Onco-Ballet Foundation

We are so excited to officially open dancer signups for our 2026 West Coast Community Performance 🩰✨ Join us on October 17th, 2026, 5PM PST at the Irvine Barclay Theatre for a powerful evening of movement, healing, and community. Whether you are a cancer survivor, thriver, or patient — you are welcome here. No dance experience necessary. Please note: there are two separate registration forms: • One form is for Southern California local residents • One form is for traveling participants outside Southern California 🌴 For Southern California residents, rehearsals will begin in person on Sunday, July 26th and will run weekly through the performance on October 17th. Participants must be able to attend the majority of rehearsals, including the mandatory in-studio dress rehearsal on Friday, October 16th and the full run-through the morning of October 17th before the performance. ✈️ For participants outside Southern California, we will be offering a 6-week virtual choreography series. Mandatory in-person attendance is still required for the October 16th dress rehearsal and the morning run-through on October 17th. We’re so excited to bring this community together for our 2026 performance and are grateful for your interest in participating. Please note there is a 50 dancer cap for this performance. Participation will be first come, first serve, so we encourage you to fill out the registration form as soon as possible. Be sure to complete the correct form when registering. Register now at the link in our bio ✨ #OncoBallet #CancerCommunity #survivorship CommunityPerformance #WestCoast IrvineBarclayTheatre

Because of you, our inaugural NYC Community Performance was more than a performance — it was a reminder of the power of community, movement, and healing. 🩰 Thank you to everyone who attended, donated, volunteered, performed, taught, choreographed, sponsored, and supported this special evening. Your generosity helped us not only reach our fundraising goal of $15,000, but exceed it — raising a total of $17,091 to continue fueling the momentum of our NYC Onco-Ballet chapter. Every dollar raised will go directly back into providing free classes, workshops, and programming for the cancer community in New York City and beyond — helping more patients, survivors, and thrivers reconnect with joy, movement, and themselves. We are so deeply grateful to have shared this night with all of you. 🕊️ And we’re just getting started… Dancer sign-ups for our California Community Performance (10.17.26) open this Monday, May 11. 📸: @leda.cvp #OncoBallet #DanceIsHealing #CancerCommunity #NYCArts #survivorship

🩰 What is Onco-Ballet™? The Onco-Ballet™ Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to bringing ballet to the cancer community at low to no cost through donor funding. We believe in the healing power of movement: ✨ Ballet helps you move from your mind into your body ✨ Dancing together creates connection and community ✨ Joy and expression are a vital part of healing Our Mission: To provide free ballet classes to anyone in the cancer community. Our Vision: To foster healing and self-expression through ballet. Our Purpose: To spark joy through movement. Together, we dance. Together, we heal. Sign up for class or support our mission at OncoBallet.org . . . . #OncoBallet #ballet #CancerCommunity

Your body makes piezoelectricity from movement and dancing helps you create it. This helps you on a cellular level. Loved dancing with my fellow goddesses at @oncoballet inaugural community dance performance at @gibneydance earlier this month. It’s truly is healing to dance together! Please support @oncoballet mission to bring the healing power of dance to those touched by cancer. 💕Your Design Goddess, Mahwish🐍 With @blueyedchild @ladawnjefferson @thrivernotthriving @justelizabit . . #danceheals #piezoelectric #piezoelectricity #cancerthrivers #cancercommunity

“So I just want you to know that after twenty years of being in the cancer space, I finally found my home with Onco-Ballet. And Onco-Ballet isn’t just about dance, it’s about finding hope. It’s about finding courage, about finding strength, and more than anything, it’s about finding joy all over again.” ✨ Beautiful words shared at our inaugural NYC Community Performance by Onco-Ballet Vice President, 2x cancer survivor, and founder of NeverAlone Candles. 🩰 Onco-Ballet is so much more than movement. It’s community, healing, expression, and finding pieces of yourself again alongside people who understand. Thank you for reminding us why this work matters so deeply. 🕊️ #oncoballet #ballet #cancercommunity #survivorship #dance

