SUMMER PROGRAMS 2025
Ballet Chicago offers eight weeks of summer training each year, providing the serious ballet student with an unparalleled training experience. Our programs bear the hallmarks of every Ballet Chicago course: truly intensive, multidimensional, activity-packed programming that will challenge you, educate you, and leave you feeling enriched and inspired.
June 23 - July 25, 2025
Ages: 11+
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Tuition: $3,100
Housing: TBA
Registration Fee: $75
Activity Fee: TBA​​
Ballet Chicago’s five-week Summer Intensive offers the serious ballet student an unparalleled training experience. Our expert faculty, led by Artistic Director Daniel Duell, School Director Patricia Blair and Resident Choreographer Ted Seymour, is known for its ability to transform dancers through highly focused guidance, correction, and validation for each student. Our comprehensive curriculum includes women’s and men’s technique in the Balanchine tradition, pointe, variations, Pilates, stretch, modern dance technique, classical Spanish dance, and pas de deux (for upper levels only). Classes are demanding, and results are palpable. The Summer Intensive is open to dancers ages 11 and up.
Acceptance is by audition only.
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July 28 – August 8, 2025
Ages: 11+
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Tuition: $1,250
Housing: TBD
Registration Fee: $75
Activity Fee: TBD
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Ballet Chicago’s two-week Advanced Repertory Workshop is a perfect complement to our five-week Summer Intensive. Every year, students flock to Ballet Chicago from cities throughout the U.S. to take part in this exceptional, accelerated training program. Dancers immerse themselves in learning and perfecting repertory. They are coached daily to gain the strength, purity of line, musicality, self-confidence, and focus that allows them to transform classroom technique into artistry.
Acceptance to the Advanced Repertory Workshop is by audition only.
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Session 1: June 16020
Session 2: July 28-August 1
Session 3: August 4-8
Ages: 7-12 ​
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Tuition: TBA
Registration Fee: $50
One Week: $350
Two Weeks: $700
Three Weeks: $900
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Ballet Chicago’s Junior Intensive, designed for dancers ages 8 to 12, gives students the foundation necessary to excel. We inspire students to become excited about beautiful posture, and we teach them how to combine purity of form with expressiveness, increasing the capacity of their minds as well as their bodies. Our carefully stepped curriculum includes ballet technique, repertoire, modern dance, Spanish folkloric dance, Pilates, and stretch. Placement is based on age, amount of prior training, and level of advancement. The program culminates with an in-studio viewing. Both in the classroom and in performance, Ballet Chicago builds ability, awareness, and self-confidence.
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Registration now available!
Dormitory Housing
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Ballet Chicago provides supervised housing for students ages 12 and up at the University Center, a secure and state-of-the-art downtown student residence. Located just five blocks from the Ballet Chicago studios, the dorm is staffed by experienced chaperones who live on site.