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Albemarle Ballet Theatre Classical Ballet, Jazz, and Modern Dance Studio offering excellence in dance training and professional performances since 2005

Moody lighting in modern class changes the whole experience 💡•••📷 Nicky Coelho•••
09/26/2026

Moody lighting in modern class changes the whole experience 💡
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📷 Nicky Coelho
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This looks like a party!!!🎟️ Nutcracker ticket sales are LIVE! 🔗Order your tickets today through link in bio ABT’s Nutcr...
09/24/2026

This looks like a party!!!

🎟️ Nutcracker ticket sales are LIVE!
🔗Order your tickets today through link in bio

ABT’s Nutcracker 2026
📆 December 4th @ 6pm & 6th @ 2pm
📍Waynesboro High School
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Meet the ABT Faculty!•••Emily Oleson | InstructorEmily is a dance scholar who has studied a broad range of movement styl...
09/14/2026

Meet the ABT Faculty!
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Emily Oleson | Instructor

Emily is a dance scholar who has studied a broad range of movement styles, from traditional Appalachian flatfooting, tap, and other percussive dances, to forms of Irish dance, partner dance, contemporary urban dances, and vernacular jazz. Emily’s performance highlights include appearing with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Aulney-All-Blues festival in France, Wheatland Music Festival, the Newport Folk Festival with Seeger’s Clogging All-Stars, Jacob’s Pillow’s Inside/Out Stage, and a US State Department tour in Russia with The Meaning of Buck Dance, a collaboration with Good Foot, Urban Artistry and Baakari Wilder. She received her MFA in Dance at the University of Maryland College Park in May 2012 and a certification in Laban-Bartenieff Movement Analysis in 2015 from the Laban-Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Dance at Temple University.
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Meet the ABT Faculty!•••Jean-Marie Bralley | Instructor Ms. Bralley began formal dance lessons at the Dance Studio/DanCe...
09/13/2026

Meet the ABT Faculty!
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Jean-Marie Bralley | Instructor

Ms. Bralley began formal dance lessons at the Dance Studio/DanCenter in her hometown of Charlottesville at the age of four. She trained at the School of Richmond Ballet beginning at age ten and rose through the pre-professional ranks of the school, eventually achieving a two-year traineeship with the professional Richmond Ballet company during high school. In ‘07 and ‘08 she was selected from 3,500 national and international students to study and perform in American Ballet Theatre’s premiere summer intensive program in NYC, where she trained under several dance luminaries, including Kirk Peterson, Leslie Browne, Cynthia Harvey, and Jessica Lang. In 2016 she graduated summa cm laude with a degree in Humanities and a minor in French from Franciscan University of Steubenville, where she was co-captain of the school dance team, helping to choreograph and plan routines and events. She has trained and worked with dance professionals Miki Liszt and Robert Cook in Charlottesville. From 2016- 2020, she performed with Charlottesville Ballet’s professional company, and in 2019, she was named one of Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Distinguished Alumni.

Outside of the studio, Jean-Marie is an avid reader and writer, having freelanced for publications, such as the USO and Wallflower Journal. She is the author of “Naomi Grace’s ‘Wonder-full’ Christmas” and “Susanna Claus Saves Christmas,” which are both available for purchase online at Amazon and most major retail sites.”
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Meet the ABT Faculty!•••Anna Finan | School CoordinatorAnna began her ballet training at the National Ballet School in B...
09/12/2026

Meet the ABT Faculty!
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Anna Finan | School Coordinator

Anna began her ballet training at the National Ballet School in Bytom, Poland. She studied the Vaganova technique with Elisabeth Lebik, former principal dancer of the Silesian State Opera. At the age of 14, she participated in the acclaimed international ballet competition, the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, where she reached the half- final and was offered full scholarship to study at the Hamburg Ballet School in Germany. There she fine-tuned her technique and artistry with Marianne Kruse, Kevin Haigen and Ingrid Glindemann. After graduating from the school, she joined the Hamburg Ballet company directed by the renowned American choreographer John Neumeier. There she performed group and soloist roles in his various classical and modern ballets such as The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Little Mermaid as well as works from other choreographers like La Bayadere staged by N. Makarova and Jewels by G. Balanchine. Upon retiring from the stage, she pursued a second career, becoming a risk manager at Germany’s largest bank, Deutsche Bank AG. Yet, her love for movement never halted. She travelled to Thailand to became a certified Vinyasa Yoga instructor and, after moving to Charlottesville, VA with her husband and two boys in April 2016, she become NASM-certified personal trainer, Progressing Ballet Technique certified teacher and studied the American Ballet Theater National Training Curriculum in Pre-Primary though Level 7 with Franco De Vita and Raymond Lukens. She loves teaching dance and passing on her lifelong ballet experience.

Anna is also the founder of Anna Finan Ballet Atelier, providing individualized daytime private and small-group coaching.
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Meet the Faculty!•••Nicky Coelho | Executive DirectorNicky began her training with her mother, Sally Hart, and furthered...
09/11/2026

Meet the Faculty!
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Nicky Coelho | Executive Director

Nicky began her training with her mother, Sally Hart, and furthered her studies at the Virginia School of the Arts, Maryland Youth Ballet, and, on scholarship, at the Joffrey Ballet School. She has danced professionally with Charleston Ballet Theatre, Robert Ivey Ballet, Mikerline Haitian Folkloric Dance Company, Dance Co, and James Sewell Ballet, where she also served as Company Manager and Company Liaison. Nicky was featured as a dancer in Only Dance Can Save Us, which was showcased at the Twin Cities Film Fest and is streaming on Amazon Prime. She has toured throughout the Midwest and East Coast and performed at the Toronto International Film Festival in a ballet inspired by Titicut Follies, the acclaimed documentary by award-winning filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. She also appeared in the music video for Dessa’s “Call Off Your Ghost.”

Nicky has more than 20 years of teaching experience at dance schools across the country and has directed several summer intensive programs. She has served as ABT’s Production and Stage Manager since 2005 and has choreographed several full-length ballets, as well as numerous original works in the school’s repertoire.
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Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms and mother figures who support their dancers dreams! Thank you for all that you do...
05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms and mother figures who support their dancers dreams! Thank you for all that you do!
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5798 Three Notch D Road
Crozet, VA
22932

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Tuesday 3pm - 9pm
Wednesday 3pm - 9pm
Thursday 3pm - 9pm
Friday 3pm - 9pm
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