The University of Alabama Department of Theatre & Dance

The American Ballet Theatre will be conducting a three week Summer Ballet Intensive. Artistic Director is Franco De Vita, with Carla Stallings Lippert. This three-week program is held in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa campus.

Students will stay in dormitories on the beautiful University of Alabama campus while studying part-time with Franco De Vita, Principal of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and celebrated ABT faculty. A final performance will be held featuring ABT repertory and new choreography on stage at the Moody Music Concert Hall.

The Tuscaloosa site is geared toward strengthening and refining technique for intermediate and advanced dancers, ages 12-18.

Program Dates:	July 5 - July 24, 2010
Dorm Check-in:	July 4, 2010, 10:00 AM -2:00 PM, mandatory meeting for all ABT students at 4:00PM
Final Performances:	July 24, 2010, 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM, in the Moody Music Concert Hall
Location:	The University of Alabama Department of Theater and Dance Box 870239 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 (205) 348-5283
Tuition:	$1200 (pay to ABT)
Room/Board:	$1500 (pay to UA)
Fees include:	Chaperoned housing in campus dormitories, just steps from classes and planned activities All meals All classes, rehearsals and seminars ABT t-shirt and bag

The comprehensive curriculum includes a full day of classes, workshops, and group rehearsals. Classes will be offered at ability levels following the initial placement audition and will include:

Technique
Pointe
Variations
Pas de Deux
Men's Class
Dance health and yoga
Dance related activities
Dance history and choreography
Repertory

These classes are taught by New York-based ABT Staff and dancers. Additional classes in jazz, modern, acting for dancers, music theory, and kinesiology will be offered by distinguished local guest artists.

TICKET AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The final Gala Showcase performances will be on July 24, 2010 at 12:00Noon and 3:00PM in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building. Tickets will go on sale approximately one week before the performance. Please check back for prices and purchasing locations. For more information, please contact Sarah M. Barry at (205) 348-8699 or fax (205) 348-9048.

REGISTRATION

For information on how to audition and enroll in the ABT Summer Intensive, please contact:
Elizabeth Aymong, Summer Intensive Assistant

American Ballet Theatre
890 Broadway, Floor 3
New York, NY 10003

Phone: (212) 477-3030 x3416

Fax: (212) 419-4396

E-mail: summerintensive@abt.org

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

In 1997, The University of Alabama was chosen by American Ballet Theatre for the first American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive ever to be held outside of New York or in partnership with a university.

Through this partnership, promising young dancers can receive both the highest level of dance training with American Ballet Theatre's renowned summer program and a strong correlating academic curriculum of dance studies. Participants are selected for the Intensive through an 18-city nationwide audition tour.

The American Ballet Theatre is the nation's premiere dance company. Founded in 1940, the company has been the home of many of the world's best dancers, including Natalia Makarova, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Cynthia Gregory. American Ballet Theatre is known internationally for establishing an American identity for ballet, through works choreographed by such artists as Agnes de Mille, George Balanchine and Twyla Tharp. Today the American Ballet Theatre continues to be the destination of choice for the world's most accomplished dancers.