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.

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01/05/2026

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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.

We’re thrilled to announce that our 34th Annual Nutcracker shows this year are November 29 and November 30 at 2:30 PM! T...
11/10/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that our 34th Annual Nutcracker shows this year are November 29 and November 30 at 2:30 PM! This show comes with our amazing costume contest during Intermission!

Don't miss out our amazing Guest artists performing with us!
Former Principal with The Joffrey Ballet Molly Groeschl & Lucas Segovia from Ballet Argentina.

Don't miss out on a magical experience!

Recently, we have put up a page for our school for students, and events with the students. Please follow to fol...
09/11/2025

Recently, we have put up a page for our school for students, and events with the students. Please follow to follow up with what is happening with our school and students and performances. At the beginning of the month, we had a performance, and the students at the Yellowstone Ballet Company's school performed at the Bozeman Sweet Pea Festival on Sunday, August 3rd, at 2:15 p.m. and did excellent! We are very excited to see what the future holds for the school, company, and students.

Thank you all for supporting, we all really appreciate it over here.

Yellowstone Ballet Academy

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Karen Dade teaches Aerial Dance at Yellowstone Ballet Academy for beginner to advanced students. Come give it a try.
09/11/2025

Karen Dade teaches Aerial Dance at Yellowstone Ballet Academy for beginner to advanced students. Come give it a try.

Yellowstone Ballet Academy students perform at the Sweet Pea Festival in Bozeman in August 2025
08/30/2025

Yellowstone Ballet Academy students perform at the Sweet Pea Festival in Bozeman in August 2025

Recently, we have put up an Instagram account for our school for students, and events with the students. Please follow t...
08/12/2025

Recently, we have put up an Instagram account for our school for students, and events with the students. Please follow to follow up with what is happening with our school and students and performances. At the beginning of the month, we had a performance, and the students at the Yellowstone Ballet Company's school performed at the Bozeman Sweet Pea Festival on Sunday, August 3rd, at 2:15 p.m. and did excellent! We are very excited to see what the future holds for the school, company, and students.

Thank you all for supporting, we all really appreciate it over here.

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109 S B Street
Livingston, MT
59047

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(406) 222-0430

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