Welcome to the Abilene Ballet Theatre website.

On these pages, you can learn about our many different programs and offerings as well as information about our performances and staff.

We have a talented company of local dancers, and we also present guest artists such as Nadya Zybine and Rafael Padilla of Ballet Austin; veteran Broadway performer Christine Colby-Jacques; Ballet Magnificat of Jackson, Mississippi; Raymond VanMason, former principal dancer with Ballet West; and Allynne Stoller of Inland Pacific Ballet.

We are proud of the work of our company choreographers and are also privileged to work with guest choreographers such as the late Kevin Brown and Amy Dillard Green of Dallas, Karen Corey Malik of New York, Stephen Mills of Ballet Austin, Joe Istre of New York and Raymond VanMason of California.

Achievements

ABT was proud to receive the STREAM AWARD 2006 for artistic excellence and growth at the Regional Dance America Southwest Festival in The Woodlands.

ABT was the only dance company to perform for the Texas Commission on the Arts in 1992.

We hosted the Regional Dance America/ Southwest Festival in 1993.

Our Nutcracker production was featured on ABC's Good Morning America in 1998 and in Southern Living magazine in 1999.

ABT dancers have been selected by audition for summer dance workshops at Atlanta Ballet, Boston Ballet, State Ballet of Missouri, Dance Aspen, Ballet Austin, Orlando Southern Ballet Theatre and American Ballet Theatre.

Lisa Gore-Etter, ABT teacher and dancer, was awarded the Monticello Scholarship Award for choreography at Regional Dance America/ Southwest Festival in 2002.

ABT dancers have received dance scholarships at Texas Christian University, University of Oklahoma, West Texas A & M and Walnut Hill.