Oakland Ballet Company’s summer program offers dancers ages 7 and up the opportunity to train intensively with one of the Bay Area’s leading professional dance companies in a fun, challenging, and nurturing environment.
This special program allows dancers to improve technique, build performance skills, and grow artistically through:
- Daily classes in ballet and pointe technique;
- Repertoire from beloved story ballets;
- Choreography workshops; and
- Weekly “Informance” showcases for family and
friends
Each week will feature repertoire and choreography from different ballets.
- Week 1 La Bayadere
- Week 2 Paquita
- Week 3 Coppelia
Choreography sessions provide the opportunity to explore their own creativity as they create their own dances with guidance from the faculty.
Age is used as a general placement guideline. The first day of each session will serve as a placement audition to ensure that each dancer is enrolled in the level that will be most beneficial for his or her experience.
Dress Code
- Girls: Black leotard, pink tights and pink ballet slippers or flesh toned tights and flesh toned ballet slippers. Long hair must be swept back away from the face and neck and held securely in a ballet bun. Braids are acceptable. If hair is too short to be placed in a bun, it must be secured and held back by an elastic headband that will not fall off. All jewelry should be removed.
- Boys: White t-shirt, black tights and black shoes, or white socks and white shoes.
Schedule
- Monday - Thursday - 09:00am-02:30pm
- Friday - 09:00am - 01:30pm