Our aim is to provide professional training within a creative, caring and challenging environment where every student can reach their full potential. Newcastle Ballet Theatre offers expert tuition in a wide range of ballet classes for all ages – from tiny tots & beginners to pre-professionals and adults. Focusing on Classical Ballet, NBT is proud to be the first school in NSW to introduce the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet (ACB) Syllabus. The ACB has proven to be a very successful syllabus in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and throughout the Philippines and Asia. Based on Russian training methods, the syllabus combines the use of open format classes to develop fast thinking dancers, and carefully thought out set exercises. The results are dancers with a strong classical technique from a young age, able to grow and adapt quickly. Principals Kristy and Rider chose the ACB Syllabus over other options after teaching students raised in this syllabus, while living on the Gold Coast in 2011. Seeing the quality of dancers it was producing, and the preparation it provides advanced students for a life in the professional dance world, the ACB was a clear and easy choice. Newcastle has historically been fertile ground for ballet talent in Australia. With the ACB Syllabus, NBT aims to honour that legacy while continuing to push forward to even greater levels. Newcastle Ballet Theatre is only in their fourth year, but have already graduated dancers into the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet, one of the top Full Time programs in Australia, and have had students accepted into various Summer programs throughout Europe and in New York. Students from NBT have also been accepted into the Australian Ballet School Interstate program, Joffrey Ballet School in New York and School of Ballet Theatre UK.
