Curriculum

Charlottesville Ballet Academy believes that a love of dance begins with excellence in dance training.  Each dance genre follows the technical aspects of the American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum.  This unique program consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines, consistent with the best practices in the fields of sports psychology, child/adolescent development, nutrition and training.

The teaching methods of ABT’s National Training Curriculum incorporate elements of the French, Italian and Russian schools of training.  The Curriculum is standard at all of ABT’s pre-professional training programs, including the ABT Studio Company, Summer Intensives, outreach programs and NYU Masters program in ABT Ballet Pedagogy.

For more information about the ABT Training Curriculum, please visit: http://www.abt.org.