The Asheville Ballet

North Carolina's oldest non-profit ballet company

Photo Credit: Rose Pillmore

Photo Credit: Rose Pillmore

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Nutcracker boutique

Shop online to support The Asheville Ballet

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Get into the holiday spirit and support your local Asheville Ballet company with our online Nutcracker Boutique! In past years, the Nutcracker Boutique ran concurrently with “The Nutcracker” performances and served as The Asheville Ballet’s biggest fundraising event. This year, we take our holiday tradition online, thanks to a partnership with our dear friend Esmee at Nutcracker Ballet Gifts!

Twenty percent of every purchase made from our online shop at Nutcracker Ballet Gifts supports the Asheville Ballet. Choose local pickup or get free shipping on purchases over $50.

Plus, you can save 20% Sitewide (use code BLACK20) or 30% Off Orders $99 and up (use code BLACK30). Here’s a link to the current sales:

https://nutcrackerballetgifts.com/collections/black-friday-gift-guide?ref=ashevilleballet

Check it out our Nutcracker Boutique:

https://goaff.pro/AshevilleBalletBoutique

Thanks for your support!

The nutcracker 2020

stay tuned for info

Performance

While we will not be having our usual live Nutcracker in the Theatre this year, the Asheville Ballet has a special Nutcracker 2020 event in the works, which honors both safety and tradition. This project will feature Eve Currens in the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Annika Stewart as the Snow Queen, and special guest artist, Marcelo Martinez, Principal Dancer with Carolina Ballet, in the roles of Cavalier and Snow King, and as guest choreographer for the Snow Pas de Deux. Stay tuned for details!

Spring into dance 2021

Performance

Next year, The Asheville Ballet will celebrate its 60th anniversary. We are your community dance company. And we look forward with excitement to carrying our work for you into the 2020-21 Season. The company and the community will celebrate endurance and art together again.

Dirty Dancing Festival

September 25, 2021

Lake Lure

Performance

For the 10th 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

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 by resident choreographers.

Come enjoy an hour of dance and live music in our beautiful mountain city, under the stars, featuring all original work by pre.

Location: Bascom Lamar Lunsford Stage, Pack Square Park

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.

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