conservatory of dance

Summer of Dance 2022

Summer of Dance 2022 was one for the record books! We had students join the Professional Dance Experience from all over the tri-state area, and our Tiny Dancers’ and Young Dancers’ camps and intensives were sold out. We believe that offering dancers of all ages the opportunities to further their dance training in the Summer is very important. It allows

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American Dance Competition/International Ballet Competition

We are always striving to offer our dancers more opportunities to perform and grow. This year we had the opportunity to attend the American Dance Competition/International Ballet Competition (ADC/IBC) regionals in Pittsburgh. We took four dancers from Pre-Professional 3. The weekend was filled with an adjudicated ballet class at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre along with performances at the August Wilson African

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Darby’s Dancers • Anyone Can be a Star!

Berks Ballet Theatre Conservatory of Dance is proud to partner with Darby’s Dancers a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing dance classes to children with special needs at no cost to their parents. We will be offering a 30-minute dance/movement based class to children of all ages with special needs. Something we love about this program is every student in

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Master Classes with Blake Krapels of BalletX

We are excited to host two master classes with Blake Krapels of BalletX today! Blake has been a member of BalletX since the Fall of 2018 and just returned from Serbia where the company was on tour. We first met Blake when he guested with BBT for The Nutcracker and we are happy to have him in the studios working

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March Master Class Series

We are excited to announce our March Master Class Series! We are bringing in Jillian Davis of Complexions Contemporary Ballet on March 6th. She will work with our Pre-Pro 2 + 3 dancers 5:30 – 7:00pm and we are also offering a master class for levels 1a + 2/2a from 7:00pm – 8:00pm. On March 13 we will have Mica

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Conservatory Spring Performance – Thank You!

What a wonderful Conservatory Spring Performance we had on Saturday! I want to congratulate every dancer for a job well done! For some, it was their first time on stage with us and for others, it was their last. What a joy it was to see everyone shine and share their passion for dance with the audience.   Congratulations to

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Professional Dance Experience Summer Faculty, Part I

Every year we are excited to bring in at last one guest teacher per week during our 4-week Professional Dance Experience. We are excited to announce that Flavia Garcia will be returning to teach for week 1 — it’s been several years since Ms. Garcia has taught at BBTCD  and we are lucky to have her this year! Ms. Garcia is

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Why Attend a Dance Competition?

Some people may ask what the point of competing in dance competitions is; especially if you don’t have the winningest history. This is a question we find very easy to answer. Simply put, winning is terrific, but it is not the main goal of attending the competition, at the end of the day. For us, it’s all about the process. For

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