Directed and founded by Carole Alexis, a Creole woman, Ballet des Amériques/Carole Alexis Ballet Theatre is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization operating a professional dance company as well as a pre-professional ballet conservatory in Westchester, NY since 2011.

 

In the first thirteen years since the founding of Ballet des Amériques, the dance company composed of dancers from rich and multicultural backgrounds, has given nearly 300 performances of Carole Alexis’s work. The company performs on stages throughout Greater New York City, as well as internationally.

 

Partly in response to the closure of theaters during the COVID-19 pandemic, Carole Alexis created the Dancing Caravan Project: an itinerant dance theater, complete with a portable sprung dance floor, sound and lighting system, costume-change tents and audience chairs, that brings Alexis’s diverse choreographies into various communities in both indoor and outdoor settings from Westchester to New York City.

 

Carole Alexis and the company have received numerous accolades for Alexis’s innovative work, including government proclamations honoring Ballet des Amériques as the “Premier Dance Company" and “Best Ballet Company and School,” as well as regular press coverage.

 

In the same time period, numerous pre-professionally trained students of the Ballet des Amériques conservatory have been consistently admitted to prestigious colleges and highly competitive programs throughout the world, such as the Ballet School of the Operas National de Paris, the Royal Ballet in the United Kingdom, English National Ballet, the Julliard School, American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet Academy, San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Ballet West.