Aged from 8 to under 11 - Admission - The Ballet School - Artists

Aged from 8 to under 11

Admission procedure for girls and boys from 8 to under 11 years old as of September 1st

Season 2023/2024

The admission is done by means of a training period at the end of which pupils take an entrance examination to the school. For children from 8 to under 11 years old, the training program will last 6 months from January to June.

Terms

This program is dedicated to girls and boys from 8 to under 11 years old as of September 1^st, 2023.

Applications must be submitted online only between September 1^st and September 30^th 2023 on the dedicated platform.

The 45€ application fee is non-refundable and must be paid at the end of the online application process, by credit card only.

Application form

This form is for children aged from 8 years-old to under 11 years as of September 1st, 2023.

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A preliminary selection will be made on file. Successful candidates will receive a invitation to audition for the six-months training program on November 07^th, 08^th and 15^th 2023.

At the end of the training program, in June 2024, the trainees will take an examination determining their admission to the Ballet School for the school year 2024-2025.

Any questions ? Please send an email to ecolededanse@operadeparis.fr or call +33 1 40 01 80 00.

FAQ 6 months training program

Démonstrations de l'École de Danse (saison 18/19) © Francette Levieux / OnP

The 6 months training program is dedicated to girls and boys aged between 8 to under 11 as of September 1^st of the audition year.

You can apply via the dedicated platform on our website. No application sent via post or email will be taken into consideration.

Please, make sure that you follow every step of the application process and that you don’t forget any required document, in the right format (formats are indicated in the form). Incomplete or non-compliant applications will not be taken into consideration.

In order to finalise your application, you will need to proceed to the payment of the 39€ registration fee. This fee is non-refundable and can be paid by credit card only.

Once the payment for your registration fees goes through, you will receive a confirmation email for your application.

Parents then received a registration file to complete and send back quickly, so they can begin the training program in the School after Christmas Holidays, at the beginning of January.

6-months trainees will be registered at the Paris Opera Ballet School from January to June. At the end of the 6 months, they will pass a competitive exam which will determine their admission as full-time students for the following year, beginning in September.

In case they would not be admitted, they can apply for the training program selections of the following year, depending on their age.

Students have their education divided in two parts each day: in the morning, from 8 am to 12 am, the students attend academic classes and in the afternoon, they have ballet classes.

The students have a lunch break with a meal they necessarily take at the School restaurant, then the ballet lessons start at 1.30 pm, with a break and a snack at the restaurant between 4.30 pm and 5 pm. They can have one or two classes of 1h30 each every day, apart from rehearsals.

According to the schedule, a 1h30 time slot of study period is planned three times a week from 1.30 pm to 3 pm.
The School has a boarding house, open from Sunday evening to Thursday evening included. Half-board is compulsory, as well as the snack, but the boarder-house is not. It is a service offered to families.
Families must be able to come and pick up their children in case of illness or accident. This is the reason why families who live outside the region of Paris must have a person living in Paris or in the nearby region.
Due to their young age, a supervisor takes care exclusively of those trainees.

6-months trainees don’t take part in the Ballet School performance in April, thus they do not take part in the rehearsals either.