Registration Opens February 1st. Audition required for new or visiting students.
Partial scholarships available for male dancers. Please send request for scholarship application to school@bayareabc.com
REGISTER BY MARCH 31ST TO RECIEVE EARLY BIRD TUITION PRICES.
REGISTER
Click on the “Register” adjacent to your enrollment preference and follow the prompts. Registration in the full program strongly encouraged. For current BABC students, Senior Summer Intensive is appropriate for students currently in Level 4A, Level 4B, Level 5 and Level 6 during the 24/25 School Session.
Reminder - New or visiting students must do an audition prior to registering.
AUDITION INFORMATION FOR
NEW & VISITING STUDENTS
SCHEDULE AN AUDITION:
Bay Area Ballet Conservatory’s Senior Summer Intensive is appropriate for the advanced intermediate through advanced level dancer who has a minimum of 3 years of recent ballet training. Minimum age is 11 years old.
Audition is required for visiting or new to BABC students to ensure readiness for the program. Auditioning students who are not ready for our Senior Summer Intensive will instead be recommended for our Junior Intensive.
Current Bay Area Ballet Conservatory students do not need to attend audition and may register directly if the are in currently in Level 4A. Level 4B, Level 5 & Level 6.
Audition Attire:
Females - Any color/style ballet leotard, pink tights (worn under leotard and over feet), ballet shoes, pointe shoes (if applicable) and hair in a neat ballet bun.
Males - White or black solid t-shirt, form fitting. White, black or grey dance tights or athletic shorts. White or black ballet shoes.
Audition Fee: $30, payable in-person on day of the audition
Tuition Dues & Policy
A $250 / week tuition deposit is due upon registration to secure place in program which goes towards Senior Summer Intensive tuition balance. Remaining tuition balance is auto-processed on June 1, 2025. Tuition installments may be arranged by request, with balances planned to be at $0 by July 1, 2025.
Senior Summer Intensive is not available for proration or day rates. Participants are expected to be present for all classes, during the weeks registered. Early Dismissals are not permitted for various family events, appointments and conflicts, with exception to urgent medical related appointments needed for the student.
All tuition & fees (audition fee, deposit, tuition) are non-refundable for any reason and non-transferrable to tuition credit for any reason.
A supply list will be provided via email on or around June 1.
The weekly schedule is posted for the dancers during the intensive and is not provided in advance. Dancers have ballet, contemporary and pointe/pre pointe every day so please pack accordingly.
Lunch / Food is not provided. Dancers should have a packed lunch and snacks. BABC has a kitchen (sink/microwave/refrigerator/freezer) onsite for dancer use. Due to allergies - no tree nuts please.
SUMMER INTENSIVE FACULTY
Below was our 2024 Guest Faculty. 2025 Faculty To Be Announced!
Joining Bay Area Ballet Conservatory’s resident faculty for our 2024 Summer Intensive program…
Pierre Vilanoba - Ballet
Born in Lille, France, Pierre trained at the Conservatoire de Lille and The Paris Opéra Ballet School, beginning at age seven. After dancing with Paris Opéra Ballet for eight years, rising to the rank of Sujet, he joined San Francisco Ballet as a soloist in 1998 and was quickly promoted to principal dancer in 1999. His lead roles in Paris and San Francisco include the Prince in John Neumeier's The Little Mermaid and Aminta in his Sylvia, Onegin in John Cranko's Onegin, Othello in Lar Lubovitch's Othello, Orion in Mark Morris' Sylvia, Benvolio in Rudolf Nureyev's Romeo & Juliet, Abderam and Jean de Brienne in his Raymonda, and Rothbart in his Swan Lake, Albrecht in Helgi Tomasson's Giselle, Romeo in his Romeo & Juliet, Prince Desiré in his The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried and von Rothbart in his Swan Lake, Espada in his Don Quixote, and the Nutcracker Prince and Snow King in his Nutcracker. While in Paris and San Francisco he participated in the creation of principal roles in works by Neumeier, James Kudelka, Jorma Elo, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, Val Caniparoli, Tomasson, Yuri Possokhov, Matjash Mrozewski, and others.
Vilanoba's broad repertory includes ballet's by Rudolf Nureyev, Roland Petit, Maurice Béjart, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Marius Petipa, Serge Lifar, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Serge Diaghilev, Victor Gsovsky, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Angelin Preljocaj, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Sir Frederick Ashton, David Bintley, Harald Lander, Anthony Tudor, Jacques Garnier, Lila York, Caroline Carlson, and Mats Ek. He has performed at galas around the world and in several ballet films with the Paris Opéra Ballet, including Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet. In December 2008, Vilanoba was featured as the Snow King in the PBS Great Performances broadcast of Tomasson's Nutcracker.
