UPCOMING EVENTS
Academy 2024-2025 Registration
Ages 4 to adult.
Open enrollment for Fall is June 15,2024.
Fall Classes begin Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Important Dates
April 6 & 7: Wizard of Oz Performances-Tickets on sale now.
May 9: Prospective Company Meeting
May 16: Last Day of Academy Classes
May 19: WAB II & Company Auditions
May 20: Spring Dance Concert Rehearsals
May 21 & 22: Spring Dance Concert
June 2-7: Lorraine Cranford Summer Dance Workshop
June: Summer Ballet Camps and Workshop
Registration is open for Company Auditions and Summer Dance Camps
Tickets on sale now!
Journey to the Land of Oz with Western Arkansas Ballet and a cast of over 70 local adults and children. The live performance includes all your favorite characters including Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion along with the Wicked Witch and her monkeys. A cyclone, field of poppies, munchkin land, and the winkies guarding the Emerald City will delight you with their original choreography. Purchase your tickets today to this storybook classic. Ticket prices are $30 for adults and $20 for children ages infant through university student with valid I.D. Anyone entering the theatre must possess a ticket.
Lorraine Cranford Summer Dance Workshop is an intensive workshop for students ages 12 and up* (completed 6th grade) with a minimum of two years of classical ballet training. *Age as of June 1, 2024. (LCSDW) features daily classes and rehearsals in ballet, pointe, jazz/musical theatre, and classical partnering with guest instructors, personalized attention, and studio performance.
Placement Class: Sunday, June 2
Workshop Classes: Monday, June 3-Friday, June 7. Studio performance, Friday, June 7.
Total Cost: $500
A $50 non-refundable deposit is due April 1.
For registrations after April 1, a $75 non-refundable deposit is due.
Balance due May 15. Registrations after May 15: $525 due at registration.
Western Arkansas Ballet is a nonprofit dance Academy and Regional Ballet Company located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and dedicated to providing quality dance education and training in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, hip-hop, modern, creative movement as well as adult classes in ballet, tap and To the Core. Our focus on dance education and performance includes the whole community in two full-length performances each season.