The Colburn Dance Academy is a rigorous, audition-based pre-professional ballet training program that offers a focus on the Balanchine Style of ballet. Training is highly individualized and provides an education that aims to shape dancers as thinkers, artists, and performers with genuine and moving voices.
Our faculty is comprised of the highest caliber teachers who hail from companies and experiences worldwide, including New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, L.A. Dance Project, Los Angeles Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
Classes outside of daily ballet technique include pointe, variations, partnering, contemporary, modern, rotating specialty classes, artistic inquiry, and wellness seminars. Dancers have opportunities to learn and perform masterworks, participate in a student choreography workshop, and work with their fellow students from the Music Academy in a shared performance of live music and dance on stage together.
Colburn’s beautiful campus lies in the cultural heart of downtown where students are just a walk from major theatres and museums that will enhance their artistic education through class cultural excursions. Students use their Dance Academy education to launch the next stage in their journey, joining world-class dance companies and esteemed college programs after Colburn.
I love the familial element at Colburn which is cultivated by a variety of insightful teachers who know how to draw out our individuality and artistic voice. It’s inspiring to watch my fellow classmates encourage each other and offer the support needed in this rigorous art form. Chloë Oronoz, Dance Academy student
I love the familial element at Colburn which is cultivated by a variety of insightful teachers who know how to draw out our individuality and artistic voice. It’s inspiring to watch my fellow classmates encourage each other and offer the support needed in this rigorous art form.
Audition Information
One of the most celebrated dancers of her generation, Ms. Ringer has contributed to the field of dance in many ways.
Seth Belliston was trained at the Belliston Academy of Ballet and the School of American Ballet.
Katherine Cowgill began her ballet training at Minnesota Dance Theater in Minneapolis under the training of Lise Houlton and Marjorie Thompson, learning a strong basis of classical ballet technique and contemporary dance.
James Fayette has a deep understanding of how the employment of dancers is managed and is keenly sensitive to the needs and career concerns of professional artists.