PORT ANGELES — The American Ballet Theatre studio company will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $50 to $80 per person, $25 to $35 for the matinee performance, at www.fieldhallevents.org/tickets.
The performances include U Don’t Know Mes, Crimson Flame, Night Falls, Human, More Than Nothing, Tarantella, Birthday Variations pas de deux, Interplay and the Black Swan pas de deux from Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake.
The abbreviated family-friendly matinee on Saturday is designed as an introduction to ballet for curious audiences.
The Studio Company, led by artistic director Sascha Radetsky, prepares its pre-professional dancers for careers at the American Ballet Theatre or other leading ballet companies worldwide.
Currently, 15 principal dancers and eight soloists at the American Ballet Theatre are alumni of ABT Studio Company.
Each season, the company commissions new works from emerging and established choreographers and engages the broadest ballet audience by performing varied repertory in a range of venues around the world.