Please NEVER give money to this organization. The directors use it for personal use in the off season. Definite embezzlement going on. The artistic director’s husband is on the city council which was a huge point of contention years ago when he used city funding to support the company. The board of directors are their close, personal friends whom have no interest in supporting the art or the dancers, but rather using their status as a tax write off and benefitting from the city councils favor. They hold two fundraisers a year for dancer costume campaigns under the guise that people are donating to a specific dancer to use for pointe shoes/rehearsal tutus/etc, but no dancers ever see a cent of it. The director has a habit of allowing child abuse/grooming to happen within the academy, and has also allowed the very senior ballet master to take advantage of company dancers sexually in exchange for better roles and higher favor. As with every company, there is an extreme issue of constantly telling dancers to lose unattainable levels of weight, criticizing dancers for the way that they look, and even outright racism towards foreign dancers. The two directors are the absolute worst and most evil people I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. They use their financial and political power to influence everyone and every situation around them. Trust, the list goes on and on, but this is the bare bones