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ASHEVILLE BALLET ANNOUNCES ITS 2010-2011 SEASON

In 1948, Peggy and Beale Fletcher opened their Asheville school of dance, after decades of performances together on the Vaudeville/Night Club circuit. In 1960, Alice Weaver founded her Asheville ballet company, after decades of facilitating ballet and modern performances in the region. In 1972, Ann Dunn began a school and company in Indiana, and in 1980, moved to Asheville and continued her vision, first in her garage on Montford Avenue, and then downtown in The Leader Building. In 1996, Dunn united these three ground-breaking artistic accomplishments in The Asheville Ballet and its official school, The Asheville Academy of Ballet, modeled on her alma mater: The New York City Ballet’s School of American Ballet.

In March, 2010, Dunn was honored by her teacher, George Balanchine’s, institution in New York at Lincoln Center, as one of twenty outstanding teachers and company directors in the United States. Dunn currently has students touring the world in internationally acclaimed dance companies.

This radically simplified history, which leaves out significant contributions (Linda and Walter Fletcher, Art Fryar, the first Asheville Nutcracker), is one our community must be proud of.

The Asheville Ballet’s 2010-2011 Season celebrates its 63rd year of training dancers in the studio, and its 51st year of presenting ballet productions for the region. Another of Dunn’s teachers, Martha Graham, used to say, “It takes ten years to produce a dancer, if…” That looks about right, from our history of shepherding students from studio to stage.

The Asheville Ballet’s 2010-2011 season celebrates classicism, contemporary diversity, and a commitment to you, our community (all performances at Diana Wortham Theatre).

  • On October 2-3 we present Chopin’s “Les Sylphides” and “Free Fall,” a world premier set to the music of the hot new Chapel Hill band, Kangaroo, who will perform live on stage.
  • On December 9-12 we present Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.”
  • On May 13-14 we present a double bill: Bizet’s “Carmen” and “Ballet: The Beautiful Journey.”


In addition to the season, select members of The Asheville Ballet will perform “Peter and the Wolf” with the Blue Ridge Orchestra, “Nutcracker” excerpts with the Asheville Youth Symphony, over 25 performances of “Christmas at Biltmore” with the Biltmore Estate, multiple school and retirement community shows, and introductory lecture/demos for international performances hosted by Asheville Bravo and Diana Wortham Theatre.

This year we are also proud to announce the reformation of The Asheville Chamber Ballet, known formerly as ADDANCE – Ann Dunn and Dancers) – a small group of professional dancers, much like a string quartet, that is available for bookings in non-traditional spaces for events, churches and schools.

This year we are also very happy to announce our participation in an International Exchange Program that will bring four ballerinas (from Thailand, Japan and Sweden) to Asheville.

We are one of Asheville’s oldest and strongest non-profit arts organizations. We thrive because we believe that bigger is not better – good is better. And because we live here year-round, we can perform monthly, weekly, daily, to help fulfill our community’s artistic needs.


Your Dance Servant,
Ann Dunn, Artistic Director | (828)258-1028 | ann.dunn@mindspring.com



About the Asheville Ballet

The mission of the Asheville Ballet Guild, Inc. is to support the artistic, educational and outreach activities of the Asheville Ballet and AnnDunnDANCErs (ADDANCE) while creating a Center for Dance Arts Education for the Western North Carolina region.

The Asheville Ballet Guild, Inc. (ABG) is one of Western North Carolinas oldest nonprofit arts organizations. First incorporated in 1963, the Guild has created and presented work in Asheville every year since. In an average season, our formal and educational outreach programming affects a culturally diverse audience of approximately 23,000 people. An active advisory panel and a strong, well-organized volunteer base assist the ABG board. read more >>>

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