Ballet Theatre San Luis Obispo

Ballet Theatre San Luis Obispo (BT-SLO) was created from the passions and talents of two people. Theresa Slobodnik, having retired from a professional career with The Gilbert Reed Ballet, was eager to direct a ballet company. Blair London, having danced all his life had just begun taking a class with Theresa and was willing to handle the business details of the ballet company & nonprofit. Over coffee at Borders Books, the two decided that there could be a new ballet company in San Luis Obispo – Theresa as Artistic Director handling all of the artistic decisions and being the head of the ballet company; Blair as the Assistant Director seeing to the business aspects of the company and the future nonprofit. So, in the early part of 2006, Ballet Theatre San Luis Obispo was born.