The Summer Intensive Program is underway! For a weekly schedule, please click on the link below for your Level:
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Richmond Ballet, the State Ballet of Virginia, invites you to apply for our 2008 Summer Intensive Program.
- Develop and improve your ballet technique in a focused series of classes taught by professional dancers and dance educators.
- Experience one of the finest dance facilities on the East Coast, completed in 2000.
- Explore jazz, modern, character dance and other associated dance disciplines.
- Enrich your performance skills by learning about mime, music, acting and the theatrical aspects of dance.
- Work with Richmond Ballet Company and Artistic Staff as a Trainee in preparation for a professional dance career.
- Join other serious-minded ballet students in an intensive yet fun atmosphere of camaraderie and shared dance interests.
Summer Program: June 23–July 26, 2008
The summer intensive program at Richmond Ballet is designed for young men and women who love dance and are committed to developing their ballet technique. The variety of classes offered—in ballet as well as associated dance techniques—encourages program participants to deepen and expand their expertise. Faculty members are from the School of Richmond Ballet and Richmond Ballet’s professional company. Guest faculty also contribute in specialized areas of expertise. Previous program participants have gone on to professional careers with Richmond Ballet as well as other ballet companies throughout the country.
Summer Curriculum
Ballet: School of Richmond Ballet offers five intensive course levels for serious ballet students, ages 13 and up. The curriculum includes daily technique classes, augmented by subjects designed to develop a well-rounded dancer at each level of training. Courses are taught by internationally known faculty at Richmond Ballet’s state-of-the-art Canal Street studios in downtown Richmond.
Pointe: Pointe technique for all female students
Men’s Classes: Ballet technique for intermediate and advanced students
Variations: Instruction in selected variations from the classical and contemporary repertory for advanced female and male dancers
Pas de Deux: Partnering technique for advanced female and intermediate/advanced male students
Character Dance: Instruction in traditional national dance forms such as mazurka, polonaise, czardas and waltz, which are used extensively in classical ballets
Jazz: Contemporary trends from Los Angeles and New York merged with traditional jazz dance styles
Modern: Exploration of the movement capabilities of the body through dance elements of space, rhythm and dynamics found in established modern dance choreography
Enrichment Program: A variety of dance-related subjects such as Dance History, Injury Prevention, Nutrition, and the crossover of associated art forms such as Music for Dancers, Choreography, Acting and Mime. Also video tapes of ballets from the classical and contemporary repertory are shown regularly
Performance: All five-week intensive course students are eligible to participate in a workshop performance at the end of the session
Tuition Rates
A Course $1,600 D Course $1,400
B Course $1,600 E Course $1,400
C Course $1, 600 F Course $975
*Please note: rates are for tuition only and do not include housing
We strongly recommend that each student participate in the full five-week program. Applications for a three-week session, June 23rd–July 12th, will be considered on a firstcome-first-served basis after all five week student applications have been processed. Rates for the three-week session will be adjusted accordingly.
Housing Information
Summer Intensive 2008
School of Richmond Ballet offers two housing plans for out-of-town students attending our summer intensive course.
housing option a
Available for ages 13 and Older
haperoned accommodations at a local hotel and three meals a day included
housing option b
Students Age 18 and Older
Students are free to make their own housing arrangements.
Faculty
Program participants benefit from the extensive experience of an internationally known faculty from the School of Richmond Ballet combined with an exciting roster of guest teachers. With degrees and performance/choreography credits from around the world, plus in-depth experience in dance instruction, our faculty offers students the highest level of professionalism.
School of Richmond Ballet Summer Faculty
Igor Antonov
Anne Sidney Davenport
Starr Foster
James Frazier
Kaye Weinstein Gary
Jasmine Grace
Rebecca Hodal
Julie Fauth Job
Arnott Mader
Susan Israel Massey
Patricia Mochary
Tara Penick
Melanie Richards
Katherine Smothers
Judith Steel
Pedro Szalay