Description

Apprentice dancers are on track to graduate into the DACDA Company and receive intensive high-level training and professional-caliber coaching and performance opportunities with the Company dancers.

Instructors, who are working professionals in the field, along with DACDA’s syllabus creates technically strong, artistically expressive dancers who adapt easily to the broad range of styles required of today’s professionals.

The year-round curriculum includes technique, pointe, pas de deux, dance conditioning, contemporary, hip hop and jazz. Apprentice dancers perform four times a year in The Nutcracker, a student-produced performance - So We Think We Can Dance, the Mixed Rep Spring Program where they explore neoclassical and contemporary styles, and the end-of-year Spring Concert, which is school-wide and a masterful display of the plethora of styles DAC students are capable of.

Admittance to the DACDA Apprentice division is by audition or invitation only. Email claire@darienarts.org for inquiries or to schedule your private audition.

Apprentice Package Includes:

• Apprentice Ballet & Rehearsal
• Beginner Partnering
• 2 Intermediate Ballet Classes
• Intermediate Pointe

Apprentices are highly encouraged to also take:

• Dance Conditioning
• Intemediate Ballet & Variations
• Youth Contemporary