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FALL SESSION 2025: March 3-March 13, 2026*
SPRING SESSION 2026: March 2-March 14, 2026
Applications for the 2025-2026 Sessions must be submitted by March 1, 2025. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered for the these sessions.
*Due to scheduling conflicts, the session scheduled for Fall 2025 will take place in Spring 2026.
THE APPLICATION
All applications must include a summary of relevant ballet experience, a letter of intent, and video links to YouTube or Vimeo containing no more than 10 minutes of selected choreography. Please do not submit showreels in which the music does not correspond to the choreography.
THE SELECTION PROCESS
Application materials are screened and evaluated by the New York Choreographic Institute’s Artistic Staff and a selected review committee made up of NYCI alumni. Candidates are selected based on their talent, musicality, experience and innovation within the classical ballet idiom. Selected choreographers are invited to participate in one of two sessions, either the Fall Session with New York City Ballet dancers or the Spring Session with School of American Ballet dancers.
Selected choreographers will be announced by June 1, 2025.