About MBA

Deos Contemporary Ballet is thrilled to share the work of Michigan Ballet Academy, our official partner school. The mission of the Michigan Ballet Academy is to provide world class ballet training using a codified curriculum taught by professionally trained faculty in an atmosphere of equity, challenge, encouragement, and integrity.

The staff, leadership, and Board of Directors of MBA inspire us through their commitment to the whole dance student’s success.

Their statement of beliefs are as follows:

• Learning through the arts inspires joy, opens doors to self-discovery, and builds bridges to life-long learning

• All students can benefit from a toned body, mental discipline, advanced coordination, artistry, and gracefulness

• Our school is a place where dance, art, music, drama, and history intersect

• Our school seeks to produce not only superior dancers but exemplary human beings

• Our school seeks to foster an inclusive and welcoming community where each student can grow and reach their potential in a caring, wholesome, and supportive environment

• Our school embraces creative risk-taking through the development and production of new choreography

• All young people deserve access to the arts, and thus we actively seek scholarship funds so no one is denied admittance to our school

• In order to stay focused on our mission, we seek to forge partnerships and collaboration with K-12 schools and universities, home school organizations, gymnastics and ice skating schools, and other arts institutions in our community

• The arts promote peace in our world, and so we seek to create exchange programs throughout the country and world where our young artists can serve as ambassadors of this community

• The arts are irreplaceable avenues for expressing the full measure of what it is to be human, and we advocate for the arts in all of our lives.

If you’re interested in learning more about Michigan Ballet Academy, visit their website here.