Ballet Mississippi Inc

Ballet mississippi school:ballet mississippi offers classes and performing opportunities for students of all ages, from age three to adult. The school's focus is classical ballet and students complement their training with classes in different styles of dance throughout the year. All students participate in the year-end performance. The ballet mississippi faculty instructed classes for approximately 150 students in summer classes led by guest artists as well as ballet mississippi faculty. The ballet mississippi faculty is led by artistic director, david keary. Cassandra walter joined the faculty in 2024 and has brought her expertise in jazz and ballroom dancing to ballet mississippi. Cassandra was also recently named director of development for ballet mississippi assisting in fundraising and development. David keary is a former member of the new york city ballet and was personally invited by george balanchine to join the new york city ballet. Ballet mississippi holds the distinction that its executive/artistic director was a long time member of this prestigious company and is now training mississippi's children! The ballet mississippi school has continued to offer a two-week intensive workshop with faculty from all over the united states. Other workshops focus on the very young dancers that train at ballet mississippi.

Ballet mississippi outreach:ballet mississippi suspended its outreach program in the jackson public schools because of the lingering issues of covid-19, lack of faculty and finances to pursue this goal. However, in 2023 to present ballet mississippi extended its outreach to offer ballet classes at jackson preparatory school in flowood, ms, st. Luke's united methodist church in jackson, ms and st. Anthony catholic school in madison, ms. Ballet mississippi is working at redeveloping its outreach into the jackson public schools in the future.community partnerships served as an important vehicle to increase audience accessibility. Ballet mississippi performed at blair e. Batson's children's hospital and the st. Andrew's episcopal school arts on the green event. Other partnerships include: the jackson junior league's mistletoe marketplace where the ballet performed excerpts of the nutcracker for audiences, madison county library in madison, ms, central mississippi's down syndrome buddy walk, fondren's annual holiday parade, and arts day at the capitol during mississippi's spring legislative session, just to name a few.