Manhattan Youth Ballet was formely known as Studio Maestro, a school founded in 1995 by Rose Caiola. It has since become New York's premiere classical ballet academy.

Adhering to a curriculum based upon European methods and pedagogy, it is a place of innovation and opportunity for our dancers. Manhattan Youth Ballet is the culmination of Ms. Caiola’s efforts for the past fourteen years to create a viable and curriculum-based ballet academy in the United States.

Study Classical ballet based on the French and Russian techniques.

Manhattan Youth Ballet offers a graded year round program with an international faculty from Paris Opera, New York City Ballet and The Kirov Ballet. There are many performance opportunities in classical works, Balanchine repertoire and new contemporary choreography in the new, state-of-the-art Manhattan Movement & Arts Center.

Modeled after the great schools of Europe, her pre-professional program is the only one of its kind in this country. Former students of Manhattan Youth Ballet now dance with American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Washington Ballet, Nederland Dans Theatre and Complexion among others.

The location on 68th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West is the birth place of Manhattan Youth Ballet now we are in our new home; Manhattan Movement and Arts Center.