Registration is now open for the 2023-24 school year! VIEW THE SCHEDULE HERE. Classes are offered in pre-ballet, creative dance, parent/child, ballet, pointe, contemporary, hip-hop, tap, jazz, Leaps/Turns, Heels, Comp/Improv, Barre Time, Flamenco, and Downs’ at Dance. New this year: African Dance with live drumming accompaniment! Register today!
Register now for our popular kids camps for kids age 4-10: The Sleeping Beauty (June 24-28), Ballet Fairytales featuring Swan Lake, Coppelia, Midsummer Night’s Dream (July 15-19), and Princess & Prince featuring Tangled, Princess & the Frog, and Snow White (July 29-August 2). Time: 9:00am-11:30am. Cost per camp: $165, including $50 deposit.
Don’t miss the Olympia Summer Dance Intensive for intermediate and advanced ballet dancers! One, two or three-week options are available. Guest faculty include former dancers with Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and more!
Sunday, March 17 at 6:30pm Tickets: Puget Sound Dance Festival – Performing Arts and Event Center (fwpaec.org) The inaugural Puget Sound Dance Festival includes a wide range of dance forms including ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, Indian dance, Chinese dance, Flamenco, and more! The festival features 11 top dance companies from throughout the region: Allegro Performing Arts…
Congrats to JODC alumni who will be dancing with professional companies this season: Giovanny Garibay (Cincinnati Ballet), Ashley Baker (Ballet Idaho), Elina Brein (Eugene Ballet), Jacob Brein (Eugene Ballet), Natalie Allenton (Spectrum Dance Theater), Sunny Swasey (Walt Disney World), Emily Walter (Khambatta Dance Company) and Russell Ridgeway (“Awakening” at the Wynn Las Vegas). We’re so…
Ballet Northwest’s Nutcracker has been a South Sound holiday tradition for 40 years! This year’s production runs from December 8-17 at the Washington Center. The production features stunning professional sets and costumes and guest artist James Kirby Rogers, Principal Dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet. Join Clara and The Nutcracker on their magical journey through the…
Ballet Northwest’s 12th annual Young Choreographers Showcase features 15 world premieres! When: August 26th, 7:00pm Where: Capital High School Performing Arts Center Tickets: Ballet Northwest – Young Choreographers Showcase Tickets, Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Don’t miss Principal Dancers from Pacific Northwest Ballet in Olympia on Saturday, February 24! Get your tickets now!
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of the amazing Bernard “Bud” Johansen. Bud touched the lives of thousands of dancers and their families over the past fifty years in Olympia. He was an amazing teacher, director, mentor, and friend. Through his work at the studio, with Ballet Northwest, and at…
Don’t miss Ballet Northwest’s “Don Quixote” over Mother’s Day weekend, May 12-14, at the Washington Center. Buy your tickets now! This Spanish-themed ballet is fun for the whole family, featuring the eccentric knight Don Quixote, the goofy nobleman Gamache, leaping toreadors, mysterious Gitanos, mythical Dryads, and the young couple in love, Kitri and Basilio. Don Quixote includes…