Overview of Summer Ballet Camp

Summer Dance Camp is for YOUNG BALLET DANCERS from 10 to 20 years old with variety of learning experience for students with wide range of ballet skills. The ballet lessons are offered by GITIS (Russian Academy of Theatre Arts) and has all advantages of ballet education. It will be held in USA, New Jersey, and in Russia, Moscow. All the teachers were brilliant dancers in the past and are great teachers of the country now. They all have graduating diplomas of GITIS and tremendous amount of professional dance experience in working with students of all ages. During summer ballet camp, teachers will lead classes of ballet, pointe, character, partnering, historical, and make-up.

The program in Moscow gives an exclusive chance for all students to have ballet teachers of GITIS, who cannot travel to USA, for ballet intensive curse and gives you great opportunity to see Russia and improve ballet skills at the same time. At the end of the program students will have a final performance in Moscow which will be recorded on the professional video tape.

The program in USA, New Jersey gives a great opportunity to have an exclusive workshop under the best teachers of Russia Academy of Theatre Art (GITIS) who will come special for our program. All students will get a certificate after finishing the seminar, which will state that you advanced your level of qualification in ballet dancing skills.

All the information about day to day activities and all the details of the program could be downloaded from here .

Student's Guests

Russian Ballet Camp also presents an opportunity for someone to accompany (student ballet coach or relative) to visit our ballet intensive as well. Teachers of any school of ballet can attend Russian Ballet Camp for a teacher ballet seminar in GITIS. They will visit all classes to learn more about Russian ballet methods, to get a higher qualification of education in teaching ballet, pointe, character dance and others classes. All teachers will have the same privileges as camp students, including transportation and excursions. At the end of the program each teacher will receive a certificate of finishing a Ballet Teacher Seminar.

The goal of our ballet program is to learn Russian ballet technique in its native environment.

Dates
Program in USA, New Jersey : June 20 – July 03, 2009   Program in Russia, Moscow : July 20 – August 2, 2009

Activities included

You will have a full ballet program under GITIS with a final performance and celebration dinner at the end of the program; Excursions in Moscow/New York you may choose and order on our Excursions form for an additional charge; Housing with suite rooms with breakfast we will provide you for additional charge; All transportation we will provide you for additional charge; The interpreter will be with you at all times to help you with translations, during the program.

Registration Process

If you decide to join our program you will need to download from our web site and fill out a Registration Form and send it to us. A registration fee will apply. We will confirm your registration by e-mail, which will guarantee that we have booked your space. We will also send you all of the information and the total price for your trip with the Travel VISA Application. Please send us the Audition Information as soon as possible so that we can arrange your space in the program. You can find more information about our Prices, Terms and Conditions on our Summer Camp Prices page. If you would like to travel with someone to accompany you please fill out a separate accompany application. Also if you would like to take excursions please download Excursion program form (you can fill out this form later). You can find more information about Travel VISA at http://www.russia-visa.com. We can also help you get a Travel VISA, so that you do not have to spend your time at the Russian Embassy to collect all of the documents needed to receive a VISA, which is a very tedious task.

Audition process
This audition will be FREE OF CHARGE. Please send us a 10 min VHS / DVD with the student's head and feet showing at all times. You can send the class videotape or performance video tape, but we should see everything that the student can do, so we can see the level of ballet the student has. The video should be taped in the same year or year before the camp session.

Accident Insurance
All students will have accident insurance during ballet seminar and final performance only.

Dress code in ballet class

GIRLS   BOYS       Ballet Slippers pink with elastic or ribbons sewn on Point Shoes pink with elastic and ribbons sewn on (3 pairs minimum) Leotards any of dark color Skirt one white chiffon wrap skirt, 12" or 15" even length; one black nylon character skirt, wrap or pull-on, mid-calf length (22" – 28") Tights pink, seamless, nylon, footed or convertible Character Shoes 1 1/2 heels Underpants for performance pink or tan Make up for performance Hair Accessories for performance   Ballet Slippers one white pair and one black pair, worn with white socks Tights black, footed, cotton/lycra T-Shirt white cotton, short sleeves, scoop-neck Dance Belt black Character Shoes black, low-cut Make up for performance Man's Belt tan and black * In case you are missing some required clothing or shoes, TB-Premier will provide it to you for an additional charge.