There are moments in life that ask us to begin again. To find balance again. To rise again. A clip from our inaugural NYC Community Performance and the world premiere of Relevé, choreographed by Aitana Jordan 🩰 In ballet, relevé means “to rise.” This piece reflects the resilience of survivors who, even after their lowest lows, discover a new balance and a new normal. Cancer may alter the landscape, but it does not erase the capacity to grow. We rise not untouched, but transformed. Together, we relevé. Thank you to every dancer, survivor, thriver, and supporter who helped bring this performance to life. 🤍 #OncoBallet #Relevé #CancerSurvivorship #MovementAsMedicine #cancercommunity WorldPremier survivorship ballet

Thank you so much, Anna, for creating a space for us to heal through dance. After finishing my cancer treatment, I dreamed of dancing to celebrate the gift of life I’d been given. That dream was put on hold during the pandemic. Flash forward a few more years and I had the serendipitous occasion to meet Anna at @thepinkagenda Talks last April as I was a speaker there and her organization @oncoballet was performing. I remember the dancers were electric with joy backstage as we all prepared. A year later, I found myself rehearsing with my fellow goddesses for the premiere community performance at @gibneydance . I am still processing the magnitude of Anna’s mission. i cannot thank you enough, @annamazingjourney for your encouragement and belief! It was my first time on a stage as a DANCER. And my beautiful soul sisters helped guide me when I lost my step. Thank you also to @ekaterinnnaaa for being such an amazing teacher—her love shone through in her patience and care. Every single person involved has been so kind and loving! Anna, I am so glad you returned to what you love—you’ve created a monumental beacon of hope and connection. I am eternally grateful—you’ve fulfilled a wish I’d been carrying in my heart for years. Please support this amazing organization! You are helping to heal us. 💕Your Design Goddess, Mahwish🐍 . Breathtaking photos by @jma___photography . #balletdancer #danceishealing #cancercommunity

Thank you to everyone who came out to our inaugural NYC Community Performance last night 🩰 To every dancer—survivor and thriver—who took the stage with us: you are powerful, radiant, and so deeply inspiring. It was an honor to witness your movement and your stories. Thank you to our panelists for sharing your wisdom, and to Gibney for hosting us. A special thank you to our teachers and choreographers, our sponsors, and each and every one of our volunteers—this wouldn’t be possible without you. We’re so grateful—and can’t wait to keep moving, dancing, and growing together. 🩰 If you’d like to support our mission, you can still donate at the link in our bio . . . #OncoBallet #HealingThroughMovement #ballet #CancerCommunity #DanceForHealing

Our inaugural NYC Community Performance is here 🩰 This weekend, we welcome our dancers to the stage—many for the very first time—while also celebrating one year of Onco-Ballet in NYC Our Founder & Executive Director, Anna Wassman Cox, shares a few words on the theme of survivorship and what this moment means. See you tonight. 🕊️ . . . #OncoBallet #HealingThroughMovement #DanceForHealing #CancerCommunity

Mommy and Jules both have performances this weekend and my heart is so full. Saturday night I’ll be performing in a sold out show with @oncoballet foundation, an incredible organization that brings the joy of dance to those affected by cancer and supports healing through movement and community. Then on Sunday, my little love Jules takes the stage at his school. What a special, emotional, and exciting weekend for our family. Thank you @capezio for sponsoring 🤍 #OncoBallet #DanceForHealing #MomLifeMoments #NextGeneration #GratefulHeart

Meet Aitana Jordan 🩰 Onco-Ballet instructor, choreographer of Relevé, rehearsal director, and professional dancer. Her artistry, care, and dedication shape so much of what Onco-Ballet is. We’re so grateful to have her with us for our inaugural NYC Community Performance. 🤍 . . . #OncoBallet #HealingThroughMovement #DanceForHealing #cancercommunity

Look Ma- I’m a dancer! 🩰🎀💝