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Artwork for Project Ballet

Project Ballet

For 3rd Through 5th Graders

January – May 2025

Program Components
  • Ten movement-based workshops
  • Classroom teacher professional development session
  • Lecture-demonstration
  • NYCB student matinee performance*
Cost

$650 per class

Invite students to learn about inspiration as a vehicle for creating art as they experience and investigate New York City Ballet’s dynamic choreography. By examining works by Founding Choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and Resident Choreographer Justin Peck, students are challenged to think critically, act creatively, and work collaboratively as they come together to choreograph their own group dances.

NYCB Teaching Artists lead ten movement-based workshops that focus on the creative process, culminating in a presentation of student-generated choreography. Students also view a live streamed interactive lecture demonstration and attend a live NYCB performance at Lincoln Center.

BRING New York City BALLET TO YOUR SCHOOL

Applications have closed for the 2024-25 school year and will reopen in June for the following school year. Please email education@nycballet.com with any questions.

I love that the students get to work together, creatively, and with their bodies in such a deliberate way. There are few other opportunities in the school year for them to do that. Plus, it exposes them to an art form that many wouldn't get the chance to explore.

5th Grade Teacher, Manhattan

A look at Project Ballet

In each workshop, students begin with a movement warm-up led by their NYCB Teaching Artist .

Photo © Rosalie O’Connor

Students learn basic ballet vocabulary during their movement warm-up .

Photo © Rosalie O’Connor

A NYCB Teaching Artist works with a student to demonstrate a movement task for the rest of the class.

Photo © Rosalie O’Connor

Students work together to generate movement ideas.

Photo © Rosalie O’Connor

Students work collaboratively to create choreography for their class dance.

Photo © Rosalie O’Connor

Students rehearse with their classmates to prepare for a final presentation.

Photo © Rosalie O’Connor

Students perform their own choreography in their final Project Ballet Sharing.

Photo © Rosalie O’Connor

Students attend a New York City Ballet matinee performance at the David H. Koch Theater.

© 2018 Erin Baiano

*Student Matinee Performances and in-school instruction will be offered in accordance with city and NYCB employee health guidelines. In the event that a live performance or onsite instruction is not feasible, a virtual alternative will be provided. This may vary for fall and winter sessions.