The Spring Seminar is a week-long workshop with international teachers for dance students aged 11-18 yrs, held at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street in Vancouver. Auditions are required.
The Spring Seminar is a week-long workshop with international teachers for dance students aged 11-18 yrs, held at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street in Vancouver. Auditions are required.
For one week during March break, the VBS brings in accomplished teachers from Canada and abroad to lead the dance intensive, culminating in a presentation of both intermediate and advanced levels. Students spend half the day in ballet classes and the other half of the day in contemporary classes, coming together for lunch time presentations and meetings.
At the end of the week-long intensive, the students present a performance in the Faris Theatre. The guest faculty select students who will be awarded scholarships, which they receive at the performance. Each year through fundraising efforts, approximately $20,000 are awarded to young dancers from British Columbia. The VBS has been doing this for the past 20 years.
Tuition
Spring Seminar Dates
Requirements
Intermediate
11 – 13 years old
Minimum Cecchetti Grade 5/6 or RAD Intermediate Foundation or their equivalent.
Advanced
14 – 18 years old
Minimum Cecchetti Intermediate or RAD Advanced 1 or their equivalent.
Must be a VBS member to attend. Must be the age requirement by March 17, 2024.
Date: Sunday, January 14, 2024
Location: Scotiabank Dance Centre
Advanced
10:00am – 11:30am
Intermediate
12:00pm – 1:30pm (Group 1)
1:45pm – 3:15pm (Group 2)
Cost: $40 for VBS members and non-members (includes GST). Membership is required to be eligible for scholarships. Space is limited and pre-registration is required on a first-come, first-served basis.
In order to be eligible to receive a scholarship with the Vancouver Ballet Society during Spring Seminar, you must meet these requirements:
Maureen Eastick is the founder and former/Artistic Director of Pacific Dance Centre. She has led a distinguished career as a dance educator and has trained many successful dancers including Crystal Pite.
For fourteen years, Mrs. Eastick was a ballet pedagogue in the Dance Training Department at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Believing so strongly in the value of this program, she created the Maureen Eastick Endownment Fund, enabling many gifted young dancers to further their studies at that remarkable institution.
Mrs. Eastick holds a BFA from the University of Victoria and has Life Member Status with the Royal Academy of Dance. She is a regular guest teacher and adjudicator throughout Canada and was awarded the Dance Victoria Chrystal Award in recognition of a lifetime of contributing to the dance community.
In 2009, he started teaching to share his knowledge and his love of dance. He has taught and choreographed at numerous educational programs including Juilliard, NYU-Tisch, Tanz Akademie Zurich The Palucca School, Marymount Manhattan College, Acosta Danza, Khio- Oslo, Balettakademien Göteborg/ Stockholm, Akademie Des Tanzez Mannheim, and Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School, to name a few.