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South Coast residents don’t need theater tickets to Boston or New York to see the kind of dance performances that typify the warmer, lighter-air spring season: ballet. New Bedford Ballet The New Bedford Ballet was founded by Shirley Kayne in a small Tarkiln Hill Road studio in 1984. The Youth Ballet is a company of the New Bedford Ballet Foundation, Inc., founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and present classical ballets, grant scholarships, and educate the community in the beauty of this performing art, the company website boasts. The Ballet, which will be presenting “Swan Lake” on June 13 at the Zeiterion Theatre, is continuing the company’s 33-year tradition of merging academics with the performing arts as well as introducing young learners to the artistry
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of ballet, said artistic director Rebecca Waskiel-Marchesseault. Waskiel-Marchesseault’s own story is an example of what ballet training means to the young people who join the group. She said she was one of the dance school’s first students, attending before it became a school dedicated to ballet. She took ballet classes throughout her middle school and high school years and went on to learn how to teach it at the Hartford Ballet School, where she became both a teacher and a dancer. She moved back to her hometown when she became a part of both the New Bedford and Boston Ballet companies. In 2009, when Kayne retired,
