[1][2] The company performed the first incarnation of its signature work, Cocktail Hour: The Show, a collection of theatrical dance vignettes celebrating iconic American social culture, in Manhattan, in 2009.

Premieres during this period included Klaus’s ballroom suite for eight women, Return to Normalcy; the quintet Silver Thaw; and The Johnny Show, a blend of honky-tonk, circus, and comic revue.

In its inaugural year, the company appeared at the Clark Studio Theater and in 2011 at The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Church of the Holy Trinity, and other venues.

[5] Cocktail Hour: The Show, Klaus's signature evening-length collection of dance vignettes, debuted at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center in November, 2009, with a total of nine cocktail-themed selections.

Also in 2012, Hamilton Stage, an arm of the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) in Rahway, New Jersey, welcomed Ballets with a Twist as an artistic affiliate during the theater’s inaugural season.

[12][13][14][15] Significant engagements in 2014 included premieres at Oregon's Craterian Theater and at Staten Island's St. George Theatre, where the company partnered with award-winning New Jersey youth gospel choir The Special Ensemble.

Closing out the year were a performance at Westchester Community College; another Beacon Theatre guest appearance at Lauper’s Home for the Holidays; and, in celebration of the season, a set of site-specific showings at Saks Fifth Avenue Downtown.

[29][30] A fourth show-opening turn during Cyndi Lauper's Home for the Holidays benefit, at the Beacon Theatre, and a guest appearance in Everett Bradley's seasonal touring production, "Holidelic," at the Highline Ballroom, rounded out 2017.

[36] Ballets with a Twist traveled to the Midwest in early 2019, making stops at The Grand Oshkosh, in Wisconsin, and the Moraine Valley Community College Fine and Performing Arts Center, in Illinois.

[47][48] As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold later that year, the company launched a series of film projects staged on the rooftop of its own Tribeca dance studio and at various locations throughout the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn.