By Ardia Greenhauff, Miami City Ballet

20 first & second grade students from Fienberg-Fisher Elementary School in Miami Beach are learning to dance through Miami City Ballet’s Explore Dance Program.

This educational outreach program is designed to promote the arts to our community’s youth through weekly classes held at MCB Studios. Led by esteemed MCB School faculty member and former MCB dancer Kris Kramer, students learn the fundamentals of ballet based on the School’s official Ballet Preparatory curriculum.

The program runs through the school year, from October through May, and concludes with a special performance by the Explore Dance children before their 1st and 2nd grade classmates from Fienberg-Fisher, plus a lecture and demonstration by the MCB School Ensemble.

Explore Dance children will also receive two complimentary tickets to MCB’s George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ at the Adrienne Arsht Center.