Harvard Club of Miami

Although attendance is open to everyone, we can only accommodate the first 200 who confirm.  We expect this event to sell out. RSVP list will remain open until capacity is reached or until 5pm Monday, May 13.

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Dan Hagerty
Executive Director

Daniel J. Hagerty recently joined Miami City Ballet and brings his extensive background in relationship development and performing arts management to the Company.
 
He is the former Director of Individual Campaigns for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He was responsible for raising more than $40 million in annual contributed revenue from and with Kennedy Center leadership, national and international volunteers, major donors, testamentary givers and a Presidentially-appointed Board of Trustees.
 
His areas of responsibility included fundraising for Kennedy Center operations and programming as well as for the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera and the Suzanne Farrell Ballet.
 
Dan arrived at the Center in September 2001 and during his tenure, he worked as the Company Manager for the Sondheim Celebration - a festival of six new musical theater productions presented in repertory, assisted in launching the Capacity Building Program for Culturally-Specific Arts Organization, and led the individual giving efforts since 2004.
 
Prior to joining the Kennedy Center, he was a Producer for WETA-TV26, Washington DC's PBS affiliate.
 
Dan is a graduate magna cum laude of Boston University's College of Communication. He was born in Houston, Texas and was raised in Florida's Tampa Bay area.
 

About Miami City Ballet

• Miami City Ballet (MCB) is among the largest ballet companies in the United States, with more than 40 dancers and a fiscal year 2012-2013 budget of approximately $13.6 million.
  
  
• Artistic Director, Lourdes Lopez, joined MCB in 2012.  Lopez was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami.  She was a principal dancer for New York City Ballet for 24 years.  After retiring from the stage, she went on to become the executive director of The George Balanchine Foundation and co-founded the innovative dance company Morpheses.
  
  
• The Company has four home counties in South Florida: Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach, plus Collier (on Florida's west coast), where MCB is presented as the resident ballet company at the Naples Philharmonic Center.
  
  
• The Company's repertoire has 94 ballets, including a number of world premieres. It includes: George Balanchine's masterworks, most notably Prodigal Son, Apollo, Agon, The Four Temperaments, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Symphony in C, Ballet Imperial and the full-lengthJewels and works by later choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon and Trey McIntyre. Ballets by Frederick Ashton, Marius Petipa, August Bournonville and others also highlight the repertoire. The Company performs classical works such as Giselle, Coppélia, Don Quixote, and Romeo and Juliet. World premiere ballets by Liam Scarlett (Viscera and Euphotic) and Alexei Ratmansky (Symphonic Dances) debuted in 2012 and 2013.
  
  
• The dancers of Miami City Ballet are an international mix. They come to MCB from Boston Ballet, National Ballet of Caracas, National Ballet of Cuba, Deutsche Oper Berlin, American Ballet Theatre, Paris Opera Ballet, National Ballet of China, among others; and from world-famous training facilities such as the School of American Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the schools of the Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Miami City Ballet School, among others.
  
  
• Miami City Ballet has toured all over the United States and has danced in more than 100 U.S. cities. Internationally, MCB has performed in Europe, Great Britain, South America, Central America, and Israel. Most recently, Miami City Ballet made its Paris debut at the Theatre du Chatelet as the featured dance company for its annual Summers of Dance Festival (Les Etes de la Danse) in July 2011.
  
  
• In January 2000, Miami City Ballet took occupancy of its Miami Beach headquarters. The 63,000 square foot facility houses eight rehearsal studios (two of which combine to create a 200-seat theatre), increased school facilities, wardrobe department and costume shop, a fully-equipped therapy room, and greater administrative space. The building is a design of the award-winning architect, Bernardo Fort-Brescia of ARQUITECTONICA.
  
  
• Miami City Ballet's inaugural performance, under the artistic direction of one of America's most celebrated male dancers, Edward Villella, was on October 17, 1986, at Miami's Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.