Brass City Ballet is a nonprofit dance educational organization founded in 1985 by Elizabeth Fisk Barisser, providing classical ballet, modern, jazz, and tap instruction in the Waterbury region. Its mission is to provide the art, technique, and joy of dance through recreational, pre-professional, and performance company tracks.
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Brass City Ballet is a nonprofit dance educational organization founded in 1985 by Elizabeth Fisk Barisser, originally starting in a Waterbury, Connecticut church. Now based at 1255 Middlebury Road in Middlebury, the studio has grown into a regional training institution serving students from 18 months through adulthood.
The mission is to provide the art, technique, and joy of dance, built on the founding belief that quality dance education should not sacrifice joy. Programs include a recreational track (ages 3 and up) covering ballet, tap, modern, jazz, and other disciplines; a pre-professional Certificate Ballet Program for ages 8 and up with classical training and partnering work; and an audition-based Performance Company with apprentice-style opportunities. Summer intensives and a full season of student performance opportunities round out the calendar.
Brass City Ballet is led by Artistic Director Julio Alegria and Executive Director Michael Penn, and is supported by the Watertown Foundation, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Ion Bank Foundation, and Connecticut Humanities.