Ballet Minnesota is a classical dance company in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Located in Saint Paul in the Arts Section of Lowertown, it has served the city of Saint Paul, the Twin Cities and Minnesota for 20 years. Founded by Andrew and Cheryl Rist, the mission is, "dedicated to creating and sharing artistry in dance through public presentations and education."

Ballet Minnesota and its sister organization Classical Ballet Academy, provide St Paul, and the greater Twin Cities with a rigorous, high quality, classical dance company that serves the Upper Midwest

Upper Midwest

The Upper Midwest is a region in the northern portion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States. It is largely a sub-region of the midwest. Although there are no uniformly agreed-upon boundaries, the region is most commonly used to refer to the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and...

 with a level of ballet and dance that is in a state of continuous improvement, always striving for the perfection, artistic expression and technique of elite dance companies in the United States and the world. The Classic 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...

, which just finished its 20th year of performance, has become a Minnesota Tradition.