Congrats to JODC alumni Natalie Allenton and Gio Garibay who are currently studying on scholarship at two of the most prestigious ballet schools in the country. Natalie is training at Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, and Gio is studying at San Francisco Ballet School. We are so proud of them!
Tickets for Ballet Northwest’s Nutcracker go on sale Friday, October 8 at www.washingtoncenter.org. Performances are December 10-12 and 17-19. Olympia’s holiday favorite for over 35 years returns to the Washington Center, featuring stunning sets, beautiful costumes, local dancers, and guest artist Lucas Horns, former dancer with Ballet West of Salt Lake City. Join Clara and the Nutcracker Prince…
Registration is now open for the 2021-22 school year! Classes begin Wednesday, September 15 and run to June. Classes are offered in pre-ballet/creative dance, parent/child, ballet, pointe, contemporary, hip-hop, tap, jazz, yoga, and Downs’ at Dance. Check out our new Improv/Composition class as well as Dance Conditioning and Barre Time! View the schedule here. Register…
Ballet Northwest’s 10th annual Young Choreographers Showcase will feature 15 world premieres on stage at the Washington Center on Saturday, August 28 at 7:30pm. The show will include ballet, contemporary, jazz, Irish and more! Tickets on sale soon at www.washingtoncenter.org.
Registration for summer evening classes (July 6-August 5), summer kids camps (age 4-8), and summer intensive (intermediate/advanced dancers) is now open! Click here for the schedule!
Save the date for the 2021 Olympia Summer Dance Intensive, August 9-27 (one, two or three week options.) Guest faculty include former dancers with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Houston Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and more! For detailed summer intensive information (for intermediate and advanced ballet dancers)…
Get your tickets to Ballet Northwest’s Nutcracker Film, December 3 & 17 at the Skyline Drive-In on Highway 101, or stream online anytime before January 1! For more info, visit www.balletnorthwest.org.
The 2019-20 schedule is now online! Check out our new FREE Boys Dance Conditioning! Click here to view the schedule. Online registration is open and classes begin Wed. Sept. 11. Register online today!
Congrats to JODC students Giovanny Garibay and Natalie Allenton, who recently performed the lead roles in Ballet Northwest’s Don Quixote. For this school year, Gio will be attending the prestigious San Francisco Ballet School on full scholarship, and Natalie will be attending the renowned Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet on scholarship.
Featuring 13 world premieres! Saturday, August 17 at 7pm Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Rd SW, Olympia Tickets: $15 (plus $4 Washington Center service fee) Buy tickets at: www.washingtoncenter.org/bnw or 360-753-8586.