Chicago Festival Ballet is a professional ballet company performing a repertoire of classical, romantic and neoclassical works in venues around the United States. Chicago Festival Ballet is also known as Von Heidecke’s Chicago Festival Ballet. Chicago Festival Ballet’s sister organization and educational arm is the Von Heidecke School of Ballet.
Sister to the Chicago Festival Ballet Company is the Von Heidecke School of Ballet, with studios in Naperville, Joliet, and Chicago, Illinois. Under the direction of von Heidecke, the school provides professional instruction in the RussianVaganova method and Balanchine method, with curriculum designed for students wishing to pursue a professional career in dance. In 2000, the school was named one of the top four ballet schools in the Chicago metro area by Dance Spirit Magazine.