Southwest Virginia Ballet Company

Southwest Virginia Ballet has been contributing to our southwest Virginia community for the past 35 years, serving over 15,000 children and adults annually. SVB began as a vision of founding director Tess Post in 1990. Her vision was for a regional ballet company that would provide pre-professional training and quality performances of varied repertoire including classical ballet, contemporary and modern works. The new company quickly became a part of the community’s artistic and cultural experience, and in its first year performed at Festival in the Park, with Opera Roanoke in Die Fledermaus, as guests with the Rockbridge Ballet, and in its premier company performance at Virginia Western Community College. In 1991, SVB produced The Nutcracker at Olin Hall at Roanoke College, bringing the first local full-length production of this classic ballet in to the stage.