About BalletCollective

BalletCollective is an inventive producing organization founded in 2011 by choreographer and director Troy Schumacher, built around the belief that how work is made determines what it can become. Rather than operating as a repertory company, BalletCollective exclusively commissions and presents original work created through sustained, process-driven collaboration between choreographers, composers, and Source Artists from outside dance. Centering time, trust, and inquiry, the organization takes on projects often too complex or unconventional for traditional institutions, resulting in ambitious full-length works and immersive performance environments, including The Nutcracker at Wethersfield and The Woods. To date, BalletCollective has collaborated with more than 340 artists across disciplines and presented over 25 original works at institutions and festivals including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pioneer Works, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with work featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Dance Magazine, and others.