Ballet Now is a ballet company for the 21st century. Our focus is on ethical creative practices, telling stories often left off stage, and making ballet accessible. 

Preserving the artistry, history, and innovation of our art form while actively working to undo the harm it has perpetuated is an essential part of our practice. Inclusive excellence is the cornerstone of Ballet Now. It is both possible and necessary to create work of a high artistic and technical caliber while still prioritizing dancer wellbeing, democratized choreographic processes, and nondiscriminatory casting. We believe that diverse narratives and dancing bodies should not be reserved for special occasions; they deserve unapologetic platforming year round. 

Ballet Now affirms that dancers are people first and foremost. We value individual identity and actively encourage our artists to share their thoughts and opinions throughout the creative process. Art that is driven by ego instead of care has no place in our repertoire.

Historically, ballet has favored the white, wealthy, thin, cis, straight, and traditional. Ballet Now aims to serve anyone who has an interest in ballet by making it a community driven event versus one of exclusivity. Ballet has the potential to nurture human connection both through the movement we share and the stories we tell. Everyone deserves to engage with ballet in an accessible, positive, and welcoming way, be it in class, on stage, or in the audience. 

Ballet can only change if we are relentless in our fight to transform it. “The way it has always been done” is no longer good enough. That might have been ballet then, this is Ballet Now.