A year in numbers...
Find out how your incredible support has made a difference to Northern ballet
From April 2023 to March 2024 we:
- Produced 4 main scale productions and a new mixed bill
- Revived our historic production of Romeo & Juliet, restoring it to its former glory after long-term flood damage
- Staged 151 performances & visited 35 venues across the UK
- Welcomed over 90,000 ballet lovers to our performances
- Performed our children’s ballet to over 23,000 young people
- Turned over £8.35million (Gross Value Added: £5.5million)
- Generated £2.35 million in ticket sales
- Employed over 100 people and worked with 200 freelancers
- Delivered over 2,800 classes, workshops and learning activities
- Offered contracts to 2 of our Academy of Northern Ballet Graduates to perform in our forthcoming production of A Christmas Carol
- Trained over 1,000 students in the Academy of Northern Ballet
- Nurtured new talent in dance, with Sketches our performance strand dedicated to new work
- Delivered Expressions, our groundbreaking inclusive dance festival
- Dropped 5200kg of rice to create the iconic Romeo & Juliet rainstorm
- Reached over 12.8m people across social media
- Travelled 8,976 miles touring the country
- Received support from over 200 amazing donors & 28 wonderful volunteers
- Raised over £1,386,000 from our incredibly generous supporters. Thank you for making all our work possible.
The difference our work has made
'Every Northern ballet performance is brilliant, but The Nutcracker was amazing. The familiar music helped, but the costumes, the scenery, the interpretation of the story, and of course, the dancing, were all fantastic. I had the same level of wonder as when I saw my first ballet, which was The Nutcracker, when I was probably 8 (now I’m 63). It was magical.’Audience member
‘What an emotional night. I felt privileged to be in the audience.’Audience member
‘My first opportunity, and at my age, to dance ballet - inspired and I love it. The warmup, technique, adaptions, choreography, the teaching. Eager to continue the enjoyment it brings, leaning and developing, regularly.’New participant on the In Motion wheelchair dance course
‘I’ve so enjoyed learning something I thought was out of reach,’Inclusive dance participant
‘I come away every year feeling fulfilled, inspired, happy, part of something and grateful that you do this for people like me every year and remind me that me and my family are not alone, are not isolated, are not pitied, are included and part of this world. Thank you so very, very, very much!! You make a difference!!’Expressions participant
‘The children were blown away by the venue, it is a real treat to go to the Grand at any time and for some this was their first ever time there. The Ballet was perfection, seeing the Nutcracker was just magical for them. Some of them were just beaming from ear to ear.’Teacher from Beechwood Primary School, one of our Rise schools
‘I thought ballet was a girly thing, but now I know that I can do ballet and I can do it and it makes me feel good when I move’Pupil, St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School
Romeo & Juliet production photos taken by Emily Nuttall, Expressions photo taken by Ant Robling.