Students will explore and understand the general duties of arts administration. Topics will include marketing, bookkeeping, information management, fundraising, artist relations, and other general business administrative skills.

Students will explore, understand, and execute the full range of duties related to Artist Touring and Performances. These duties include performance booking, stage management duties, and assisting performers on tour

Ballet Creole is offering 10-15 scholarship placements to youth interested in pursuing or exploring Dance as a career. These placements could be either a Co-op or an Independent Study in the performing Arts.

Ballet Creole believes there are three essential elements in a dance-training program: Exercises, Exploration, and Applications.

Exercise
Various movement techniques and practices engage the students in the essential task of alignment and conditioning and are designed to promote endurance, suppleness, awareness, economy, and precision in moving. These exercises are also intended to reduce injuries; including excessive tension, awkward gestures, a casual carriage, and inexpressive mobility. Studies in anatomy further the student’s self-awareness and provide practical knowledge for safe and effective use of the body.

Exploration
This involve studies in space, time, energy, gesture, and emotion, in which students explore their inner nature and relationship to the world and other people in terms of movement. Through improvisations and guided experimentation in a variety of movement practices (such as Contact Improvisation), students will explore the interrelationship of mind, spirit, and body.

Application
These assignments apply movement issues to a dancing context. Just as mental and emotional adjustments affect the body, so do physical adjustments affect the inner mental and emotional conditions.

African/Caribbean Dance – Dunham Technique
This practicum course allows students to experience fundamentals of traditional and contemporary cultural dance forms. The first part of the course introduces the basics and principles of modern and ballet techniques used in cultural dances (Dunham technique). Focus is placed on dance alignment, co-ordination, conditioning and musicality. The majority of the course then combines these techniques with a variety of traditional dance styles inherent in African and Caribbean dance that have permeated contemporary dance in the world. The historical and cultural meaning of each dance is presented. The course concludes with creative improvisation and composition.

Jazz Dance
This studio course is designed to give students an experience and understanding of the different styles of jazz dance; ex. American, Contemporary, and Traditional. This course aims to develop dance skills that will emphasize nuances and aesthetics of this style of dance. Students will also be introduced to the elements of dance improvisation as a basis for exploring creativity, musicality and expressiveness within this genre. At the end of this course, students will also be able to understand the historical significance of the roots of jazz dance.

Modern Dance
This class employs modern dance techniques, body-mind centering, and contact improvisation. This unique and challenging blend will enhance flexibility and strength while encouraging and accommodating all dance abilities. The Dunham, Horton, Limon and Graham Techniques will be explored.

Capoeira
Capoeira is an art form with roots reaching back four hundred years ago to Colonial Brazil. This style mixes dance, fighting, music and spirituality with a unique blend of African, Aboriginal and European elements. The style teaches students to explore the world with all of your senses while maintaining balance and co-ordination. “Flow and create”.

The following criteria are used for assessing a student’s progress in the program:

- Development of Practical Work
  Including body use: alignment, co-ordination, ability to perform routines,
  exercises and choreography

- Musicality

- Participation/Attendance (Including attitude and effort)

- Application

- Theory
   A written test or short paper on the anatomical scientific analysis of the
   technique used for class handouts and class preparation.

1. Maintain a level of physical strength, suppleness and energy necessary to the demands of professional dance
2. Demonstrate an ability to replicate the movement of others, both in improvisation ad in learned movement sequences.
3. Identify personal alignment and postural difficulties; demonstrate a growing ability to align oneself vertically, and to carry that alignment into movement without excessive tension.
4. Explore movement dynamics in partnering and group work; develop the ability to work with abstract as well as realistic physicality.
5. Learn and explore the social dynamics of stage space; through exploration and prepared assignment, demonstrate an awareness of the body in stage space, as well as its relationship to props, set pieces, others, and the audience.
6. Demonstrate an ability to reflect on learning experience through discussion with fellow students and through journals. Demonstrate physical, verbal, and emotional self-control in the studio.
7. Maintain a high standard of professional etiquette by showing respect for your own and others work, and by maintaining confidentiality outside the studio regarding work which happened inside the studio.
8. Manage the use of time and other resources to attain personal and/or project-related goals.

The Following items are required to apply the program:

- Completed Application form (Click right mouse button and "Save target as" )
- Resume

- Phone : 416.960.0350
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- Email : info@balletcreole.org
- Post : 375 Dovercourt Road, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3E5