The Nutcracker in Collierville 2025!
The 2025-2026 season is our 17th Anniversary as a premier regional youth ballet company in West Tennessee. The Collierville Ballet is a 501(c)(3) non-profit youth ballet company committed to providing our audiences with excellent quality performances while offering our company members the necessary performance experience to further develop their artistry to the highest possible standard.
The Collierville Ballet is known throughout the region for its wonderful community outreach programs, the versatility of our repertoire, and our professional performances that the entire family can enjoy. We desire to continue to attract, develop, and encourage our pre-professional level dancers while growing our dedicated base of volunteers and patrons of the ballet so that we can offer our community even more in the arts and humanities for many years to come.
The Collierville Ballet also utilizes professional dancers from regional and international dance companies in leading soloist and principal roles. The Collierville Ballet also attends regional dance festivals and adjudicated events to give their young dancers opportunities for additional performance opportunities, scholarship awards, and valuable associations with leading dance arts organizations across the nation.
The beloved holiday classical ballet, The Nutcracker, is on stage at the Harrell Performing Arts Theatre in Collierville, TN on December 20-21, 2025.
Let the Collierville Ballet transport you and your family into the magical world of The Nutcracker this holiday season.
Our newly re-imagined Victorian winter wonderland awaits you! Come enjoy all of the Nutcracker holiday magic including Toy Soldiers, sparkling Snowflakes and twirling Christmas Flowers.
Acclaimed Professional Guest Artists Abby Callahan and Nathan Otto, will perform courtesy of the Huntsville Ballet in the leading roles of the Snow Queen and King and The Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier Prince.
Make Collierville Ballet's The Nutcracker part of your holiday celebration this year.
Our Dance With Me Story Times and Dance Experience Classes for ages 3-8 and a caregiver. These events are a wonderful way to introduce your young child to the beauty of classical ballet, enjoy excellent music, and learn some special ballet dancing steps with members of the Collierville Ballet Company and company staff.
(each event is 45 minutes total)
These events are free to the public; however, pre-registration is required in order to attend the event. The child's parent/guardian must remain onsite with their child during the event.
The Mid-America Ballet Festival features master classes with guest faculty in ballet, pointe, contemporary dance, jazz, and conditioning for dancers.
Festival Dates Coming Soon
For February 2026.
Guest Faculty
To be announced in September 2025.
Join us at the Collierville Fair on the Square in May of 2026! Our Fair on the Square performances are free and open to the public.
Stop by our Collierville Ballet booth and enjoy the fun with us and members of our Company. Our Company members will be in costume for photos during the event. Our Company will also perform during the weekend festival on the main stage.
This wonderful event is made possible by the members of the Collierville 20th Century Club. Our participation is made possible through our generous sponsors and patrons of the Collierville Ballet.
Join us for our Spring Concert at the Harrell Theatre. Enjoy classical repertoire favorites, storybook tales, and dazzling dancing fairies in a performance filled with theatrical magic for all to enjoy.
This performance includes our Stars and Stripes Salute also.
(Performance length is approx. 1 hour 15 mins, including a brief intermission)
Join us for our Spring Concert at the Harrell Theatre. Enjoy wonderful classical repertoire favorites, our magical ballet Enchanted, and our very special performance of Stars and Stripes Salute all in one wonderful concert the whole family can enjoy!
(Performance length is approx. 1 hour 15 mins, including a brief intermission)
Our mission at the Collierville Ballet is to provide our community with quality arts and humanities education, cultural outreach events and performance opportunities; and to encourage, challenge and inspire individuals to achieve their own personal best through the performing art of dance.
Our Philosophy...
It is our holistic approach to the arts and humanities that helps to provide our company dancers with the necessary life-skills to pursue a professional career in dance as well as in other areas outside of dance and the related arts fields. We believe that training should not just be confined to the performing arts but should encompass experiences that encourage each dancer to be a well-rounded individual. So we instill in our dancers - etiquette, discipline, mutual respect, confidence, the ability to work as a team and to encourage one another as individuals.
One team...
We support each other, creating a warm, nurturing environment for our company members to maximize their potential and reach their personal goals. Our company dancers can be found in some of the most prestigious dance companies and arts organizations in the world - including the American Ballet Theatre, The Julliard School, and on Broadway.
Versatility...
Our dancers are provided with professional instruction in classical ballet, contemporary, jazz, modern dance styles which allows our dancers to quickly adapt to a broad range of styles and genres. Our dancers are given wonderful performance opportunities to learn and perform classical repertoire and contemporary works. Our company dancers hold leading roles in productions and have ample opportunities to learn the craft of theatre production and performance.
Respecting our heritage...
We honor the knowledge of the arts and humanities passed down to us from generation to generation. We ensure that our dancers are educated in the history of classical ballet and grow to understand and appreciate all forms of dance from a wide variety of cultures as a artistic treasure for all people to enjoy.
Jr Level Company Members ages 9-12 must have at least two consecutive years of classical ballet training and/or other dance styles to be considered for membership in the Collierville Ballet. Pointe work is not required at this level of company membership.
Sr Level Company Members ages 13-18 must have at least two consecutive years of classical ballet training and/or other dance styles to be considered for membership in the Collierville. Dancers who have obtained the necessary strength, technique and ability to work en pointe should attend their audition ready to demonstrate their pointe work.
Character Dancers & Apprentice Members ages 9-adults should speak with the Artistic Director about available roles during our performance season. Applicants for these positions should have experience to support their character or apprentice level roles during the performance season. All casting is at the discretion of the Artistic Director of the Collierville Ballet.
For more information or to register for auditions, email Julie Knowles at info@colliervilleballet.org. Please include in the email: Parent/Guardian name, the dancer's full name, age, experience/background of training and contact phone number. A Collierville Ballet staff member will return an email and a phone to you to arrange an interview.
Collierville Ballet is a 501(c)(3) non-profit regional youth ballet company based in Collierville TN. Collierville Ballet serves metro-Memphis and West Tennessee communities.
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