Metropolitan Ballet Company’s mission is to provide performance training for pre-professional dancers, support emerging choreographers, and through performances, scholarships, and community outreach programs, promote a love and appreciation of dance. Serving a diverse community audience of more than 10,000 people annually, Metropolitan is committed to ensuring that dance continues to be relevant, exciting and accessible for people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds. Metropolitan Ballet Academy, named as one of “seven local studios in America cultivating top talent,” (Pointe Magazine, November 2011) is a classical ballet school founded in 1996 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Metropolitan provides performance training for students ages three through eighteen and pre-professional dancers, nurtures the artistic abilities of each individual.