Ballet North is a ballet school and performing company in Gladstone, Missouri, where training and live performance are closely connected. The organization serves students from early childhood through the teen years with ballet instruction across multiple levels, while maintaining an active performance calendar centered on full-length storytelling ballets and other classical and original works. Its productions have included The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, Paquita, La Fille mal gardée, Carmina Burana, and Watermark, with additional work by local choreographers and guest artists. Ballet North also emphasizes arts education and community engagement through programs such as The Three Faces of Dance and its long-running Nutcracker School Tour, which has reached more than 85,000 students since 1994.