Senior Spotlight - Sophia Syring
My name is Sophia Syring and this 2021/2022 season is my final season with Makaroff Youth Ballet where I have been dancing for 14 years....
Getting to the Pointe
- Feb 27, 2020
- 2 min
Backstage with...Mark Mittlestadt
Being the father of an MYB company member has given entrepreneur, small business owner, and motorcycle mechanic Mark Mittlestadt new ways...
Getting to the Pointe
- Feb 22, 2020
- 1 min
Bravo!
With our upcoming collaborative concert with the Appleton BoyChoir, we've been thinking a lot about the relationship between gender and...
Getting to the Pointe
- Feb 12, 2020
- 2 min
A fan favorite explains why he keeps coming back to perform in MYB's The Nutcracker
MJ Marsh is an actor, improviser and stand-up comic based in Minneapolis, MN. He is an artistic producer with the Bearded Company and an...
Getting to the Pointe
- Feb 9, 2020
- 3 min
Can we gracefully acknowledge how our microaggressions perpetuate barriers in the arts?
It's easy during Black History Month to focus on how far the dance world has come in terms of diversity, inclusion, and access--and even...
Getting to the Pointe
- Feb 7, 2020
- 2 min
Alumni, what was your next step?
As someone who has spent around 15 years in a “slash-career”—always juggling at least three if not more part-time jobs that touch on...
Getting to the Pointe
- Jan 29, 2020
- 2 min
Choose your own adventure
Today, MYB’s dancers showed grace and grit when they took the stage twice to perform Peter and the Wolf for over 2000 first-grade...
Getting to the Pointe
- Jan 26, 2020
- 1 min
Getting to the "pointe" in our community
Classical ballet isn't for everyone... But it should be! That's why Makaroff Youth Ballet's Artistic Director Jeanette Makaroff took on...