Berkeley Ballet

We are delighted to share that Studio 5 is almost complete and ready for classes! Thank you to all of the community members who volunteered, donated, and supported the expansion of Berkeley Ballet. We are so grateful for your generosity and cannot wait to share Studio 5 with you!

Don’t Miss These Upcoming Performances!

Smuin Contemporary Ballet kicks off our 33rd Season, Smuin in Frame, with French Kiss, a triple bill featuring works by founder Michael Smuin, Artistic Director Amy Seiwert, and choreographer My’Kal Stromile.

Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek September 18 & 19 and Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, San Francisco October 9-18
Use code: BBT for $25 tickets.
Discount is valid on seats in the Gold, Silver, and Bronze sections (excludes Platinum seats).

The Australian Ballet brings a “trailblazing masterpiece” (Australian Arts Review) to Berkeley, weaving Oscar Wilde’s life and beloved characters into a ballet of romance, sacrifice, and forbidden love.
10% discount offered to Berkeley Ballet community members. Redeem your discount by using the promo code: TAB10
Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley September 25–27

Select your seats in price levels 2–4. (Every seat is marked with a number. Be sure it’s a 2, 3, or 4!) Select the price type box marked as “Special Offer A” which already reflects the 10% discount.

With IPHIGENIA, Sharp & Fine blends dance, theater, and live music to cut open Euripides’s tragedy and imagine how the woman at the center of it might eventually find her own voice and ask: What’s the point of sacrifice?

Sharp & Fine has been developing IPHIGENIA over the past year in the Berkeley Ballet studios.

15% discount offered to Berkeley Ballet community members on early bird (through 10/1) and general admission tickets.
Redeem your discount by using the link below and using the promo code: BBT

Z Space, San Francisco October 23, 24, 7:30pm and October 25, 2:00pm

Thank you to Fremont Bank Foundation and Adult Open Division member Thorick Chow for their generous support of new ballet barres from Ballet Barres West for Berkeley Ballet’s studios!

Introducing New Adult Division Faculty Members ✨

Beginner/Intermediate Modern with Emma Andre
Thursdays, 6:30 - 7:45pm with Live Accompaniment by Daniel Berkman!

Join Emma to explore the foundations of modern technique, drawing inspiration from Horton, Graham, Limón, and Release Techniques. This class is a great introduction for dancers looking to explore a new genre of movement, as well as dancers who want to refine the basics of their modern dance technique. Participants will embody rigor, joy, expansivity, and play through movement.

Emma Andre studied contemporary dance with an emphasis in ballet at The Boston Conservatory, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2021. Emma is a member of San Francisco dance companies Deborah Slater Dance Theater and David Herrera Performance Company. They also choreograph and perform their own work around the Bay Area.

Introducing New Adult Division Faculty Members ✨

Beginner/Intermediate Ballet with Drew Sandbulte
Saturdays, 10:00 - 11:30am with Live Accompaniment by Federico Ramirez!

This Beginner/Intermediate class prioritizes stretching, lengthening and breath. Drew’s organic approach to teaching ballet will grow your technique while building the inner muscles to help support daily movement. Drew believes that ballet class is a wonderful way to step away from busy life to be present in the moment, as a form of wellness for body and mind. Join him for class on Saturday mornings with live cello accompaniment by Federico Ramirez!

Drew Sandbulte received his professional training from The Juilliard School. Upon graduating, he went on to perform with Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, ezdanza (Montreal), and Okulamba Dance Theatre (Kampala, Uganda). He has been on faculty at New World School of the Arts, The Kampala Ballet School, and State Street Ballet, among others.

Thank you to Dc Piano Company for generously donating a beautiful piano for the new Studio 5 at BBT!

The 2026-27 has kicked off! We are so excited to share new offerings for dancers in every division.

Photo by Maximillian Tortoriello


Pre-Ballet Division Enrollment is still open. Enroll your dancer today for an inspiring Season of movement, music, and creativity!



Spaces are still available in many of our Youth Division Levels!

Photo by Tricia Cronin


Enrollment for The Nutcracker Bird 2026 is still open!

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The 2026/27 Season Adult Open Division Schedule began on 8/17.

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Check the Mindbody schedule for updated class times, and join us for new class offerings including a Beginner/Intermediate Modern class with Emma Andre and accompanist Daniel Berkman!

Photo by Maximillian Tortoriello

The BBT 2026-27 Season has officially begun! We can’t wait for what this year has in store!

Thank you to Bay Area Dancewear for being at the event to allow families to purchase uniform components ✨

Join Sharp & Fine, who regularly rehearse at BBT and are a staple of our community, for Talk Story #1 August 28-30 at Dance Mission Theater!

Talk Story is a new performance series for stories told in the hilarious, profound, mutable, silly, heartrending, generous, outrageous, infuriating, transformative language of dance. Talk Story #1 features work by Sharp & Fine, Babatunji Johnson, chinchin HSU, and Molly Rose-Williams.
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