Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Inc.
Mission
We enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen community through the art of dance.
Ruling year
1990
Executive Director
Joseph Volpe
Artistic Director
Iain Webb
Main address
5555 N Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34243 USA
EIN
65-0135900
NTEE code
Ballet (A63)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
The Sarasota Ballet Company
The Sarasota Ballet is a unique ensemble of both dancers and choreographers that the New York Times has called "America's foremost exponent of Ashton ballets." Under the leadership of Director Iain Webb and Assistant Director Margaret Barbieri, The Sarasota Ballet has received national and international recognition for its diverse repertoire of rarely performed ballets, as well as the integrity and artistry of its performances. During Webb’s tenure, The Sarasota Ballet has been invited to perform twice at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and twice at the Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center, as well as week-long residencies at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the Joyce Theater in New York. The Sarasota Ballet is just one of three professional ballet companies in Florida and the only professional company on the Gulf Coast.
Dance - The Next Generation
Dance - The Next Generation program is a unique ten-year no-cost program for children from Title I schools. Since its founding in 1991, all of the students who have finished the program have graduated from high school. In 2002, the program received the "Coming Up Taller" award from former First Lady, Laura Bush.
Margaret Barbieri Conservatory
The Margaret Barbieri Conservatory is a full-time, pre-professional program designed to prepare 11 - 18 year old students for a performing career in classical ballet. Developed for students that demonstrate facility and artistry, Margaret Barbieri Conservatory aims to produce dancers possessing a strong, clean classical technique with great emphasis on artistry, musicality, purity of line, co-ordination and a quality of movement. The intent is to produce graduates who are capable of integrating effortlessly into The Sarasota Ballet and other top professional dance companies through high level training in classical ballet.
The Sarasota Ballet School
The Sarasota Ballet School is the only ballet school on Florida's West Coast affiliated with a professional company. The ballet school serves students between the ages of 3 to 18 as well as holding tailored classes for adults. Since opening 20 years ago, the School has developed a Children's Division, a Middle Division, an Upper Division, and an Adult School. Students have the unique opportunity to work with professional dancers, teachers and choreographers as well as to dance in company productions. Our programs are designed to train dancers who wish to dance professionally and our students have been accepted in programs at the Boston Ballet, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Rock School of Dance Education, Harid Conservatory, San Francisco Ballet, Julliard, The Kirov Academy of Washington DC, Miami City Ballet, The Margaret Barbieri Conservatory and the Orlando Ballet.
The Sarasota Ballet Summer Programs
The Sarasota Ballet offers several Summer Camps as well as a 5 week Summer Intensive Program for pre-professional students. Instruction is provided by guest artist as well as members of The Sarasota Ballet Faculty. Participants may be consider for The Margaret Barbieri Conservatory.
Where we work
Awards
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total number of audience members
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Sarasota Ballet aims to provide audiences with the highest quality of dance through the performance of a wide variety of repertoire - ranging from the great masters of classical ballet to modern day choreographers. The Company also aims to bring the art form of ballet to a wider range of audience members and to help break down the preconceived impressions some may have of ballet.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Each and every season, Director Iain Webb brings several new ballets to the Company as well as reviving ballets from it's now vast repertoire. Over the past 10 years, The Sarasota Ballet has performed works by such prestigious choreographers as Sir Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Twyla Tharp, Sir Matthew Bourne, Christopher Wheeldon, Christopher Bruce, Rudolf Nureyev, Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor and Paul Taylor, to name but a few. These include both contemporary, classical, romantic, neoclassical and modern choreograph styles. To ensure that the Company is able to perform such a vast and important range of ballets, The Sarasota Ballet holds several auditions each year in order to continue to bring the brightest and most talented dancers to the organization. During the 2019 audition season, over 600 dancers auditioned or submitted audition requests. In order to reach new audience members, The Sarasota Ballet organizes several outreach programs and events throughout the season, including bringing over 2500 third grade students from around the Sarasota Manatee area to watch a tailored and interactive school matinee performance featuring both trainees and professional dancers from the main company. Our Education Department, each year, sees over 300 students, ranging from children aged 2 - 18, to adult students aged 19 - 80, where they provide professional and caring tutelage from each and every student.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Since The Sarasota Ballet has achieved national and international recognition, the Company has been able to reach a significantly larger audience and broaden our donor base. We continue to diversify and expand our administrative team in order to create a highly trained and experienced, yet stream lined team so that The Sarasota Ballet can continue to grow artistically year after year. In February 2016, The Sarasota Ballet hired Executive Director Joseph Volpe, whose vast and unprecedented experience in the fields of arts administration through his many years as General Manager of The Metropolitan Opera in New York has brought a significant and positive change to the business running of the Company. Director Iain Webb and Assistant Director Margaret Barbieri's equally vast and exceptional experience in the field of ballet and their unique contacts throughout the world of dance provide an important and vital artistic understanding and vision to continue to bring national and international acclaim to The Sarasota Ballet.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Yearly we monitor our increase in all levels of income, track our expenses to be sure we are doing all we can to maximize our donors investments.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
