Love our intro to the ballet studio! Very nice! Our daughter loved her first class.

I danced at Virginia Ballet Company for 14 years and I couldn’t have been happier! I made lifelong friends and the teachers were qualified, caring, and incredibly well-versed in ballet.

VBC is the best ballet school in Northern Virginia. I danced here for over a decade and I found the quality of instruction better than some of the leading dance schools in the country. As VBC is a pre professional ballet school and many of the students go on to dance with professional ballet companies, they focus mainly on Vaganova ballet technique, which is the basis for all styles of dance. VBC offers many unique performance opportunities, most notably VBC has the second longest running annual full length Nutcracker in the US, second only to San Francisco Ballet, which is a professional company! Additionally, they are one of the only studios in NOVA to offer full length ballets in the spring! Another unique aspect of VBC is the strong dedication to Vaganova ballet technique, which few other school in Virginia can boast about. VBCs dedication to continuing on the legacy of proper ballet technique is what draws many students here! Modern, hip-hop, comtemporary and lyrical dance studios can be found anywhere, but a true classical ballet studio is a rare gem! VBC keep upholding the dedication to teaching true classical ballet to your students as it is hard to find anywhere besides the Vaganova Ballet Academy!

Our family has had a wonderful experience with Virginia Ballet. The faculty members have danced with companies professionally, and are keenly aware of the competitive nature of ballet yet still create a familial and supportive atmosphere for serious and recreational dancers alike. It is a joy to see the shaping of caring minds as well as turned out well extended bodies and this is tightrope they have mastered!

Incredible ballet studio. Teaches traditional Russian style ballet. Amazing community of students, very supportive. Opportunity to dance in the Nutcracker every December (and more). Great balance of excellent teaching, support, and fun.

Virginia Ballet has some very good teachers but unfortunately they have one teacher who is often verbally abusive to students and ridicules them in front of the class. I have personally witnessed this teacher walk up into the face of one young girl on stage during rehearsal and yell at her “I am so sick of you.” She has also had instances of physical abuse. She has taped a girl’s mouth shut during class, taped sharpened pencils to girls’ throats to make them keep their heads up, and she has permanently injured a girl’s foot during stretching by stepping on it and forcing the girl’s toe all the way to the floor. Many dancers have left the school just because of this teacher’s abuse. So while the school does have some great teachers, this one teacher is a key member of the staff and almost impossible to avoid. This unfortunately makes the whole environment unhealthy. I almost never write reviews but feel like this message needs to get out to try to protect some of the young and future dancers.

My niece attends here and am only reviewing this because she told me to say nice things about her teacher because she is so nice. I told her i was going to say something very nice by writing hence this review.

This school teaches classic ballet in a very detail oriented, traditional Russian style. If your dancer is committed for the long haul, She or He will be a very good dancer.The Modern/ Contemporary classes are also very good. There was a recent merger of this ballet school with a contemporary school and it has improved the new school by rounding out the training.