The summer and winter intensives
Two gatherings a year, open to the school's students and to dancers coming from elsewhere.
The school is preparing two intensives a year: a summer intensive over a full week, and a shorter winter intensive built around a guest étoile.
An intensive is not a longer class. It is a different rhythm: several days in a row in the same studio, with the time to take one thing back until it holds. In a week a child sometimes moves on by what would otherwise have taken a term to find.
Who they are for
The intensives are open to different profiles and different levels: the school’s own students, dancers from other countries, advanced recreational students, and young dancers pursuing pre-professional or professional training.
That mix is deliberate. Working beside someone who learned elsewhere, in another language and with other habits, teaches a great deal in a few days.
What the week holds
Classical technique, repertoire, variations, artistic coaching and, depending on the programme, contemporary dance. Classical work stays the backbone of the week; in summer the programme opens further towards contemporary.
Summer days are full but manageable: barre in the morning, centre and repertoire afterwards, then individual work for those preparing a competition or an audition.
The winter intensive is shorter and turns mostly on repertoire: learning a variation, holding it, then dancing it in front of the others. It is also a chance to meet a way of working other than your usual teacher’s, which often carries a dancer further than a month of classes.
The guest artists
Depending on the programme and availability, the school welcomes professional artists, principal dancers, ballet masters, répétiteurs and distinguished teachers connected with leading international companies. Drawing on the professional relationships Victoria developed throughout her international career, it is also able to invite artists and colleagues from Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and the wider international ballet community.
Guest faculty may vary from one intensive to another. Details are communicated directly to participating families ahead of each programme.
Work throughout the year
Outside the scheduled intensives, the school offers individual or small-group coaching for students and dancers with a precise objective: preparing a variation, working on classical repertoire, preparing an audition for a school or a company, preparing a competition, technical refinement, or simply being coached artistically.
These sessions do not depend on the intensive calendar. They are arranged when they are useful.
The dates
Dates will be confirmed. Fees are shared on request.
When you write, tell us your age, your level, your training background and your objective: we will propose the format that suits best, and we will also say so if an edition does not suit you. It is better to know beforehand. The full detail is on the intensives page, and requests go through this form.