Hendersonville Ballet

Hendersonville Ballet Company Presents 

The Planets

May 2024 at Thomas Auditorium BRCC

Tickets will go on sale on March 15th, 2024. The link to purchase will be available here. Tickets range in price from $10 - $20 depending on seating choice.

About hendersonville ballet

Hendersonville Ballet is the performing company supported by Southside Dance Studio.  We are a 501(c)3 non-profit.  Our mission is to provide professional performance experiences for our community while enhancing the training of our dancers.

Our company dancers must take a minimum of three ballet classes a week, at an Intermediate to Advanced level.  You do not need to study dance at Southside Dance to be in Hendersonville Ballet.  We welcome all trained dancers. 

Company members provide their basic equipment and pay a fee of $50 per month, which covers all costumes and performance expenses as well as rehearsal time and instruction/choreography.  Dancers must maintain consistent attendance for studio rehearsals and attend all dress rehearsals and performances.  The majority of our funding comes from community donations, which are tax deductible, and revenue from our performances.  

If you are interested in additional information, please feel free to contact us at office@sodancewnc.com.  We would love to answer any questions you might have or to send you information about sponsoring our performances or providing a scholarship for a company member.  

kevin overbey

Director

Kevin Overbey danced professionally for more than 15 years with nationally recognized companies such as the San Antonio Ballet, The Atlanta Ballet, and Nevada Ballet Theatre.  He was a guest performer in several productions with Ballet Tennessee, and Dance Alive in Florida.  In his professional career he danced roles such as the Cavalier, Snow King and lead Waltz in the “Nutcracker,” Dracula in “Dracula,” one the four couples in Balanchine’s “Allegro Brillante,” and he worked with many prominent choreographers.   Overbey also performed in the acclaimed Bally’s show “Jubilee” in Las Vegas, and “Red Hot” in Shanghai China.

Overbey taught ballet throughout his performing career.  He taught company class for Ballet Tennessee and was on the staff of Academy of Nevada Ballet Theater, teaching advanced ballet for several years. Overbey has a degree in Education from University of Nevada Las Vegas which helped him associate ballet pedagogy with the physical, mental and psychological developmental stages of his students. .

Overbey is the Director of Southside Dance Studio, and he is the main ballet teacher for the school. He brings a rich, eclectic knowledge of ballet technique, and an ability to make that technique comprehensible to his students.  He has been successful in helping his students transform technique into artistry and has several former students who have or are dancing professionally. 

Overbey has been teaching ballet since 1980 and is a lifetime learner.  He continues to study the latest teaching theories, as well as anatomy and kinesiology.  For his knowledge, experience, and success as a master teacher of ballet Overbey gives thanks to those he has worked under and his Heavenly Father. 


John landovsky

Guest Instructor

JOHN LANDOVSKY was born in Riga, Latvia. Mr. Landovsky's extensive performing career has affiliated him with several dance companies on the mainland and abroad, including International Ballet Company, Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet, The Roland Petit Ballet in Paris, and Wurttenberg Stats Opera in Stuttgart, Germany. He has shared the stage with many renowned artists including Rudolph Nureyev, Henning Kronstrom, Erick Bruhn, and Helgi Thomasson. Mr. Landovsky was the choreographer for ten years at Chicago's Candlelight Dinner Theatre where he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for best choreography. 

Mr. Landovsky has taught at many prestigious schools including the University of Illinois, National Academy of Arts in Champaign, Illinois, Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, Texas Christian University, and the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. He has served as the Artistic Director of Bartlesville Civic Ballet in Oklahoma, Duluth Ballet in Minnesota, and Ballet Hawaii. 

Since founding HSB, John Landovsky has had a formidable presence as a ballet teacher who is passionate about his art and about teaching students, many who now teach or perform professionally. Students of Mr. Landovsky have performed with American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Washington Ballet, Ballet West, Nederlands Dance Theatre, and on Broadway, and have participated in numerous prestigious international ballet competitions.

catherine gaudreau

Guest Instructor


Catherine Goduco Gaudreau was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and studied ballet with Anna Marie and David Holmes and furthered her studies at the Nutmeg Conservatory under the tutelage of Sharon Dante. She attended the School of American Ballet as well as North Carolina School of the Arts. She was a principal dancer with the Alabama Ballet and danced numerous leading roles including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Kitri in Don Quixote, Aurora in the Sleeping Beauty to name just a few. She also danced leading roles in George Balanchine’s “Allegro Brilliante” and “Tarantella.” She had the opportunity to work with such choreographers as Vicente Nebrada, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin when she was a soloist with Ballet Florida dancing ballets such as “Our Waltzes” by Nebrada, “Lady of the Camellias” by Caniparoli and Smuin’s “Quattro a Verdi.”


Catherine has also trained with Ruth Petronovic in the Revolutionary Principles of Movement (RPM) that honors all traditions of ballet and is based on anatomy and kinesiology. She was a coach for the United States team for the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki, Finland 2001. She currently teaches throughout the Southeast as well in Chattanooga where she resides.


​Ms. Goduco-Gaudreau is happily married to her husband of 10 years, Matt and they have a daughter named Ava.


She also has four dogs, Wallace, Ben, Charlotte and Kenny G.


Original Art by Stella Osteen, member of Hendersonville Ballet