Nashville Ballet

“In the board bylaws nashville ballet changed the quorum of the board of directors from one-third to 51 percent of the number of directors in office immediately before the meeting begins.”

“The completed form 990 is reviewed by the audit and finance committees under the direction of the executive director. Once their review is complete the audit and finance committees recommend 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.civicore.org/.”

“Nashville ballet's mission is to create, perform, teach, and promote dance as an essential and inspiring element of our community. We fill 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 bring the joy of dance into the community through our virtual and in-person performances and varied community engagement programming. Despite the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic, nashville ballet was able to adapt programming, building operations, and budget in order to keep artists, staff, and faculty successfully creating, performing, training, and sharing the art form of ballet with our community throughout fy20 and fy21.”

“Through our season performance repertory, we create and present outstanding works of art in collaboration with other notable local and international artists both virtually and in the theater. Nashville ballet and the second company, nb2 (a pre-professional training company), provide more than 55,000 arts experiences to adults and children annually through season performances and its community engagement programming. Curriculum-based community engagement programs bring dance education to community centers, colleges, public libraries, and public elementary, middle, and high schools across the state. School of nashville ballet brings world-class dance instruction to students age 2 and up and is a nationally-known leader in classical ballet training. Artistic: create a world-class artistic brand based on the foundation of classical ballet and contemporary dance innovation. Nashville ballet's 2020-2021 season featured a collection of virtual and in-theater performances. Highlights included the revival of contemporary choreographer jennifer archibald's posters where the company performed to music composed and performed live by local nashville artists louis york and the shindellas at nashville ballet's first outdoor performance at ascend amphitheater, the virtual premiere of christopher stuart's under the lights set to the music of johnny cash, and paul vasterling's ballet seasons featuring internationally-renowned composer max richter's arrangement of antonio vivaldi's the four seasons. 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. In response to the covid-19 pandemic, school of nashville ballet offered virtual training opportunities as well as limited-capacity in-studio training to students in order to continue providing excellence in dance education safely. In fy21, school of nashville ballet faculty trained 25 nb2 members and trainees as well as 27 professional training division students in preparation for their professional performance careers. As an indication of the tremendous and rigorous training provided by the school of nashville ballet, 3 members of nb2 were promoted to nashville ballet company apprentices for the 2021-2022 season and 2 professional training division students were invited to join nb2. These promotions support the organization's goal to build a pipeline from the school to the company. Additionally, 62% of the students within nb2 or the professional training division were invited to dance professionally at other companies or higher education across the country. Community engagement and education: cultivate, develop, and positively impact an inclusive community through a deepening engagement in our art. In fy21, nashville ballet continued to partner with k-12 schools to bring innovative and educational dance programming into homes and classrooms across middle tennessee and provide teachers with virtual resources to help them through the challenges brought on by the pandemic. Inside the ballet, an adult learning series, created arts advocates and engaged high school students as well as patrons over the age of 55 to help them gain understanding of the social and cultural themes surrounding a work. Elementary and middle school integrated arts experiences and performance opportunities were adapted to be presented virtually in order to meet the needs of hybrid class environments and nashville ballet launched their first free virtual afterschool program, jam. Audience development and branding: increase the number of individuals for whom we perform and create more deeply engaged audiences. In fy21, 275,180 patrons enjoyed nashville ballet's virtual and in-person performances. In december of 2020, nashville ballet made its television broadcast premiere with nashville's nutcracker on newschannel 5. Available to watch live and on-demand through newschannel 5 and newschannel 5”

“Change in value of the community foundation of middle tennessee endowment 11,015.”

“The organization did not change its oversight and selection process during the year.”