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Russell School of Ballet

Home of The Fairfax Ballet Company

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RSB featured in Pointe Magazine!

“Your Training: Hometown Advantage” by Ashley Rivers

Pointe Magazine (October/November 2011) features an article about training at a small number of high-quality studios — including ours! Here’s an excerpt, but check out the whole article in the link above.
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It’s the American dream, ballet-style: A small-town girl works hard, turns heads in the big city and wins her way to the top of a world-class company. Teresa Reichlen is one such story: Before joining New York City Ballet, she studied at The Russell School of Ballet in Chantilly, VA. “It’s nice to be a big fish in a small pond to start out,” she says. Instead of always dancing in the corps, “you get to perform the challenging parts.”

Several small studios around the country are producing professional-caliber dancers. These schools may not receive the same publicity as their counterparts with companies or boarding schools attached, but they prove that you don’t need high-profile training to make it as a dancer. In fact, the extra attention, performance opportunities and lower-stress environment might be what you need to grow—not just as a dancer, but as an artist.

 

The Russell School of Ballet 
Chantilly, VA
Directors Karla and Hans Petry, the husband and wife team at The Russell School, offer a nurturing environment, and students and teachers become close in this tight-knit community.
Classes: Ballet, pointe, variations, character, jazz, tap, modern, lyrical, stretch
Number of students: 375–400 (audition required for higher-level classes)
Performances per year: Three
Competitions: No
Alumni: Teresa Reichlen (NYCB principal), Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch (Martha Graham Dance Company principal), Ian Thatcher (formerly with SFB, PNB and Ballets de Monte Carlo)
Fun fact: The school is beginning its 51st year.

 

Nutcracker 2018

Join Us for The Nutcracker A Family Holiday Favorite Kick-off the holiday season with The Fairfax Ballet Company’s performance of The Nutcracker, “a stunning presentation of Tchaikovsky’s opulent holiday masterpiece.” Company dancers, along with students from the Russell School of Ballet and professional guest artists, are poised to take the stage with this entertaining classic Thanksgiving weekend. The […]

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