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Columbia University Ballet Ensemble is a student-run ballet company dedicated to producing a full-len

01/28/2024

Meet Two of Our Spring 2024 Répétiteurs, Isabella Sacca & Madalina Stoicov!

About Isabella:
“Isabella Sacca is a freshman at Columbia College and is currently studying Economics and French-Francophone Studies. Sacca has studied ballet for 16 years. Most recently, she trained at Still Pointe Ballet as a founding member of North Atlanta Youth Ballet
When she is not dancing, Isabella enjoys teaching ballet and spending time with her friends. Isabella is so excited to be a Répétiteur with CUBE this year!”

About Madalina:
“Madalina is a first-year at Barnard College and majoring in Computer Science. Madalina received her training at Maine State Ballet, where she became an Apprentice to the Company in 2022.
She has trained in the Balanchine style for ten years, and has the opportunity to perform original Balanchine choreography, such as Waltz of the Snowflakes & Waltz of the Flowers.
In her spare time, Madalina enjoys learning K-Pop and Hip Hop choreography, rearranging songs, and working on computer science projects.”

01/17/2024

AUDITION REGISTRATION FORM IS LIVE IN OUR BIO! AUDITION REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL 12AM on 1/26 (Friday)!
Welcome back to campus, Barnumbia! We hope that everyone has had a refreshing winter break and is excited to be back on campus for the Spring! We are so incredibly excited to announce that our Spring 2024 story ballet production will be the famous “Swan Lake!”

Interested in starring as Odette/Odile, or performing the iconic four swans variation? Check out our audition registration form in our bio! All dancers of all levels will be cast, and we have multiple audition options if you’re unable to make our live auditions next weekend!

Preliminarily, our audition is scheduled for sometime during the weekend of 1/26. We will inform everyone when we finalize this timeframe! Until then, sign up for our auditions, and we hope to see some new and familiar faces 💙🤍

01/15/2024

Meet CU Ballet Ensemble’s Spring 2024 Assistant Artistic Director, Charlotte Vaccaro!

Also, we are filling some open roles for Spring 2024: Assistant Executive Director, Costume Coordinator, and Répétiteurs! Whether you want experience in arts administration or interested in decision making, costume design, and/or teaching, click the link in our bio to find our Spring 2024 Board Applications. Currently, Spring 2024 Board Applications will close this weekend, so check it out soon!

Also, stay tuned tomorrow for our exciting post announcing our Spring 2024 production!

About Our Assistant Artistic Director:
“Charlotte Vaccaro is a transfer student from Skidmore College and is currently a Junior at Barnard. While at Skidmore College, she casted and staged excerpts from Paquita, and taught pre-ballet to young children at the Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet. A native New Yorker, her classical dance experience has included intensive training in the French technique at the French Academie of Ballet, as well as the Cecchetti method at American Ballet Theater, both in the city. She also trained in the neoclassical Balanchine style at Ballet Academy East, and the Paris Marais Dance School. Additionally, she studied elements of the Vaganova technique during her training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and Koltun Ballet Boston summer intensives.“

11/18/2023

Thank you to everybody who was able to make it out to our tenth anniversary production this past weekend! We’re so incredibly grateful of everyone who supported us leading up to and during our performance, last Saturday night. The Board at CU Ballet Ensemble is incredibly proud of all of our CUBE Members, as their work from the past two months demonstratively accumulated in a wonderful production this past Saturday 💙

In the following weeks and months, we will be posting show pictures, sharing the video link to our recorded performance, and, later, will be announcing our spring semester production and audition times. Stay tuned, it’s been a wonderful end of the decade since CUBE’s founding, but it is, simultaneously, a motivating start for decades to come.

Until then, enjoy some sneak peeks of performance pictures (at the beginning and end of this reel), as well as many pictures from the past ten years of CU Ballet Ensemble.

11/09/2023

THIS SATURDAY, November 11th ! Ticket Link in Bio! We hope to see you there!

11/06/2023

TICKET INFORMATION IN BIO 💙

Columbia University Ballet Ensemble (CUBE) is excited to present our 10th-anniversary performance this Fall!

CUBE is a student-run ballet company that produces semesterly, full-length classical story ballets with a cast of nearly 40 dancers, ranging from former professionals to absolute beginners. Our November 2023 show is the Romantic ballet Giselle.

The production is beautifully costumed and includes a set for the first time in CUBE's history. CUBE's Giselle will be a fun and spooky night for all, whether ballet-versed or new to the art form!

Pictured (Left to Right): Joshua as Albrecht; Catie as
Giselle; Marlee as Myrtha.

Photography & Editing by
Costume Coordination by
Technical Coordination by

11/02/2023

Stay tuned! More information coming everyday for the next few days!

10/08/2023

Stay up to date by joining our newsletter! The link to subscribe is live in our bio. By subscribing, you are first to know about CUBE’s development, Board Plans, Semester Production Plans, ticket releases, registration forms, volunteering opportunities, behind-the-scenes look, and much more!

09/06/2023

CUBE is excited to announce that our Fall 2023 In-Studio Auditions will take place on Saturday, September 9th @1:45PM at Bridge for Dance’s Studio One! Our registration link is in our bio, and we hope to see some returning and new faces there!

We appreciate everyone for their patience as we finalized our audition times.

Don’t forget that the deadline to submit the registration form is Friday, September 8th @11:59PM!

09/02/2023

Meet CUBE’s 2023-24 Répétiteurs, Dylan Heller & Charlotte Vaccaro!

About Dylan:
“Dylan Heller is a junior at Barnard College studying Neuroscience and Behavior. Dylan is from Miami, Florida and trained at Vladimir Issaev School of Classical Ballet and Kirova Ballet Academy.

She joined CUBE her first semester on campus and is very excited to continue her role as a repetiteur! When Dylan is not dancing, she enjoys getting coffee with friends, thrifting, and exploring the city.”

About Charlotte:
“Charlotte Vaccaro is a transfer student from Skidmore College and is currently a Junior at Barnard. While at Skidmore College, she casted and staged excerpts from Paquita, and taught pre-ballet to young children at the Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet. A native New Yorker, her classical dance experience has included intensive training in the French technique at the French Academie of Ballet, as well as the Cecchetti method at American Ballet Theater, both in the city. She also trained in the neoclassical Balanchine style at Ballet Academy East, and the Paris Marais Dance School. Additionally, she studied elements of the Vaganova technique during her training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and Koltun Ballet Boston summer intensives.”

08/30/2023

Meet CUBE’s 2023-24 Costume Coordinator, Adara Allen!

About Our Costume Coordinator:
“Adara trained at Juneau Dance Theater in Ballet, Contemporary, and Modern dance. Since coming to Barnard she has started taking Flamenco. She has attended Juneau Dance Theater's summer intensive and Summer Dance Lab.

Adara is a sophomore at Barnard College studying Chemistry and Dance. She joined CUBE her first semester and became the costume designer in Spring 2023. In her free time she enjoys crocheting, acting, dancing, drinking coffee, and hanging out with friends.”

08/30/2023

Meet CUBE’s 2023-24 Technical Production Director, Erin Stoeckig!

About Our Technical Production Director:
“Erin is a sophomore at Columbia College. She was introduced to backstage work in her hometown of Rochester, MN, where she stage managed for school and community productions.

On campus, she has worked on shows with Columbia Musical Theatre Society, New Opera Workshop, King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe, and the Barnard Theatre Department. This will be her second semester working with CUBE, and she's super excited for the shows this year!”

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