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Auditioning

Admission into the 2008 Summer Intensive Program and 2008 Advanced Intensive Program is by audition only. Faculty members from the School of Ballet Chicago will conduct a National Audition Tour during the months of January and February of 2008. If you are unable to attend a scheduled audition, you may audition by appointment or send a video audition.

Please bring to the on-site auditions:

• $20.00 audition fee
• Headshot (school photo acceptable)
• Photo in first arabesque

Video Auditions

For those of you who live too far away to attend a scheduled audition, video auditions are accepted. To audition by mail, please print our Summer Course Video Audition Form and return it with your video, photographs, and $35.00 application fee. All videos must be received by April 11, 2008.

The video should include the following classroom exercises. Be sure you are the only person in the video. Please keep the videotape simple. It is only to see your class work and not a choreographic exercise. If you have a performance video, you are welcome to submit it along with the required videotape. The full video should be no more than 15 - 20 minutes in length.

Please include with your video :

• First Arabesque (profile), women on pointe
• Developpe a la seconde (profile)
• Grand plie in second position from the side
• Sous sus, women on pointe

Video requirements:

• Barre Work
  • Plie
  • Tendu
  • Degage
  • Ronds de jambe
  • Developpes
  • Frappe
  • Ronds de jambes en l'air
  • Grand battement
• Center Floor
  • Tendu
  • Adagio
  • Pirouettes
  • Waltz
  • Petite allegro
  • Grand allegro
• For Ladies
  • A pointe work combination
• For Men
  • Tour en l'air combination

Audition Fees
An application fee of $20.00 (cash, check or money order payable to the School of Ballet Chicago) is required at the time of the audition. Please bring a headshot (school photo acceptable) and a photo in first arabesque. For video auditions, the fee is $35.00.

Notification
Written notification of the audition results will be mailed to applicants within three weeks of their audition date. Audition results will not be given over the telephone.

Tuition
Summer Course Tuition - $1,500.00

Advanced Intensive Tuition - $700.00

For Housing costs, please see Housing section.

Scholarships
Scholarships, either full or partial, are awarded on a case by case basis and only a limited number of scholarships are offered each summer. Scholarships are available for tuition only.

Non-Discrimination policy
The School of Ballet Chicago admits students of all race, color, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin to all its programs and activities. The School encourages diversity in its students, audiences, educational policies, scholarship programs, and all other school activities.

For more information, please contact:
The School of Ballet Chicago, Attn: School Administrator
218 South Wabash Avenue, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60604

Telephone: 312-251-8838
Fax: 312-251-8840
E-mail: info@balletchicago.org
www.balletchicago.org