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Seven FVAD students have received School of Alberta Ballet Summer 2017 invitations! Audition Success On Sunday, October 30, FVAD students travelled into Vancouver to the Scotiabank Dance Centre for the School of Alberta Ballet Summer 2017 auditions.  These are the first-level auditions for their professional division which provides full-time training for students in academic grades […]

Should we view dance as sport or performing art, or both?   If the main goal of a student’s dance training is to win trophies and accolades rather than provide audience entertainment, do we need to re-define some presentations of dance as a sport?  Or is it still a performing art?  Or can it be both? In this series, […]

First-level audition Invitations to Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Summer 2017 programs began arriving a few days after the auditions in Vancouver (Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Audition Tour 2017).  The Vancouver audition is considered the first-level audition for RWBS full-time training.  The RWBS accepts students into the residential program for academic school grades 6-12. Within five days, six FVAD Pre-Professional […]

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Audition Tour 2017 arrived in Vancouver on Sunday, October 13 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.   Hundreds of dedicated ballet students across the country participate in the audition tour hoping to enter this prestigious training centre. To be eligible to audition, ballet students need to be at least 10 years old at December […]