The Augusta Youth Ballet Company (AYBC), is a non-profit performance ensemble founded by Scattaregia in 1998. The goal and focus of the Company is to provide young dancers with the opportunity to learn classical ballet and related dance forms in their own communities, but also in a professional environment. Company members take multiple classes each week in ballet, pointe, contemporary dance, jazz, and other dance forms in along with Company rehearsals.

The Company has performed the full-length production of "The Nutcracker" since 1998. The ballet is usually presented in two counties each holiday season and has been performed for over 2,000 school children. The AYBC also presents outreach programs for public school children. Last fall, "Peter and the Wolf" was performed for Upshur County elementary and Head Start students. For the last four years the Company has held a Spring concert for the public at Atkinson Auditorium on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College. The 2005 spring concert featured new choreographic works by Nina Scattaregia and two acts of the classical ballet, "Coppelia."

With support from The Upshur Arts Alliance and private sponsors, the Augusta Youth Ballet Company provides intensive and professional training for the dancers through guest artist residencies and summer workshops.

Many of the AYBC dancers pursue intensive summer training in professional ballet schools. Several of the AYBC dancers have received scholarships in dance from Dance West Virginia and the West Virginia State Dance Festival/Division of Culture & History to attend programs such as Point Park University Summer Conservatory of Dance and North Carolina School of the Arts. The Augusta Youth Ballet Company has had 8 dancers receive scholarships to the Governors School for the Arts in dance.

2000 Amie Dillon, Rebecca Taylor, Erin Wilson

2002 Rebecca Spence, Katherine Ward, Ellie Ziems

2004 Katherine Tavolacci

2005 Katherine Schuler

2006 Rebecca Frashure Kristen Sayre