Ballet Jörgen is Canada's choreographic ballet company. Ballet Jörgen was founded in October 1987 by Bengt Jörgen, Artistic Director of the Company and a choreographer in his own right. In 1992, in partnership with George Brown College, Mr. Jörgen formed a dance school, now named George Brown Dance, a professional training ground for students of ballet and modern dance. Arnold Spohr, renowned creative force in Canadian dance and Artistic Director Emeritus of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, joined Ballet Jörgen in1993 as its Associate Director because he passionately believes in the mission of the Company to find and develop new choreographers.
 
Bengt Jörgen has built an innovative choreographic company which presents original works in Toronto and on tour, and provides training for choreographers and dancers. Mary Jago-Romeril, former Principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, joined the Company as its Artistic Associate in the fall of 1998, to compliment the current artistic team in working with the dancers. In February 1995, Ballet Jörgen made its debut in New York City. The New York Times wrote Š The Company's mission is creating new ballets, and freshness, authority and intelligence are hallmarks of its work. and The company is a rare and exhilarating find . Ballet Jörgen was honoured with the Lieutenant Governor's Award for the Arts in1996 and again in 1998, for its impressive accomplishments in forging partnerships with the private sector and within the community. With Bengt Jörgen's production of The Nutcracker, which premiered in November 1995, and was refurbished in1998, the co-production by Banff Centre for the Arts and Ballet Jörgen of the full-length Romeo and Juliet, which premiered in February 1998, and its accessible Program of New  Choreography, Ballet Jörgen tours North America and is seen annually by an estimated 50,000 people.