Program Recognition
•Studios operate under National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD) guidelines, with nine contact hours per three-credit technique course
•120-credit BFA built on daily classical ballet technique through pointe, variations, and pas de deux partnering
Training
•Curriculum pairs ballet technique with choreography, repertory, ballet pedagogy, and dance science (kinesiology and somatic studies)
•Senior capstone performance project caps the degree
•Program collaborates with national and international guest artists, including a Ballet West collaboration in which former Ballet West artists staged a full-length classical work
Performance & Productions
•Repertory Ballet Ensemble (RBE), founded in 2007 and directed by Jamie A. Johnson and Christa St. John, is the program's pre-professional classical and contemporary company
•Performances staged at the Noorda Center for the Performing Arts
•Annual residencies with national and international guest choreographers
Location
•Orem, Utah, in a metro area with one of the nation's deepest concentrations of professional and collegiate dance
