Olney Ballet Theatre
Board of Directors
Patricia Berrend, Artistic Director
Royal S Dellinger, President
Lynn M. Silvey, Production Consultant
Michelle Barnett, Parent's Guild Chair
Roger Bennett Riggle, Jr.
The Olney Ballet Theatre is a non-profit, performing arts, educational organization supported financially by parents, local businesses, corporate grants, the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Membership in OBT is open, by audition, to all interested ballet dancers between the ages of 10 and 18 who are intermediate and advanced level students and who seek performance opportunities in addition to their individual dance studio programs.
Contact OBT:
Email: information@olneyballettheatre.org
Phone: 301.774.9850
Mail:
3460 Olney-Laytonsville Road
Suite 210
Olney, Maryland 20832
or
P.O. Box 946
Olney, Maryland 20830
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Mission Statement
Olney Ballet Theatre is committed to young dancers and to extending their education in the arts by providing opportunities to perform in a theater setting before live audiences, thereby enhancing and giving meaning to their years of routine dance training. Olney Ballet Theatre is equally committed to becoming an educational resource that will provide cultural enrichment for the community, particularly for the community’s young people, through presentations of high quality, original productions of understandable, entertaining story ballets performed by young dancers. No person on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, or age who is otherwise qualified shall be excluded from participation in Olney Ballet Theatre. Furthermore, no person who is otherwise qualified shall be excluded from participation or be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination solely by reason of his or her handicap.
