Reviews of Virginia Ballet Company & School (Dance School)

Adrienne Hodges

Incredible ballet studio. Teaches traditional Russian style ballet. Amazing community of students, very supportive. Opportunity to dance in the Nutcracker every December (and more). Great balance of excellent teaching, support, and fun.

Patience Daniels

This school teaches classic ballet in a very detail oriented, traditional Russian style. If your dancer is committed for the long haul, She or He will be a very good dancer. The Modern/ Contemporary classes are also very good. There was a recent merger of this ballet school with a contemporary school and it has improved the new school by rounding out the training.

Nora FitzGerald

Our family has had a wonderful experience with Virginia Ballet. The faculty members have danced with companies professionally, and are keenly aware of the competitive nature of ballet yet still create a familial and supportive atmosphere for serious and recreational dancers alike. It is a joy to see the shaping of caring minds as well as turned out well extended bodies and this is tightrope they have mastered!

Awkward Silence

VBC is the best ballet company/school that I have ever attended. The teachers are amazing, and inform you on everything there is about dancing and leading a healthy lifestyle. Numerous important life lessons are taught, such as perseverance and trying your hardest no matter what. The performances are very high quality, thanks to the talented students and alumni that attend this studio as well as the dedicated volunteers that do everything that has to do with costumes. The community at VBC is friendly and welcoming, and your friends there are likely to be your best. Would 100% recommend this studio to anyone who asks.

Wally Christopher

Virginia Ballet has some very good teachers but unfortunately they have one teacher who is often verbally abusive to students and ridicules them in front of the class. I have personally witnessed this teacher walk up into the face of one young girl on stage during rehearsal and yell at her “I am so sick of you.” She has also had instances of physical abuse. She has taped a girl’s mouth shut during class, taped sharpened pencils to girls’ throats to make them keep their heads up, and she has permanently injured a girl’s foot during stretching by stepping on it and forcing the girl’s toe all the way to the floor. Many dancers have left the school just because of this teacher’s abuse. So while the school does have some great teachers, this one teacher is a key member of the staff and almost impossible to avoid. This unfortunately makes the whole environment unhealthy. I almost never write reviews but feel like this message needs to get out to try to protect some of the young and future dancers.

Geanette Franconia

My niece attends here and am only reviewing this because she told me to say nice things about her teacher because she is so nice. I told her i was going to say something very nice by writing hence this review.