Berks Ballet Theatre

Berks Ballet Theatre is celebrating its 48th season and continues to bring the highest quality performances to Berks County audiences. BBT is a non-profit 501(c)3 pre-professional ballet company whose primary purpose is to provide serious dancers the best possible forum of training and performance in classical and contemporary dance in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Carol Ennis in 1976 with the philosophy that given the training and opportunity, the child next door could grow up to be anything they wanted, including a dancer in any major professional ballet company.

The company’s vision is to build an ever-strong artistic base for Berks Ballet Theatre; to establish more scholarship opportunities for serious students of dance; to identify additional cooperative performance opportunities with other groups in the community; and to create greater public awareness and appreciation for the art of dance.

Berks Ballet Theatre has performed and continues to perform for and with many local organizations including the Reading Pops Orchestra, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Berks Arts Council, BCTV, Reading Public Museum, Exeter Festival of Lights & West Reading Tree Lighting. The company also performs The Nutcracker and a spring ballet annually. From 1991-2016 BBT was a member of Regional Dance America/ Northeast and performed all over the Northeastern USA & Canada. BBT dancers have gone on to work professionally with Richmond Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Maryland, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Ballet North Texas and Broadway National Tours. BBT’s studios are within The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, located in downtown Reading.