Youth Ballet WA

Youth Ballet WA is one of Australia's leading ballet academies offering career-based training with professional staff that have extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of dance.

Youth Ballet WA Inc (YBWA) is a not-for profit charitable organisation providing an elite ballet programme that has an emphasis on career-based training. With professional staff that have extensive experience in all aspects of dance, we offer our students the best of dance education. YBWA offers scholarships for elite dancers who have the potential to pursue a career in dance yet face struggles in making their dreams become a reality.

We are a talent-led organisation accepting only those young people showing great aptitude for dance and a passion to embrace it as a career. We ensure that students receive individual tuition to meet their specific level and ability and are nurtured through-out their experience with YBWA.

YBWA, founded in 2005, grew from the Terri Charlesworth School of Ballet founded in 1960 by WA’s first prima ballerina Terri Charlesworth, and the Ballet Centre of WA, founded by Sonya Shepherd.