The Academy’s Student Program is a 10-month, professional dance program for youths from 3 to 18 years. It offers three areas of focus:

• The primary focus is the professional training of the ballet technique and its artistry (pedagogy drawn from Royal Academy of Dance, Cecchetti, Vaganova, and French training) from pre-ballet to pre-professional. Instructors maintain technical standards while caring for and managing individual physical needs. Student promotion and progress is evaluated and assessed through mandatory examinations in June.

• The secondary focus is the professional instruction in modern dance techniques such as Graham, Limon and Horton as well as composition (choreography classes) and modern/jazz dance fusion classes.

• The third focus is the professional instruction in other dance forms such as Tap, Jazz, Flamenco and other ethnic dance styles.

The exposure to different styles of dance are essential in broadening and refining a dancer’s movement palate. Live piano accompaniment for ballet levels 2 and up. Students also receive conditioning and injury prevention care via classes and exercise cards tailored to a student’s needs.

BEYOND STUDENT PROGRAMS

• Reach, a pre-professional program designed to challenge and stimulate gifted children.

• Tuition scholarships available for boys and girls.

• Work scholarships available for students age 13 and up.

• Performance opportunities that emphasize quality of dancer vs. quality of costume. CBTB company and junior company (CBTB Too) performance opportunities for the more advanced student.

• Summer programs for the beginner to the more advanced student (July –August).

• S.C.I.P. - Strengthening, Conditioning and Injury Prevention.  This program was initiated to inculcate good warm-up habits in her students and encourage greater physical awareness. With the help of the CBTB Faculty, exercises with pictures and explanations are distributed to the pre-teen and teen student population. They are also given a card that instructors sign to verify that the students have completed their pre and post class SCIP exercises. A mid-year meeting with SCIP students will be scheduled to follow-up, update and ensure proper understanding of all the required exercises and stretches.

   

photo by: Brenda Neville

photo by: Barry Yanowitz