CenContemporaryBallet

Location:
5533 Far Hills Ave
Dayton OH, 45459
Contact:
937-439-9935
[email protected]
The Centerville Contemporary Ballet is a pre-professional youth ballet company and training program focused on raising young artists with sound classical technique and an understanding of personal artistic style. With innovative teaching techniques and a family style atmosphere, the CCB staff help children develop a passion not only for dance itself, but also for the intellectual understanding of one's own body and the origin of movement from within.
Classically trained, the dancers are also fluent in contemporary movement and are just as comfortable in pointe shoes as they are barefoot. The company itself is very young. CCB came into existence in 2003 under the direction of Renee Cook. Prior to the inception of the company, the dancers have been trained at the Howard School of Dance, the host school for the Centerville Contemporary Ballet, and recieved stage experience through the competition program at HSD under the Direction of Debra Howard.
As part of their training, our dancers begin studying performance videos from the world's top dancers from a very early age, from classics like 'Sleeping Beauty' to contemporary choreographers such as Jiri Kylian . This has created an instinctive understanding of what works and what does not and has allowed the dancers to be free of fear in learning new types of movement. Feel free to check out the artistic director's You Tube site designed to help expose the students to some of the greatest ballet out there today. www.youtube.com/eyesaverted
The Centerville Contemporary Ballet participates in the Youth American Grand Prix, the world's fastest growing international ballet competition. Last season two of our dancers had the honor of being invited to attend the Finals in New York City.
This season our Artistic Director had the pleasure of informing all dancers in our upper two levels that they had qualified to compete in New York City this April. Please check the list to the left for more specifics. In the meantime, click here for more info on this exciting competition.
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Centerville Contemporary Ballet is non-profit organization.
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