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ABOUT BALLET TECH

Ballet Tech (02M442) is a New York City public school offering its students a quality academic education and intensive and rigorous ballet training designed to develop professional dancers.

"Drawn as they are from the city's schools, the young dancers represent the city's racial makeup more than other companies do.  And Eliot Feld's choreography has been fed not just by the classical ballet skills they have learned but also by the cultures that have nourished them."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

The school is a collaboration between the NYC Department of Education and Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech Foundation.  Unlike any other ballet school, the only criterion for enrollment is innate ability; Ballet Tech provides training and dance clothes to its entire student body free of charge.  It contains grades 4 - 8 with an average enrollment of 160 students.  In addition, the school offers beginner ballet classes to approximately 800 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders each year through a school-time release program. 

Admittance into the school is by audition - either through the school's Beginner Program auditions or an open audition.

View the full school CALENDAR


May 16:  SLT Meeting, 5PM

May 22:  PTA Meeting, 6PM

May 27:  Memorial Day, No Classes

May 28 - 31:  Open Class Week (Academic and Ballet Classes)

June 1:  Open Audition

June 3:  Last Day of Level I
            NY State Science Exam - Written Portion (Grades 4 & 8)

June 6:  Chancellor's Conference Day - No Classes

June 10:  Noon Dismissal (Clerical Half-Day)

June 12:  PTA Meeting, 6PM

June 13:  Ballet Tech Foundation Gala - Joyce Theater, 8PM

June 14:  KIDS DANCE - Joyce Theater, 7PM

June 15:  KIDS DANCE - Joyce Theater, 2PM & 7PM

June 16:  KIDS DANCE - Joyce Theater, 12PM & 5PM

June 21:  Student Art Show

June 25:  Graduation, 10AM

June 26:  Last Day of School

July 8 - August 2:  BALLET SUMMER SESSION








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