Midland Festival Ballet

As a non-profit, Midland Festival Ballet is sustained by the generosity of people like YOU! Your investment in MFB ensures our ability to reach audiences across the Permian Basin with artistry of the highest caliber. With a gift of $50 or more, you will become an official MFB Member, unlocking exciting benefits to enhance your audience experience.

- Secure your seats with early ticket sales.
- Mingle with other supporters of the local arts community at our sponsor receptions.
- Dodge the lobby crowd and head to The Bar(re), our member exclusive set up in the Rea-Greathouse Recital Hall.
- See more of MFB’s library of dances with streaming access to our Digital Season.

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And we’re back! Our Company and Junior Company dancers just finished learning George Skibine’s The Firebird, the featured ballet of their March 2025 performance. We all thoroughly enjoyed master teacher Thom Clower in town leading rehearsals, as well as all of the guest dancers of the cast!

The dancers learned the entire ballet in just three days – a 30-minute ballet with only 18 hours of rehearsal. Even for professionals, that’s a fast pace. And keep in mind, they won’t perform this ballet until March. They’ll learn and perform The Nutcracker between now and then. The Company often learns as much of the spring choreography as possible before Nutcracker rehearsals begin. They’ll periodically run through the ballet throughout the fall to make sure the dancers remember the basics. This way, they can get right to work refining it in the spring. It just shows how focused, determined, and talented these Company dancers are. Great job everyone!

Nutcracker Auditions this month! 🎉Are you registered?
Register at midlandfestivalballet.org.

2024/2025 Season Announcement 🎉: Midland Festival Ballet 🩰 presents The Nutcracker December 21 & 22, 2024 🎄 and The Firebird March 29 & 30, 2025.🔥 Both performances will be accompanied by the West Texas Symphony at the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center. Mark your calendars! We'll see you at the show!

🎥We also have 3 performances, 2 documentaries, and 1 dance film broadcasting on Basin PBS!

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So proud of our Summer Intensive dancers! 👏🎉 Thank you Andrea and Louie for such a great last week of classes! 🩰👟

Our Summer Intensive attendees are learning about the origins of Locking before trying it themselves from guest teacher Louis Williams! 🤓👏🩰👟

Hope our Summer Intensive crew is enjoying some well deserved rest this weekend after working so hard this past week for Ms Clark and Ms Glasman. 🫶💪
They’re in for a real treat next week, with instructors Kelli Garrett and Maisha Morris! 🎉

First week of our Junior Intensive down!🎉🩰 Lookin GOOD beginning pointe-ers! 👏👍

Pointe Shoe Fittings today! 🎉👏🩰

Keep the beauty of ballet in the Basin! Donate to the Judy Coleman Scholarship Fund today!
To donate to the Judy Coleman Scholarship Fund, go to permianbasingives.org, scroll down and click on Midland Festival Ballet’s logo (the non-profits are organized alphabetically), and you will be re-directed to the donation page. Thank you!

THROWBACK: to MFB performing Quetzal at the Regional Dance America National Festival in Daytona, FL on April 24! 😱😍👏🩰🦜 Can you tell they did a great job? Congratulations again to this wonderful cast of dancers and choreographer Gabe Zertuche for a beautiful performance. 👏🎉

📸 Abigail Photos

Next Tuesday is Permian Basin Gives, a special day where area residents create meaningful impact through the non-profits that serve our community. We thought it was only fitting to also honor an amazing woman whose generosity and passion for dance continues to affect the arts landscape in Midland: our Founding Director, Judy Coleman.

Judy had a vision to create performance opportunities that would enrich the lives of her students and audiences alike. We know the art form comes at many costs: time, energy, and, of course, money. The Judy Coleman Scholarship Fund will help dancers-in-need continue their dance education by easing the financial burden of tuition and/or making necessary equipment more accessible. Every dollar makes a difference.

Join us next Tuesday, May 21 for Permian Basin Gives and keep the dream alive by donating to the Judy Coleman Scholarship Fund. Thank you for keeping the beauty of ballet in the Basin.

Happy National Teacher Day to the most amazing dance teachers around! ❤👏🩰 We appreciate all the ways they inspire students to strive for grace and excellence in everything they do. Be sure to send some love and appreciation their way! They deserve it!

Can’t wait to take these beauties home with us 😍. Thanks to and , we got a GREAT deal on new floors for our studio! 👏 ❤️ Day 3, here we go!

GREAT first day at Regional Dance America National Festival! 🎉 And BEAUTIFUL performance to the cast of Quetzal! 👏❤️

Getting ready to take Quetzal, choreographed by Gabriel Zertuche to the Regional Dance America National Festival in Daytona Beach, FL in just 13 days! 😱👏🩰😍 Congrats to Gabe and the cast!

Thank you to all who came out and supported your local ballet company this weekend at A Midsummer Night's Dream! ❤️ We hope you enjoyed the show. And once more, thank you so much to our underwriter, the FMH Foundation, as well as Arts Council of Midland and Odessa Arts. We so enjoyed bringing this truly beautiful ballet to the Basin. 🩰😍👏

COMPANY AUDITION THIS SATURDAY: April 13 10am-12pm
Open to dancers 11+ years of age, have at least 2 years of ballet training, at least 1 year of pointe training, enrolled in at least 2 weeks of the Summer Intensive or Pre-Season Classes*, and will enroll in Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 dance classes*.

Midland Festival Ballet is a non-profit, pre-professional ballet company made up of students dancers from Midland, Odessa, and surrounding areas. They enjoy exciting opportunities, such as master classes from guest teachers, workshops with guest choreographers, and extra performance opportunities, both in and out of town.

With extra performances comes extra time and effort. In addition to their weekly dance classes, the Company has their own ballet class on Saturdays immediately followed by rehearsal. They also come together to rehearse during the week after their classes on Tuesdays and Fridays.

It's a commitment, but it's an experience they'll never forget. ❤️🩰

Learn more about the Company at midlandfestivalballet.org. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. We hope to see you April 13 at 10am!

*Does not have to be MFB.

Woo! First Friday! 🎉 Be sure to head to the and try one (or all!🤣🤪) of their special Midsummer Night’s Dream themed cocktails! 👏🍹🩰🧚🫏 They’re also giving out some FREE tickets to TOMORROW and SUNDAY’s performances! 🎟️😱

We can't wait to perform for you this weekend! 🩰🫏🧚
It's not too late to get tickets for A Midsummer Night's Dream! 2 performances at the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center (7:30pm tomorrow and 2:30pm Sunday). Both performances accompanied by the West Texas Symphony and members of the WTS Chorale! Visit midlandfestivalballet.org and get your tickets NOW!
A Midsummer Night's Dream is underwritten by the FMH Foundation with additional support from Arts Council of Midland and Odessa Arts.
Midland Festival Ballet's 30th Anniversary Season is presented by The Bryant Family Foundation.

Before we raise the curtain this weekend, we want to give an extra special thank you to all of our supporters. 👏🫶 Because of you, we can continue to bring unique and exciting dance experiences (like a this beautiful adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy) to West Texas. Because of you, local dance students get to experience the world of professional dance. 🩰 We couldn't do it without you. 🙏

FMH Foundation, The Bryant Family Foundation, Arts Council of Midland, Odessa Arts, Betenbough Homes Midland, Permian Basin Area Foundation, Sewell Family of Companies, TurnKey Storage - Midland