JUNE 16 – JULY 11, 2025

An inclusive and immersive summer intensive experience
carefully crafted to ensure technical and artistic growth.

LOUISVILLE BALLET SUMMER INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE

Each experience is uniquely designed to help students grow and thrive at their level and pace. 

Downtown Campus

Levels A & B

June 16 – July 11, 2025
Louisville Ballet Center
Downtown Louisville, KY

The culminating performance for Levels A and B will be held on Friday, July 11 at The Ogle Center on the Indiana University Southeast campus.

St. Matthews Campus

Dancers in Levels C or D may choose a 2-week or 4-week experience.

Session 1: June 16 – June 28, 2025
Session 2: June 30 – July 11, 2025
or
Both Sessions: June 16 – July 11, 2025
The Louisville Ballet School
St Matthews, KY

The culminating in-studio demonstration for Session 1 will be held on Saturday, June 28, at the Louisville Ballet Center.
The culminating performance for Session 2 will be held on Friday, July 11 at The Ogle Center on the Indiana University Southeast campus.

Dancers in Levels C or D who attend both sessions will perform in both the in-studio demonstration on Saturday, June 28, and the performance at The Ogle Center on July 11.

Louisville Ballet is seeking qualified candidates for Chaperone and Resident Assistant during the Summer Intensive.  LEARN MORE + APPLY HERE 

Dancers will reside in Community Park on the University of Louisville Campus. Each suite has double occupancy rooms equipped with microfridge/microwave, double closets, twin XL beds, dressers, desks/chairs, and In-room sink/mirror.  

Community Park Video Tour >

Professional ballet schools from across the nation have come together to create a unified collective and created an audition opportunity that will keep our students and faculty safe, while providing national visibility. The NSIA professional school collective is offering in-person auditions at their facilities, and students will be considered by all schools in the collective for acceptance to their summer intensives.

The collective includes Atlanta Ballet, BalletMet, Cincinnati Ballet, Colorado Ballet Academy, Kansas City Ballet School, Louisville Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Sarasota Ballet School, Texas Ballet Theater and Tulsa Ballet.

HOW IT WORKS

Students choose a city from the audition schedule and register with the host school. The audition is in-person, and the remaining schools will observe the audition via Zoom. Students are required to follow the safety protocol of the school at which they audition.  The auditions will be recorded so that the observing schools may review the auditions if needed.  Students will have the opportunity to select which schools they would like to audition for, however all schools in the collective may reach out to any students who audition.  Students must pre-register and pay the registration fee directly to the host school in the city where they audition. The secondary registration form must be completed in order to be considered by observing schools.

To learn more about the NSIA audition and registration process, visit the National Summer Intensive Audition Tour website.