""Into the Magic City," the company's winter program, is a layered treat of two significant George Balanchine works and a world premiere by Ratmansky entitled "Roses from the South, Three Waltzes for Toby," set to a Johann Strauss II score."
""When my children asked me what I wanted for my birthday," says Lerner Ansin, "I immediately said a new ballet.""
""To this day," she says, "I'm carried away by the magic of ballet - its beauty and musicality. As a girl, it captured my imagination. From the first time I walked into a studio, that's all I wanted to do.""
In 1985 Toby Lerner Ansin set out to secure a professional ballet company in South Florida and enlisted Edward Villella and supportive allies. Alexei Ratmansky began his career in Kyiv with a desire to move beyond Soviet artistic strictures. Gonzalo Garcia started ballet at age eight at María de Ávila's academy after his mother noticed how music brightened him. These figures converge in celebration of Miami City Ballet's 40th anniversary and Ansin's 85th birthday. The winter program "Into the Magic City" pairs two Balanchine works with Ratmansky's world premiere "Roses from the South, Three Waltzes for Toby," set to Johann Strauss II. Performances run at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach from Feb. 28 to March 1. Ansin began ballet as a child to strengthen her ankles and maintained a lifelong passion for the art despite not becoming a professional dancer.
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