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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 - 12 with an average enrollment of 160 students.  The school partners with neighboring high schools Manhattan Village Academy and School of the Future to provide the academic curriculum to students in grades 9 - 12 who continue to study ballet at Ballet Tech.  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

September 8:  First Day of School

September 9-10:  Rosh Hashanah (School Closed)

September 16:  PTA Meeting / Open House, 6PM

September 25:  Open Audition

September 27:  Big Apple Fundraiser Kick-Off
                       First Day of the Fall Beginner Ballet Program





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