International Ballet Exchange

Founded in 1988, the mission of International; Ballet Exchange is to expand participation in ballet and add new voices and audiences to this performing art:

• IBE brings its free 30-week ballet course to neighborhood schools in the Philadelphia School District. The students take ballet class with IBE’s teaching artists, learning about body awareness, focus, choreography, and the vocabulary and mathematics of dance and music. 

• We present ballet for the school community audiences of our residency sites. Our performances feature diverse casts and that blend students and professionals on stage, providing meaningful opportunities for local students of ballet to and share their art with others.

Christina Castro-Tauser, Executive Director

Nancy Malmed, Founder