.........Atlanta Festival Ballet.....

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  Founded in 1989, Atlanta Festival Ballet is co-directed by choreographer Gregory Aaron and internationally renowned danseur Nicolas Pacaña.  It is the only professional ballet company in Atlanta's Southern Crescent.

    For the past eighteen years, Atlanta Festival Ballet has delighted audiences with its holiday classic The Nutcracker.  Annual spring productions have included Peter Pan, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Coppelia, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid.  In addition, reparatory concerts have included Carmina Burana, and original works such as An Artist's Life, Sing Sing Sing, Back to the 50's, Outcast, Bella Amore, Symphony in C, Paganini and Tchaikovsky.

    Atlanta Festival Ballet is a culturally diverse company with a sincere interest in community outreach.  The majority of Atlanta Festival Ballet's funding is directed toward children.  As a partner in education with both Clayton and Henry counties, Atlanta Festival Ballet performs before more than 16,000 school0aged children yearly, most of them experiencing the magic of classical ballet for the first time.

    Our Company's mission is to present quality ballet and to promote an atmosphere of acceptance and appreciation for dance performance.  Atlanta Festival Ballet's organizational structure includes two artistic directors, one associate artistic director, a 20-member board of directors, and dedicated parents and friends who staff more than 30 volunteer positions.
 

Atlanta Festival Ballet is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program of the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and in partnership with Arts Clayton. The Council is a partnering state agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.