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      <image:caption>Come join us for a night of enchantment at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center- Leona Wagner Black Box Theater. Get ready to experience Swan Lake like never before. Through innovative choreography and popular composers of today including Gerard McMann, Devotchka, and Billie Eilish. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to discover Swan Lake in a whole new light! Join us after the show to meet the artists for Question-and-Answer session.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Through innovative choreography and popular music- discover what’s beyond the classic story of Swan Lake. Come join us for a night of enchantment at our in person event! Get ready to experience Swan Lake like never before. Through innovative choreography and popular composers of today including Gerard McMann, Devotchka, and Billie Eilish. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to discover Swan Lake in a whole new light! Join us after the show to meet the artists- there will be refreshments. Email michele@balletnext.org to reserve your spot!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Through innovative choreography and popular music- discover what’s beyond the classic story of Swan Lake. Come join us for a night of enchantment at our in person event! Get ready to experience Swan Lake like never before. Through innovative choreography and popular composers of today including Gerard McMann, Devotchka, and Billie Eilish. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to discover Swan Lake in a whole new light! Join us after the show to meet the artists- there will be refreshments. Email michele@balletnext.org to reserve your spot!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A behind the scenes look at how music and dance come together. Solo harpist Carolyn Mumford will be playing music selections by Phillip Glass, Max Richter, and Ludivico Eindaudi. Please email michele@balletnext.org to reserve your spot. Donate Today https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=F6X79PXTWMC46</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ballet Unleashed - ArtTix Official Ticket Seller | Salt Lake County Arts &amp; Culture BalletNEXT presents “Ballet Unleashed” at The Rose Wagner Leona Black Box Theatre January 20th at 630p and January 21st at 630p. Both evenings are choreographed by Michele Wies, Artistic Director. Music selections by Post Malone, Colter Wall, and Cry Little Sister ( Theme “lost Boys” ) challenges the dancers and choreographer to blend their traditional skills with the edge of popular music. “Ballet Unleashed” is a program where the collision of two perspectives come together, the result is electric, fun, experimental, and unexpected, transforming the view of what ballet can be. Please join us to experience the NEXT with BalletNEXT The partnership of discipline and innovation transforms traditional ballet into something raw and dynamic. Leaving audience with a transformed new view of what ballet can be.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ballet Unleashed - ArtTix Official Ticket Seller | Salt Lake County Arts &amp; Culture BalletNEXT presents “Ballet Unleashed” at The Rose Wagner Leona Black Box Theatre January 20th at 630p and January 21st at 630p. Both evenings are choreographed by Michele Wies, Artistic Director. Music selections by Post Malone, Colter Wall, and Cry Little Sister ( Theme “lost Boys” ) challenges the dancers and choreographer to blend their traditional skills with the edge of popular music. “Ballet Unleashed” is a program where the collision of two perspectives come together, the result is electric, fun, experimental, and unexpected, transforming the view of what ballet can be. Please join us to experience the NEXT with BalletNEXT The partnership of discipline and innovation transforms traditional ballet into something raw and dynamic. Leaving audience with a transformed new view of what ballet can be.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Donate "Unwrapped" Holiday magic...Twisted and revealed Come join us for a night of enchantment at our in person event! Get ready to experience holiday magic like never before at 13 Hidden Splendor Ct. Through innovative choreography and popular holiday music by Tchaikovsky , Lindsey Stirling, Max Richter, and other songs like "Believe" from Polar Express-magic is revealed. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to celebrate the holidays in a whole new light! Join us after the show to meet the artists- there will be refreshments.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Unwrapped" Holiday magic...Twisted and revealed Tickets, Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite "Unwrapped" Holiday magic...Twisted and revealed Come join us for a night of enchantment at our in person event! Get ready to experience holiday magic like never before at 13 Hidden Splendor Ct. Through innovative choreography and popular holiday music by Tchaikovsky , Lindsey Stirling, Max Richter, and other songs like "Believe" from Polar Express-magic is revealed. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to celebrate the holidays in a whole new light! Join us after the show to meet the artists- there will be refreshments.