The Student Ensemble Program offers dancers performance opportunities throughout the academic year with a focus on ballet & other optional genres. This program emphasizes training, choreography, and performance while offering students the flexibility to pursue other interests.
Student Ensemble 1
Front Row: Harper Scaglione, Lucrecia Mullins-Aviles, Elliana Clayborne, Eleanor Walter, Ysolte Green
Middle Row: Maria Barzun, Emma Maurer, Adrienne Largiader, Maxwell Miller
Back Row: Genevieve Hegge, Maeve Hutchinson, Virginia Stipe, Polina Salerno
Student Ensemble 2
Front Row: Luisa Shoch, Cate Suggs DeSorbo
Back Row: Miriam Lotter, Vivienna Reyes Smithley, Aria Magula
Student Ensemble 3/4
Front Row: Beatrice Zarnegar, Gretchen Traud, Nadia Howard, Meredith Fleming, Elsie Nabb
Back Row: Kate Thompson, Charlie Petres, Tabitha Lotter, Charlie Breton-Whipple, Aislin Wolfman
Not Pictured: Camille Cacatian, Caroline Graham, Cydney Jackson, Dorothy Shirley
Student Ensemble 5
Front Row: Avery Davis, Imogen Fagan, Sylvia Moses
Back Row: Caroline Bruton, Abby Stiffler, Evelyn Popescu
Not Pictured: Sofia Jardim
The Pre-Professional Program is an intensive training track designed to prepare students for a career in ballet, with a focus on classical technique, diverse genres, and performance experience. Students receive rigorous instruction, work with guest choreographers, and perform alongside the professional company in various Charlottesville Ballet productions.
Pre-Professional Juniors
Front Row: Rowan Green, Serita Barzun, Juliana Kelly, Narumi Furukawa, Walker Kretlow
Back Row: Grace Toe, Elizabeth Gay, Solveig Stewart, Ailyn Green, Hazel Fulton
Pre-Professional Intermediate
Front Row: Brooklyn Whitley, Preston Silvers, Ela Bassett-Taurel
Back Row: Jocelyn Hurd, Eleanor Trimble, Layla Quinton
Pre-Professional Advanced
Front Row: Kasumi Furukawa, Julia Aguirre, Erin Megonigal, Alicia Jiang
Back Row: Natalie Macbeth, Lily Lischke, Georgia Barrow, Tilda Rajagopalan, Carson Fields
Georgia Barrow, Maria Barzun, Serita Barzun, Camille Cacatian, Carson Fields, Hazel Fulton, Kasumi Furukawa, Narumi Furukawa, Caroline Graham, Ailyn Green, Rowan Green, Nadia Howard, Jocelyn Hurd, Alicia Jiang, Juliana Kelly, Walker Kretlow, Tabitha Lotter, Sylvia Moses, Layla Quinton, Kate Thompson, Grace Toe, Brooklyn Whitley
Thank you to everyone who made Alice in Wonderland & Kaleidoscope possible!
Our Mission
To elevate the art of dance through wellness, performance, education, and community outreach.
About the Ballet
Charlottesville Ballet is a professional ballet company, academy, and nonprofit organization founded by Sara Clayborne and Emily Hartka in 2007. The organization has three parts:
PROFESSIONAL COMPANY
Charlottesville Ballet has no rigid physical aesthetic for its dancers and all body types are celebrated. The company includes dancers from across the United States and abroad and is the Resident Dance Company in Lynchburg’s Academy Center of the Arts.
ACADEMY
Charlottesville Ballet Academy (CBA) is a nonprofit center for dance education serving ages 1.5 through adult in all dance genres.
CB MOVES COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Our FREE programming designed to serve underrepresented populations including seniors, disabled individuals, and those facing economic challenges. Classes are currently offered for ages 1-100 through the following programs:
- Chance To Dance (C2D) serves students in grades K-5 in local public elementary schools. Each year, students are selected to receive lifetime scholarships to continue their dance training at CBA.
- Movement For Parkinson’s weekly class for participants with movement disorders and their care partners; currently serving ages 50-100.
- Silver Swans offers ballet classes for seniors age 50+ in partnership with The Center at Belvedere.
- Adaptive Dance classes for students with Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, or any other developmental or intellectual disabilities to explore the joy of dance.
- Once Upon A Ballet and other free programming for schools, libraries, and communities across Virginia.
An integral part of the Ballet’s mission is to increase access and inclusion in dance. Classical ballet has historically catered to a specific body type and level of physical ability — we aim to change that stereotype and believe that dance is for everyBODY.
COME DANCE WITH US!
We launched a new scholarship initiative in July 2024, and we are still accepting applications! See more at www.CharlottesvilleBallet.org/KLDF
