• Since the mid-1960s, the School has invited new choreographers to create original works on students for inclusion in SAB's annual Workshop Performances.

• In the 1980s, Peter Martins introduced annual choreographic workshops at which outside choreographers were invited to create works on students to be performed in a closed-workshop setting.

• In the late 1990s, Martins altered the format of the annual choreography workshops and limited the choreographer and dancer participants to SAB students only.

In 1997, Peter Martins initiated the School's Student Choreography Project to provide students enrolled in the Intermediate and Advanced Divisions with the opportunity to explore the art of choreography by working with fellow students.

Each fall, students are invited to apply as choreographers. Selected students consult with SAB's music instructor on their music selections and select up to four dancers from SAB's Advanced Division on whom they will choreograph a short ballet. Student choreographers are allotted studio rehearsal time over a two week period, culminating in a series of performances in a workshop setting for faculty, staff, fellow students, parents and friends of the School.





SAB students are periodically invited to participate as dancers or, on occasion, choreographers in the semiannual sessions of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of New York City Ballet.

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