Core Curriculum Classes Program Details Scholarships • Ballet technique • Once accepted you choose from a 2, 3, 4 or 6 Burklyn Ballet Theatre offers a limited number of • Modern dance week program, or day student option. scholarships ranging from $100 to $500. • Two week sessions start at approximately Dancers are automatically considered • Jazz dance for talent-based scholarships during • Contemporary $2,800 and include room and board. Check our website for the most updated information. the audition. Scholarship notifications • Choreography are sent out throughout the • Pointe audition tour. • Pas de deux Campus Life • Men’s class Counselor student ratio is 1:6. • Variations Counselors are dancers participating in the program and are at least 20 years of age. The environment • Character is quiet and safe and facilities are within walking • Pilates Faculty distance of each other. Intermediate Program dancers are chaperoned and escorted to and from classes, Supplemental Classes Our world-renowned teachers are chosen for their rehearsals and performances. Rooms are double • Dance history many different talents, including their professional occupancy, usually configured in suites, each with Auditions experiences, technique, choreographic voices and its own bathrooms. Laundry facilities are in each Auditions are required • Résumé writing knowledge of the traditional classical works. Teachers dormitory. Girls and boys are housed in separate for all Burklyn Ballet • Stage make-up application rotate weekly allowing our students to work with dormitories. The cafeteria serves healthy and Theatre programs. A single multiple faculty members. • Tap dance nutritious meals with options for all food preferences audition covers all programs. • Costume design and food allergies. Auditions are held throughout • Writing for dance John Gardner the United States between January Amanda McKerrow and April. Students are evaluated on Weekly Performances talent, training, performance ability, Arthur Leeth and attitude. Video auditions are Classical Excerpts: accepted. Swan Lake Thom Clower Sleeping Beauty Julia Gleich La Bayadere Helen Starr Guidelines Le Corsaire Alun Jones • Print the audition application from our website Don Quixote and bring it to the audition. Original Works By: Peter Merz • There is a fee payable to BBT due at time of Peter Merz, International Ballet Andrea Pell Audition Class – No Credit/ Debit or electronic Competition payments. See website for the fee amount. Sarah Tallman Dylan Crossman, Activities • Audition consists of a 1.5 to 2 hour Cunningham Dylan Crossman Intermediate-Advanced level ballet class. Small amounts of free time allow the dancer to forge Joanne Whitelhill, • Intermediate Program dancers attend the regular Molly Faulkner lasting friendships, and enjoy the beautiful natural Artistic Director audition class where applicable. Burklyn Ballet Theater setting. Rehearsals are open allowing dancers to Kimberly Chapman observe the faculty coaching other dancers. Dancers • Dancers will be notified of acceptance by email Molly Faulkner, have the use of the campus including the swimming within two weeks of the audition. Palomar College pool, library, mailroom, fitness center, tv lounges • Photos, bios and recommendations not Guest and coffee shop. Sunday activities are planned required. Choroegraphers including trips to Ben and Jerry’s, movie marathons, and sight seeing trips. Seminars and game nights including Ballet Jeopardy and a ballet spelling bee are Photographs Courtesy of Steve Knight Photography a highlight. and Richard Calmes PERFORMANCE Philosophy Why Burklyn? Burklyn Ballet Theatre was founded in 1976 with Burklyn Ballet Theatre is a summer dance the goal of providing the highest caliber training and intensive that provides the experience of being in It was an experience that I will never performance opportunities in classical ballet to a wide a professional company. Located in the beautiful, forget. I have been to a number of summer range of serious students. Our mission is to give the inspiring mountain top setting of Johnson State dance intensives, but none have made an dedicated ballet dancer a summer of intense dance with Joanne Whitehill, Artistic Director College in Northern Vermont, dancers from ages impact on me like this one. the finest international teachers and choreographers 10 - college age are offered the challenge and culminating in a weekly performance. Each opportunity to learn and perform new repertoire, performance affords the dancer a chance to perform study, and train with a renowned faculty. Entrance I would never be where I am with my dancing a different role. Burklyn Ballet Theatre has programs to the program is by audition and dancers must be right now if it wasn’t for all the amazing for dancers 10 years and older and is committed to a at an intermediate level, with a strong technique. people that are a part of Burklyn. The feeling I supportive, safe and healthy environment. The campus Students attending the main program must be had out there performing I’ll never forget. of Johnson State College is the home of BBT and en pointe and have a wide ballet vocabulary. provides modern facilities and a carefully chosen menu for a healthy dancing body. The Director, teachers Burklyn Ballet Theatre: ages 12 and up My daughter was exposed to more than she and staff take pleasure in guiding and directing young • All students perform weekly dancers in their pursuit of a career in the arts. The ever would have just staying and dancing at • 3 classes per day her studio this summer and for that I thank programs are designed to allow students to commit you. I’m so glad Burklyn Ballet Theatre was their energies to their art without distraction. • Daily rehearsals recommended to us, and only sorry we did not • Choose from a 2, 3, 4 or 6 week session know of you sooner. Alumni Spotlight • Counselor student ratio is 1:6 Oliver Greene-Cramer The Intermediate Program: ages 10 – 12 Their focus on performance quality Ballet Austin, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company • 2 week session is particularly helpful for improving Fana Tesfagiogis • Performance at end of program stage presence and weekly shows allow Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre dancers to get more • 2-3 classes per day plus rehearsals stage time. Jennie Creer-King • Constant supervision Ballet West Best Summer Dante Adela The Edinburgh Connection: ages 13 and up Intensive out there! Cirque du Soliel, Dralion • Participate in 4 weeks of BBT – all classes and performances A performance Robert Mills every week. • Extra rehearsals for a 1-hour story ballet to be Oklahoma City Ballet, Artistic Director performed in Edinburgh, Scotland Dylan Crossman • Travel to Edinburgh, Scotland as a group Merce Cunningham Dance Company • Perform daily at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival Caitlin Leary • Spend afternoons exploring the historic city Mamma Mia, Beauty and the Beast with chaperones Anna Edmondson The Choreographic Project: ages 14 and up Vaganova Academy Program Location • Create original works on student dancers Sarah Tallman Johnson State College • Perform on alternate weeks Wonderbound 337 College Hill Johnson, VT 05656 • 3 classes per day Vanessa Logan Mailing Address • Daily rehearsals Texas Ballet Theater, Executive Director P.O Box 923 Denville, NJ 07834 • Your choice of 2, 3, 4 or 6 week session Dr. Elizabeth McPherson • Counselor Student ratio is 1:6 Montclair State University, Associate Professor of 877-BURKLYN Dance BurklynBallet.com summer intensive summer STUDIO BACKGROUND VECTOR DESIGN