The Ballet Arts Ensemble of Fairfax and the Ballet Arts Junior Ensemble are the resident performing companies for the Center for Ballet Arts.  Both the school and the Company are directed by Debra and Bennett Savage.  Now in its fourteenth year, the Company is comprised of young, talented dancers that meet specific requirements set by the directors.  The Ballet Arts Ensemble has been a member of the Fairfax County Council of the Arts since its inception in 1993 and was accepted into the CAPs (Creative Arts Programs) of Fairfax County Schools in 1997.  The troupe has performed many times at Children's Hospital and for the State Department in Washington, D.C.  In 2001, the BAE was invited to appear on the "Spotlight On The Arts Telethon" presented by Cox Cable Television.   In 2002, the BAE performed for "LIVE!" at the Woodrow Wilson Plaza at the Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.   In April 2004, three BAE members appeared in "Pepito's Story", directed by Debbie Allen at the Kennedy Center.

Ensemble members have been accepted to many of the country's foremost ballet schools, including: the American Ballet Theatre, the Boston Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the North Carolina and Virginia Schools of the Arts, the Rock School of Pennsylvania, the San Francisco Ballet, Ballet Metropolitan, and Jacob's Pillow.  Six BAE dancers have been invited to attend the prestigious Virginia Governor's School over the past seven years.  The Ballet Arts Ensemble is a newly inducted member of SERBA, The South Eastern Regional Ballet Association, duly a member of RDA, Regional Dance America. The Ballet Arts Ensemble of Fairfax is presently the only company in the state of Virginia to be nationally recognized as a member of RDA.