Senior Division
Senior Division classes support dancers as they refine the highest levels of their classical ballet training while deepening their artistic voice and personal responsibility. Students pursue increasingly sophisticated technical work, musical interpretation, performance quality, and stylistic refinement while continuing to cultivate discipline, resilience, curiosity, leadership, and a lifelong commitment to learning. For dancers who dream of a professional career, these years provide the preparation for collegiate and professional opportunities. For those whose goal is to experience ballet at its highest level, they offer the richness, challenge, and fulfillment of advanced classical training. In every case, students are encouraged to cultivate the maturity, generosity, excellence, and joy that sustain a lifelong relationship with the art of classical ballet.
Seniors Level 5
Ages 13+
As dancers enter the Senior Division, they begin refining the highest levels of their classical ballet training through increasingly sophisticated barre and center work. Their vocabulary continues to expand through sustained adagio, advanced pirouettes, grand allegro, pointe work or men’s technique, increasingly complex movement combinations, and ever-deepening musicality, artistry, and performance quality. Performance opportunities continue to grow through classical repertoire, variations, and increasingly challenging performance experiences, fostering greater confidence, stylistic understanding, and artistic maturity. Throughout the year, students celebrate milestones of increasing technical achievement, artistic refinement, and personal responsibility while developing the independence, discipline, resilience, and curiosity that support advanced study and lifelong growth as artists.
Seniors Level 6
Ages 14+
Students engage regularly with classical repertoire, performance coaching, and collaborative artistic work while receiving individualized support that reflects their unique interests and aspirations. Opportunities may include leadership and mentorship experiences, anatomy-informed study, teaching opportunities, and guidance for ballet school, collegiate, and professional auditions. Through these experiences, dancers develop resilience, confidence, discipline, professionalism, and creative expression while preparing for collegiate, professional, or lifelong engagement with dance.