The New York Times favorably reviewed the company as “sensuous and fierce...with a refreshing directness.”

TimeOutNY says - “Worth the trip!”

Artists are drawn from acclaimed dance companies including American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Hispanico, the Kirov and the Bolshoi. The home of the SIB company and its professional school is a landmark building in the bucolic 2,800-acre Greenbelt (http://www.sigreenbelt.org/About/greenbelt/aboutgreenbelt.htm), the nation’s largest urban nature preserve, offering forested hilltop views of the Atlantic.

SIB’s four-level Neo-Classical building, nestled in the wooded campus of the Sea View-Farm Colony Historic District (http://www.seaviewfoundation.org/history.html) , features:

• two sprung-floor studios with double-mirrored walls
• a dance library
• conference suite
• salons
• dressing rooms
• and a set shop

SIB’s restoration of the 100-year-old building into the borough’s largest dance facility won a Preservation League award in 2003.

Open Monday - Saturday. 

SIB is a resident dance company at CUNY’s impressive Center for the Arts at the 204-acre campus of the College of Staten Island, the largest college campus in New York City.

The Staten Island Ballet’s operating principle is that an arts organization is truly worthwhile only to the extent that it charitably shares its gifts of talent to the greater community.  In our effort to serve the broadest possible audience, SIB upholds elements fundamental to our mission:

• Free Performances
  
  • The annual New York International Choreographers Festival™
  • Dance Up Close™
  • The Nutcracker (free tickets to select performances)

• Free Training
  
  • Dancing Over Walls™

• C.A.S.T.™
  
  • Children and Seniors Together™

• Supporting Non-for-Profits
  
  • SIB strives to serve other not-for-profit organizations dedicated to the arts, education, environment, health and social issues by creating original works and performing,  free of charge, for fund-raising events, providing technical assistance to help other emerging dance groups, and has also provided board development and marketing assistance.

• Economic Development for the Arts
  
• SIB has generated more than $7 million directly to the arts economy in Staten Island and the City of New York.

• The Gift of Theater
  
• SIB distributes free tickets and subsidized tickets to over a dozen not-for-profit organizations, as a community service, which benefits approximately 900 individuals a year.
Another 5,000 school children are served in free school events.