The Ballet Company Bringing World-Class Dance to the Carolinas
Through ambitious programming and rising talent, a Carolina ballet company is earning recognition well beyond the state's borders.
Great ballet is not confined to the great cities, as one ambitious Carolina company is proving.
Ambition on stage
Through daring programming and a roster of rising talent, the company has earned recognition well beyond the state. It performs the classics with technical command and commissions new work that pushes the form.
The dancers are serious artists, many drawn from the country's finest schools.
Building an audience
The company has worked to cultivate a local audience for an art form that can seem forbidding, through education and outreach as well as performance.
Its success reflects a broader cultural maturation in the state, which increasingly supports institutions of national caliber. In bringing world-class dance to Carolina stages, the company enriches the region's cultural life and stakes a claim to artistic ambition that few would have predicted a generation ago.
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