Students from The Ailey School Professional Division

Scholarship Program

About the Program

The Ailey School's prestigious Scholarship Program offers financial support to students in the School's Professional Division (ages 17 to 21) who show the highest potential for a career in dance.

Curriculum

The Scholarship Program core curriculum consists of daily classes in ballet (which may include additional classes in pointe for intermediate/advanced students) along with Horton and/or Graham-based modern. Supplemental classes include jazz, tap, Dunham, West African, barre à terre, yoga, Gyrokinesis®, and body conditioning. Improvisation and dance composition classes are also offered. 

Scholarship students also have the opportunity to audition for repertory workshops with guest artists that showcase the talents of the most advanced students. Workshops culminate with in-studio showings and performances at the Ailey Citigroup Theater at the end of each term. 

A group of students at a ballet bar in a dance studio. They have one hand on the bar and the other above their heads. The girls are in black leotards and the boys in black pants and white tee shirts.

Participation Fees

A classroom of dancer students with one leg in posse, one arm in the air, and the other close to their body

How to Apply

Auditions begin in January. Review the admission criteria, audition requirements and application deadlines.

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