This summer, explore the art of dance with the Ballet Philippines Dance School in its annual seven-week intensive training program, the Summer Dance Workshop. Students from the age of four to pre-professional and professional levels, as well as adult beginners can take courses in Classical Ballet, Modern & Contemporary Dance, and Hip Hop.
Workshop participants may choose to focus on their preferred genre, or expand their dance vocabulary further by enrolling in the Full Course package, which places them in both classical ballet and modern dance classes for their age and skill level. Students will have the chance to learn from BP alumni such as Nonoy Froilan, Gina Katigbak-Garcia, Rhea Dumdum-Bautista, as well as current dancers Jean Marc Cordero, Gillianne Gequinto, and Erl Sorilla, just to name a few.
In keeping with the BP Dance School’s holistic approach to dance education, the Summer Dance Workshop also includes a weekly Lecture Series. Through these sit-down talks, students have the opportunity to interact with artists of different fields and learn how aspects of their art form can relate to and enhance one’s dancing.
The 47th CCP Summer Dance Workshop starts on April 4 at BPDS-Aura and on April 5 at BPDS-CCP. Students attend a minimum of three classes a week (for pre-ballet and elementary ballet students) to as much as five classes a week, including workshop rehearsals for its culminating performances at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater) on May 21 and 22.
Scholarship auditions for the 47th CCP Summer Dance Workshop are scheduled on March 19 at 11:00AM and 1:30PM and on April 5, 2016 (for provincial applicants only) at 1:00PM and 2:00PM. Scholars are given wide access to intensive dance training, aside from paying discounted fees. Intermediate and Advanced students who reach Company Scholar status become part of Ballet Philippines II, BP’s junior performing company. These scholarships are supported through donations made to the Noordin Jumalon Scholarship Program.
The Ballet Philippines Dance School is the professional training ground of the country’s most promising young talents in dance. With a unique curriculum that encompasses various dance styles and techniques, the systematized method and approach to instruction takes highly into account children’s anatomy and psyche at various ages and levels so that the training is physically safe, technically effective and artistically enriching for all students.
The Ballet Philippines Dance School is located at the following venues:
- BPDS-CCP: Ground Floor, Cultural Center of the Philippines, CCP Complex, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City. Call (02) 832-3689.
- BPDS-Aura: 6th Floor, Unit 602B, SM Aura Premier, 26th Street Corner McKinley Parkway Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City. Call (02) 531-4436.
