Getting to the Pointe

MYB News

Senior Spotlight - Isabella Collar

My name is Isabella Collar and the 2022-2023 season is my last with Makaroff Youth Ballet. I started dancing when I was 7. I remember my...

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Senior Spotlight - Brianna Meyer

My name is Brianna Meyer and this season I will be completing my fifth and final year with the Makaroff Youth Ballet. I have been dancing...

A Spoonful of Sugar

Makaroff Youth Ballet (MYB) is partnering up with the Appleton Boychoir to put on a spectacular Broadway & Hollywood-inspired show this...

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....

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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...

Bravo!

With our upcoming collaborative concert with the Appleton BoyChoir, we've been thinking a lot about the relationship between gender and...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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