Manassas Ballet Theatre is a professional ballet company serving Manassas, Prince William County and Northern Virginia. MBT is the largest professional performing arts organization in Northern Virginia and the second largest ballet company in Virginia. MBT is comprised of three components: MANASSAS BALLET THEATRE The Company consists of 29 adult professional dancers supported by an Artistic Director, Ballet Masters and other technical and administrative personnel. Each season, MBT presents four productions (totaling 22 performances for 2017-18) at the Hylton Performing Arts Center, while offering six Educational Outreach performances each season at the Hylton for over 6,000 area public school students. The Company dancers of MBT come from eleven different countries. Annually, over 100 dancers audition to join MBT’s company, some travelling from as far away as China, Brazil, Japan and the Near East. MBT’s annual Nutcracker production is the best attended professional level performing arts event in Northern Virginia. MBT has been featured by many regional, national and international media outlets, including The Washington Post, CBS News Sunday Morning, BBC Radio, NPR, The Wall Street Journal-South Korea edition, Czech television, New Zealand television. MANASSAS BALLET THEATRE ORCHESTRA MBTO is comprised of 55 professional musicians who provide accompaniment to MBT’s productions at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. MBT is one of the few ballet companies (and almost uniquely so for our size) to provide live musical accompaniment for each and every production to beautifully enhance the audience experience MANASSAS BALLET ACADEMY MBA offers instruction utilizing the Vaganova (Russian) methodology to all levels of students, from the smallest pre-dancer to the aspiring professional or college-bound young adult. The Academy offers vigorous ballet instruction as well as pointe, variations, pas de deux, jazz, character, modern, lyrical, boys class, adult ballet and more. In addition to the width of classes offered by MBA, the Academy also has its own student performing arm, the Manassas Youth Ballet.