TexARTS provides unique opportunities for students to perform and showcase what they’ve been learning in TexARTS classes throughout the year. While each class session culminates in the usual showcase or demonstration, there are optional opportunities for fuller performance including the TexARTS Youth Ballet Theater, which performs “The Nutcracker” and at least one other spring and/or summer ballet production with guest artists each year, and TexARTS’ Great Shakes – a classical repertory theater troupe that performs a Shakespeare or other classic at least once each year. A full youth musical production occurs each summer tied to TexARTS’ acclaimed summer intensive as well as at least once beyond that each year. Students enrolled in TexARTS Academy are also used in TexARTS professional productions whenever youth roles are called for. Because TexARTS founders are well connected in the broader professional community, students have exciting opportunities each year to perform for corporate and charitable events in the region as well as for special projects as they arise. TexARTS also hosts auditions for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and other nationally-recognized programs each year and so the opportunities are varied and exciting!