The Texas Ballet Theater was founded by Margo Dean in 1961 as the Fort Worth Ballet, in Fort Worth, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. It became a professional ballet company in 1985. In 1988 the company began adding performances in Dallas. It became the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet in 1994, then was renamed Texas Ballet Theater in 2003.

Texas Ballet Theater is a resident company of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House

Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is an opera house located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas ....

 at the AT&T Performing Arts Center

AT&T Performing Arts Center

The AT&T Performing Arts Center, preliminarily referred to as the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is a $354 million multi-venue center in the Dallas Arts District for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of dance...

 in Dallas.

Artistic staff

As of May 2010:

• Ben Stevenson
  Ben Stevenson
  Ben Stevenson, OBE , is a former ballet dancer with Britain's Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, co-director of National Ballet in Washington, D.C...
  
  , O.B.E. - Artistic Director
• Tim O'Keefe - Associate Artistic Director

• Li Anlin - Assistant Artistic Director
• Anna Donovan - Principal Ballet Master

Dancers

• Paul Adams
• Adam Boreland
• Robin Bangert
• Max Caro
• Katelyn Clenaghan
• Carl Coomer
• Heather Kotelenets
• Jaclyn Gill

• Jennifer Hooper
• Kelly Kristen Irvine
• Carolyn Judson
• Lisa Kaczmarek
• Angela Kenny
• Thomas Kilps
• Alexander Kotelenets

• Michelle LeBoeuf
• Lainey Logan
• Betsy McBride
• Leticia Oliveira
• Lucas Priolo
• Danny Ryan
• Victoria Simo

• Philip Slocki
• Eddy Tovar
• Mark Troxler
• Joamanuel Velazquez
• Peter Zweifel
• Simon Wexler
• Havilah Sprunk

Apprentices

• Dustin Geradine
• Paige Nyman

• Andrew Hellerick
• Morgan Stinnett

• Kaitlyn Potts

• Drake Humphreys

Trainees

• Julianna Bicki
• Ali Paige Block

• Nicole Von Enck
• Amy Hollinger

• Emma Pressman

• Allisyn Hsieh