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Applicants for trainee department 2010-2011 can audition at any audition site on our audition tour
Online Registration
Click here for online audition registration for the trainee 2010-2011 progam
Certificate Requirements
The Joffrey Ballet School is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Dance and meets the U.S.A. Department of Education standards for a school of vocational training. The trainee program leads to a certificate. The certificate is conferred on Trainees who complete 3450 hours of training – over a minimum of four (4) years and a maximum of (6) years – and maintain satisfactory progress.
Why come to the Joffrey Ballet School?
Without question, the Joffrey Ballet School takes you beyond your local dance studio. “It’s intense,” say the trainees year after year. “But, oh, so worth it.” Here, we transform passionate dance students into versatile, individualistic artists able to collaborate and evolve fluidly in today’s fast-changing society--whether your goal is contemporary dance or ballet.
Think of the Joffrey Ballet School as an intimate conservatory where you’ll be exposed to all facets of the dance world from choreography and music to staging and costuming. The atmosphere is professional. You’ll see firsthand how it all comes together, at the school, through guest teachers and visiting with respected NY dance companies. As one trainee puts it, “Joffrey makes dance class seem like a real job. With the staff more like employers than teachers, you have a lot of people to impress.”
Trainees also serve as teaching assistants to the Joffrey Ballet School’s children’s program and dance alongside their young counterparts during the school’s semi-annual performances. “It's nice to know that little kids look up to you. You can see the desire in their eyes to be what you are,” reflects a trainee.
We’re all here to make the dance student experience the best it can be. Beyond the black leotards, buns and pink tights lives a passion that brings us together.
The bulletin boards that line the walls of the school are usually crowded with information leading to casting calls and dance-related jobs. Openings also come by word of mouth from students and teachers. “I’ve had extra opportunities that would never be available to me if it weren't for being in New York and having the Joffrey Ballet Schools connections,” explains a final semester trainee.
The passion dates back to 1953, when Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino began the Joffrey Ballet School. Just like then, the Joffrey Ballet School remains one of the most authentic New York experiences--in the midst of the latest cultural issues and activities. For certain, you won’t be sequestered away from the real world.
The school itself is housed in its original Greenwich Village location and continues to strive for its founders' vision, realizing purity and form through a well-rounded dance curriculum that includes rigorous training in classical and contemporary ballet.
What’s most unique about the Joffrey Ballet School? Its deconstruction of dance to allow dancers the ability to perfect their technique and form so it flows naturally and passionately from within. This lets the dancer and teacher work closely to concentrate on individual potential just as Robert Joffrey intended.
For more than 50 years, we have remained accessible and open to discourse and challenge, while establishing the Joffrey Ballet School as a thoroughly American institution. Because, truly, the Joffrey Ballet School is about the dancer.
Life at the Joffrey Ballet School
Are you ready for fast paced and rigorous 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM dance training, Monday thru Friday? Tired of the same core instructor’s daily? Get ready for thirty weeks of guest instructors to compliment your training. These instructors are world-renowned professionals with huge name recognition and are currently on tour and taking time to come and train you.
Looking for instructing experience? You will be mentored by our faculty to instruct children’s program classes. After six months of careful guidance and mentoring you will be instructing the children yourself.
Be prepared to perform, perform and perform some more. The fall performance is held in the heart of Manhattan at the Skirball theatre seating over one thousand packed attendees. You will have three consecutive days of performances with a three-month daily rehearsal regime. The performance is a $250,000.00 extravaganza that places you center stage. The spring semester brings two in-house choreographic workshops. Choreographers will be guiding you for one month to create your own personal masterpiece. You will display your work in-house, set the score, sell tickets and watch your work come to life. Then, the spring performance will capture your days and nights rehearsing for three months on a select group of famous vignettes from current choreographers all set on stage at the Skirball theatre.
All other programs begin and end at performing and training. We are the premiere dance educational center in the country and recognize the need for guidance and mentoring. Each core instructor reviews your progress five times per year with the Artistic Director and submits to you a highly personalized report. This process reveals your strengths and weakness’s. We then craft specialty private classes to work with you to master your skills. You will also be assigned a personal guidance counselor with fifteen plus years of real world dance experience. They will assist you in your decisions and provide you with the benefit of their experience and vast network of professionals. We must warn you, be prepared to work, train, and get hired after your experience at the Joffrey Ballet School.
Christopher D'Addario
Executive Director
Joffrey Ballet School
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