The Texas Ballet Theater was founded by Margo Dean in 1961 as the Fort Worth Ballet Association, in Fort Worth, Texas. At the invitation of Dean, Fernando Schaffenburg was invited to direct the company the following year. It became a fully professional ballet company in 1985. In 1988, after the demise of Dallas Ballet, the company began adding performances of The Nutcracker in Dallas in a business partnership with The Dallas Opera, producing Nutcracker performances in The Music Hall and using The Dallas Opera Orchestra.
Fort Worth Ballet became the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet in 1994 when The Dallas Supporters of FWDB, a separate 501(c)3 corporation with its own board of directors, was established in Dallas. The Dallas Supporters' responsibility was primarily to raise contributed funds so that Fort Worth Dallas Ballet could perform a full season in Dallas in the Music Hall at Fair Park. A detailed joint venture agreement was established between the two organizations. FWDB – the Fort Worth organization – remained the primary employer and producing entity. All dancers, production staff and most administrative staff were employees of FWDB. The Dallas Supporters hired a small administrative staff. Each season, FWDB and The Dallas Supporters would negotiate an agreement outlining which and how many productions would occur in Dallas.
The two organizations operated under this two-corporation, two-board structure for nine seasons. In 2001, the Dallas Supporters were not able to raise the funds needed to produce the Ballet's Dallas season, forcing FWDB to cancel productions planned in Dallas for early 2002; one Fort Worth production was also cancelled. This occurred during a season when FWDB had no permanent artistic director. Bruce Marks was serving as artistic advisor and Bruce Simpson as Ballet-Master-in-Chief.
Over the 2002–2003 season, an agreement to merge the two corporations and their boards was created. The resulting organization was then renamed Texas Ballet Theater in 2003.[1]
Texas Ballet Theater, currently under artistic director of Ben Stevenson, O.B.E. is a resident company of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.[2]
^"Evolution of TBT". Texas Ballet Theater. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
^"About TBT". Texas Ballet Theater. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
and 22 Related for: Texas Ballet Theater information
The TexasBalletTheater was founded by Margo Dean in 1961 as the Fort Worth Ballet Association, in Fort Worth, Texas. At the invitation of Dean, Fernando...
preceded by a 2-week season at the Koch Theater beginning in 2020. ABT is the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School...
Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master...
This is a list of ballet companies in the United States. List of dance companies Yellowstone Ballet Co. Livingston Montana 1991 - present Yellowstoneballet...
the Dallas Theater Center and the Dallas Black Dance Theater; and the Winspear Opera House, home to the Dallas Opera and TexasBalletTheater. Not far north...
2008/2009 season performed at the Music Hall at Fair Park) and the TexasBalletTheater. The AT&T Performing Arts Center also produces original programming...
symphony, ballet, opera, stage, musicals, and rock concerts. It is also now the permanent home to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, TexasBalletTheater, Fort...
Houston Ballet, operated by Houston Ballet Foundation, is a professional ballet company based in Houston, Texas. The company consists of 59 dancers and...
The American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States. The company was founded with the help of...
including Stephen Mills. Ballet Austin has performed in a State Department trip to Europe as well as at the Joyce Theater in New York City and The Kennedy...
Westside School of Ballet until the age of twelve when her family moved to Austin, Texas. Her parents found her a Russian ballet teacher in the Austin...
BalletBoyz, English National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Polish National Ballet,...
Look up TBT in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. TBT may refer to: TexasBalletTheater Technical barriers to trade, a class of non-tariff barriers to trade...
Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theatre is a non-profit performance theater group located in the Bay Area of Greater Houston in the United States. The group...
Currently under renovation "PEBA, Inc.: A view of the venue: Philam Life Theater, UN Ave., Malate, Manila". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016....
Theater, now David H. Koch Theater, designed by Philip Johnson to Balanchine's specifications. City Ballet became the first ballet company in the United States...
American arena, located within the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The venue hosted a public ribbon cutting on October 26, 2019. The first...
Hall is the permanent home to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, TexasBalletTheater, Fort Worth Opera, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...
director Ben Stevenson (born 1936), artistic director of Houston Ballet and TexasBalletTheater Patsy Swayze (1927–2013), choreographer, dancer, dance teacher...
Opera), Vienna Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and BalletTheater, Baku National Opera and Ballet of Belarus, Minsk La Monnaie/De Munt (Royal Theatre...
in collaboration with Gordon Lightfoot. Dracula was on-loan from TexasBalletTheater and choreographed by their artistic director, Ben Stevenson (dancer)...
Global Information