About Charlottesville Ballet
Charlottesville Ballet is a professional ballet company, dance academy, and non-profit organization based in Virginia. Founded in 2007 with a unique mission to promote the health of dancers, their company is the only full-time professional dance company in the Charlottesville area. Co-Directors Sara Clayborne and Emily Hartka are committed to enhancing professional ballet by providing a healthy working environment for artists. This professional company is comprised of dancers from across the United States and abroad, and for its participants, Charlottesville Ballet is committed to providing quality dance education to all who wish to learn, regardless of age, gender, physical ability, or financial privilege, and to showcase their versatility as artists and choreographers through innovative performances that creatively explore and encourage the expression of life, emotion and experience.