Summer Intensive Advanced

Submit A Video Audition 

Step #1: Complete the audition form

Step #2: Create a 5-7 minute video demonstrating the following:

• Barre exercises –  Pliés, tendus, dégagés, rond de jambes, grand battements, adagio
• Center exercises – Adagio, Across the floor Pirouette, Petit Allegro, Grand Allegro
• Women should show two pointe exercises (one with pirouette)

Step #3: Upload the video to YouTube and email the link, audition form, headshot and first arabesque (en pointe for women) photo to Carol Bellis at cbellis@arballet.org.

Experience the opportunity to:

• Sample a taste of professional life in a full day dance experience, including rehearsals for a final performance
• Grow technically through daily ballet technique, including pointe or men’s class
• Deepen your understanding of important concepts in injury prevention, such as proper alignment and rotation
• Expand your dance background through classes in contemporary, modern, and character dance
• Develop group communication and leadership skills while establishing friendships with equally committed young dancers
• Set effective goals and learn to increase personal discipline and focus
• Interact with dedicated professionals, including the Princeton Ballet School faculty American Repertory Ballet’s professional company members
• Students participating in the last three weeks of the program are eligible to participate in the final performance on Friday, July 28.

Audition Fee: $35

Summer Intensive focuses on ballet, including pointe and men’s classes. Other coursework includes variations, contemporary, character, Flamenco, and choreography. Sessions in BioMechanics/Conditioning gives dancers the opportunity to identify and resolve problems, increasing the sophistication with which dancers approach technique class.

Levels are determined on the first day of the program, the classes start meeting in their regular groups on the second day.

“What was particularly interesting, and made a great impression on me, right from the beginning of the first lesson of the Summer Intensive, was a method of studying classical ballet definitely new, in some of its aspects, and in other ways, richly motivating me to reflect on and deepen my prior knowledge: I found every movement, from the very beginning of the barre work, more danced, more lived, more breathed.”

–Federica Valla, Teatro Nuovo, Torino, Italia

Princeton Ballet School is located in the heart of Princeton with four large studios featuring high ceilings and sprung dance floors. Live music accompanies all ballet and modern dance classes.

The facility includes a dance library and is adjacent to numerous shops and restaurants, with generous open space, picnic tables, and gardens. The entire studio complex is wireless accessible.

Students participating in the last three weeks of class can participate in an outdoor performance on July 28th.

To allow for even greater flexibility for families, the Summer Intensive programs will be offered in different sessions: 5 weeks (6/26-7/28), 3 weeks (7/10-7/28) or 2 weeks (6/26-7/8). In person or virtual.

Room and board will be available in the air-conditioned dorms of Rider University. Housing is subject to Rider University, local and state requirements. Contact Carol Bellis, Coordinator of Summer Intensives, at 609.921.7758 ext. 30 or email cbellis@arballet.org for more information.

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A limited number of merit-based tuition scholarships are available. All students attending each audition site are automatically considered for scholarship. There is no separate application process.

Summer Intensive is for students ages 13 and over.

The Trainee Program, a two-year-program, begins with the Summer Intensive and is the bridge between the student phase of training and that of a professional career. ARB Trainees start each day with intensive classes designed to polish technique and build strength. The program includes pointe class, variations, contemporary, bio-mechanics/conditioning, choreography, career development and American Repertory Ballet and classical repertoire to further technique and performance skills in a professional environment. Trainees also participate in the American Repertory Ballet’s production of Nutcracker and Princeton Ballet Workshop – the rehearsal and performance training program for the top levels of Princeton Ballet School.

International Students Princeton Ballet School is authorized and accredited by the federal government to enroll non-immigrant students.