Click HERE for tickets! Some traditions can’t be stopped! Join Clara and the Nutcracker as Hickory Ballet & Performing Arts presents a holiday favorite, The Nutcracker Suite, live-streamed to enjoy from the comfort of your home! Our favorite moments from The Nutcracker will be danced by Hickory’s own pre-professional youth ballet company, creating entertainment for all ages as you celebrate …
Giving Tuesday
HBPA is a non-profit organization which provides scholarships for dance training, offers outreach programs throughtout the community, and presented a free, sensory-friendly Nutcracker last year. Please consider making a donation by clicking HERE. Hickory Ballet and Performing Arts in dedicated to bringing the performing arts into our community and offeribg training to students from every economic and social background. …
HBPA+
HBPA is excited to announce our new program designed to help parents navigate this remote learning schedule. Please email info@hickoryballetpa.com for questions or to reserve your days!
Registration Open for Fall!
Registration for the 2020-2021 season is now open! Presuming that NC will enter into Phase 3 in the coming weeks, we are preparing to open for fall classes on Monday, August 31st. See our policies for special information regarding our safety protocols and procedures. Can’t wait to be back in the studio with all of our dancers! Click for info …
HBPA Closure
HBPA will be closed through May 31st, to ensure the safety and well-being of our community. We have moved our classes to online modules, so our performers can transition easily back to the studio when we are able. Our productions of Crazy for You, Cinderella and Bugz are postponed, but we are optimistic we will be able to reschedule performance …
Orchestra Sings Outreach Event
HBPA was so glad to join our friends, the Western Piedmont Symphony, for their Orchestra Sings Children’s Concert May 5th and 6th. Our dancer was the heroine Firebird and as always we loved dancing to Stravinsky’s music live!
HBPA Performs at HMA Event This Weekend
Hickory Ballet and Performing Arts will be collaborating with the Hickory Museum of Art for the their upcoming “Fuel the Vision” fundraiser. With choreography from our advanced modern dancers, we will be lighting up the way at this exciting event! Come see us this Saturday, February 8th.
Congrats to New NHSDA Inductees!
Congratulations to all of our 2020 National Honor Society of Dance Arts inductees! We are extremely proud of the dedication of these outstanding artists and leaders. The mission of NHSDA is to recognize outstanding artistic merit, leadership, and academic achievement in students studying dance in public and private schools in K-12 education, dance studios, cultural/community centers, performing arts organizations, and post-secondary …
HBPA to Induct New Members to NHSDA
Hickory Ballet and Performing Arts will be holding their annual induction for dancers into the National Honor Society for the Dance Arts this Saturday, February 1st from 1-3pm. This invitation-only event will honor those students who exemplify commitment to their art through hours of performance and service. Congrats to all our inductees!
Thanks to WPS for a Wonderful Evening!
HBPA had a great time joining the Western Piedmont Symphony for their Holiday Pops concert! What a treat for our dancers to have beautiful, live music. It got us in the Nutcracker state of mind!