Yellowstone Ballet Company

Yellowstone Ballet Company YBC is an established, community-based performing arts company, producing quality dance productions. Welcome To Yellowstone Ballet Company!

Incorporated in 1990, Yellowstone Ballet Company is one of the first Montana ballet companies. YBC began with an original production of "Cinderella" including guest dancers from Bozeman and Missoula and professionals from the Stuttgart Ballet and Joffrey Ballet. The following year we started our annual "Nutcracker" productions with tours to Bozeman, Great Falls and Lewistown. We gradually added cl

assics such as "Giselle", "La Fille Mal Gardee", and "Swan Lake" to our repertoire. Through partial funding from the Montana Cultural Trust we have produced original productions of "Hiawatha", "Hansel and Gretel- with a Twist", "Romeo and Juliet of the Rockies", "The Elves and the Shoemaker", and " Pinnocchio". Dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov Ballet, Boston Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Paris Opera Ballet have highlighted our productions in principal roles. YBC is supported by donations, grants, ticket sales and volunteerism. Productions are open to dancers from all area dance schools through and audition process. Several of our productions have been collaborative in nature, bringing together ballroom dancers, break dancers, theater actors, and ballet, tap, and jazz students, much to the delight of audiences. Our Artistic Director, Kathleen Rakela, danced with the Sacramento Theatre Ballet and trained at the Royal Academy of Dancing in England. She has a teaching credential (AIST) with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London, England in the Cecchetti Method of Ballet and is an ABT Certified Teacher, successfully completing the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 5 of the ABT National Training Curriculum. Rakela is the recipient of the Montana Dance Arts Association Fellowship and the Montana Arts Council Fellowship for the Performing Arts. Her choreography has been recognized internationally and her original ballet "Romeo & Juliet of the Rockies" was chosen for presentation at festivals in Amsterdam and Germany.

Thank you to Kristi Parker Reed for these fantastic photos!
07/12/2026

Thank you to Kristi Parker Reed for these fantastic photos!

Thank you for the support!
06/17/2026

Thank you for the support!

Only two days left to get your seat!! Yellowstone Ballet Company

With Fiona Lee of the Royal Danish Ballet Ballerina Fiona Lee of the world renown Royal Danish Ballet returns to Bozeman...
06/10/2026

With Fiona Lee of the Royal Danish Ballet Ballerina Fiona Lee of the world renown Royal Danish Ballet returns to Bozeman to perform the title role in Yellowstone Ballet Company’s production of The Little Mermaid on Thursday, June 18th 6:30 p.m. at the Willson Auditorium, Bozeman. Kathleen Rakela, YBC Artistic Director and recipient of a prestigious Montana Arts Council Fellowship in the Performing Arts trained Ms. Lee for nine years, starting at age five. She then received a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet’s (SAB) summer program in New York City. After the summer intensive she was invited to continue at the school year-round. She packed her bags, left her carefree Montana lifestyle behind and moved to the Big Apple to learn the rigorous Balanchine-style ballet technique. She trained at the school six days a week with a busy schedule of classes covering all aspects of ballet and conditioning on weekends she spent her free time enjoying the many ballet performances at Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera House. Ms. Lee went on to join Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Professional Division and attended summer programs at San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Paul Taylor Dance Company and Limón Dance Company, as well as Miami City Ballet, and Ballet West on scholarship.

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05/17/2026

Please head to our website for more!

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01/05/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zf3OuAjZ9o

Yellowstone Ballet Company's 35th annual production of The Nutcracker Directed by Kathleen Rakela. Guest Artists: Daniell Archuleta, Molly Groeschl & Lucas S...

We hope you come!
12/10/2025

We hope you come!

Yellowstone Ballet Academy will be performing at the famous Michelin Three Key Sage Lodge for their Holiday Tea & Ballet in Paradise Valley, Emigrant, Montana on Saturday, June 12th 2:00 p.m.

Yellowstone Ballet Academy will be performing at the famous Michelin Three Key Sage Lodge for their Holiday Tea & Ballet...
12/10/2025

Yellowstone Ballet Academy will be performing at the famous Michelin Three Key Sage Lodge for their Holiday Tea & Ballet in Paradise Valley, Emigrant, Montana on Saturday, June 12th 2:00 p.m.

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Livingston, MT
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