Program Recognition
•Bullet: One of a small number of Canadian programs combining a contemporary dance BFA with Canada's National Ballet School Teachers' Training Diploma, a world-renowned teacher-certification credential based at NBS's Toronto campus
Training
•Bullet: Shares SCA's Dance faculty (Rob Kitsos, Marla Eist, Justine Chambers) and the same audition structure — a technique class combining ballet barre, contemporary technique, and improvisation, plus a small-group faculty interview
•Bullet: SFU coursework covers Contemporary Dance Training & Movement Systems, Choreography as Research Practice, and Repertory alongside the ballet-pedagogy foundation NBS builds on in years four and five
Facilities
•Bullet: SFU years are based in the SCA's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts dance studios in downtown Vancouver before the program transitions students to NBS's dedicated ballet-training facility on Jarvis Street in Toronto for the Teacher Training years
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: SFU-first students complete three years at SFU then two years at NBS in Toronto to earn both the BFA and the NBS Teachers' Training Diploma
•Bullet: Students who begin at NBS and transfer to SFU after three years instead complete two to three years at SFU toward a Bachelor of General Studies plus the NBS diploma
