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How to Improve When You’re Injured | Pro Tip from Melody Staples Hammell
Our current Featured Guest Melody Staples Hammell is a former principal dancer with Charleston Ballet Theater. We asked her to share some pro tips that she learned during her extensive career. Learn how dancers can improve even during an injury.
How to Improve Your Barre Work | Pro Tip from Melody Staples Hammell
Our current Featured Guest Melody Staples Hammell is a former principal dancer with Charleston Ballet Theater. We asked her to share some pro tips that she learned during her extensive career. She shared about how you can improve your weaker side at the barre.
How to Keep Your Costume Sweat-Free | Pro Tip from Melody Staples Hammell
Our current Featured Guest Melody Staples Hammell is a former principal dancer with Charleston Ballet Theater. We asked her to share some pro tips that she learned during her extensive career. Her Pro Tip for the week will help with sweaty costumes!
Introducing Featured Guest Melody Staples Hammell
We are thrilled to welcome former principal dancer with Charleston Ballet Theater Melody Staples Hammell as a Featured Guest with the School of Ballet 5:8! She will be sharing some exciting pro tips every week that you won't want to miss.
Shoulder Blade Placement | Pro Tip from Elizabeth Marlin
Our current School of Ballet 5:8 Featured Guest, Elizabeth Marlin, is a Company Artist with Ballet 5:8. We asked her to share some of her favorite pro tips with us over the coming weeks. Today's insight has to do with shoulder blades and port de bras.
Pointe Shoe Ribbons | Pro Tip from Elizabeth Marlin
Our current School of Ballet 5:8 Featured Guest, Elizabeth Marlin, is a Company Artist with Ballet 5:8. We asked her to share some of her favorite pro tips with us over the coming weeks. Today's insight is a pointe shoe ribbon hack you won't want to miss.
Rib Placement | Pro Tip from Elizabeth Marlin
Our current School of Ballet 5:8 Featured Guest, Elizabeth Marlin, is a Company Artist with Ballet 5:8. We asked her to share some of her favorite pro tips with us over the coming weeks. Today's insight: the word-picture that keeps Elizabeth's ribs in line while she's dancing.
Remembering Choreography | Pro Tip from Elizabeth Marlin
Our current School of Ballet 5:8 Featured Guest, Elizabeth Marlin, is a Company Artist with Ballet 5:8. We asked her to share some of her favorite pro tips with us over the coming weeks. Today's wisdom is a tried and true method for remembering choreography!
Introducing Featured Guest Elizabeth Marlin
We are happy to announce that Ballet 5:8 Company Artist Elizabeth Marlin is our first Featured Guest at the School of Ballet 5:8!
Introducing Featured Guest Jessica Lohr
We are happy to announce that Ballet 5:8 Solo Artist Jessica Lohr is our next Featured Guest at the School of Ballet 5:8!
Third Illinois Arts Council Agency Grant Supports Ballet 5:8’s Ongoing Investment in Illinois Communities
October 1, 2019 ORLAND PARK, IL - Ballet Five Eight NFP (Ballet 5:8), a nonprofit arts organization has been awarded a third grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA): $10,900 for general operating support. The grant will be partially supporting Ballet 5:8 operations between September, 2019 and August, 2020. Ballet 5:8 is committed to investing in Illinois communities, artists and residents through innovative storytelling and breathtaking dance, as well as high-quality, accessible dance education. Ballet 5:8 is looking forward to continuing its work in Illinois in part through this support.
Ballet 5:8 Makes a New Home in Orland Park, IL
January 23, 2019 ORLAND PARK, IL – Ballet 5:8 has moved its nationally-recognized professional performing company and dance education center from its seven-year home in Frankfort, IL, to a newly remodeled 12,000 square foot building in Orland Park, IL. The new location, just minutes from I-80 and LaGrange Road and a 35-minute drive from downtown Chicago, is a step up from the company’s previous home and includes five state of the art studios and a dedicated cross-training studio, plus added space and amenities for the company’s 13 professional dancers, expanding local student population, and administrative staff. The new and larger studios will allow Ballet 5:8 to continue to increase the size of its professional performing company - which was recently called the “suburbs’ best kept dance secret” by See Chicago Dance Editor Lauren Warnecke - over time. The new building will also foster continued growth for Ballet 5:8’s education programs for all ages which include hundreds of after-school classes, adult dance and fitness classes, monthly workshops for special needs dancers, and a range of intensives and conferences that attract students, choreographers and dance education leaders from across the country during the summer months. A ribbon cutting ceremony at Ballet 5:8’s new location, facilitated by the Orland Park Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Thursday, February 21 from 5-7pm and is open to the public.
New Illinois Arts Council Agency Grant Helps Ballet 5:8 to Continue to Invest in Illinois Communities
September 20, 2018 FRANKFORT, IL - Ballet Five Eight NFP (Ballet 5:8), a Frankfort, Illinois based nonprofit arts organization, has been awarded a second grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency in the amount of $12,900, for general operating support. The grant will be partially supporting operations between September, 2018 and August, 2019. Ballet 5:8 is committed to investing in Illinois communities, artists and residents through high-quality, accessible dance education and performance and is thrilled to have this operating support for the 2018/19 season.
Frankfort’s Ballet 5:8 Receives Grant From Illinois Arts Council Agency
January 9, 2018 FRANKFORT, IL - Ballet Five Eight NFP (Ballet 5:8), a nonprofit arts organization located in Frankfort, IL, has been awarded a $8,800 grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency for general operating support. Ballet 5:8 has been located in the Chicago South Suburbs since its creation in 2012 and has a mission to engage communities in Chicago, the Midwest, and the nation in conversation of life and faith through innovative storytelling and breathtaking dance. The IACA grant will be partially supporting Ballet 5:8’s operations between January 1, 2017 and August 21, 2018.