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Miami City Ballet Cuts 8 Dancers Amid Funding Woes
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Published: February 3, 2009
MIAMI BEACH - Miami City Ballet will cut eight dancers because it can't afford to pay them.
Ballet spokeswoman Nicolle Ugarriza said Tuesday the eight corps and apprentice dancers' contracts will not be renewed next season.
Fifty-three dancers performed with the troupe this season. Ugarriza says the final number for next season hasn't been determined.
The ballet's board wants it to trim its $14.8 million budget by more than a quarter next season. In a letter sent Friday to the eight dancers, the ballet's artistic director and CEO, Edward Villella, says it was "impossible" to make such drastic cuts without downsizing the company.
In December, the ballet dropped the live orchestra from the second half of the 2008-09 season. Two teachers were laid off from the ballet's school last month.
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