Great Additions to our Faculty! This year we are pleased to welcome the Missouri Ballet Theatre to our studio, and to our faculty! You'll find that many of our ballet classes and pointe classes will be taught by members and directors of the professional ballet company!

The Missouri Ballet Theatre Company came to St. Louis in 2009.  Wildwood Dance and Arts now serves as host to the professional ballet company. Not only are we host, but partners in many ways.  Not only have we added members of their company to our faculty, we work together on a ballet curriculum that provides the training needed for those serious students to pursue a professional career in ballet, and allows for more performance opportunities for our students as well.  We look forward to our partnership with MBT.

Missouri Ballet Theatre is led by Adam Sage, Founder/Artistic Director. Adam Sage - Adam Sage has enjoyed a three-decade performing, teaching, coaching and choreographic career that spanned four continents. Mr. Sage most recently served as Artistic Director of Virginia School of the Arts after directing the School of Nashville Ballet for more than seven years, where he also served as Ballet Master and Company Teacher. He began his twenty years on stage at the age of seventeen with the California Ballet in his hometown of San Diego, before moving on to dance with Ballet West, Ballet Memphis and as Guest Artist with Nashville Ballet.  Internationally, he has danced with such companies as Hong Kong Ballet, Ballet Philippines, N.A.P.A.C. Dance Company and the National Dance Company of Bophuthatswana in South Africa.

Mr. Sage has performed principal roles in all the great classics, including Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, La Bayadere, and Cinderella, and in works by dance luminaries such as John Cranko, Kenneth McMillan, George Balanchine, Ninnette de Valois and Frederick Ashton.  He has had the honor of dancing at some of the most prestigious theatres in the world including the Opera House at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Hong Kong Cultural Center and in command performances at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Mr. Sage has coached dancers who have participated in the prestigious “Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition” in Switzerland as well as the “American Ballet Competition” in Miami, for which he served on the jury panel for the 2007 and 2008 competition.  He was inducted into the “Who’s who among America’s Teachers” in 2005 and 2006 and the “National Honor Roll’s Outstanding American Teachers” in 2006 for his exemplary teaching and dedication to the youth of America.

We are very pleased to welcome our new instructors to Wildwood Dance & Arts.