Goals and ObjectivesThe Dance Department of The San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts is dedicated to providing a broad education that challenges the students artistically, intellectually and physically and to prepare qualified students for college, conservatory and professional careers in dance and related professions. All courses and departmental activities are designed to accomplish the following goals:
ABT Program SCPA is proud to include the AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE National Training Curriculum, a breakthrough 8 level program that combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development. The ABT National Training Curriculum consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels. Primary through level 5 will be taught by ABT Certified Teacher, Ellen Warkentien, who successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through level 5 of the ABT National Training Curriculum.SCPA dance students have continued on to the following summer and year-round professional training programs and companies:Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater American Ballet Theater Ballet Hispanico Bates College Bolshoi Ballet California Ballet City Ballet Complexions Contemporary Ballet Hubbard Street Idyllwild School of Music and The Arts Jacob’s Pillow Jean Issacs’s San Diego Dance Theater Joffrey Ballet The Julliard School Limon Intensive Program Malashock Dance Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance The Pulse San Diego Academy of Ballet San Diego Ballet San Francisco Ballet and have graduated from the following higher education institutions as Dance Majors:Alvin Ailey/Fordham University Bennington College Boston Conservatory California Arts Institute California State University Fullerton California State University Long Beach San Diego State University University of California Irvine University of California Los Angeles University of California San Diego University of California Santa Barbara University of California Santa Cruz University of The Arts |