Home of Young Artists Ballet Theatre, Professional Ballet School offers the highest caliber Ballet, Lyrical, Jazz, and Contemporary training on the Peninsula for ages 3 and up.
Professional Ballet School opened in October, 1987 and offers highest quality classical Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, and Lyrical training in a nurturing environment to students of all ages. The schools curriculum is structured to meet the training needs of those seeking a professional career, and offers the same quality training to those students dancing simply for enjoyment. Students gain invaluable knowledge and confidence by studying, rehearsing, and performing with professionals.
Co-founders and Directors, Zoltan and Carmela Zegarelli Peter, bring to their school a wealth of training, performance and teaching experience. Both Zoltan and Carmela have worked with numerous international teachers and choreographers, including Olga Lepechinskaya, Richard Gibson, Ivan Kramer, Tatiana Grantezeva, Terry Westmoreland, Erik Bruhn, Brian Shaw, Anatole Vilzak, Jurgen Schneider, Lew Christensen, Helgi Tomasson, Patricia Neary, Michael Smuin and Francia Russell, to name a few. The Peters teaching technique is based on the Vaganova method.
Through national auditions, PBS ballet students have been selected and awarded scholarships to study at the following professionally affiliated schools:The School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Boston Ballet, Dance Aspen, The Kirov Institute, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pacific Northwest, Princeton Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts and Tisch School of the Arts summer programs.
Former students have gone on to dance with Ballet Teatro di Colon, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, Atlantic City Ballet, Company C, Peninsula Ballet Theatre, Savage Jazz Dance, Smuin Ballets S.F., Ballet San Jose, The Rockettes, ODC, Honolulu Ballet Theatre, Dance Aspen.
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