Our Mission and Beliefs: Training for Success
Ballet Royale's Mission:
To introduce and make the art form of classical ballet and its broad-based core curriculum accessible to all, through high-quality comprehensive training, education and performance opportunities
in a fun, healthy, nurturing and non-competitive environment.
Ballet Royale's Beliefs & Vision:
Our Classes: We feel that students should compete within themselves to achieve a perfect balance of creativity, style,
strength and grace—not with each other. Our class sizes are limited, particularly for the younger levels—by maintaining
smaller classes and teacher/student ratios, we are able to focus on each student's individual needs, progress and goals, to ensure Ballet Royale students receive the maximum benefits.
Our Training: Drawing on decades of professional ballet & dance
experience and by offering a variety of different levels and
intensity of training, Ballet Royale is uniquely able to identify, encourageand maximize each student's own personal technical
and artistic growth. Through our teaching,coaching and
counseling, Ballet Royale students learn key transferable skills that support them in all of life's goals and activities, as they build self-esteem, self-discipline, character, creativity, and confidence.
Our Beliefs: Ballet Royale believes that dance is primarily a
performance art form, not a competitive sport—a gift to be
shared with and appreciated by audiences—and which should feature age appropriate costumes and choreography.
We therefore focus on providing students with multiple different performance and outreach opportunities throughout the year, in large and small venues, in collaboration with other arts groups, professionals, and community members and organizations.
Such performances—between six and ten per year—include
Twin Cities Ballet's annual full-length Nutcracker Ballet and new
original works such as 2011's World Premiere of the acclaimed "Wizard of Oz -- The Ballet," collaborating with professional dance companies such as James Sewell Ballet, multiple Studio Performances and Showcases, major Theatrical Productions each spring, artistic collaborations with visual artists and the
Lakeville Area Arts Center, and outreach programs in
public schools and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Our Community Support: In furtherance of Ballet Royale's core mission, it sponsors, supports, works closely in collaboration
with and provides the administrative home and studio space to
the semi-professional non-profit dance company,
Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota,
"Home of the Nutcracker Ballet, South of the River."
