The Madison Ballet was founded in 1981 as the

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

Dance Ensemble in

Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...

School of Madison Ballet

In addition to its professional performances, Madison Ballet has run the School of Madison Ballet (SMB) since 2005. SMB offers

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

classes in various divisions, including three levels of children's classes, five levels in the school division, a pre-professional level designed for

dancers Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...

on the cusp of a career in ballet, and a variety of open division offerings including both dance and conditioning courses. In the school division, School of Madison Ballet offers a class for boys.

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Madison BalletMad StageOverture Center
Culture of Madison, Wisconsin Ballet companies in the United States 1981 establishments in Wisconsin Performing groups established in 1981 Dance in Wisconsin {{Dance-stub