Texas Ballet Theater School offers a variety of programs for aspiring pre-professional dancers and budding ballerinas each summer.
Please click the links below for additional details or call the Dallas Academy at
214-369-5200,
ext. 139 or the Fort Worth Academy at 817-763-0207, ext. 112.
Texas Ballet Theater School
Our program presents an opportunity to gain new skills and improve technique through intensive study with current and former professional dancers and internationally known dance instructors.
In addition to carefully chosen guest instructors and company dancers, students will study with Texas Ballet Theater Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., as well as artistic staff Tim O’Keefe, Li Anlin and Anna Donovan.
Classes include technique, pointe, men, pa de deux, variations, character, modern, jazz and pilates. Students will also have regular dance related studies classes covering topics such as nutrition, injury prevention and dance related careers.
Tuition and housing information will be available in early 2009.
AUDITION SCHEDULE:
Date |
City |
Location |
Time |
| Sunday January 11, 2009 |
Silver Spring Maryland |
Maryland Youth Ballet
926 Ellsworth Drive |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
| Sunday January 16, 2009 |
Chicago, IL |
Lou Conte Dance Studio |
6:00-7:30 p.m. |
| Sunday January 25, 2009 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Westside Dance Studio
1709 Stewart Street |
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. |
| Saturday January 31, 2009 |
West Palm Beach, FL |
Ballet Florida
500 Fern Street |
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. |
| Saturday, February 28, 2009 |
Fort Worth, TX |
Texas Ballet Theater School |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Auditions are open to intermediate, advanced and pre-professional students, both male and female, ages 11 to 21.
Please arrive to the audition site 30 minutes prior to the scheduled audition time. You will need to complete an application, submit a full body dance pose photo and $25 fee. Please be ready to dance en pointe, if applicable. Students under the age of 18 will need a parent or guardian to sign the application.
Students will be notified of their acceptance status within four weeks of their audition.
Students who are unable to attend an audition may submit a DVD audition.
Details for DVD Audition
Please include a short barre with tendu, fondu, adagio and grand battements. Center work should include adagio, pirouettes (en de hors and en de dans) and one type of grand pirouette of your choice, petit allegro and grand allegro. Pointe work should include relèves, pirouettes and pique turns.
Men should include tours en l’air.
For more information please call 817-763-0207 ext. 108
or click here to email questions.
TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance www.dance.tcu.edu
Texas Ballet Theater School Summer Intensive
June 22-July 24, 2009
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Click to request additional details.
Fort Worth Academy Summer Programs/Junior Division
June 22- July 11
Texas Ballet Theater School, Fort Worth Academy
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Fort Worth Academy Ballet Basics
June 8-12
Texas Ballet Theater School, Fort Worth Academy
Click to request additional details.
Dallas Academy Summer Programs
Dates TBD
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Photo Credit
Dancer: Lonnie Weeks, Michelle LeBoeuf. Photo: Warren McCoy.