About us

Barbara Todd Ballet is one of Tasmania’s longest running ballet schools. We were established in Hobart in 1961 by former Royal Ballet Company dancer Barbara Todd and have operated continuously in the same location ever since.

We offer ballet classes for all ages from pre-school students and up.

We teach the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) ballet syllabus and employ fully qualified and registered teachers.

Quality & Experience

We focus on teaching ballet and have the training and experience to do this well.  We value and care for all our students providing high quality teaching both for our casual and more serious dancers.  

Ballet is the foundation for most forms of dance. We create this strong foundation giving opportunity to our students as they grow and develop.

We know the body is forever and prioritise safe dancing and injury prevention.

We love what we do.

Not long now! 🩰 💗 🍭 🥜 💗 🩰
Such a fun theatre rehearsal tonight!! Thanks everyone 🥰
Watching the Sugar Plum Fairy 🧚‍♀️ 🥰
Saturday morning Sugar Plum ballet is just the cutest time of the week! 🥰 Thank you Chloe for being such a caring and magical teacher for our littlest ballerinas 🌟💗🌟
Concert rehearsals are in full swing now! 🩰🌟
We are having a ball getting ready for the concert 🩰💗🩰 Not long to go now!
A huge congratulations to our amazing students on their wonderful RAD ballet exam results! We are so proud of every single dancer and are just thrilled with their results and personal achievements. We are very excited to have achieved a Distinctio
A beautiful developpe for your Tuesday 💗
When you are just thrilled to try on your first pink tutu!! 💗 💗 💗
A busy day yesterday volunteering at the RAD Awards event in Launceston! There were so many beautiful performances from dancers from around the state - well done to all the dancers and teachers 🥰 Congratulations to our participants in the Susan Sar
We are thrilled to be presenting The Nutcracker ballet on November 24 this year! 👗 Over 150 costumes and headpieces have been collated, sized and decorated! 🎁 Props have been made! 🎶 Music has been edited! 💡 Lighting and sets are being prepare
We are very sad to say goodbye to our Japanese exchange student Naoko who joined us in term 3. We loved learning about her home and family and we were happy to introduce her to the delights of fairy bread 🧚‍♀️ 😁 Naoko has now returned to Hokka
So proud of our gorgeous Pre-Primary students who were presented with their certificates at the end of a very productive term! Congratulations girls 🩵
End of Term 3! 🩰 Such a busy term for our dancers from our tiny Sugar Plums, through to our RAD exam students and adult students. Thank you everyone for your dedication and support and well done on all your achievements 👏👏👏 Term 4 starts on Mo
🩵🩵🩵 More pics 🩵🩵🩵 And we are done! Our 2 days of ballet exams are complete 🥰 We are so proud of all our beautiful students on their achievements. You all worked so hard all year to get to this point and it was just so rewarding to see you b
And we are done! Our 2 days of ballet exams are complete 🥰 We are so proud of all our beautiful students on their achievements. You all worked so hard all year to get to this point and it was just so rewarding to see you beaming at the end of your
And we are exam ready! Sleep well dancers....🩵 🩰 🩵
It was so lovely to have parents and friends join us yesterday for our final Saturday exam classes! Thank you for your support - your dancers are amazing and we are so proud of them. Exams start tomorrow - chookas everyone!
Another busy Saturday of exam classes complete ✔ Well done everyone - not long to go now! 🤩