Curriculum

Directed by Academy Dean Catherine Batcheller, Cincinnati Ballet’s Summer Intensive is designed to provide excellence in training and professional advancement. This program is for the serious ballet student who wants to maximize their progress, strength and development through an immersion process that includes five full days of dance. Cincinnati Ballet Academy's rigorous curriculum focuses on both the technical and artistic aspects of correct ballet technique execution and development, while weaving in other dance forms such as jazz, modern and character and contemporary ballet/improvisation. Partnering class is also a part of the curriculum.  Students will benefit from working with our international guest faculty.

Sample Summer Schedule from 2011

CBII and Trainee Program

 For enrolled advanced students, there is the exceptional opportunity to be seen and selected for either CB II (Cincinnati Ballet’s official second company) or as a Cincinnati Ballet Trainee.

Former Summer Intensive Students dancing now with Cincinnati Ballet: Maizyalet Velazguez and Jackie Damico (Corps de Ballet), Abigail Maurna Morwood (New Dancer), Caleb Roberts and Grace Reeves (Apprentices), Deanna Weise, Brianna Hable and Diamond Ancion (Cincinnati Ballet Trainees)

Photo: Brianna Hable, Caleb Roberts, and Samantha DeBenedictis.  Photo by Dan Ledbetter

 Performance Workshop

 For those students enrolled in the three, four or full five week program the program culminates in an informal performance workshop in the Cincinnati Ballet's own Mickey Jarson Kaplan Theater.