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
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
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