Alive Ballet Academy

Specialties

We specialize in Ballet. Alive Ballet Academy is proud to include the American Ballet Theater National Training Curriculum, a breakthrough 9 level program that combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development. The ABT National Training Curriculum consists of a comprehensive set of age appropriate, outcome-​based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels.

Meet the Business Owner

Maria Jose B.

Business Owner

After studying on a scholarship with the Houston Ballet, she started her professional classical dance career at the age of 17 with the National Ballet Company of Peru, where she initially began her ballet training,. Shortly after that joined the Statishe Buhne Hagen in Germany as a soloist, where she toured vastly around Europe. Later returned to South America to dance with the Municipal Ballet of Santiago in Chile, under the direction of Ivan Nagi. After a few years dancing between Chile and Peru she got married and emigrated to Honolulu, Hawaii where she joined Ballet Hawaii’s dance company performing for another four years before she became a mother.

​For the next twelve years she worked for Ballet Hawaii as a teacher, choreographer and regisseur. In 2009 she founded Alive Ballet Center.