Founded in 2011 by director-choreographer Carole Alexis, a Creole woman, Ballet des Amériques/Carole Alexis Ballet Theatre is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization operating a professional multicultural dance company - now based in both New York City and White Plains - as well as a pre-professional ballet conservatory.

In its first thirteen years, the dance company, composed of dancers of multicultural backgrounds, has performed Carole Alexis’ choreographic work in hundreds of productions throughout the greater New York City area as well as internationally. 

 

Ballet des Amériques as its first-ever resident dance Company of Teatro  LATEA Directed by Miguel Trelles

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Carole Alexis and the company have received numerous accolades for Alexis’s innovative work, including government proclamations honoring Ballet des Amériques as the “Premier Dance Company" and “Best Ballet Company and School,” as well as regular press coverage.

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Partly in response to the closure of theaters during the COVID-19 pandemic, Carole Alexis created the Dancing Caravan Project: an itinerant dance theater, complete with a portable sprung dance floor, sound and lighting system, costume-change tents and audience chairs, that brings Alexis’s diverse choreographies into various communities in both indoor and outdoor settings from Westchester to New York City.

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In the same period, numerous pre-professionally trained students of the Ballet des Amériques Conservatory have been consistently admitted to prestigious colleges and highly competitive programs throughout the world, such as the Ballet School of the Opera National de Paris, the Royal Ballet in the United Kingdom, English National Ballet, the Julliard School, American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet Academy, San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Ballet West.