2025 Performances & Events

Youth Ensemble (open to enrolled Enrichment III and Intensive III - V committed students)

9/19 @ 7pm Chattanooga Dances - Center For Creative Arts

9/20 - 21 @ Ignite Festival - Center For Creative Arts

9/21 @ Field-Trip to Alabama Ballet 30th Anniversary Performance

9/28 @ 1 - 5pm Assemblé - Red Bank Park

10/25 @ 7pm “Peter and the Wolf” with Tim Hinck and Members of the Chattanooga Symphony - Common House

12/14 @ 3:30pm Alter-Nut Preview Sunday Studio - Hunter Museum

12/14 @ 7pm Alter-Nut Performance, Silent Auction and Cast Party - Common House

12/19 - 20 @ TBA Alter-Nut Performances - Covenant College

6/3 - 7 @ TBA Season Finale

Adult Collective

8/14 @ 6pm “SHOES: Evolution of a Dancer” at The Hunter Museum

10/25 @ 6:30pm “Peter and the Wolf” with Tim Hinck and Members of the Chattanooga Symphony - Common House

12/14 @ 7pm “ALTER-Nut” - Common House

Open Community

10/22 - 23 @ 5pm - 7pm Auditions and casting for Nutcracker!  Location - St. Elmo (1607 43rd St. Chattanooga, Tn. 37409)

12/23 @ 1p and 4pm Nutcracker!  Magical Christmas Ballet - Memorial Auditorium

6/14 - 27 @ 9am - 4pm Plumbline Project Dance Intensive at the Downtown Studio for ages 11 - 18

2025 - 26 Ballet Conservatory Calendar

These dates are set by Ballet Esprit and are not based on any specific school’s calendar. 

Payment Installment Due

August 15 @ 6 - 7pm “SHOES: Evolution of a Dancer” at The Hunter Museum

August 18 - October 18 First Quarter

August 29 - September 1 No classes in observation of Labor Day Weekend

October 10 - 19 No regular classes, Fall Break

Payment Installment with Performance Fee Due

October 20 - December 20 Second Quarter 

October 21/22 @ 5 - 7pm Nutcracker! auditions and casting rehearsal

November 17 - 22 Parent Observation Week

November 26 - 30 No regular classes, Thanksgiving Holidays

December 14 - 20 The Alter-Nut Silent Auction and Performances

December 21 - Jan 6 No regular classes, Winter Break

Payment Installment Due 

Jan 2 - 4 Winter Intensive for ages 11 - 18

January 7 - March 8 Third Quarter 

January 10 - 11 National Summer Intensive Auditions @ Atlanta Ballet or Jan. 31 @ Nashville Ballet

January 19 No regular classes in observation of MLK Day

February 16 No regular classes in observation of President’s Day

Payment Installment with Performance Fee Due

March 9 - 14 Parent Observation Week

March 13 - 21 No regular classes, Spring Break

May 22 - 25 No regular classes, Memorial Day weekend

May 26 - June 7 School Performance Weeks, full student body participation with adult Collective TBA

Separate summer payment installment due

June 8 - 13 No regular classes, 1st Summer Break

June 15 - August 1 Summer Session open summer maintenance classes and camps begin 

July 20 - July 31 Plumbline Project Dance Intensive 

July 31 @ 3:30pm Summer Finale Intensive Performance at The Hunter Museum

August 1 - 16 No regular classes, 2nd Summer Break

August 17 New Academic Year Begins