In 1999 Pierre worked with famed fashioned photographer Herb Ritts on a collection produced for the French Vogue's millennium issue. His images have appeared in several books of Herb Ritts' photography as well as the traveling exhibition, HERB RITTS L.A. STYLE, curated in 2012 by The Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Since 2012, Pierre has been teaching and coaching in the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad.
Nicole Ciapponi - Ballet
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Nicole Ciapponi trained with Goh Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and San Francisco Ballet School prior to joining the San Francisco Ballet in 2010. After San Francisco Ballet Nicole joined the Joffrey Ballet in 2015 and became a guest artist with Diablo Ballet (2023) and is currently a company member.
At The San Fransisco Ballet, Ciapponi danced featured roles in Helgi Tomasson’s Giselle (Moyna and pas de cinq), Nutcracker (Doll and Spanish), and 7 for Eight (principal pas de deux) Tomasson/Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote (Cupid) William Forsythe (The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Artifact) George Balanchine’s Coppélia (Spinner, Jesterette) Scotch Symphony (Scotch Girl), Symphony in C (third and fourth movement principal) Divertimento #15(Jumping Girl), and Theme and Variations (demi-soloist) Rudolf Nureyev’s Raymonda—Act III (fourth solo), Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella (Spirit of Spring/Lightness)
At the Joffrey Ballet Ciapponi originated Roles in Yuri Possokov’s Anna Karenina (Nordstan/ Betsy) Christopher Wheeldon’s Nutcracker (Snow Soloist, Venetian Masked Dancer, Myles Thatcher’s Passengers
Also danced principal roles in Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino’s The Nutcracker (Spanish), Justin Peck’s Year of the Rabbit (Solo Girl) Increases, Times are Racing (Pas de quatre), Jiri Kylian’s Forgotten Lands (Red Pas), Christopher Wheeldon’s Fools Paradise (Fast Pas), Swan Lake (Pas de Trois), Cygnets, Spanish), Myles Thatchers Body of Your Dreams (Main Pas), Annabelle Lopez’s Mammatus (1st Pas), Nicholas Blanc's Rond-ez Vous, George Balanchine (Tarentella) The Four Temperment’s (2nd Theme), Wayne Mcgregor’s Infra, Jerome Robbin’s Interplay, Glass Pieces, Giselle (Myrta, Moyna)
With Diablo Ballet danced leading roles in Julia Adams The Nutcracker Suite (Jackie Frost) Gerald Arpinos Confetti (Pink Girl), Penny Saunders Sir La Fil, Christopher Lam’s Paquita, Sean Kelly’s Swan Lake (Spanish)
Ciapponi has danced internationally with The San Francisco Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet most notably in United Kingdom (Sadler Wells), Hamburg (Hamburg Ballet), Copenhagen (Tivoli), Estonia (Tiit Helimets & co.), Russia (Bolshoi Ballet), France (Jerome Robbins Celebration)
Nicole is currently a faculty member/rehearsal director at The Diablo Ballet School. She has taught for numerous schools; such as The Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Ruth Page Center for the arts, Nashville Classical Ballet Academy and The Goh Ballet to name a few.
Andrea Salazar - Contemporary
Born and raised in Santiago, Chile, Andi Salazar is a dancer, choreographer, and sociologist living in the Bay Area since 2017. She began dancing at the age of 4 years and started her professional training at the age of 8 at the Professional Institute School of Modern Music where she was trained in Ballet, Modern, Contemporary and Jazz for 10 years.
During her college years at the Catholic University of Chile, she founded Kazé Dance Company, a Contemporary Dance Company located in Santiago, in which she was the Artistic Director and Choreographer for eight years. With Kazé, Andi premiered original full-length works as well as several short pieces, winning local and regional awards. The company’s mission was to provide a space of artistic development for professional and non- professional dancers based on the values of inclusion, tolerance, empowerment, discipline, and love. In collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Chile, Kazé also developed and operated dance workshops to primary school students in vulnerable schools, inspired by the idea of sharing arts with people that does not have access to them.
Andi obtained her MFA in Dance and Choreography from Mills College and has had the opportunity to perform with Emergence Dance Company, Mogli’s Movers Dance Collective and Mills College Repertory Dance Company, as well as showing her own work along her own Company “A Pulso Dance Project” in different festivals and showcases in the area like Push Festival 2019, Spector Dance 2019 (Winter and Summer) and SAFEhouse Arts SF.
