Performance Gallery

2018-19

WINTER

The Nutcracker Ballet

With new and refurbished costumes, this production featured more than 70 local dancers, as well as Guest Artists Fredrick Davis, Shaina Leibson, Miho Tsutsumi, Rysuke Kishida, and Timour Bourtasenkov.

SPRING

Coppelia

Photos forthcoming.

2017-18

WINTER

The Nutcracker Ballet

Over 100 local students and community members of all ages from the Big Island and Maui participated in this performance, which featured additional new choreography by Miho Tsutumi and Soili Arvola.  For the first time, the dancers were accompanied by a full orchestra under the baton of Maestro Brian Dollinger.

SPRING

Cinderella the Ballet

Over seventy talented dancers from Hawaii Island and Maui, guest professional dancers, stunning costumes and magical sets were brought together with narration and musical accompaniment to tell the timeless story of a young girl who discovers her prince with a little help from her fairy godmother.

2017 – 2018

WINTER

The Nutcracker Ballet

Over 100 local students and community members of all ages from the Big Island and Maui participated in this performance, which featured additional new choreography by Miho Tsutumi and Soili Arvola.  For the first time, the dancers were accompanied by a full orchestra under the baton of Maestro Brian Dollinger.

SPRING

Cinderella the Ballet

Over seventy talented dancers from Hawaii Island and Maui, guest professional dancers, stunning costumes and magical sets were brought together with narration and musical accompaniment to tell the timeless story of a young girl who discovers her prince with a little help from her fairy godmother.

2016-2017

WINTER

The Nutcracker Ballet

The 2016 Nutcracker performance featured more than 60 local dancers, as well as guest dancers from The Maui Academy of Performing Arts, and guest professional dancers from the Matsuyama Ballet in Japan, Carolina Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet

SPRING

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

A fresh, jazzy touch on the beloved classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” this production brought to life the Lewis Carroll classic with a fresh twist inspired by Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography for The Royal Ballet’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” (which premiered in 2011) and featured the music of Joby Talbot and Carl Davis.

OLDER PERFORMANCE GALLERIES

2015 – 2016

NUTCRACKER BALLET
SNOW WHITE

2014 – 2015

NUTCRACKER BALLET
SLEEPING BEAUTY

2013 – 2014

WIZARD OF OZ

2012 – 2013

THE LITTLE MERMAID BALLET

2011 – 2012

ALICE IN WONDERLAND
West Hawaii Dance Theater & Academy
74-5626 Alapa Street, Suite 15, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 (click for map)
(808) 329-8876  •  Email: info[at}whdt.org
West Hawaii Dance Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational arts organization and is supported in part by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Kohanaiki Foundation, Kukio Fund, Hawaii Community Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation, Vance Wall Foundation, Hoku Concert Series, Valerie Cartwright & Richard Olazaba, and our local businesses and families.

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