University Ballet, or UBallet, is UChicago’s ballet performance RSO.  UBallet hosts free ballet classes open to the entire UChicago community and puts on two performances per year.  Anyone is welcome to audition for these performances regardless of ballet experience; all interested dancers are cast in a role.  Auditions to join the company as a full member happen biannually, once in the fall and once again after the first performance.  Speaking of performances, this quarter, UBallet will be performing Sleeping Beauty on May 21st and 22nd in Mandel Hall.  To learn more about UBallet, check out their website.  To receive more immediate updates about classes and performances, check out their Facebook page!  

Ballet dancers rehearsing Don Quixote at UChicago, Spring 2013. 

MODA Photographer Ivy Zhang (Class of 2016) took a beautiful series of photos of student dancer Aixin Chen. See more here. 

Two shots from the promo photos for UBallet's production of Spartacus, February 2013. 

UChicago's photographers captured University Ballet as they prepared for Spartacus, which they performed last weekend. Some ballerinas are beginners, some have been dancing for years. Find out more about them here.