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The Top 12 Ballet School In The World By Camille Severino
8. National Ballet of Canada’s School (NBS) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Betty Oliphant and Celia Franca founded this ballet school in the northernmost country of North America in 1959. It has become one of the world’s leading schools for those who desire a life of ballet dancing or teaching the ballet. They boast themselves as the only ballet school in North America with an internationally influential training program. National Ballet of Canada’s School is the finest ballet training Canada has to offer and the institution churns out graduates who almost always wind up dancing in ballet companies across the globe. Primarily they move on to the National Ballet of Canada.
7. The Australian Ballet School Southbank, Victoria, Australia
Dame Margaret Scott founded this ballet school in 1964 as a part of the Australian Ballet Centre located in the Melbourne Arts Precinct. This is the first step to any Australian that would like to dance the ballet with the Australian Ballet Company. This school celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2014. Their mission is to “be at the forefront, internationally, as providers of unique, professional dance training” programs. According to their website they not only focus on excellence in ballet and dance but hold their students to a high moral standard as well.
6. La Escuela National de Danza Havana, Cuba
One of our newer schools this ballet academy was founded in 1998 with the direction of Alicia Alonso. Today their instructors are members and professors from the National Ballet of Cuba. Their mission is to allow their pupils strengthen their practice of classical techniques and other styles and incorporate them with the passion and manifestation of Cuban ballet. They have a huge emphasis on Latin American culture in this particular institution focused on the ballet.