About Us

Goldsboro Ballet is a non-profit dance organization whose mission is to produce quality ballet performances for the Goldsboro-Wayne County area.  We are inclusive of any ballet student in the area, or the counties surrounding Wayne County, committed to the art of ballet.  We were conceived in 1982 as Goldsboro Civic Ballet, with an Advisory Board of 10 interested citizens.  We became a member of the Arts Council of Wayne County in 1985, enjoying services from them, such as publicizing our upcoming programs, mail-outs, and sharing in the promotion of the arts in Wayne County.   In 1997, we renamed our company Goldsboro Ballet because of the strength shown in our performances. Greensboro Ballet adopted us as an upcoming Ballet Company in 1992.  We have enjoyed Maryhelen Mayfield, Director, meeting with our board, sharing choreography and ballets with us, and helping us in assundry of ways.

Memberships include:   The Director Graduating from The Arts Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wayne County Chamber of Commerce,  Arts Council of Wayne County, N.C. Arts Council,  N.C. Dance Alliance, N.C. Center for Nonprofit

Organizations.
Grants:  Goldsboro Ballet has received the NC Grassroots Grant from the NC Arts Council, a state agency through the Arts Council of Wayne County, 3 Target Arts Grants, including the first one ever given in Wayne County, and, in the past, matching grants from employee programs with CP& L and TRW.  We have received ongoing support from Cooper Bussmann, Sunburst Foods, Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Goldsboro Iron and Metal, Thomas Office Supply, Nash Printing, Accu-Copy, Lowe's, Johnnie Lawhorn's Floors and Finishing Company, Ken's Cabinet Shop, Wayne Women's Clinic, Goldsboro Pediatrics, Wayne Orthopedics, Wayne Community College, Wayne Country Day School, Wayne Christian School, and Wayne County Public Schools.  We served as Visiting Artists in Johnston County at Johnston Community College for two seasons and have taken The Nutcracker to Kenansville one season.  

Short Performances:  This season we have danced for the opening of the new Arts Council Building, the Senior Citizens at the Brian Center, and for Summerfest, Goldsboro's Downtown Development Corporation's new late summer project.  We have most recently performed for the Senior Citizen Day at the old Waynesborough Park Site.  We are scheduled to perform in November for the Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours, Little Bank sponsoring this project and Senior Day at Target in December.  We have been invited to perform for the Officer's Wives Club at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base December 13th.  We have performed at SJAFB a number of times in the 1980s and 90s. 

Support Team:  Our new Fundraising Chairman, John Beachem, CEO at Car-Vir on  Highway 70East, says of Goldsboro Ballet that "We're the best kept secret yet in Wayne County."  We are committed to our dancers sound technical development and their presentation of the art in a proper manner.  Goldsboro Ballet has several honorary members dancing professionally, such as:

Fleming Lomax is a professional dancer, for the third year,  with Colorado Youth Ballet, having taught ballet and modern at the West Palm Beach Public School of the Arts for the past 5 years.
Tanner Martin, from Mt. Olive, graduated in May from the Virginia School of the Arts, is a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill, dancing through the school's Physical Education Dance Class.
Kimberlee Pooler, is sophomore UNC Chapel Hill, on a Teaching Fellow.  She danced with Goldsboro Ballet until 2000.  
Kelli Bradshaw, 1998's Miss North Carolina, danced with Goldsboro Ballet for seven years, receiving training from our School for 5 years.
Mary W. Franklin, taught ballet in the Panama Canal three years, and has just returned home from Ocean Springs, Ms., where she taught at Miss Donna's for two years.  She graduated with PE degree from South Alabama in December and is teaching PE at Brogden Primary, Dudley, NC, and dance at Goldsboro School of Ballet, as well as choreographing for Goldsboro Ballet.  And, the Director's nephew, Joshua Grant, is now a company member with Pacific Northwest Ballet Company in Seattle, Washington, as of July 31, having graduated from Harid Ballet Conservatory, Boca Raton, Florida in May, 2000.   Aunt Peggy and his Mom Annette got to see his performance and him receiving the news of his contract.  Goldsboro Ballet has traveled to his home ballet company's summer sessions several years - the Northwest Florida Ballet Association in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.