Charlotte Ballet

Charlotte Ballet is the oldest professional ballet company in North Carolina. It was founded as North Carolina Dance Theatre in Winston-Salem by Robert Lindgren, who was then Dean of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, in 1970. It moved to Charlotte in 1990 and rebranded as Charlotte Ballet in 2014. It currently has 26 dancers and is the parent company of the Charlotte Ballet Academy.

Artistic staff

 * Alejandro Cerrudo - Artistic Director
 * Douglas Singleton - Executive Director
 * Patricia McBride - Associate Artistic Director & Master Teacher
 * Christopher Stuart - Director of Charlotte Ballet II
 * Traci Gilchrest Kubie - Rehearsal Director

Repertoire
Charlotte Ballet has performed an extensive repertoire over the years. With two of the company's leaders, Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux having extensive ties to George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and major contemporary dance choreographer Dwight Rhoden being the choreographer-in-residence, Charlotte Ballet has become a major hub for neoclassical and contemporary work.

George Balanchine

 * Agon
 * Allegro Brillante
 * Apollo
 * Concerto Barocco
 * Divertimento No. 15
 * The Four Temperaments
 * La Sonnambula
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * Pas de Dix
 * Raymonda Variations
 * Rubies
 * Scotch Symphony
 * Serenade
 * Square Dance
 * Stars and Stripes
 * Stravinsky Violin Concerto
 * Tarantella
 * Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
 * Valse Fantaisie
 * Walpurgisnacht
 * Western Symphony
 * Who Cares?

Marius Petipa

 * Swan Lake
 * Sleeping Beauty
 * Raymonda
 * Paquita
 * Don Quixote

Jiří Kylián

 * Sechz Tänze
 * Forgotten Land

Twyla Tharp

 * Nine Sinatra Songs
 * The Golden Section

Alvin Ailey

 * The River
 * Night Creature

Dwight Rhoden

 * The Groove
 * Spun to The Sky
 * Bop Doo Wah
 * Alleged Dances
 * Artifice
 * Othello
 * Peace Piece
 * Sit In Stand Out
 * Gateways
 * Ballad Unto
 * Broken Fantasy

William Forsythe

 * In the middle, somewhat elevated

Sasha Janes

 * Sketches from Grace
 * Lascia la Spina Cogli la Rosa
 * We Danced Through Life
 * Shelter
 * You're So Fine
 * Queen
 * Last Lost Chance
 * Utopia
 * Facsimile
 * The Weight of Darkness
 * At First Sight
 * Rhapsodic Dances
 * The Four Seasons
 * Dangerous Liaisons
 * The Seed and Soil
 * Chaconne

Alonzo King

 * Salt
 * Map

Other classics

 * Nutcracker (Choreographed by Salvatore Aiello, then Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
 * Cinderella (Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
 * Romeo and Juliet (Choreographed by Jean Pierre Bonnefoux)
 * Carmina Burana (Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
 * The Little Mermaid (Choreographed by Mark Diamond)
 * Peter Pan (Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux)
 * Wuthering Heights (Choreographed by Sasha Janes)
 * Carmen (Choreographed by Sasha Janes)

Education
Charlotte Ballet is the parent company to the Charlotte Ballet Academy, formerly the North Carolina Dance Theatre School of Dance. The school was founded in September 1993. By 1997, 3 satellite locations had been established to accommodate the then 5 level divisions and an Open Division. The school now offers a conservatory program, developed in 2004, for serious dance students who wishes to incorporate their dance classes with their academics.