he History of Ballet Arts is really a reflection of the history and success of Dance in America. Founded in 1937, Ballet Arts is the oldest continuously operating dance school in New York City after the School of American Ballet (which opened 3 years earlier).

For over 75 years, Ballet Arts has been a center for creative learning in the field of dance. With our faculty of outstanding achievement, we look forward to continuing and expanding the boundaries of that work into the new century.

From its time at Studio 61 in Carnegie Hall, the Ballet Arts school has played host to such early dance pioneers as The Isadora Duncan Dancers, Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, and Yeichi Nimura. Later, when classical ballet captured the American imagination, Ballet Arts was foremost in providing teaching and rehearsal space to such legendary figures as Michael Mordkin and Lucia Chase (who would shortly found a company called Ballet Theatre), Agnes DeMille, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. After WWII, Ballet Arts was a mecca for some of the greatest teachers in the country: Alexander Danilova, Margaret Craske, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Rosella Hightower, Eugene Loring, Vera Nemtchinova, Bronislava Nijinska, Nina Stroganova, and Anthony Tudor.

Since that time, the school has attracted an ever-wider range of teachers in all disciplines, but it is in the field of ballet that Ballet Arts has shown its leadership: Willy Burmann, Robert Blankshine, Nanette Glushak, Woytek Lowsky and Bo Spasoff, among many others. They provide an important transition to the modern era. Today, Ballet Arts at City Center is poised to take its place among the finest schools in the United States.

With a new faculty of outstanding achievement, the next phase for Ballet Arts envisions an open academy with accreditation for foreign students, workshops, and showcases that feature and foster new choreography and an international teacher and student training program for the summer of 2001. For over 60 years, Ballet Arts has been a center for creative learning in the field of dance.

We look forward to continuing and expanding the boundaries of that work into the new century.

-Peter Anastos

Some Teachers
in the Past:
  • Floris Alexander
  • Aida Alvarez
  • Robert Blankshine
  • Mary Jane Brown
  • Wilhelm Burmann
  • Angel Cansino
  • Edward Caton
  • Dean Crane
  • Margaret Craske
  • Alexandra Danilova
  • Henry Danton
  • Gemze de Lappe
  • Agnes de Mille
  • Vladimir Dokoudovsky
  • Anton Dolin
  • Eva Evdokimova
  • Kalera Fedichova
  • Mariquita Flores
  • Amelia Gilmore
  • Nana Gollner
  • Jon Gregory
  • Natasha Grishin
  • Kira Guzikova
  • David Harris
  • Rosella Hightower
  • Lisan Kay
  • Vladimir Konstantinov
  • Eugene Loring
  • Woytek Lowsky
  • Kirill Matveev
  • Jan Miller
  • Vera Nemtchinova
  • Bronislava Nijinska
  • Yeichi Nimura
  • Nicholai Orloff
  • Paul Petroff
  • John Prinz
  • Boris Romanoff
  • Lowell Smith
  • Nina Stroganova
  • Antony Tudor
  • Sonia Woizikowska
 

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