Nashville Ballet

“The completed form 990 is reviewed by the finance committee under the direction of the executive director. Once their review is complete the finance committee recommends that both the executive director and board of directors accept the completed form 990 as presented. The completed form 990 is provided electronically via e-mail to all board members in advance of the filing. Any board members who cannot receive documents electronically are provided with a paper copy.”

“The board president and other board officers review the annual conflict of interest disclosure statements and note conflicts so they can ask select board members to recuse themselves from participating in discussions and votes on topics with which they have previously disclosed a conflict.”

“A committee of the board of directors annually reviews the compensation of the artistic director and the executive director. They also benchmark the compensation against compensation provided to similar positions in comparable dance companies”

“Nashville ballet makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. Annual audits and significant other company information is available through the website https://givingmatters.guidestar.org/”

“Our mission is to create, perform, teach, and promote dance as an essential and inspiring element of our community. Through our season performance repertory, we create and present outstanding works of art in collaboration with other notable nashville artists, including the nashville symphony and local singer-songwriters. These inspirational works of art reach more than 35,000 middle tennesseans every year. Our school of nashville ballet is a nationally known leader in classical ballet training and top of mind locally for recreational dancing. Our community engagement and educational programs permeate the community and reach over 20,000 underserved children, youth and adults in more than 12 counties across tennessee.”

“Nashville ballet's mission is to create, perform, teach and promote dance as an essential and inspiring element of our community. We fulfill that mission by offering a diverse range of dance programs in our season repertory, educating children and adults in our school of nashville ballet and bringing dance into the community through community engagement & performances.”

“Artistic: create a world-class artistic brand based on the foundation of classical ballet and contemporary dance innovation. -nashville ballet made its debut at the world-renowned chautauqua institution in chautauqua, ny in august 2018. During a week-long residency, the company performed a collection of masterworks from george balanchine, jiri kylian and paul vasterling. Additionally, vasterling workshopped lucy negro redux with poet caroline randall williams, composer rhiannon giddens, and members of nashville ballet's company. -paul vasterling celebrated 20 years as artistic director of nashville ballet. In honor of this milestone, paul vasterling's 20th anniversary gala performance presented an evening of masterworks, including some of vasterling's own, highlighting the past, present and future of nashville ballet. Additionally, through generous community support, the paul vasterling artistic fund was created to ensure the future of this artistic legacy. -in february 2019, nashville ballet premiered lucy negro redux. This project not only sold out all performances, it also received critical acclaim from the new york times. Additionally, nashville ballet toured the work to the prestigious big ears festival in knoxville, tn in march 2019. School of nashville ballet: become a preeminent school of dance, noted for its development of dance artists steeped in the foundation of the ballet tradition and their own human development. -the school of nashville ballet: awarded over $200,000 in scholarships to students in fy19! This includes 30 students from residency schools programs who received over $23,000 in scholarships and the young men's scholarship program which provided over $80,000 in scholarships to 63 young men. -the school of nashville ballet saw the largest children's division enrollment ever, with revenue increasing over 25% this fiscal year. -in an ongoing effort to increase artistic performance opportunities for nb2, 6 original works were created on them over the past year and were performed at the frist museum, adventure science center, and ballet ball. -nashville ballet's inclusive and accessible adaptive dance program reaching differently-abled youth (ages 3-16) receiving pediatric outpatient rehabilitative services for a range of diagnoses including down syndrome and autism spectrum disorder expanded to two classes over two semesters with a plan to continue next year. -as an indication of the tremendous and rigorous training at the school of nashville ballet, at least one academy level student was promoted to the professional training division, one student was promoted to nb2 from the professional training division, and one nb2 dancer to the company. The last promotion is most impressive that this dancer began training in nashville ballet's own academy and continues to fulfill a goal to build a pipeline from the school to the company. Community engagement & education: cultivate, develop and positively impact an inclusive community through a deepening engagement in our art. -nashville ballet was successfully able to increase the response rate of post-program surveys by implementing new technology which sends survey links directly to audience members' phones. Survey responses continue to be over 90% goal rate of positive feedback. -now in its second season, adult learning program inside the ballet with mitchell korn continues to accomplish three strategic goals of creating arts advocates, reaching the senior population and serving as a pipeline converting participants to ticket holders to see the production of the same themed series. -successfully partnered with the treatment and research institute for autism spectrum disorders (triad) also known as the inclusion network of nashville, to present our 2nd annual sensory friendly performance in february. With the help of the triad support materials were created and provided for families and individuals to prepare and enhance their experience. Instructors from the school”

“Change in value of the community foundation of middle tennessee endowment -1,797.”

“The organization did not change its oversight process or selection process regarding the selection of an independent accountant.”