin as Ensemble![]()
Jasa Madden as Ensemble![]()
Olive Murphy as Ensemble![]()
Harper Stillman as Ensemble![]()
Chase Taylor as Ensemble![]()
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Directed by Tara Rispin with assistant music direction from Elle Vaughn.![]()
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Tickets on sale April 27th!
Today I should have been ninety four,![]()
I would be having a party with cake![]()
I’d have two fine sons and a daughter too![]()
Grandchildren to cuddle and stay.![]()
I’d have met a great man, dashing and tall![]()
He’d have worked in an office in town![]()
We’d have lived in the country, two dogs and a cat![]()
I’d have had a fine wedding gown.![]()
Margot would have lived nearby,![]()
Surely a mother herself?![]()
My mother and father would have been so proud![]()
We’d have raised a glass to good health.![]()
Instead we slept on wooden slats![]()
As we shivered with hunger and cold![]()
We were beaten for any discriminatory thing![]()
We were given no toys to hold.![]()
My mother was starving, she gave us her food![]()
Scabies was rife in our camp![]()
I wanted to die, this wasn’t life![]()
Living with rats in the damp.![]()
My best friend was in the camp next door![]()
I missed her riotous laugh![]()
I was glad to have my sister with me![]()
Loneliness, was my first and my last.![]()
I dreamed of food that I could eat![]()
I wished for potatoes and meat![]()
If I survived, I’d wash it all down![]()
With wine and something sweet.![]()
Typhus arrived and we both got sick![]()
Doctors were never called in![]()
We died one by one, Margot went first![]()
Death was an easier win.![]()
I hope I didn’t die in vain![]()
I hope the world has learned![]()
Hatred has no place in life![]()
My diary forever preserved.![]()
In honour of Anne Frank 12.06.1929 - 1945
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Alexander Cain Biber (Principal Dancer/ Ballet Master/ Choreographer in Residence/Teacher) grew up in a performing arts family and has loved theater and performing from an early age. He began his ballet training, at the age of 14, with Rosine Bena at Western Nevada Performing Arts Center – studying ballet, jazz, tap, and musical theater. In 2003, Alexander became an apprentice with Sierra Nevada Ballet and was promoted to the first company in 2006, to soloist in 2008, and to Principal in 2012.
Jennifer Lightfoot-Johnson (Grant Writer and Development Consultant) comes to SNB with 16 years of experience, both professionally and as a volunteer, in grant writing and working in the nonprofit sector.
Jennifer Boyle August (Guest Teacher/Choreographer) discovered her love of dance in Reno, Nev. During her time at Reno High School, Jennifer took a Modern class at TMCC, with instruction in Graham, Luigi, and Horton dance technique. While Jennifer was educated in other areas of dance, she felt these styles spoke to her more than anything else. After graduating from Reno High School, she moved to Boston to study dance with Joan Palladino at Dean College where she received her Associate’s Degree in Dance. She was then hand-selected by Judith Jamison to study at Alvin Ailey Summer Dance Intensive program in New York City.
Sara Weir (Demi Soloist) was born in Provo, Utah, and started ballet at age three. She trained in dance with Trisha Wilstead at Rocky Mountain Dance and then trained with Brittany Squires and Heather Gray at Jaquiline’s School of Ballet. She performed professionally with Showcase and Theater Ballet at Brigham Young University, Utah Regional Ballet, and Sacramento Ballet.
Carlee Bertero (Soloist/ Teacher) was born in northern Nevada and began studying dance at an early age at Fascinating Rhythm School of Performing Arts in Reno. Carlee was invited to join the Sierra Nevada Ballet Apprentice program in 2012; was raised to the first company in 2013; to featured corps member in 2016, to Demi-Soloist in 2017, and to Soloist in 2021. She has performed in many SNB story ballets such as Peanutcracker-The Story In A Nutshell, Giselle, Swan Lake, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty-A Fairy’s Tale, A Midsummer Nights Dream- A Steam Punk Ballet, and Twelfth Night-A Ballet Noir. She has performed as a featured dancer with SNB annually in Dancing By The River as part of Reno’s Artown Festival and in SNB’s annual Brew Brats and Ballet in Reno and Carson City.
