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The Asheville Ballet

North Carolina's oldest non-profit ballet company

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Fall classes begin 9/2
new students welcome

Training

Fall Classes begin September 2, 2025 at the Asheville Academy of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, official school of The Asheville Ballet, Ann Dunn Owner/Director! 

We have excellent offerings at all levels for students of every age in Ballet, Modern Dance, Pilates, Pointe, Conditioning, and Creative Ballet, with our wonderful faculty, including Zoe D'Astolfo, Alisha Ear, Fleming Lomax, Allison Hertzberg, and Rachel Taylor. Please review our schedule and fill out a registration form to enroll and then feel free to drop in!

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The nutcracker 
dec 12-14, 2025
Wortham Center

Performance

Join us for this favorite holiday tradition, as the Asheville Ballet proudly presents our professional production of the Nutcracker at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts! 

Friday, December 12, 7:30pm

Saturday, December 13, 2:30pm

Saturday, December 13, 7:30pm

Sunday, December 14, 2:30pm

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Tickets: $20-60 available at Wortham Center!

Click Here for Tickets

School Performance

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Click Here for Details​​​

PLEASE NOTE: A friendly caution: please be sure you only purchase from Wortham directly, as scam sites are unfortunately common.

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Spring Concert
May 15 & 16, 2026
Wortham center

Performance

Mark your calendars and join us Friday and Saturday, May 15th & 16th, 2026, for the final event of The Asheville Ballet's 2025/2026 season.

 

More information available soon.

Image by Elijah York.

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Fall into Dance 2026
Sept 18 & 19
Pack Square Park

Performance

Join The Asheville Ballet, Ann Dunn Director, for a professional production of all original work! Resident choreographers present their exciting new work and restaged favorites, in various styles, classical to contemporary. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair and enjoy an evening of dance in our beautiful city, under the stars!

Friday & Saturday, September 18 & 19, 2026 at 7:30pm

Tickets $25 via Eventbrite: Coming soon

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​​Location: Roger McGuire Green stage, Pack Square Park 

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​​Image by Rose Pillmore. 

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Nutcracker Auditions
2026 TBA

Audition

The Asheville Ballet, Ann Dunn, Director, welcomes all dancers ages 4 to senior adult, from all area studios, to audition for our professional production of The Nutcracker. 


Audition fee is $10, via cash or check to The Asheville Ballet. Auditions will be filmed.

More details to come...
 

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Seven dancers in skirts raise their arms above two others who sit and lie on the floor.

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.

Praise for 

The Asheville Ballet

"Dunn achieves a level of accomplishment that elicits helpless comments...haunting beauty and often stunning emotional pitch."

 

Carrie Frye - Mountain Xpress 

Dance@AshevilleBallet.com

(828)252-4761

4 Weaverville Hwy

Asheville, NC  28804​

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Through Our Secure Online Paypal Account

Artistic Director: Ann Dunn

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