Mainland Academy of Performing Arts                                                         School of Classical Ballet
A Proud Tradition of Excellence
                  Aspire: The Company Experience

The ASPIRE intensive is  for dancers auditioning for the trainee programme or apprentice positions with Ballet de Printemps.
DATES: August 3-22, 2009.

Aspire concludes with a performance of repertoire (August 22) with select dancers invited to become trainees or awarded apprentice contracts with the company during their Fall Tour 2009 (September-December). 

Canadian and U.S.A. audition locations TBA.

To audition via DVD no later than March 1, 2009:

  1. 10 minutes length including class work, and pointe
  2. current CV or resume of training


Age 16+ for students that have reached a minimum Advanced level or have a minimum of 6 years academic training .  Dancers applying for trainee positions/apprentice contracts ages 18+.

*Professional dancers of a soloist level only please visit the company site at balletdeprintemps.com                         For  auditions for the Winter tour 2009 please forward current C.V. to the company via email


  • Morning classes are followed by the rehearsals of classical repertoire and new ballets created on the dancers with a focus on performance and artistic quality. 

  • Participants are both students transitioning to professional levels and professionals working together in a summer company setting.

  • The Aspire Intensive as an audition for the trainee programme and also company trainees/apprentices (2009).

  • Limited number of dancers are accepted/invited to ensure individual attention and a high level or quality.

  • 2 Scholarships available 2009

  • Certain trainees or apprentices may have the option of staying through spring to train for and participate in international ballet competitions.








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Previous Aspires:

"opening the performance, we were invited to peer into a ballet class with all dancers working through feet, upper bodies and technical syllabus...in the tradition of Russian ballets, homage was paid to Mikhail Fokine as we saw an excerpt ...of Chopiniana. [and] treated us in a tradition that is largely ignored within today's ballets...it is something to behold as it introduced us to Mainland and their diverse choreographic ideas. Pure, simple, effective ballet that needed no introduction to set the evening."

"energetic, colourful, ...playful...entertaining, lovely and appealing"

"under the artistic direction of J. Bagaric-Mandic, the performances of new works were created during a six-week intensive program that gave the dancers a company experience"

Vol 2, Issue 1 Finepoints Fall 2005

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