Welcome to our brief overview of the Ballet program! You will find on this page basic information for every level of dance experience. Please do not hesitate to contact our Ballet department via our support center for any additional questions or concerns!

If this is your first visit, please read our project introduction first!

GENERAL
Our Ballet department represents the project's biggest program with many additional activities. There are no restrictions regarding age or physical limitation. Members of this department dance depending on their level in one of the following 5 groups:

• Beginning [BEG]
• Advanced Beginning [ABE]
• Intermediate [INT]
• Advanced Intermediate [AIN]
• Professional [PRO]

Those 3 digits in brackets will later appear in your member ID and after a while may change to a higher level as you're taking your career to the next level. You can select in your application in which group you would like to dance. However, for the PRO-level you would need to provide additional information. After your first workshop and recommendations from your instructor, you may change your level. If you plan to apply to the Advanced Dance Team (ADT), you have to be in one of the latter three groups.

THE WORKSHOPS
Workshops will take place at selected dance studios in NYC as well as at leading dance institutions all over the US and usually take around 2 hours in the evening on weekdays and on a few weekends. BEG and ABE as well as INT and AIN members will from time to time share workshops. Sometimes professionals will be also invited to those shared trainings, but usually have their own sessions. This can be very helpful for the learning process.

You have to bring your own shoes (slipper/pointe) and proper clothing! There will be also no catering service unlike at our ADT meetings.

At the workshop we're going to cut the big crowd first of all into small groups. Instructors will work together with you on basics and a small program leading to a new choreography. Depending on your level, you can then present a short prepared choreography. It is your choice if you'd need certain music. This option is foremost important for those of you who'd like to get admission to the ADT. Over the year, there'll be many different workshops offered. -- You will receive all details via e-mail.

THE PROGRAM
Classical Ballet • Pointe • Pas de Deux • Repertoire • Variations • Special Male Classes • Character • Modern • Pilates • Jazz • Mime • Stagecraft • Choreography • Master Program • Technique Intensive [all programs in regard to your class' final choreography]

Workshop performances will take place at several events within your particular US state.

THE STAR FACULTY
The success of this project is important to us! We set the highest standard for all workshops and so created a faculty at the top of the profession with a comprehensive understanding of instruction and therefore invited revered dancers throughout your particular US state.
As soon as workshops are scheduled in your area, you will receive a list of all faculty names and places via your provided E-mail address.

THE ADVANCED DANCE TEAM
As soon as your admission to the ADT as been granted, you will be dancing with the world's best dancers and work on a breathtaking choreography, which will later has its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC and will furthermore appear worldwide in the motion picture in 2010. As a department crossover performance, all ADT ballet members will dance on a Broadway stage as well as at the world's most famous arena, the Madison Square Garden. Transportation and accomodation for all events will be covered by the NY Dance Project! Team meetings take place in your city once every week before an upcoming major event and are coordinated with every member. We insure that all meetings do not interfere with your weekly schedule!

Current ADT members include dancers from the finest dance institutions in the world, incl. the San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Mariinsky Ballet Company, Stanislavsky Theatre Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and The Royal Ballet. We're constantly looking for new members. Apply Today!