Houston Ballet 1921 West Bell Street Houston, TX 77019 tel: (713) 535-3271 www.houstonballet.org

Founded in 1969, Houston Ballet is an internationally acclaimed ballet company which is now America's fourth largest. The company is comprised of 54 dancers and has toured extensively to critical praise in Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia, Canada, and in cities throughout the United States. The company's home is the magnificent Wortham Theater Center, a state-of-the-art facility in which the company currently performs over 75 performances seven months out of the year. Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy has an enrollment of 300 students, between the ages of four and 60, and more than half of the professional company's dancers have come from the ranks of the academy.