Sarasota Ballet

Dancers come to learn the technique that founders Ariel Serrano and Wilmian Hernandez studied at the Cuban National Ballet School in Havana. It is one of the few Cuban technique training centers in the U.S.

Iain Webb has served as director of Sarasota Ballet since 2007. His wife, Margaret Barbieri, is associate director and together they have championed the works of Sir Frederick Ashton.

Joseph Volpe had only been on the job for a short time when WUSF spoke to him at his new office with the Sarasota Ballet. In his role at the Metropolitan…