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Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 02/09/2023
Richard Johnson
Retired
Sandra DeFeo
Retired
Jean Weidner Goldstein
Former internationally-renowned Principal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet; Founder of The Sarasota Ballet
Mark Famiglio
Business Owner
Bart Price
Physician
Lynda Doery
Retired dance instructor Board Member of Smith College Alumni of Sarasota, Member of the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota serving on the Scholarship Committee
Patrick Kenny
Frontier Insurance Group 1998-2001 and Executive Vice President/President of International Insurance Society 2001-2009; KPMG partner – 1966-1987; CFO/Executive Vice President Aetna – 1988-1994; SS&C Senior Vice President – 1996-1998; Advisory Board – Hesburgh Libraries – University of Notre Dame
Jonathan Coleman
Attorney-Partner of Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, LLP 1997-Present; B.A. in French with cum laude honors following study in Paris at the Institut d’Etudes Europeennes and Universite de Paris-IV (Sorbonne); M.A. and Ph.D. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Richard Johnson
Amway Corporation – President and Representative Director Amway Japan and Senior Vice President Amway Corporation 1991-2000; Board Member of Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation; President and Board Member of the Royal St. Andrew Condominium Association
Peter Miller
Consultant, Novelist, Composer, Screenplay Writer; City College of New York, Mathematics; MIT graduate degree in computer science and artificial intelligence; Downstate Medical Center (Brooklyn); founder of the Biomedical Computer Science Department – College of Health related Professions
Sydney Goldstein
Retired
Hillary Steele
CEO and Owner Property Management Firm FSU College Board of Medicine, Co-Chair “Bowls of Hope,” Co-Chair AJC Gala, Designing Women Fashion Show and Temple Beth Shalom’s Fashion Show, Planned Parenthood, YMCA
Frank Martucci
General Partner and Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Co. and President of Millcross High Yield Fund; former Board Member of William Penn University; past Chairman of the Board Smithsonian Archives of American Art (presently Emeritus); Smithsonian Institution; Montclair Art Museum
Maureen Steiner
Principal of Athenaeum LLC Real Estate Investment Firm 2001-Present; Egremont Land Trust, Treasurer; The Irish American Cultural Exchange Fund; Partner of Baldwin Bell Green (Management Consulting Firm); Beachwalk Condominium Board Treasurer
Audrey Robbins
Math Department Chair of The Out-of-Door Academy 1999-2015; Founder Statia Terminals School, St. Eustatius, NA; Curriculum Coordinator Learning Unlimited School, St. Maarten, NA; Board Member Perlman Music Program Suncoast; Board member Asolo Repertory Theatre and Smith College Club of Sarasota
Patricia Golemme
TJMaxx Merchandising College Recruiter & Buyer Training Developer (retired); Owned and operated a gift business, Scribbles; American Cancer Society Cape Cod Board of Directors and was instrumental in supporting the opening of Hope Lodge in Boston and participated in every ACS Fundraising Event
Jean Weiller
Head Textile Designer & Design Studio Manager for Weilwood Fabrics 44 years Textile and Houseware Conservator Hancock Shaker Village Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Art Teacher at Boys and Girls Club of Sarasota
Isabel Becker
Arts Patron Co-Chaired “8 Over 80” with Hillary Steele; recipient of 1 of 6 Women of Aviva (2020); watercolor instructor at Kobernick Senior Living; Board of Trustees at Aviva; Fabric artist who won awards at Art Center Sarasota; Events Chair at Glasser Schoenbaum Human Services Center
Paul Cantor
Chief Operating Officer of Allegiant Private Investors; Finance Committee AFFB and Community Foundation of Sarasota; member 2-Gen Taskforce CFS, Board Member AFFB, Guest Lecturer for Financial Literacy – Ringling College; Young Professional Group of the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce
Ginger Cannon Bailey
CEO of Racemark International; Yellowstone Holdings, LLC; C200; Southern Automotive Women’s Forum; New York State Business Council; WBENC member; Volunteerism Saratoga Performing Arts Center, National Museum of Dance, Yaddo, Skidmore College; Emma Willard School; Sanderling Club HOA Board member
Peggy Abt
FT Professor of English, OCCC (now SUNY Orange) 1975-1997 and Assistant to the President for Affirmative Action/Institutional Equity (Cabinet level position) 1987-1996; former Board member of Planned Parenthood, Asolo Repertory Theatre, JFCS; current Board member of Josh Provides
Julie Harris
Arts Patron President of the Siesta Key Republican Club, first female President of the Siesta Key Association, Secretary and Executive Board Member of Van Wezel Foundation and Board Member of the Circus Arts Conservatory
Phillip Lombardo
CEO of Citadel Communications Volunteer Experience: Chair – Broadcasters Foundation of America, Chair – National Association of Broadcasters, Board Member Salvation Army, United Fund, National Multiple Sclerosis
Rosemary Oberndorf
Executive Consultant of Medical Education Technologies, Inc., Trustee of Ringling College of Art and Design and member of the Board of Directors Executive Committee, member Advisory Committee of the Sarasota Museum of Art
William Farber
Chairman/Co-Founder Levin Management Corp. Real Estate
JoAnn Heffernan Heisen
Retired Executive Johnson & Johnson
Charles Wilson
Retired Financial Executive
David Welle
Real Estate Professional
Jan Sirota
Retired Investment Executive
Mercedita OConnor
Retired Attorney
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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