New Haven Ballet returns for its summer residency at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, offering a pre-professional ballet intensive for ballet students ages 11+. Twenty-six students from New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut were selected through a competitive process to study with New Haven Ballet’s premiere faculty and perform.
“We are excited to provide an elite classical dance summer sleep-away camp in Connecticut at Choate’s state-of-the-art dance facilities and perform in their beautiful theater. This is an opportunity for talented classical ballet students to receive exceptional personalized training close to New Haven,” explains Artistic Director Lisa Kim Sanborn. Students reside in Choate dormitories and participate in a rigorous daily training program.
“This year, we are thrilled to welcome New York City Ballet’s Savannah Durham to our summer faculty,” notes Sanborn.
On Friday, August 9, 2024, at 3:00 p.m., the students will present a free public performance at the Paul Mellon Arts Center. The performance will feature excerpts from Sanborn’s Le Corsaire, which premiered at the Shubert Theatre New Haven in 2016.
Located at 332 Christian Street in Wallingford, the Paul Mellon Arts Center is a beautiful state-of-the-art theater designed by award-winning architect I.M. Pei, who is perhaps best known for the East Wing of the National Gallery, for which the Arts Center at Choate served as a prototype, and for the pyramid-shaped entry to the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Admission to the performance is free.
Photo: © 2024 Thomas Giroir Photography
