Immerse yourself in New Chamber Ballet’s repertory and working process, in a three-day workshop for dancers with artistic director Miro Magloire and the company dancers!
Dates: Thu-Sat, June 13-15, 2024
Time: 10am-3pm
Location: New York Center for Creativity & Dance, 287 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10009
What to expect: The workshop is a three-day immersion into New Chamber Ballet’s repertory, technique, working process, and artistic environment. Each day begins with a technique class in New Chamber Ballet’s signature style, which incorporates floor work along with ballet exercises emphasizing speed, freedom of movement, and experimentation. After a short lunch break, the dancers learn excerpts from New Chamber Ballet’s repertory, with a focus on the company’s typical physicality as well as non-gendered partnering. Class and repertory are taught by artistic director Miro Magloire together with the company dancers.
Tuition: The tuition is $250. Need-based financial assistance is available upon request - please inquire when applying.
Eligibility: The workshop is for advanced and professional ballet dancers who are interested in experiencing New Chamber Ballet’s repertory and understanding the company’s generative practice. It is a place for artistic growth, learning, and discovery. It is not an audition.
Dancers must be 18+, with excellent pointework, and have a strong desire to collaborate and experiment with other workshop participants and the company dancers, and to immerse themselves into the company repertory, which includes contemporary partnering. (Previous partnering experience is not a must.)
Application: Due to the workshop’s limited capacity, dancers must submit an application. Please send an email to mail@newchamberballet.com, and include:
A video link of a solo danced on pointe, which may be classical or contemporary;
A brief written statement explaining your interest in the workshop;
Your resume.
A video filmed in a well-lit studio is preferable to a stage-lit performance video. The resume should include your height. (Admission is not based on a particular height. However, given the prominence of partnering in our repertory, we will try to balance out the group to accommodate a wide range of dancer heights.)
Applications are on a rolling basis, and are open through May 10, 2024. Dancers will be notified within 3 weeks of their application, but no later than May 24.
“Working with Miro has been such an eye-opening experience for me. He allows me to feel like myself while pushing me to be the best I can possibly be. He isn’t just a teacher; he is an incredible mentor and I look forward to each time we get to work together. I feel like I understand or improve something each time we are in the room together.”
- Emilie Gerrity, principal dancer, New York City Ballet
"When I took the workshop in 2022, spending three days with a group of people able to achieve ballet at such a high level while maintaining humor, humility and kindness left me with a profound sense of hope. I remember feeling such a major shift in my approach to dancing, internally and externally. I was, and still am, grateful to have found a community that practices what they preach: dedication to personal artistic growth, dedication to a group as a teammate, and finding joy in the process."
- Kayla Schmitt, 2022 workshop participant and current company member
“I feel so lucky to have worked with Miro and the incredible artists of New Chamber Ballet. The environment they create in the studio is special: a place where you are free to experiment without stress or judgment, rethinking your approach to even the most basic steps in order to dance more fearlessly, musically, and with more intention. In the process, you learn so much about yourself, as a dancer and as a person—and you have so much fun! My time with the company completely transformed my approach to ballet, made me a better dancer, and showed me how to be an artist, lessons I’ve taken with me both in and out of the studio.”
- Alison Tatsuoka, 2020 workshop participant, former company member, and current PhD student in mathematics at Princeton