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November 26, 2025

New York State Blue Ribbon School

Photo by Joe Rayome. In November of 2025, Ballet Tech – The NYC Public School for Dance was recognized by the New York State Department of Education as a Blue […]

Poster for Ballet Tech Kids Dance 2025 at The Joyce Theater. A young girl in a blue leotard blows bubbles into the air. The text reads "June 12 - 15th, 2025/ Ballet Tech presents Kids Dance."

May 16, 2025

Kids Dance 2025

Ballet Tech’s 2025 Kids Dance season is coming soon! In a Kids Dance first, alumnus Edgar Peterson choreographs Lisse, a premiere set on Ballet Tech alumni. We’ll have the return of […]

May 13, 2025

NYC Dance Parade

This year’s Dance Parade is on May 17th from 12pm–4pm. Ballet Tech 4th and 5th graders will perform excerpts of David Parson’s About Sprouts at both the ribbon cutting ceremony and […]

May 6, 2025

Playscape Performs

After months of working with Parsons Company learning David Parsons’ site-specific work “About Sprouts,” 4th and 5th graders are finally gearing up to perform! Find us at Battery Park’s playground on […]

James Monroe Iglehart stands in front of a dance studio mirror, smiling.

March 1, 2025

Black History Month

This February, we celebrated Black History Month by having our students work with extraordinary artistic leaders in contemporary dance and theater. Our elementary school students had a vocal workshop with […]

January 31, 2025

Lunar New Year

To celebrate Lunar New Year, alumna Kathy Xia led Traditional Chinese Folk Dance workshops for our 4th and 5th graders. In the 5th grade workshop, pictured here, students learned the […]

Alumni Edgar Peterson dances in a studio. His image lays atop a graphic for Instagram that reads "Ballet Tech Alumni Audition."

November 12, 2024

Audition Announcement

AUDITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Calling all BT Alumni ages 18+! BT Alumnus and current Board Member Edgar Peterson is choreographing a new work on our alumni to premiere at Kids Dance 2025! […]

Dionne Figgins wears a red dress and feather headpiece while posing backstage. She plays Daisy Parker in the Louis Armstrong Broadway musical, "A Wonderful World."

November 11, 2024

Artistic Director, Dionne Figgins stars as Daisy Parker in the Broadway premiere of A Wonderful World

Please join us in wishing our Artistic Director, Dionne Figgins, a successful opening night as she stars as Daisy Parker in the Broadway premiere of A Wonderful World – The […]

A black and white photo of adult dancers in a dance studio rehearsing with Eliot Feld. Three couples partner each other. The women are on pointe with one leg extended to the front.

November 9, 2024

47 years ago, Eliot Feld and former Executive Director Cora Cahan, Discovered 890 Broadway

47 years ago—in 1977—Eliot Feld and former Executive Director Cora Cahan discovered 890 Broadway, a building architecturally ideal for dance studios and rehearsal space. The Eliot Feld Ballet Company had […]

A group of students in a ballet studio pose in fourth position with a tendu to the back.

November 7, 2024

Audition Prep led by Ms. Barry

Every year our 8th graders have the option to take Audition Prep to prepare themselves for admission to high school performing arts and summer dance programs. Led by Ms. Barry, […]

Four photos of alumni dancing collaged together in a grid, with a text blurb atop that writes "Ballet Tech Alumni Classes."

November 6, 2024

November Alumni Class

Here’s our BT Alumni class November lineup! If you would like to participate, please sign up via the link in our bio. We hope to see you there! More info […]

November 5, 2024

It’s Election Day!

It’s Election Day! During this election cycle, our students have been campaigning to represent their grade on Ballet Tech’s Student Council. With facilitation from 5th grade teacher Ms. Sobolewski, students […]