Rossini to Rococo with Cello & Ballet

About Amit Peled

Internationally acclaimed cellist, conductor, and pedagogue Amit Peled is recognized as one of today’s most exciting and virtuosic performers. He has performed on many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Germany. Read Amit's full bio here.

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About Madison Ballet

The mission of Madison Ballet is to cultivate appreciation for and access to the art form of ballet. We inspire and train the next generation of dancers, artists, and professionals through performances by the Madison Ballet Company, education through the School of Madison Ballet, and outreach in partnership with local community organizations. The vision of Madison Ballet is to shape ballet into an inclusive art form, which represents the world we live in through diversity and inclusion both on and off stage. We commission works by female-identifying artists and artists of color, serving as one way to address systemic problems in dance that have led to a lack of diversity on stages locally and nationally. Learn more.

Artistic Director Ja' Malik

Ja’ Malik, serving in his second year as Artistic Director and Executive Director of Madison Ballet. With a 25 year career as a performing artist dancing with Oakland Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, BalletX and Ballet Hispanico to name a few. An award winning evolving choreographer from Harlem, NY, who creates works based on real life experiences. Minding the gap between the elite perception of ballet and what he views as the reality of ballet for a modern world. Rooted in respect for the classical training while pushing the physically emotional aspect of dancer audience connection through the language of contemporary ballet movement. Having created works on such companies as Madison Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Festival Ballet Providence, Houston Contemporary Dance Company & American Repertory Ballet among others. His mission is to show the diversity, complexity and beauty of the world we live in through performances, education and outreach through Madison Ballet.