The Boys Scholarship Program
The Boys’ Scholarship Program is an opportunity for boys ages 7 – 16 years that will provide tuition-free dance training designed to enhance athletic skills, motor intelligence, balance, flexibility and strength. Students will be accepted by audition. No prior dance experience is required.
The Boys Scholarship Program was created to make ballet accessible to boys in the Grand Strand area. The boys in Program will also be able to study jazz, musical theater, tap, contemporary, character dance, as well as have diverse performing opportunities with the Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre, the pre-professional performing company of Coastal Dance Centre.
Several alumni from the Coastal Dance Centre’s Boys’ Scholarship Dance Program have been accepted into prestigious summer and year round dance training programs in the nation. These students from the program have been recognized for special achievements, including garnering significant honors in the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world’s largest international student ballet scholarship competition.
At the 2007 YAGP New York City International Finals, Coastal Dance Centre male soloist, Bailey Moon, from Georgetown, captured the Third Place award in the YAGP Classical Dance Category, Junior Age Division. He has since then enjoyed scholarship grants from Walnut Hill School for the Arts for his 4-year high school education and summer programs at The Harid Conservatory, National Ballet School of Canada and the San Francisco Ballet School. Bailey graduated from New York University with a degree in Dance and Communications, with High Honors.
Another Coastal Dance Centre alumnus, Anson Zwingelberg, from Myrtle Beach, just recently graduated from The Julliard School in New York City, and was on full scholarship during his four years of study there. Anson is set to join Charlotte Ballet for the 2017-2018 Season.
Brock Fowler, from Myrtle Beach, who went to the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Dance Program for his junior and senior year in high school is now on his second year as a Ballet Met II company member.
Boys’ Curriculum, Auditions & Policies
Boys’ Curriculum
The Boys’ Scholarship Program accepts students at age seven. Boys younger than age seven who are interested in dance are highly encouraged to enroll in our Young Dancers’ classes or our RAD Ballet or Beginning Ballet classes.
Boys’ Scholarship Program
All boys enrolled in the Boys’ Scholarship Program are required to attend their assigned classes in order to meet the terms of the scholarship agreement. Students who are meeting the minimum requirements for their level are permitted to attend supplemental classes (at their level or below), free of charge. Please see Ms. Sandra Hucks, CDC Studio Manager, which additional classes would be most appropriate.
Beginning Levels: RAD Ballet 1 and 2
Formal classical training begins. Particular attention is given to postural alignment, proper technique, and musicality. The assigned RAD level class and the Boys Only class is required. An additional supplemental class is encouraged.
Elementary Levels: RAD Ballet 3, 4 and 5 | Elementary Open Ballet
Progression into the elementary level of classical training. Particular attention is given to postural alignment, proper technique, and musicality in the Boys Only class. The assigned RAD level class is required. Additional 2 supplemental classes are required.
Participation in the Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre is mandatory and provides the students with additional performing opportunities.
Intermediate Levels: RAD Ballet Levels 6, 7 and 8 | RAD Intermediate Foundation Ballet, Intermediate Ballet | Intermediate Open Ballet
Strength and stamina are the focus, with special attention given to the introduction of men’s jumps and turns. The assigned RAD level class is required. Additional weekly open ballet technique classes and supplemental classes are required.
Participation in the Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre is mandatory and provides the students with additional performing opportunities.
Advanced Levels: RAD Advanced Foundation, RAD Advanced 1 and 2 | Advanced Open Ballet
Strength and stamina continue to build. Longer and more challenging choreographic combinations are introduced as students strive for both athletic and artistic development. Classes include repertoire, variations, partnering, and contemporary dance.
Participation in the Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre is mandatory and provides the students with specialized coaching, guest teachers and additional performing opportunities.
The assigned RAD Ballet classes, open ballet technique classes and supplemental classes are required.
Auditions
Auditions for boys ages 7–16 are held annually or you may call the CDC Front Office to schedule an audition class.
Policies
Acceptance into the Boys’ Scholarship Program represents a tuition award for an academic year-long program, for a total of 36 weeks of instruction.
The Boys’ Scholarship Program award however does not include the fees for the RAD examinations and RAD miscellaneous fee, master classes, the Spring festival of Dance and the summer intensive program. Some scholarship funding may be available for some of these programs, however, interested students should apply separately and in writing.
Class attendance and requirements for the Boys’ Scholarship Program may differ depending upon the student’s assigned level.
By enrolling in the Boys’ Scholarship Program, parents and students agree to abide by all Coastal Dance Centre and Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre Policies and Guidelines.
Support for the Boys Scholarship Program:
The Boys’ Scholarship Program is an outreach program of Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre.
The Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre Boys’ Scholarship Program welcomes your support. To learn how you can become a corporate or individual sponsor of CYBT, or to arrange for matching funds donated by your workplace, please speak with Peggy Pitoscia or email her at PPitoscia@CYBT.org or call (843) 839-5678 or (843) 651-2006.
As Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support.