The Harid Conservatory : Admissions Criteria

Admissions Criteria

Students are recruited for HARID's four-week Summer School during a series of auditions conducted each winter in various cities throughout the United States. The auditions are open to students in academic grades 8-11. (*A DVD may be submitted by international students. See information below.)

Summer School serves as an extended audition for students seeking admission to HARID for the following academic year. Academic transcripts must be submitted by all such applicants.

All applicants, both for Summer School and the academic year, are evaluated and must be approved for admission by the Admissions Committee, composed of the director, ballet faculty, registrar, and residence and student-services manager. Enrollment is limited in both programs.

Admission Criteria:
The criteria for admission to The Harid Conservatory include (not necessarily in order of priority):

— Appropriate age and academic grade level.
— A physique possessing the various attributes (structure, proportion, flexibility, line) that are generally considered requisite for professional accomplishment in ballet.
— A reasonable level and quality of prior ballet training (increasingly important with age).
— A significant level of talent (defined generally as physical ability, movement quality, musical sense, and intelligence).
— Exemplary work habits and deportment.
— A history of consistent academic achievement at an average or above-average level.
— Satisfactory medical history (with regard to relevant chronic injuries or other health problems).

Once enrolled, students are evaluated on an ongoing basis throughout the year. Information regarding retention is provided prior to admission.

*International students may submit a resume, dance photos, and a DVD showing plies, battement tendu, fondu, adagio, and grand battement at the barre; and adagio, pirouettes, sautés, medium allegro, and grand allegro in the center. A variation is optional. Female candidates should also include several exercises sur les pointes. Please include a $20. US audition fee.

Policy of Non-Discrimination:
The Harid Conservatory is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate against anyone on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national or ethnic origin, or other protected status. The school admits students of any race or other protected status to all the rights privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school, and the school does not discriminate on the basis of race or other protected status in administering its educational policies, scholarship and fee-waiver policies, and other school administered programs.

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