Grand Rapids Ballet

Ballet Masterworks is a mixed repertory program perfect for audiences of all ages and promises to be entertaining and enlightening.

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Date
September 14, 2025
Event Starts
3:00 PM
Doors Open
Theater Doors 2:30PM
Ticket Prices
Tickets from $52 / Students $10
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Event Details

This performance is made possible through a grant from the Frey Foundation and the support of Paul Knapp.

Grand Rapids Ballet, Michigan’s only professional classical ballet company, returns to Great Lakes Center for the Arts with a vibrant mixed repertoire program showcasing a diversity of styles and the extraordinary range of their dancers. In addition to works by master choreographer Lar Lubovitch, artistic director James Sofranko, and dance world sensation Jennifer Archibald, the program will feature Trey McIntyre’s Be Here Now—a celebration of the music and cultural revolution of the 1960s.

Set to a beloved soundtrack including Janis Joplin, The Mamas and the Papas, Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, and more, Be Here Now was a huge hit with audiences earlier this year and now makes its way to Northern Michigan. Also on the program: Lubovitch’s tender duet Concerto 622, called “the most famous male duet in the international dance world” by The New York Times; Sofranko’s driving Diablo Rojo, which showcases the competitive spirit of four dancers set to a Spanish guitar score; and Archibald’s While Away, a wistful new work set to Grieg’s Holberg Suite that blends ballet with the edge of hip-hop.

Image: Ahna Lipchik and James Cunningham in Jennifer Archibald’s While Away. Photo by Ray Nard Imagemaker

About Grand Rapids Ballet

Grand Rapids Ballet is Michigan’s only professional classical ballet company. Under the artistic leadership of James Sofranko since 2018, the company has made an exciting transformation that has attracted world-class dancers and choreographers, generating local, national, and international attention. The company consists of 20 professional dancers and an additional apprentice and trainee program. Rehearsals, Grand Rapids Ballet School classes, and performances are held at their own Meijer-Royce Center for Dance and Peter Martin Wege Theater, as well as at DeVos Performance Hall, downtown Grand Rapids. Frequent collaborative partners include the Grand Rapids Symphony, Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

Grand Rapids Ballet presents numerous styles of dance from some of the finest choreographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. They have presented works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Ben Stevensen, Andy Blankenbuehler, Alejandro Cerrudo, Trey McIntyre, Jose Limon, Gerald Arpino, Ulysses Dove, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Dani Rowe, Yuri Possokhov, Lar Lubovitch and resident choreographer Penny Saunders.

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