City: Atlanta, GA

Category: Shopping

Telephone: (404) 873-5811

Address: 1400 West Peachtree St. NE

Description: The Atlanta Ballet has been a part of the city’s life since dance visionary Dorothy Moses Alexander founded it in 1929. It’s the oldest continually operating dance company in America and the official State Ballet Company of Georgia. The centerpiece of the company’s production is The Nutcracker, the traditional dazzling, snowy production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece staged by McFall. Aside from his activities with the Ballet, McFall leads the Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education, established in August 1996, which operates out of the Ballet’s Midtown studios and satellite facilities at 4279 Roswell Rd. in Buckhead and 200 Powers Ferry Rd. in Marietta. The Ballet Centre offers, among other things, classes in flamenco and yoga as well as instruction for children in a preprofessional program of ballet, tap, jazz, or creative movement techniques.