Program
Students are chosen through audition. Children's division auditions for the 2007-08 school year included six-year-olds for the first time; previously, the youngest students were required to turn eight in the year they began their studies. Children in the younger divisions are able to perform in various ballets with the company including George Balanchine's famous The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Martins's Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty. The most advanced students perform in a workshop at the end of each year where the heads of many prestigious ballet companies choose several of them to join their companies, including New York City Ballet.
The school also hosts a summer program, where it selects about 200 dance students from across the country to train for 5 weeks. This summer program is one of the most selective ballet summer programs in the country. During the summer program, students are divided into six girls' classes and two boys' classes. Girl classes are as follows: first division through fifth; B1; B2; C1; C2, and D. Boys classes: boys one through four (boys stay in the same level for two years before moving to the next); intermediate men; advanced men; second advanced men. A small group of students from the summer program may be invited to enroll in SAB's winter term.
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