Domingo Rubio (Second Permanent Guest Artist/Guest Teacher) is SNB’s second Permanent Guest Artist as of May 2005. He has danced professionally for some 30 years. Domingo has danced with the Joffrey Ballet and Ballet Hispanico and was featured in the Robert Altman film, The Company. Rubio danced the role of Maxfield Parrish in SNB’s, A Painter’s Love Story and is a featured artist in SNB’s Dancing By the River and annual ballet classics.
Sam Weber (First Permanent Guest Artist/ Guest Teacher) is SNB’s first Permanent Guest Artist and is a founding member of the Company. He was one of the first permanent guest artists of The Reno Ballet under the direction of Rosine Bena. Weber danced with the Joffery Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Peninsula Ballet Theatre, and The Jazz Tap Ensemble. Besides being a fine ballet dancer, Weber is considered one of the greatest tap dancers in the world. He is known as “the fastest feet in tap.”
Gina Nelson (SNB Company Coordinator for Carson City and SNB Board Member) is originally from Napa Valley, Calif., and a long-time supporter of the arts and arts education. Gina worked as a crisis prevention specialist in a day treatment elementary school and was a counselor/teacher in a non-public school for at-risk boys.
Steven M. Porter (SNB Board President/SNB CEO) is a long-time devotee of the arts. Originally from the East Coast, Steve was raised with love and devotion to all the arts.
Cathy Mercer (SNB Company Coordinator for Reno/Managing Director/Board Member) grew up in Carson City and is a former dancer with a long-time devotion to the art form.
Ananda Bena-Weber (Associate Director, Dance Artist/ Ballerina/Principal/Teacher) is a principal dancer and NY award-winning artist and the Associate Director of the Sierra Nevada Ballet and a founding member. She has danced professionally as a soloist with the Reno Ballet when it was formed in 1994/95 and 1996. She danced with Perspectives Dance Theatre and Fascinating Rhythm Productions. She has appeared as a featured soloist with Sam Weber performing in Morton Gould’s “Concerto for Tap Dancer and Orchestra” throughout the SF Bay Area. She has appeared in principal roles in several original dance works such as Take Me To The River and Blue Rondo, and classics such as Les Sylphides, Romeo and Juliet, and Paquita.
Rosine Bena (Founder and Artistic Director/Master Teacher)
Sophia Riella (Trainee) was born in Truckee, Calif. She started ballet at the age of two with Sherrie Petersen, Sierra Ballet School and continued there for six years while also studying Irish and Scottish Dance with Lindsey Marccaci in Lake Tahoe and at Truckee Dance Factory doing competition dance. She has also studied classical music, composing, and piano with Elaine Courtney and has studied voice with Stephanie McMoy.
Erin Garman (First Year Company) began dancing at the age of 12 at Scene Stealers Theatre Arts where she trained in jazz, tap, lyrical, musical theatre, and ballet. She later began training with Fascinating Rhythm School of Performing Arts where she continued training in many styles and at Sierra Nevada Ballet Academy where she first met Rosine Bena, and started getting more serious about ballet, also dancing with Spiral Ballet.
Maya Macias (Trainee) was born in Houston, Texas into a military family. While her family was stationed in Memphis, Tennessee, at age two and a half years old, Maya began studying dance at the Children’s Ballet Theater because she wanted to go to “ballerina school. “ Maya continued her ballet training at Space Coast Ballet and when she was six years old, she began performing with Space Coast Ballet in the Nutcracker.
Olivia Mann (SNB Summer Demi Soloist) began studying at the age of four at Dallas Metropolitan Ballet, and the Dallas Ballet Center and later trained at Booker T. Washington for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Heather Rodriguez (Trainee) started dancing at nine years old in Corpus Christi, Texas. She continued studying Ballet, Contemporary, and Jazz throughout her childhood with Corpus Christi Concert Ballet.