Ballet Austin is one of the largest classical ballet academies in the country. Each year the Ballet Austin company performs ballets from a wide variety of choreographers, including Stephen Mills.

The Ballet Austin Academy offers classes from creative movement, ages three and four, all the way to pre-professional. The academy students are given the opportunity to perform in the company production The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...

, performed by Ballet Austin during the month of December for more than 45 years. Ballet Austin's The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...

 is the longest running in the state of Texas.

Ballet Austin has now moved into a repurposed 34,000 sq/ft facility named the Butler Dance Education Center and Community School in the heart of the burgeoning downtown Austin arts district at 3rd Street and San Antonio Street. The center features administrative offices, box office, seven rehearsal studios, fully equipped Pilates studio and the AustinVentures StudioTheater with 287 seats and professional caliber lighting systems and sound.

In its new facility, Ballet Austin offers fitness and dance programs for the public, such as yoga, Pilates, adult ballet, hula, hip-hop, jazz, tap, modern and musical theater.

Ballet Austin is achieving international prominence and has performed in a State Department trip to Europe as well as at the Joyce Theater

Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a former firehouse on Mercer...

 in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 and The Kennedy Center

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C...

 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

Company dancers

As of August 2010:

• Ian J. Bethany
• Paul Michael Bloodgood
• Orlando Julius Canova
• Edward Carr
• Matthew Cotter

• James Fuller
• Ashley Lynn Gilfix
• Rebecca Johnson
• Aara Krumpe
• Anne Marie Melendez

• Jordan Moser
• Preston Andrew Patterson
• Oren Porterfield
• Chelsea Renner
• Frank Shott

• Brittany Strickland
• Christopher Swaim
• Beth Terwilleger
• Michelle Thompson
• Kirby Wallis
• Jaime Lynn Witts

Ballet Austin II dancers

As of August 2010:

• Sarah Adeleye
• Michael Burfield
• Emily Cloyd

• Sarah Hicks
• Emily McLaughlin
• Elise Pekarek

• Whitely Saffron
• Calvin L. Thomas, Jr.
• Daniella Zlatarev