Brooklyn Ballet’s signature educational outreach program, Elevate, is seeking Teaching Artists for the 2024-2025 school year!

Brooklyn Ballet's Elevate Program

Brooklyn Ballet's Elevate Program, a combination of performance and hands-on dance classes, is designed to address problem solving, comparison and contrast, verbal clarification of movement, and analysis in fun, yet challenging ways. Elevate teaches patience, order, self-reliance, self-control, balance within the individual, and harmony within a group. The fundamental principles of ballet become lessons in being a good student. The Elevate program is a positive example of how repeated effort can yield high skill and achievement. 

Elevate values maintaining the core structure of the program while allowing teaching artists to tailor the class to their own teaching style/individuality. 

Skills & Qualifications:

- Experience teaching elementary/ middle school aged children and a passion for sharing dance with students from all different backgrounds and abilities. (Elevate students age range typically from 8-14 years)

-Minimum of 3-4 years of dance training/professional performing experience

- BA or BFA in Dance and/or Early Childhood Education preferred (not required)

- Availability beginning in January-June and potentially summer, for 1-2 mornings/afternoons a week.

- Willingness to learn the Elevate training method, which uses the Language of Dance symbols.

Residency & Class Schedule:

- Residencies are planned to start in January or onward. Classes occur either in-school and/or afterschool

- Teaching Artists must attend a 4-hour training session at Brooklyn Ballet studios before their residency, on Wednesday January 15th (11:30 AM- 3:30 PM)

Dance Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Modern, and Street dance styles

Rate: $75- $125 per class (depending on class duration)

To Apply:  Email your cover letter and resume (attached as a pdf) Tristan Grannum, at: Tristan@brooklynballet.org  and cc' kevinrm@brooklynballet.org with “Brooklyn Ballet Elevate Teaching Artist” in the subject line. In your email please confirm if you will be able to attend our 4- hour training session on January 15th.