Welcome to Anderson Young Ballet Theatre & Academy, an Honors Company for Mid-States Regional Dance Festival.  AYBT and its academy are located in the Big Four Arts Depot in Downtown Anderson, Indiana.  AYBT is in its 36th season under the directorship of LouAnn Young. Our semi-professional ballet company performs full length ballets as well as full performances containing excerpts from ballet classics, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap, contemporary dance and improvisation.  Our Academy, with our staff of professional and accredited instructors, will teach your young dancer to love and appreciate the art of dance all while allowing them to participate in yearly performances. 

Anderson Young Ballet Theatre is semi-professional dance company under the direction of LouAnn Young.  In it's 36th season, AYBT has utilized Anderson, Indiana's dancing youth to produce such full length ballets as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, Giselle, Red Shoes, Swan Lake, and several ballet excerpts.  AYBT is also one of the forerunners in dance for modern and musical theater. Each season AYBT performs their annual Autumn Gala, a full length Christmas ballet, and our spring recital: The Big Four Arts Review. 

Our dancers are trained first in the Cecchetti Syllabus and then Vaganova forms of ballet.  Our Jazz technique is based in Luigi.  AYBT dancers have won such awards as Butler University's Margaret Sear Rosenblith Award, Arts & Letters & the Carey Rose Winski Memorial Scholarship.  They have been accepted to the National Ballet School, School of American Ballet, Interlochen Arts Academy, and The Joffrey Ballet School.  Professionally, our dancers have danced with Indianapolis Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Lexington Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Walt Disney Productions, Dance Kaleidoscope, Kings Productions and Beef & Boards.

A member of Mid-States Regional Dance Festival, AYBT holds status as one of the organization's Honor Companies.  AYBT employs several choreographers who have won the Mid-State Regional Dance Festival's Monticello Award, their highest choreographer's award.

AYBT is a not-for-profit organization who's board of directors are dedicated to bringing the arts and education to the youth and population of Indiana.