Lexington Ballet Company

Artistic Director

Luis Dominguez was born in Mexico City and began his ballet training under two former principles of The National Ballet of Mexico. After coming to the United States, Mr. Dominguez trained at Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City and toured with them as a dancer for eighteen years. Mr. Dominguez took the role as Artistic Director of Lexington Ballet Company in 2002 and has produced a portfolio of classical and neoclassical repertoire that includes Closed on Mondays, Cabbage Moon, Ragtime Love, The Thieving Magpie, The Mirror, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Three roads to Nowhere, Wild Things, Ion Dance, The Hard Rock Ballet, The Bordello Suites, Rhapsody in Blue, Fantasy # 3, Bach Cello suites, 21 Century Ballet, Nonsense, The Köln Concert, The Haunted, 7 Dreams and a Tango, Reincarnations, West Side Story, Fanfare for the Common Man, For the Red White and Blue, Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring.^[2]

School Director

Nancy Dominguez trained at the Chicago City Ballet, under the direction of Ballerina Maria Tallchief.She danced professionally at State Ballet of Missouri, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet New England, and Dance Theatre of Harlem under Arthur Mitchell. ^[5]

Timeline

• 1974 - Nels Jorgensen established Jorgensen Ballet with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
• 1975 - Granted 501(c)(3) status under the name Lexington Ballet Company, Inc.
• 1986 - Lexington Ballet Company moves into ArtsPlace at 161 North Mill Street in Lexington, Kentucky.
• 1986 - Karl andn Colette Kaufman founded the annual Lexington Ballet Summer Intensive program.
• 1987 - Lexington Ballet hosted the Southeastern Regional Ballet Association (SERBA) gathering attended by 650 dancers, teachers and choreographers.
• 1989 - Karl Kaufman and Kirt Hathaway establishes the annual Ballet Under the Stars in Lexington, Kentucky.
• 2008 - MAD Camp established as an annual youth Music, Arts, Dance camp.
• 2009 - Educational Outreach program is updated to support dance education in Title I schools funded by a generous grant from W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Foundation.^[6]
• 2010 - Lexington Ballet performs in the opening ceremony of the FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky.^[7]
• 2013 - Lexington Ballet recognized with the Salute to Small Business Phoenix Award presented by Commerce Lexington, Inc.^[8]

Artistic Directors

• Luis Dominguez (2003-present)
• Frank Galvez (1999-2002)
• Fu Xijun (1997-1998)
• Rosemary Miles
• Karl Kaufman and Colette Kaufman (1985-1994), Associate Director Kirt Hathaway (1988-1992)
• Norman Shelburne
• Nels Jorgensen (1974)

Performances

Lexington Ballet Company presents four or five classical and neoclassical productions each year in the central Kentucky area.

• 2017 − 2018

West Side & Other Stories, The Nutcracker, My Fair Lady, The Jungle Book^[9]

• 2016 − 2017

L'Histoire du soldat, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella (Prokofiev)

• 2015 − 2016

Dance Out Loud, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Alice in Wonderland

• 2014 − 2015

Giselle, The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)

• 2013 − 2014

Ballet Under the Stars, A Tribute to Ballets Russes, The Nutcracker, A Dance Affair, Snow White,

• 2012 − 2013

Ballet Under the Stars, Hard Rock Ballet, Cinderella (Prokofiev), The Nutcracker Hard Rock Ballet, Coppélia

• 2011 − 2012

Ballet Under the Stars The Firebird, The Nutcracker, Ion Dance, Cinderella (Prokofiev)

• 2010 − 2011

Ballet Under the Stars, Fabric of Dance: 3′s Company, Opening Ceremony of FEI World Equestrian Games, Hard Rock Ballet, The Nutcracker, 21st Century Ballet, Giselle

• 2009 − 2010

Ballet Under the Stars, The Fabric of Dance, The Koln Concert, The Nutcracker Up Close, Nonsense!, Hard Rock Ballet

• 1988—1992

The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Don Quixote (ballet), Coppélia, The Tales of Beatrix Potter^[10], La fille mal gardée, Les Sylphides, Dracula, Flickers, Pulcinella