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IBT provides top-notch local training during the year and hosts the American Ballet Competition featuring master instructors such as Kee-Juan Han, previous director of The Washington Ballet School. Imagine Ballet Theatre is also home to the internationally acclaimed Summer Intensive: Bournonville Workshop with the Masters.
Learn more >>Ballet Melange is a high-level Vaganova Trainee program for emerging professional dancers. Ballet Melange dancers will receive training and mentorship to set them up for a professional career as well as get extensive performance experience. Auditions are on April 15th, June 8th, and June 29th!
Learn more >>A contemporary ballet experience unlike anything you've ever felt before. Ballet X is now accepting applications for their Company, Fellowship program, and 3-week summer Intensive.BalletX offers the following benefits for our company dancers: Minimum 40 week contract with competitive salary, paid vacation, employer-sponsored health insurance, physical therapy and massage, and choreographic and teaching opportunities
Learn more >>Check out Bayer Ballet's high-level summer intensive! Founded in 2005, Bayer Ballet (Mountain View, CA USA) is a 501c3 non-profit ballet company and academy dedicated to enhancing the cultural well-being of our community by creating equitable accessibility to the Vaganova method of classical ballet through world-class education and performances, which provide the purest experience and insights into this artform. We strive to cultivate and foster an appreciation and love for the artform by providing opportunities for emerging artists to engage, educate and collaborate with world-renowned master artists. We are a Nikolay Partner School, Member of International Dance Council-UNESCO, recipient of the coveted Natalia Makarova Award for Artistry, Youth Grand Prix (2020, 2022, 2023), and YAGP Outstanding School (2018-2022). We are the Vaganova Center of Excellence.
Learn more >>Want high-level Vaganova training? Check out Classical Ballet Academy in Denver Colorado. They have a national summer intensive and pre-professional training program. CBA's excellence in training has opened opportunities for our students to pursue their careers in dance at prestigious schools and companies worldwide including San Fransisco Ballet, English National Ballet School (London), Vaganova Academy (Saint Petersburg), Bolshoi Academy (Moscow), Dutch National Ballet (Amsterdam) and National Ballet of Ukraine.
Learn more >>This three day audition allows dancers to be seen by many directors of major US companies in one convenient location. National Master Audition ’23 features directors from the following companies: AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET, BALLET 5:8, BALLET AUSTIN, BALLET THEATRE OF MARYLAND, BOULDER BALLET, LOUISVILLE BALLET, MILWAUKEE BALLET, MINNESOTA BALLET, UTAH METROPOLITAN BALLET Each dancer will be seen in a ballet and modern class. Company directors will decide who they wish to call back, and each director will work in their own way with the dancers they call back. December 28 - 30, 2023
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