The Asheville Ballet
North Carolina's oldest non-profit ballet company
Photo Credit: Studio Misha
Photo Credit: Rose Pillmore
Photo Credit: Rose Pillmore
Photo Credit: Studio Misha
Upcoming Events
open Auditions for
Fall into dance
June 19th, 12:00-3:00pm
Audition
We are holding auditions for the Asheville Ballet's Fall Concert on Saturday, June 19th from 12:00 – 3:00pm at our studio at 4 Weaverville Highway, Asheville. All advanced dancers, ages 18 and up, are welcome! Audition fee is $10 (cash or check: The Asheville Ballet).
*All dancers must wear a face covering at all times, for the safety of everyone.* The audition will begin with a Ballet barre at 12:00, after which dancers will learn excerpts presented by our resident choreographers. Please bring jazz sneakers or very clean street sneakers for one of the pieces.
Please fill out an audition form in advance.
If you have any questions, or if you want to be involved but are out of town or busy celebrating Juneteenth with your family on June 19, please contact us as soon as possible! A bit more information on auditions can be found here.
Fall into Dance
Sept 17 & 18, 2021 7:30 pm
Pack Square Park
Performance
Join The Asheville Ballet, Ann Dunn Director, for the first event of our 2021/2022 Season, a professional production of all original work, classical to contemporary, by resident choreographers, including Ann Dunn, Fleming Lomax, Rebecca O’Quinn, Jacob Walas,
Sandi Weinberg, and Stephanie Wolfe.
Come enjoy an hour of dance and live music in our beautiful mountain city, under the stars.
Location: Bascom Lamar Lunsford Stage, Pack Square Park
Ticket info coming soon!
The nutcracker
dec 10-12, 2021
Diana Wortham Theatre
Performance
Mark your calendars and join us for this favorite holiday tradition, as the Asheville Ballet proudly presents our professional production of the Nutcracker at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts in 2021!
Image by Dathan Brannon.
Spring into dance 2022
Performance
“Spring Into Dance: An Artistic Bouquet” is a professional production of all original choreography, classical to contemporary, by Western North Carolina’s own Ballet Company and North Carolina’s oldest ballet company, The Asheville Ballet, directed by Ann Dunn.
Stay tuned for info!
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Dirty Dancing Festival
Lake Lure
2022
Performance
For the 11th year, the Asheville Ballet Company will be the resident dancers of the Lake Lure Dirty Dancing Festival. Audience and dancers alike have an incredible weekend of learning and re-enacting dances from the film on the location of the original site of filming the famed "Dirty Dancing", as well as enjoying other family-friendly activities such as a watermelon-carrying competition, and of course the couples' lift competition!
For tickets, directions, and other information visit the Festival Website at
The Asheville Ballet has a rich history of pedagogy and performance spanning over 60 years. Originally the Fletcher School of Dance, the Asheville Ballet is North Carolina's oldest non-profit regional ballet company. We thrive because we believe strongly that quality arts education and community involvement should take precedence over mass growth and competition, and because we live here year-round, we can perform monthly, weekly, daily, to help fulfill our community’s artistic needs.
Since its inception, the Asheville Ballet has produced both cutting edge interdisciplinary work and full length major work. We have collaborated with other local art agencies (the Asheville Symphony, Asheville Bravo Concerts, Asheville Community Theater, Asheville Lyric Opera), and have worked live with the areas major musical, poetic and visual artists.
Praise for
The Asheville Ballet
"Dunn achieves a level of accomplishment that elicits helpless comments...haunting beauty and often stunning emotional pitch."
Carrie Frye - Mountain Xpress