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What this covers
Lake Erie Ballet was a regional ballet company that operated in Erie, Pennsylvania from the mid-1950s, with its Nutcracker, its academy, its repertoire, its collaborators and the way it was organised and funded. This site has no connection to the organisation.
What this covers not
It is not the official site of any ballet organisation. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or operated by Lake Erie Ballet Company, the organisation presenting ballet in Erie today. That is a separate and independent body with its own governance and its own website, and it has no involvement in this site whatsoever.
If you are looking for tickets, classes, auditions, casting, rehearsal times or anything else that concerns a live organisation, you are in the wrong place and this site cannot help. Go to lakeerieballetcompany.org, which is the current organisation’s own site.
It sells nothing and collects nothing. There are no tickets, no enrolment, no donations, no membership, no mailing list, no forms and no accounts. There is no telephone number, no postal address and no email address anywhere on this site, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight.
It is not a current source of anything. Every page describes activity that ended years ago. Nothing here is a schedule, an offer, an availability or an invitation.
The editorial rules
Privacy, attribution and scope follow six rules.
1. No minors, ever. No child’s name, photograph, casting, class placement or audition result appears anywhere on this site. Period rosters named children; this reference does not reproduce those names.
2. Private individuals are described by role, not by name. Teaching staff, student and early-career dancers, orchestra players and volunteers are not named and their personal biographies are not republished. Those biographies were written by their own organisation, about its own people, while they worked there. Reproducing them indefinitely on an unaffiliated site would extend their identity onto something they never agreed to and cannot correct.
3. Founders, directors and public artistic figures are named. Where an appointment or a piece of work was a public fact about a public-facing arts organisation — a founder, an artistic director, a choreographer, a conductor, a guest artist — the name is part of the subject matter and is recorded. Nothing is added to what the record showed: no new biography, no awards, no credentials.
4. Where the record disagrees, both versions are given. The founding date is the clearest case: company literature claimed 1948, other company material gives 1956, and the current organisation dates its lineage to 1957. All three dates are noted, and none is treated as settled. The founder’s first name is spelled two different ways in the source material, and that is noted too.
5. Nothing is invented about third parties. Other organisations, venues, universities, companies and funders are described only as the record describes them. No current relationship, licence, partnership or endorsement is claimed on anyone’s behalf.
6. No operational services are provided. This site provides no ticket sales, registration, payments, volunteer signup, advertising or operational contact details.
Historical scope
The organisation’s documented work spans 2005 to about 2020 alongside public information about the wider regional arts sector.
The limits are real and worth stating. The final years are less fully documented, and season announcements describe intentions rather than confirmed events. The interpretive illustrations depict no identifiable person or real event.
Corrections
Anyone who holds primary material about this company — programme books, photographs, runs of the house magazine, production files — is far better served offering it to a county historical society, a university special collection or a state library, where it will be catalogued, preserved and made available properly. That is a genuinely useful thing to do and this site is not a substitute for it.
Start at the front page, or with the history.