2025-26 Calendar

2025

August 4: Registration begins online for the 2025-26 year of ballet classes

August 21 & 22: Pointe shoe fittings by appointment between 4:30-6pm in the studio

August 29: Registration closes; last day to receive 10% tuition paid in full

September 8: Classes begin

October 4: Nutcracker rehearsals begin (**First time performers will also rehearse on September 27)

November 17-21: Fall Open House

November 24-28: Fall Break – no classes in studio (Nutcracker rehearsals Nov 24-26, no rehearsal Nov 29)

December 9-12: Nutcracker Tech Week

December 13, 14, 18 (video), 19, 20, 21: Dubuque City Youth Ballet performs The Nutcracker at the Grand Opera House

December 22: Winter Break begins

2026 

January 19: Classes resume

January 24: Coppelia Saturday rehearsals begin

March 17-20: Coppelia Tech Week

March 21-22 and 28-29: Heartland Ballet performs Coppelia at the Grand Opera House

March 30-April 3: Spring Break – no classes in studio

May 8: Last day of classes in studio

May 9: All Class Presentation on stage at the Grand Opera House