about pointeworks
Artists at the heart.
Ballet for everyone.
Pointeworks is a nonprofit ballet company founded in 2023 by Artistic Director Sophie Williams. We bring professional dancers, choreographers, composers, and musicians together to create and share ballet.
Our mission begins with the artists: creating paid opportunities between traditional company seasons, championing women choreographers, and opening the creative process to our communities. We believe ballet's future grows through collaboration, opportunity, and access.
Support the artists
Paid rehearsals, residencies, and performances help professional dancers keep working and creating during the off-season.
Make space for new voices
We champion women choreographers and bring movement, original music, and artistic collaboration into the same room.
Open the doors
Open rehearsals, sponsored seats, and community partnerships invite more people to experience ballet and meet its makers.
Our purpose
Mission & vision
Discover the beliefs behind our work: sustainable opportunities for artists, a broader range of voices, and ballet that welcomes more people in.
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Our people
Meet the dancers
Artists from companies across the country come together at Pointeworks. Get to know the people who bring each ballet to life.
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Our work
Explore the repertoire
Discover original commissions and the ballets we bring to the stage, along with the choreographers, music, and stories behind them.
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Our community
See the impact
Follow what your support makes possible: paid work for artists, new ballet, and more opportunities to participate in the arts.
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so far
Founded in 2023, Pointeworks grew from a dancer's understanding of the gaps between company seasons. Sophie Williams set out to create paid space for artists to collaborate, develop new work, and keep performing.
Our sold-out debut took place on June 20, 2024, at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad in La Jolla. In 2025, we expanded to New York City and returned to Southern California with performances in La Jolla and Irvine.
Today, performances, creative residencies, and community programs carry that founding idea forward: invest in artists, make room for new work, and invite audiences into the process.
Paige Nyman - Board Member of Pointeworks & principal dancer with Texas Ballet Theater
“It is important to me to be a part of this female-led project because I trust in the quality and vision of the woman leading us. Sophie loves the world of ballet, and her female perspective creates a lens that is underrepresented, but nonetheless full of passion and purpose, worthy of being presented. Knowing that is the standard she sets, I know the other women brought into this project will match that energy and will create an environment unlike one I have ever experienced. Additionally, representation is imperative and supporting a goal that will create tangible change from the beginning is incredibly rewarding.”
Company photo from our inaugural season · Summer 2024 · San Diego