The Portland Ballet

I highly recommend The Portland Ballet for serious dancers who want a career in dancing. This school is a wonderful academy with great teachers. Each teacher is professional, they were either soloist or principal dancers around the world.
The classes are small and my daughter loves dancing to live music. She is thriving, motivated, her dancing has improved 100%. She is taught the proper technique with attention to details. The studios are beautiful as well. A great place to learn dancing with experts.
We are very happy that we moved to The Portland Ballet from Classical Ballet Academy, where our daughter started dancing at age 4. Moving to The Portland Ballet 2 years ago was the best decision we made. The environment is very nurturing, caring and professional. The school tries to fulfill their students dreams by making them beautiful dancers and helps them to become professional dancers.
We are very grateful to The Portland Ballet.

Beautiful inside and out! My daughter LOVES her ballet school, her teacher and the friends she has made. She loves dancing to live music but has learned so much more than just choreography. At 10 she’s already learned so many great life lessons: cooperative group work, respect of self and others, self discipline, responsibility for her part, taking risks, making mistakes and regrouping, trying and trying again… This ultimately teaches her how to trust the process allowing for magic and growth on all levels. I am most happy that she is motivated to strengthen her weaknesses and not give up on herself because of perceived limitations. What more could a mom ask for! Forever in gratitude for The Portland Ballet.

I think this school isn’t for everyone (as most places aren’t). This ballet school tries to produce true professionals. If you are looking for a class that you’re child can just jump around in a tutu sign up for a rec. center class.
My daughter is 11 years old & describes herself as a ‘dancer’. She has been attending this studio for 3 years + summers and loves how the instructors what to draw the best out of each & every student.
The Portland Ballet is a wonderful academy for students who really want to learn.

Wonderful teachers, all with substantial professional experience, bring their expertise, passion, and patience to every class they teach. Our daughter has thrived at TPB and the performance opportunities have allowed her to grow remarkably as a performer.
The chance to dance roles that only soloists or principal dancers perform in professional companies has made a tremendous difference, In addition, original choreography by former NYC Ballet Principal Dancer John Clifford gives the students a chance to learn from a Balanchine protégé. Jason Davis’ choreography offers even more opportunities for the dancers to express themselves and now modern classes with Josie Mosely round out their dance vocabulary.
Although my daughter started at OBT at age 9, we are so much happier with The Portland Ballet and their more nurturing and responsible approach to teaching. Now at 16, our daughter dreams of a professional career and feels completely supported in her desire to achieve it. Regardless of her eventual success, she will have developed a sense of discipline and commitment, including the deeply held belief that hard work is the key to success in any endeavor.

We had been taking creative ballet classes on Saturday morning since October and our daughter has loved them up until the last month. She still is interested in ballet but suddenly started to become hesitant to stay inside the room during class. She is a very independent child so we were surprised, she loves preschool and attends every day.
Her ballet teacher here has always been quite business like and not overly warm. At times the teacher has been understanding since our daughter has a tendency (as many 3 years old do) to want to be her own person and not necessarily follow routine but at other times we can sense frustration from the teacher. This last weekend when we took our daughter to class and faced resistance from our three year on staying for class the teacher suggested that we not only take a break from class but that we should also look for a new teacher.
We’re in agreement that a break is needed for our daughter but we were very taken aback by the coldness of her teacher. I was quite shocked that she openly admitted to not wanting to teach our daughter. For this we’re avoiding this school in the future.