Minnesota Ballet

The Minnesota Ballet is a ballet company and school located in Duluth, Minnesota. Founded in 1965 by Donna Harkins and Jan Gibson as the Duluth Civic Ballet, the company has since expanded into a touring company with seventeen professional artists.^[1] From 1992 to 2007 the Artistic Executive Director of the Minnesota Ballet was Allen Fields, who retired to become Artistic Director Emeritus. Fields acquired rights to works by choreographers including Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, and George Balanchine. He was succeeded by Robert Gardner. In 2019 Karl von Rabenau was appointed Artistic Director. The Minnesota Ballet entered its 54th season in 2019/20.

^ The importance of the Minnesota Ballet in the cultural life of northern Minnesota is highlighted in Georgia Finnegan, Grace & Grit: a History of Ballet in Minnesota (Edina: Afton Press, 2024), pp. 208-9 and 237-39, ISBN 978-1-7361021-3-8.

[1] The importance of the Minnesota Ballet in the cultural life of northern Minnesota is highlighted in Georgia Finnegan, Grace & Grit: a History of Ballet in Minnesota (Edina: Afton Press, 2024), pp. 208-9 and 237-39, ISBN 978-1-7361021-3-8.

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