Springfield Ballet

Pre-Professional Ballet With Musical Theatre Track

Springfield Ballet is a not-for-profit dance organization founded in 1976, training students ages 3 through adult at The Creamery Arts Center downtown. The ballet anchors its curriculum in classical training and adds a dedicated jazz / musical theatre track for cross-discipline students.

Class Disciplines

Programming combines pre-professional ballet with theatre-adjacent disciplines. Class disciplines include:
- Classical Ballet and Pointe
- Tap, Jazz / Musical Theatre (combined track)
- Modern
- Pilates Mat
- Creative Movement for the youngest dancers
- Pre-professional productions enhanced by professional guest artists

What's Included

• Harlequin sprung floors at The Creamery Arts Center
• Pre-professional production opportunities
• Outreach programming reaching thousands of Ozarks students per year
• Guest-artist collaborations on annual productions

Experience

The pre-professional ballet focus means students who want serious classical training have a real path. The Jazz / Musical Theatre track gives those same dancers a way to develop the musical-theatre vocabulary without switching studios. Best fit for dancers heading toward audition-track futures.