Get ready for an unforgettable year with the Oklahoma City Ballet, featuring a year filled with performances everyone will love. The 2025-26 season promises exhilarating performances packed with brilliant choreography, new sounds and a wide range of genres. Don’t miss out on the 2025-26 season of the Oklahoma City Ballet.
Future Voices: A Choreographic Showcase
Located in the Susan E. Brackett Dance Center, the Inasmuch Foundation Theater presents Future Voices, which is coming up on its sixth year. The performance focuses on the celebration of authentic choreography and dance, without complex sets or costumes. Future Voices features several short works by up-and-coming choreographers.
Showtimes include:
- March 20, 7 p.m.
- March 21, 7 p.m.
- March 22, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
- March 23, 2 p.m.
Tickets are available now for $20
Shorts
Shorts, performed in the Civic Center Music Hall, will feature three iconic ballets in one production.
Shorts includes works for every kind of audience member, with acts such as the Afro-Cuban piece, Otra Vez, by Stephanie Martinez; a neoclassical piece titled Divertimento No. 15, composed by George Balanchine; and a world premiere by Oklahoma City Ballet Artistic Director Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye, featuring the music of Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips.
Jolicoeur-Nye’s work will be the first to utilize music by The Flaming Lips for a professional ballet. As a longtime fan of The Flaming Lips, Jolicoeur-Nye noted this performance allows him to revisit his childhood and combine the two things he loved most: rock music and dance. “I want to juxtapose typical ballet stereotypes and rock and roll stereotypes, and hopefully, congeal them in a way that changes how one thinks of OKC Ballet.”
Every set piece, costume, musical work and chorographical piece of The Flaming Lips ballet will be created in Oklahoma City. The production will also be performed by Oklahoma City Ballet’s professional dancers.
Showtimes include:
- May 9, 7:30 p.m.
- May 10, 7:30 p.m.
- May 11, 2 p.m.
Tickets are available now from a range of $20-$103
Ballet Under the Stars
The sixth annual Ballet Under the Stars will take place in Scissortail Park at the Love’s Travel Stops Stage and Great Lawn.
This performance will combine the works of classical ballet’s most beloves dances with new contemporary choreography for a fast-paced, eclectic production. Students from the Yvonne Chouteau School will join professional dancers for the showcase.
Before the performance, the audience is encouraged to join the performers in a movement class for everyone to try. The production is free, and no reservations are required for the event.
Time of events:
- Dancer warm-up, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
- Family dance class, 6:30-7 p.m.
- Performance, 7 p.m.
David Nixon’s Dracula
In spirit of the Halloween season, David Nixon’s Dracula is coming to the Civic Center Music Hall in October. The internationally renowned retelling of Bram Stoker’s 1897 horror classic has been performed around the world, and Oklahoma City audiences will get the chance to enjoy the production, as well.
Showtimes include:
- October 17, 7:30 p.m.
- October 18, 7:30 p.m.
- October 19, 2 p.m.
Tickets are available now, with prices ranging from $30-$128
The Nutcracker
Once again, The Nutcracker, presented by Devon Energy and The Chickasaw Nation, will arrive at the Civic Center Music Hall for the Christmas season.
Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye’s production, which debuted in December 2024, will return with a total of 13 performances, including a sensory-friendly version in collaboration with AutismOklahoma.
Showtimes include:
- December 13, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
- December 14, 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
- December 18, 7 p.m.
- December 19, 7 p.m.
- December 20, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
- December 21, 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
- December 22, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Tickets for this show are not yet available, but prices will range from $30-$128.
The sensory-friendly performance is offered on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m. Tickets from this performance are also not yet available, but prices will range from $20-$47.
Accommodations for the performance include:
- Adjusted lighting and sound
- Lower sound levels throughout the performance
- A reduction of strobe lighting and lighting focused on the audience
- House lights will remain on (at a low level) in the theatre auditorium during the performance
- No live orchestra
- No pyrotechnics
Relaxed theater rules:
- Guests are free to talk, leave their seats and move freely during the performance
- A designated safe/quiet area within the lobby will have fidgets and earplugs available
- iPads and other electronics will be allowed for therapeutic uses
Guests can view these helpful guides before attending the performance:
The Civic Center Music Hall is ADA-accessible and offers additional services that can be viewed here.
For additional information, or to view the complete list of the ballet schedule, visit the Oklahoma City Ballet’s website. Tickets can be purchased via the box office at 405-843-9898 or via email at tickets@okcballet.org. Box office hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
