About SNHYB

Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet (SNHYB) is the school's affiliate performing company. The company serves as a training ground for local youths and the pre-professional student by providing them with intensive training, individual coaching, performing opportunities, and exposure to master classes from various guest artists. Upper level students that attend an appropriate number of classes and maintain the required level of skill and proficiency may be accepted into the company by audition and/or invitation only.

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Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet, Inc. is a non-profit organization. It is organized to act as a performing group, with the intent of promoting and encouraging the knowledge and appreciation of ballet and other dance forms through performance and education. Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet also participates in community outreach projects with the intent of bringing dance performances to wider audiences, including local private and public schools and senior groups.

Recognition of Artistic Excellence
George Balanchine Trust

On more than one occasion, SNHYB has been recommended by repetiteurs of the George Balanchine Trust (including Darla Hoover and Deborah Wingert, both formerly of New York City Ballet) to be granted permission to perform Mr. Balanchine's ballet, Valse-Fantaisie. Dancers from the Youth Ballet had the distinct honor of performing this renowned ballet in 2001, 2002 and 2007. Ms. Hoover and Ms. Wingert worked closely with the dancers to stage this ballet.

Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet is a Regional Honor Company of Regional Dance America (RDA) Northeast, a national organization of pre-professional dance companies.

Evaluated in the spring of 2005, SNHYB is the first company from New Hampshire—and currently the only company from New England—to be accepted into this prestigious organization. SNHYB dancers participate in the organizations annual Northeast Festival, hosted by a different RDA company each year. Dancers attend a variety of master classes and seminars conducted by renowned teachers from professional companies and are exposed to directors, choreographers and other dance professionals from around the world. SNHYB dancers also perform at each festival. For more information, visit www.regionaldanceamerica.org or www.rdanortheast.org.

Professional Choreography

Since it's inception, it is the exceptional training and enthusiasm displayed by the dancers of Southern NH Youth Ballet (SNHYB) that has attracted the interest of renowned choreographers including, Lynn Cote former principal dancer and resident choreographer for The Washington Ballet; Ashley Sass, former dancer with Atlanta Ballet; Mary LeGere, Artistic Director of Raleigh Dance Theatre; Jeremy Collins, former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre; Chiara Ajkun, founder and co-artistic director of Ajkun Ballet Theatre in New York City; Peter Pawlyshyn, Director of Kansas City Ballet School and Kitty Seale, Artistic Director of Alabama Dance Theatre.