Summer Intensive Advanced

In-Person Auditions 

Video Auditions

Video auditions (YouTube links only) must be accompanied by an audition form and $35 audition fee. Please submit a 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 several pointe exercises (one with pirouette)
Upload the video to YouTube and email the link as well as your headshot and first arabesque (en pointe for women) photo to Carol Bellis at [email protected].

Summer Intensive focuses on ballet, including pointe and men’s classes. Other coursework includes variations, contemporary, character, Afro-Cuban, Hip Hop, 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. Additional classes in Nutrition and injury prevention.

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

“What 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, 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 a performance on July 26th.

To allow for even greater flexibility for families, the Summer Intensive programs will be offered in different sessions: 5 weeks (6/24-7/26,2024), 3 weeks (7/8-7/26,2024) or 2 weeks (6/24-7/5,2024).

Housing will be at Rider University (campus and meal plan to be announced). Contact Carol Bellis, Coordinator of Summer Intensives, at 609.921.7758 ext. 30 or email [email protected] 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 Princeton Ballet Workshop – the rehearsal and performance training program for the top levels of Princeton Ballet School. Trainees may also have the opportunity to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker.

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