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Ballet 314

Celebrating Local Talent Within the Community

Creve Coeur, MO   |  https://www.ballet314.org

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Mission

Founded in February of 2019, Ballet 314 is a nonprofit professional ballet company dedicated to celebrating local talent in the St Louis region. Led by artistic directors, Rachel Bodi and Robert Poe and creatively powered by dancers who have chosen St Louis as their home, Ballet 314 was founded with a heart to serve the community. We aspire to provide encouragement and partnership with local organizations and to be a bridge for the arts in St Louis. Experience classical and contemporary ballet created by local choreographers, amazing dancers, and a wide variety of music at an entertaining Ballet 314 event!

Ruling year info

2019

Executive Director and Founder

Rachel Bodi

Co-Artistic Director and Founder

Robert Poe

Main address

331 N. New Ballas Rd. PO Box 37032

Creve Coeur, MO 63141 USA

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EIN

83-3310999

NTEE code info

Ballet (A63)

Community Coalitions (S21)

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

As a brand-new nonprofit, we are working hard to raise the funds needed to stage and produce our very first large scale production, The Nutcracker & The World's Fair. This is a world premiere re-telling of St Louis' favorite historical event, the 1904 World's Fair, with everyone's most treasured holiday classic, The Nutcracker. Our Co-Artistic Directors and our board members are dedicating significant time and effort required to create and stage this ballet. We have a large community cast joining us for these performances on Dec 6th and 7th, 2019. Meanwhile, we are also working with schools and libraries to bring Llama Llama and Friends to more locations in the spring of 2020. We have a commitment to Old Bonhomme Elementary School to bring the ballet to their school. We expect to work with many more schools and libraries to bring the ballet to them, also. Our next major performance will be a performance in May 2020 of a mixed bill repertoire.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Llama Llama and Friends

A brand new children's ballet written around the characters in the Llama Llama and Friends children's book. This ballet is narrated from the original book by Anna Dewdney and is set to music from the album Happy Dance by Scott and Rosanna, with choreography by the Ballet 314 artistic directors, Rachel Bodi and Robert Poe.

Population(s) Served
Families

A children's ballet created to highlight and provide education on the instruments of the orchestra. Choreography and movement is set to different orchestra instruments and paired with classical ballet music. Different segments of the ballet focus on woodwinds, percussion, brass, and strings.

Population(s) Served
Families

A brand new, narrated take on the holiday tradition with historic ties to St Louis. Ballet 314 brings St Louis' favorite historical event and everyone's most treasured holiday classic together in this first-ever re-telling of The Nutcracker and the World's Fair. Join Clara and her family as they make memories through the sights, sounds, and sweets of the St Louis 1904 World's Fair

Population(s) Served
Families

“Ragtime encapsulates the human experience in a richly textured and heart wrenching story that will lead you to re-examine the American dream.”

Ballet 314 Artistic Director Robert Poe’s energizing and historically informed production of Ragtime: The American Experience brings a unique re-telling of E.L Doctorow’s epic American novel. Three families from different racial and cultural backgrounds navigate the social change during the turn of the century in New York. We watch them face the impact of racism, police brutality, and domestic abuse while in pursuit of their American Dream.

During its premiere in 2021, Ragtime: The American Experience united local performers from The Big Muddy Dance Company, St Louis Ballet, Ashleyliane Dance Company, as well as Missouri Baptist University and was described as “a relevant and powerful social justice ballet” by attendees. Don’t miss this moving cultural experience.

Population(s) Served

Join Ballet 314's professional company as they perform “Chocolat.” This ballet, narrated in both Spanish and English is adapted from the book, “Chocolat and The Master (of my heart)” by Doris E. Lugo Ramírez (2020). This book tells two perspectives of the encounter that changed the course of the lives of both a regular runner and animal lover, and the abandoned dog who, among her adventures, howled at the moon for a helping hand. This brand new work is a fun dance of love suitable for adults and children. Following the performance, audience members will even have a chance to dance along with the performers from Ballet 314.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
People of Latin American descent

This seasonal mixed bill highlights choreography and storytelling, and will leave the audience ready to join us for performances to come. Selections are paired with Edgar Allen Poe poems read aloud by a professional storyteller, as the story comes to life through the dancers and choreography on stage.

Population(s) Served
Adults

Where we work

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

We aspire to provide encouragement and partnership with local organizations and to be a bridge for the arts in St Louis. Ballet 314 was founded with a heart to serve the community.

Community outreach is our main focus. We are partnering with schools, libraries, other arts organizations, and local businesses to bring ballet performances and programs to more people in the local community. We are dedicated to celebrating local talent within the community and see a need to connect the many talented professional dancers in the area with the need and opportunity for educational and entertaining performances for audiences of all ages.

The Co-Artistic Directors for Ballet 314 are extremely dedicated and talented professional ballet dancers. Robert Poe and Rachel Bodi have danced with a number of other professional dance companies in the careers. The dancers who perform with Ballet 314 are all professional dancers who have chosen St Louis as their home. All of them have a heart to serve the community and a dedication to the mission of Ballet 314.

The three board members are all volunteering their time and talents to ensure that Ballet 314 is a successful nonprofit start-up in St Louis.
Our board president has prior experience leading other nonprofit professional ballet companies; Our treasurer has thirty years of business experience and also serves on another local nonprofit board. Our secretary is an extremely talented designer who donates her considerable skills to the graphic design and branding of Ballet 314.

Ballet 314 has been commissioned for 2 brand-new ballets so far; Assemble and Llama Llama and Friends. In addition, we have participated in the commUNITY Arts Festival this summer as part of that nonprofit organization's efforts to raise community-wide awareness of violent crimes through art. We are staging and producing a brand-new re-telling of The Nutcracker & The World's Fair, and are being joined by a large adult and youth community cast for these performances on the 6th and 7th of December 2019.

Financials

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The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Ballet 314

Board of directors
as of 07/25/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Rachel Bodi

Eugenia Jones

Maura Caldwell

Sarah Ballance

Morgan Pfeiffer

Sarah Mayer

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 4/6/2023

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

The organization's co-leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Black/African American
Gender identity
Male, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or other sexual orientations in the LGBTQIA+ community
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

Disability