How can I help Ballet Virginia?
Ballet Virginia is proud to be Coastal Virginia’s professional ballet company. We bring both excellent and affordable dance training along with high quality performances to the area. In order to provide these opportunities and experiences, we must seek funding beyond tuition and ticket sales. As a non profit 501(c)(3) we rely on our generous contributors for their financial support as well as our devoted volunteers for their countless hours of time and expertise.
Below you will find various ways you as an individual or business can support our work.
Playbill
A way for the local businesses to support Ballet Virginia.
Each season The Nutcracker is performed in December with live orchestra from Symphonicity. A full-length classical ballet is performed in the spring with a matinee and evening performances. These performances reach a wide audience from all over Hampton Roads and are performed at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach. In addition, the professional company does both a fall and late winter mixed repertoire production with performances at Zeiders American Dream Theater.
The professionally designed playbills gives your business an outstanding opportunity for exposure at reasonable rates. Your business will also be listed as a Season Sponsor in our final production of the season, Concert Classique and our website at no extra cost to you. With your support, Ballet Virginia can continue to enrich the cultural fabric of our region with excellence in dance education and performances.
Contact Lisa McCarty, communications and development director, for more information.
Click here for a Season Playbill Information Sheet.
Click HERE for a Playbill Order Form.
Volunteer Opportunities
Please contact Suzanne Lownsbury for general volunteer opportunity information or questions.
Ballet Guild and Outreach Activities
The Ballet Virginia’s Ballet Guild is a group of dedicated parents, friends and family members of BV dancers who want to be involved with the exciting growth of our school and professional company. The Ballet Guild helps with community outreach, assists in the distribution of marketing materials, completes tasks and projects in and around the studio and organizes and sells merchandise at performances. Time commitment is as little or as much time as one is able to give. If interested please email guild@balletvirginia.org for more information.
Donate Goods/Services
From time to time, Ballet Virginia has requests for goods and services. Past goods and service donations can be seen throughout our studio. If you think you have a goods or service you would like to donate please contact Janina Michalski.
Financial Support
Corporate Sponsorship
With help from the business community, Ballet Virginia is committed to instilling a life-long love of dance and enriching the cultural fabric of the Hampton Roads community.
Click here for details about corporate sponsorships
A financial statement is available upon written request from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs. Ballet Virginia is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax deductible.
Please contact Suzanne Lownsbury or Janina Michalski, artistic co-directors, to discuss how your company can help support Ballet Virginia.
Friends of Ballet Virginia
Cash or in-kind donations are much appreciated and thoughtfully utilized.
Endowment
This fund will provide long term financial strength that will enable Ballet Virginia to continue through the inevitable downturns of the business cycle. You can help us achieve this stability by designating a gift for our Endowment. Please contact Suzanne Lownsbury for more information regarding endowment.