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Boston Ballet School — Brookline Studio

Coolidge Corner Brookline campus of Boston Ballet School, consolidated 2025 from the acquired Brookline Ballet School at 1431 Beacon St. Children's program from 16 months through adult open classes. State-of-the-art two-studio facility.

Ages 1+ years
Focus Both
Styles Ballet, Pointe
Trial class Available
  • Ballet
  • Children's Dance
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How Boston Ballet School — Brookline Studio comes across

Boston Ballet School's Brookline Studio comes across as the institution's newest and most neighborhood-facing outpost — "now open in the heart of Coolidge Corner" at 1431 Beacon Street, described as "a state-of-the-art facility" offering "world-class ballet instruction for students ranging in age from 16 months to adult." It carries the full weight of the parent company behind it: the same named leadership as the South End headquarters (Associate Director Tamara King, Assistant Principal Ivaylo Alexiev) and the same serious curriculum — Preparatory, Foundations, a Teen Beginner Program, and Adult Dance Training. The transit-friendly framing (next to the Summit Avenue Green Line stop, with parking notes) signals a deliberate effort to be accessible to local families rather than only the dedicated. The impression is of a satellite that loses none of the company's pedigree — a place where a toddler's first class and an adult's late start share a building with genuine pre-professional ballet, delivered under a major company's name and standards.

An editor's impression, drawn from the school's own website and public materials, 13 June 2026. Not a review — if it misses the mark, the school or a parent can tell us via the form below.

About the school

The Brookline Studio of Boston Ballet School operates from 1431 Beacon Street in Coolidge Corner. The location was consolidated in 2025 when Boston Ballet School acquired the former Brookline Ballet School (founded 2010 by Trinidad Vives and Parren Ballard) after 15 years of independent operation. Boston Ballet now runs its full curriculum from the recently completed two-studio facility — Children's Program from 16 months through Pre-Professional, Adult Dance Program (16+) covering Foundations of Ballet and open drop-in classes. Sister studios operate in Back Bay (19 Clarendon St) and Newton.

At a glance

Address
1431 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446
Suburb
Brookline
City
Boston
State
Massachusetts
Age range
1+ years
Disciplines
Ballet, Pointe
Approach
Both
Price band
Premium
Trial class
Available on request

What stands out

  1. i.Brookline (Coolidge Corner) location of Boston Ballet School
  2. ii.Consolidated 2025 — acquired former Brookline Ballet School
  3. iii.Two-studio recently completed facility

Teachers listed on the school's site

As at 12 June 2026.

  • Luciano Aimar — Faculty Leadership Team
  • Ivaylo Alexiev — Faculty Leadership Team
  • Melanie Atkins — Faculty Leadership Team
  • Joan Boada — Faculty Leadership Team
  • Maureen Kelly — Faculty Leadership Team
  • Tamara King — Faculty Leadership Team
  • Kathleen Mitchell — Faculty Leadership Team

Plus around 40 additional teaching faculty across classical ballet, pointe, variations, partnering, character, contemporary and adaptive dance — see the school's full Faculty page.

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