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Giselle” offers a fresh take on the traditional story of a young village girl who, after a tragic betrayal, transforms into a ghostly spirit. BalletNEXT’s version features a score that blends traditional music with contemporary Halloween tunes, accompanied by narration. Audience members are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes. A Q&amp;A session with the dancers and musicians will follow the performance. Performance location update….. Please email michele@balletnext.org for update details</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Step into a world where classical ballet collides with cutting-edge contemporary movement. The Devil Wears Pointe Shoes is a bold, genre-bending production that fuses elegance, rebellion, and raw ambition- all set to music ranges from reimagined scores of Max Richter to modern soundscapes of Lindsey Sterling. This Immersive performance reimagines the power plays of New York and Park City combined with the visionary of Michele Wiles and the energy where pointe shoes meet power- where every pirouette is packed with a purpose- and ever dance has its own story. Classical meets Contemporary- BalletNEXT Comes to Salt Lake City Tickets On Sale at The Devil Wears Pointe Shoes - ArtTix Official Ticket Seller | Salt Lake County Arts &amp; Culture</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-08-29</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2023-06-21</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2022-05-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Press Archive - Partnership with prestigious dance school heralds new chapter in Utah - In 2018, Michele was invited to join the prestigious University of Utah School of Dance as guest artist and visiting professor.  The School of Dance is home to the disciplines of ballet and modern dance, which each have long traditions of excellence and prominence in Utah and across the world. For a semester, Michele worked with eight dancers handpicked from the school. She developed a program of new choreography and existing BalletNext repertory, which they performed at New York Live Arts in February 2019.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The program also featured guest appearances by internationally celebrated dancers Amar Ramasar and Maria Kowroski in Bachground by Mauro Bigonzetti, set to Bach’s Solo Piano - performed by pianist Dr. Vedrana Subotic, the university’s associate professor of music. Michele’s time in Utah was the catalyst for her moving BalletNext full-time from New York to the mountains of Park City in 2019.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press Archive - Unlikely pairing makes for adventurous world premiere collaboration - “(Like) jumping off a cliff—no parachute—and building the plane on the way down.” -Jay Donn</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Michele Wiles is also available to collaborate on or create new choreography for a variety of performance types. Michele’s choreography has been critically acclaimed by publications including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. She has choreographed for major universities including University of Utah’s School of Dance, Columbia University, and Alvin Ailey. In addition to choreographing for her own company, she has choreographed for YAGP and many dance schools nationwide. In 2019 she choreographed her first full-length Nutcracker. For more information on availability and pricing for choreography services, please email michele@balletnext.org</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michele has been described as a ballet body driven by a contemporary mind. From a young age she was interested in creating a fusion of styles, and at age 8 she was competing at a national level, including an appearance on Ed McMahon’s Star Search. At 10 years old, Michele left her Baltimore, MD home to train at the prestigious Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. (1991-1997). It was during her time here, at the age of 16, that Michele became an award-winning dancer; taking the Gold Medal at the ‘Wimbledon of Ballet’, the 18th International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. In 1998 Michele joined what is now America’s National Ballet Company®, American Ballet Theatre (ABT). Her talent saw her rise to the very top, dancing coveted principal roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sylvia, and more for six years. She also continued her contemporary journey, working with renowned modern dance choreographers including William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, and Twyla Tharp. As a dancer of the highest calibre in her field, Michele gained a unique perspective on the ballet world, and saw the potential to transform people’s expectations of what ballet could be. In 2011, she left ABT and started BalletNext; a company whose mission is to provide a platform for world-class artists, talented students, and renowned institutions to produce new work in an environment with art fusion at its core. Artists she has collaborated with include legendary trumpet and flugelhorn player, Tom Harrell; energetic, daredevil founder of the Brooklyn Flexing dance style, Jay Donn; and Park City’s very own classical and flamenco guitarist, Jared Antonio Garcia Lyons.</image:caption>
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