About the Program

Summer Dance Intensive
Three-week program: July 14-August 2, 2008
Two-week program: July 14-26, 2008

For serious ballet students ages 12-20. Intermediate/Advanced, Advanced, and Pre-Professional

Syracuse University Summer Dance Intensive promises a unique and challenging dance experience, one that will help you grow technically, artistically, and personally. You participate in dance classes with renowned faculty and enjoy a comprehensive curriculum that includes exposure to live performances, history, and repertory. The mission of the Summer Intensive is to develop well-rounded dancers through exposure to a variety of disciplines, with emphasis on classical ballet technique.

About your teachers and mentors
The key to success in any field is to learn from the masters who have gone before. The Summer Dance Intensive artistic director and visiting artists make up a faculty that guarantees a valuable learning experience for dancers setting out on their journey to a serious dance career.

Classes
Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., plus part of Saturday
Students take four classes a day: generally three dance classes and a lecture/workshop class. Sundays are for field trips and free time. The curriculum offers serious students high-level ballet classes, workshops, and lectures that are essential and critical to the development of each dancer.

In addition, there are rehearsals and choreography sessions approximately three evenings each week. The three-week program culminates in a public dance performance. The first two weeks may be taken separately, but you are strongly encouraged to participate in the full three-week program.

Ballet
Pointe
Variations
Partnering
Men's classes
Modern, Jazz
Correlated dance studies
Performance finale

Contact us via mail at University College of Syracuse University, 700 University Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244-2530; e-mail ballet@uc.syr.edu; phone 315-443-9378.