Welcome to Canada's National Ballet School, where dances of all ages and abilities unite to a passion for dance. From professional ballet students to aspiring dance teachers to those who dance for the health and joy of it. Our beautiful campus occupies two blocks at the eastern edge of downtown Toronto. Now, we'll take you inside and my friends will show you around. This is the Celia Frankic Center, the main hub of our school. This award-winning building has six floors in total including our staff offices, a student resource center, a wardrobe studio, a conditioning pool, a cafe, and of course our big bright dance studios. I love dancing in these inspiring spaces. We have 13 studios in total, each with a piano for a musician to play live in our classes. On the north side is the Betty Olive & Theater, located in a former red brick century home. It has a large professional-sized stage where we not only rehearse and perform, but even take classes throughout the school year. The theater is also a central venue in the city for small and mid-sized dance and theater companies. Beside the theater, you can visit the shoe room, a ballet boutique that sells dancewear and offers the largest selection of point shoes in Canada, as well as expert point shoe fitting services. Across this bridge on the south side is the Margaram McCain Academic Building. The building has classrooms for academics, a science lab, a computer lab, a music room, and an art studio. Around the corner is the student residence in Curry Hall. It was formerly a Quaker meeting house and later became the original site of Canada's National Ballet School. Before the Celia Franca Center was built, this is where students lived, trained, and took academic classes. Today the building serves as our residence and the main hall is still being used as a dance studio. NBS was established here at Curry Hall in 1959 with only 26 ballet students to start. Today, NBS is one of only two ballet training institutions in North America that provide dance training, academics, and residence facilities all in one campus. And through the breadth of NBS's programs, dancers of all ages and abilities are dancing in these world-class state-of-the-art facilities.