Dance with Post:ballet

Post:ballet is a contemporary dance collective based in the Bay Area, CA dedicated to collaborating with diverse artists to explore “what’s next” for ballet in the 21st Century. Post offers several opportunities to train with the company artists, including our annual Post:workshop summer intensives as well as weekly classes at our official school, Berkeley Ballet Theater.

Post:workshop 2024 Announced!

Post:workshop 1 (ages 18+)

Post:workshop 1 is a week-long summer intensive designed for advanced pre-professional and professional dancers interested in exploring a modern approach to their classically-based technique. Post:workshop 1 immerses dancers in a physically demanding, emotionally nurturing, and artistically enriching experience led by Artistic Director Robin Dekkers, Associate Artistic Director Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, and Post:ballet company dancers.

Post:workshop 1 will be hosted at the Berkeley Ballet Theater studios (1370 Tenth Street, Berkeley CA) on Monday August 5 - Saturday August 10, 2024. The Monday-Friday daily schedule is outlined below (subject to change):

10:00-11:30am, Class with Robin Dekkers (contemporary ballet), Sandra Chinn (ballet), Bear Graham (Gaga) or Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (contemporary)

11:45am-1:45pm, Post:ballet repertoire with Robin Dekkers and company dancers

1:45-2:30pm, Lunch

2:30-4:30pm, Choreography with Moscelyne ParkeHarrison

There will classes, rehearsal, and an informal, free, in-studio showing on Saturday, August 10 at 3:00pm for dancers’ friends and families.

Enrollment is by invitation only and is limited to 32 dancers. Dancers must be 18 years of age by August 1, 2024 to participate in this program.

Dancers interested in attending Post:workshop 1 are asked to send a resume, head shot, and online work sample (not to exceed 3 minutes in length, and to include performance footage and in-studio improv material) for consideration no later than April 15, 2024. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance on April 20, 2024. Please send application materials to Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Post:ballet’s Associate Artistic Director, at moscelyne@postballet.org.

Tuition is $760 for the week.

Post:workshop 2 (ages 13-21)

This week-long training program is designed for intermediate and advanced youth dancers seeking a rigorous training program. Technique classes include ballet, pointe, yoga, conditioning, and contemporary. Dancers will learn Post:ballet repertory including excerpts from say i am you by Resident Choreographer Moscelyne ParkeHarrison and Summer by Artistic Director Robin Dekkers. Dancers will also participate in choreography generation and improvisation with company dancer Emily Hansel. The program culminates in a friends and family performance on Saturday, June 15, 2024.

Post:workshop 2 will be hosted at the Berkeley Ballet Theater studios (1370 Tenth Street, Berkeley CA) on Monday June 10 - Saturday June 15, 2024.

Placement is required for BBT’s Youth Division programming. If you are new to BBT, please reach out to School Manager Jenna Marie at jennam@berkeleyballet.org to schedule a placement class for your dancer.

Schedule:
Monday–Friday: 10:00am–4:30pm
Saturday: 10:00am–3:30pm with 2:30pm–3:30pm In-Studio Showing

Tuition is $760.00

More Information and Enrollment: https://www.berkeleyballet.org/bbt-summer-2024-post-workshop-2

Berkeley Ballet Theater open classes

Join the Post:ballet community in the studios for open classes at our official school, Berkeley Ballet Theater. Take class alongside company dancers with Artistic Director Robin Dekkers, Associate Artistic Director Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, company dancers Colin Frederick, Isaac Bates-Vinueza, and Charmaine Butcher, as well as other members of BBT’s exceptional faculty. Click below to learn more!

Post:ballet company dancers Babatunji and Charmaine Butcher in Magma, photography by Natalia Perez

Post:ballet company dancer Emily Hansel in Magma, photography by Natalia Perez

SCHOOL

Post:ballet is the official company of Berkeley Ballet Theater, a renowned pre-professional ballet school and adult dance community founded in 1980 and developed by Artistic Director Emerita, Sally Streets. Now led by Artistic Director Robin Dekkers, named “25 to Watch” by DANCE Magazine, BBT is dedicated to providing exceptional training in a nurturing environment to dancers of all ages.

Both Post:ballet and Berkeley Ballet Theater share the core values of artistic excellence, inclusivity, passion, and imagination, and each organization is dedicated to using its programming to actively cultivate community. As the official company of BBT, Post now has a permanent home in Berkeley at 1370 Tenth Street, enabling the company to amplify its impact by sharing artistic experiences and collaborative performances with audiences on both sides of the bay. Post’s creative team, with support from the administrative team at BBT as well as both organization’s communities of artists and arts lovers, is taking the company’s interdisciplinary programming to the next level as it enters its second decade of presenting new works here in the Bay Area and beyond.

Read more about Berkeley Ballet Theater HERE.