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The ask

What a pre-professional program asks of a family

Before you book a placement visit, here is the whole ask, in the order a family feels it.

  1. 01

    Step 1: Hours

    About seven hours of class a week at the first level, rising to about fourteen at the top. The schedule lists every class.

  2. 02

    Step 2: Evenings and Saturdays

    Classes run on weeknights from 3:30 pm and on Saturday mornings. School comes first in exam weeks, so tell us early and we plan around it.

  3. 03

    Step 3: Rehearsal season

    From January, Saturday rehearsals grow for the spring performance. Families get the rehearsal calendar in December.

  4. 04

    Step 4: Costs beyond tuition

    Costumes, shoes, the performance, audition fees and travel to outside auditions are each named, with their purpose, on the how tuition works page.

    How tuition works
  5. 05

    Step 5: Rest and pain

    The studio closes for two weeks in December and a week in March. We ask dancers to tell a teacher about pain before or during class, and we change the work.

  6. 06

    Step 6: Two meetings a year

    A level conversation in the spring and a check-in in January, with the dancer in the room. We talk about hours, school load and what comes next.

A season

What a year holds

Four stretches of the year, and what a family can expect in each.

A bench with wall hooks and plain bags above a row of pastel ballet shoes
July to November

Fall: placement and auditions

Placement visits and auditions come first, then the new schedule settles in and Saturday classes begin.

Hands placing a strip of tape on a wooden studio floor to mark a spot
December to March

Winter: rehearsal begins

The spring piece is set. Families get the rehearsal calendar in December and meet teachers in January.

A backstage wing with a costume rack of plain tutus and a bench
April and May

Spring: the performance

Every level dances in April. Costumes arrive in the spring, ordered the fall before.

A ballet studio with a pale sprung floor, a long barre along one wall and tall windows opposite
June and July

Summer: the program

Three weeks of full days in June and July, open to dancers from other studios.

Auditions

How an audition works

An audition here is a class, not a performance. There is nothing to prepare.

  1. 01

    Step 1: Book a time

    Choose a placement visit in July or August. The same visit serves as the audition for new dancers.

  2. 02

    Step 2: Take a class

    Your dancer joins a ballet class, then a contemporary one, taught by our teachers. Dancers wear practice clothes.

  3. 03

    Step 3: Talk with the director

    Afterward the director talks with you and your dancer about the level, the hours and what the year asks.

  4. 04

    Step 4: Hear in writing

    You leave with a note on the level and the enrollment packet when you are ready to register.