Houston Ballet Tickets

One of the world's leading ballet companies, the Houston Ballet has enthralled and mesmerized millions of people across the globe. The ballet company has transformed over the years into America's finest performing arts center. Based in Houston Texas, the Ballet Company comprises of more than fifty dancers and produces over seventy shows every year that allure masses all year round. The Houston Ballet Foundation is responsible for operating the renowned Ballet Company. The Foundation is also inherently linked with the Ben Stevenson Academy - a ballet academy that imparts skills and dancing techniques to thousands of dancers every year and also provides almost half of the dancers for the Houston Ballet. By acquiring Houston Ballet tickets, the audience can indulge in a riveting musical journey for a breathtaking experience.

It was in 1955 that the founding members of the Houston Ballet Foundation decided to transform their vision for dance in the most extensive metropolitan area of Texas, into a triumphant reality. Firstly, the Ballet Academy was established as an institution that promulgated the art of ballet and hence acted as a source of freshly graduated ballet dancers in the pursuit of a professional career. It was in July 2003 that the academy came to be known as Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy to commemorate the significant role played by Ben Stevenson for twenty-seven years as the artistic director of the Ballet Academy and Company.

Ever since it was founded, the academy has been frequently commended for providing the necessary platform and expertise for high-class ballet coaching to all its students. The staff at the Academy comprises of instructors who have exquisite performances to their credit; they have not only been lauded for the skills demonstrated in productions of the Houston Ballet Company but they have also won critical acclaim while working with other equally venerated ballet companies across the globe. Considering that the faculty is known to be of international repute, it is not surprising that many students are presently enrolled in the academy. The age group of the students is remarkably diverse too; students are as young as four and as old sixty! Consequently, the curriculum offered by the academy is just as vast and accommodating. The program has been deliberated in such a way that students can initially opt for introductory courses, which inculcate the basic sense of the art of ballet, and later enroll for a full fledge course once they are familiar with the primary ideas. Courses that allow specialization in particular techniques are also available. For instance, semi professional ballet dancers have the option to get trained in pas de deux, pointe work, character dance and music among other aspects of ballet.

In the past year, the company has flourished immensely. April 2011 saw a huge leap forward when the company opened the doors to the Houston Ballet Center for Dance, situated behind Wortham Theater Center in Houston's Theater District. The six-story building is worth over forty million dollars and was designed by the highly commended, world-renowned architecture firm "Gensler." In fact, it is America's largest expert dance complex. The company is not considered to be in the lead simply because of the sheer size of the building it erected recently but also due to the measure of its endowments; Houston Ballet's endowments were about fifty five million dollars in June 2011 and its running expenditure is above eighteen million dollars these days.

In addition, Houston Ballet has continued the tradition of collaborating with multiple other ballet companies across America in order to foster the conception of fresh productions. Ballet companies have conventionally indulged in taking tours across the country they originated in or crossing borders to showcase their talents polished over the course of time. As such, the Houston Company is no exception. In fact, it is often cited as the 'first ballet company to' have achieved multiple things. For instance, the first exclusively American ballet company to be requested by the government of China to tour the communist state was Houston Ballet. In July 1995, "Romeo and Juliet" was performed on the opening night and approximately five hundred million people sat transfixed before their television screens that showed a live telecast of the American ballet.

Therefore, the aforementioned credentials are sufficient to bolster the claim that the Houston Ballet company is undoubtedly one of the top, most successful ballet companies in USA. Purchasing Houston Ballet tickets would prove to be auspicious because ever since the company's creation, the audience has consistently increased not diminished.