Our Company
The Pittsburgh Youth Ballet Company's mission is to train, inspire and nurture young dancers towards artistic excellence, perform works by choreographic masters and emerging choreographers, and to bring the art of dance, through outreach efforts, to new multi-generational audiences. The Pittsburgh Youth Ballet Company provides many opportunities for students to perform and work with world renowned choreographers, teachers and guest artists.
Other Performance Opportunities
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Other opportunities include performing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in their Holiday Concerts at Heinz Hall and Fiddlesticks Concert Series, Pittsburgh Dance Festival, First Night, The Choreographers Continuum, as an Honor Company with Regional Dance America, The Irish Festival, The International Folk Festival, and most recently a collaboration of The Nutcracker with the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Orchestra, Downtown Pittsburgh. The PYB Company has performed their popular Nutcracker to sold out audiences throughout the United States, from Florida to New York, and internationally in Austria and Germany.
The PYB Company has been invited to perform in the 2007 Tanzsommer Festival in Innsbruck, Austria, which includes performances in Venice, Italy and Germany.
Many PYB Company Outreach performances benefit children as well as senior citizens in Allegheny County and beyond in such venues as The Pittsburgh Zoo, Carnegie Music Hall, the Mon Valley Performance series and Camp Laugh-A-Lot. Also, free performances include numerous school demonstrations, Senior Citizen Nursing Homes and Children's Hospital, to name a few.
