Getting to the Pointe

Spring Concert Recap, Calling All Alumni!, Corporate Sponsorships, and More!

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...

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...

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

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....

Being the father of an MYB company member has given entrepreneur, small business owner, and motorcycle mechanic Mark Mittlestadt new ways...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Classical ballet isn't for everyone... But it should be! That's why Makaroff Youth Ballet's Artistic Director Jeanette Makaroff took on...