This year’s production of The Nutcracker featured two guest Sugar Plum Fairies who are both native Southern Californians, Erin Rivera-Brennand and Joy Womack. Joy Womack began her ballet training with Westside School of Ballet before continuing on with the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow. Miss Womack is now the first American female dancer …

WSB’s The Nutcracker was everything we all worked so hard to create. Once again we entered the magical world of sugar plum fairies and toy soldiers at the beautiful Wadsworth Theater in Brentwood. See more spectacular photos of the 2012 production of The Nutcracker in our Gallery.   Read more…  

Dear Westside Ballet Family, Thank you all so much for the outpouring of sympathy, support and remembrances this week as we grieve the loss of my beloved mother, Yvonne Mounsey. I want you to know how much she loved and treasured all of you – her dancers and families through every generation. It …

It is with great sadness that Westside Ballet announces the death of Yvonne Mounsey, founder of Westside Ballet. With a ballet career encompassing more than eight decades, she touched the lives of thousands through her dancing, her choreography, her teaching, and the example she set of a life well-lived. We …

Save Saturday, May 12 for the date of Westside Ballet’s annual Spring Performance. A matinee and evening performance are planned, at the Smothers Theater on the Pepperdine campus in Malibu.

Westside Ballet director Yvonne Mounsey is featured in a Dec. 2 story in the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. “Yvonne Mounsey leads Westside Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker‘” opens at a rehearsal of the Act I party scene. In the course of the story, Yvonne explains why performance opportunities are …