Madrid, Spain

RMB Winter Intensive
26 Dec 2024 – 05 Jan 2025

Program

AIMED AT
Students specializing in classical dance 11-18 y.o.

For Madrid Ballet Experience Package - 12-18 y.o.
DURATION
Classes Only
Full Program: 26 Dec - 05 Jan
Week 1:  26-30 Dec
Week 2:  02-05 Jan

Madrid Ballet Experience Package
Full Program: 26 Dec - 05 Jan
Week 1:  26-31 Dec
Week 2:  02-05 Jan
SCHEDULE
Classes: 5 hrs/day
Dec 26 – after lunch
Dec 27, 28, 29, 30 – in the morning
Jan 02 – after lunch
Jan 03, 04, 05 – in the morning
BALLET FACILITIES
Nacho Duato Academy
Address: Calle Coslada 7, 28028 Madrid
ACCOMMODATION
For Madrid Ballet Experience Package
Generator Madrid Hostel
INSCRIPTION
to apply for the program, participants should register. If you have not yet filled in the form, please do it.
AUDITIONS
- online individual
- by video
Recommended video submission day by 31 Oct as places are limited
MADRID WINTER INTENSIVE by Russian Masters offers to look inside Madrid. 
This innovative program aims to combine the excellent dance training and the cultural and artistic enrichment in an environment, which is exceptional for dance.

COURSE OBJECTIVE
Daily ballet classes taught by the best teachers of Russian Masters faculty combined with a wide and varied range of both leisure and cultural activities.
The main idea that guides this experience is to bring the theoretical knowledge to practice:
- Elite training with the best Russian teachers and legends
- Knowledge of the theatrical world behind the curtains
- Experience and acquisition of unique knowledge 
- Cultural exchange
- Unique, inspiring, and motivating experience

THE PROGRAM INCLUDE
Ballet class (daily)
Points (daily)
Repertoire (daily)
Character Classes
Contemporary Classes

IN ADDITION
Small groups: 16 people/group max.
Translation of the classes into English
Possibility to get scholarship for the summer RMB courses 2025
Possibility to get scholarship for the NDTA program 2025-2026
Photo report
Certificate of attendance

TEACHERS AND SPECIAL GUESTS
Classes are taught by the most important personalities of the current classical dance scene, all of them teachers, ballet masters or stars of the main ballet institutions*: 
Anna Podlesnaya – RMB Faculty teacher, Vaganova Academy licensed teacher
Larissa Lezhnina – principal tutor at Dutch National Ballet, former soloist at Mariinsky and Dutch National Ballet, Vaganova Academy licensed teacher
Asiya Lukmanova – RMB director, Vaganova Academy licensed teacher
Olga Pavlova - RMB Faculty teacher, Bolshoi Academy licensed teacher
Denis Untila – contemporary choreographer and teacher, former soloist of the Aalto Ballett Essen, choreographer of the the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre
*Note: Due to possible changes in theaters’ and institutions’ schedules, some names may vary.

PRICE FOR CLASSES ONLY  
Full Program - 9 days (26.12.2024 - 05.01.2025) – 1000 €
Week 1 - 5 days (26.12 - 30.12.2024) - 595 €
Week 2 - 4 days (02.01 - 05.01.2025) - 475 € 

MADRID BALLET EXPERIENCE PACKAGE
Add our exclusive package that includes accommodation, meals and cultural program to dive fully into a whirl of leisure and cultural events developed by experts to get into Spanish and Madrid´s ballet history including Marius Petipa´s Spanish period and participate in various entertainment activities.

CULTURAL PROGRAM* INCLUDES
Visit to National Ballet Company and attending a performance
Visit to a museum (Prado / Reina Sofia)
Meeting with ballet stars (names will be confirmed closer to the course)
New Year celebration (included in full program option)
Guided tour around Madrid
Visit to a Christmas light show
Cultural entertainment program
*Cultural activities will vary depending on the week and might change due to schedule and availability.

OFFICIAL ACCOMMODATION
The accommodation is available in a comfortable Generator Madrid Hostel. More information about the accommodation HERE.

PRICE MADRID BALLET EXPERIENCE PACKAGE*: 
Full Program (26.12.2024 - 05.01.2025) – 1245 €
Week 1 (26.12 - 31.12.2024) - 599 €
Week 2 (02.01 - 05.01.2025) - 375 €

* this is an extra package to the course and should be added and paid for separately.

INSCRIPTION
For quality reasons, places at the courses are strictly limited.
Recommended deadline for audition - 31 Oct.
To guarantee your place, prepayment for the course is required. 

To apply for the program:
1. Participant should fill in the REGISTRATION FORM
2. Send a Video Audition or have an Individual Online Audition (more details below). Participants of RMB summer intensives 2024 do not need to audition.
3. Await the approval of your participation.
4. Guarantee the course by signing a contract and making the payment of 50% of the total amount within the next 7 days after receiving the approval letter. 
5. Second payment for the course must be done before November 23, 2024

AUDITION OPTIONS
- Individual Online Audition in form of a personal masterclass with our most experienced teachers. During these special classes, students will be observed, and their current level will be estimated.
Instructions for booking an online audition will be offered to each student upon registration.

- Video Audition* - 
You may send a video file or a link to YouTube/Vimeo/GoogleDrive. 
Please, send a video including:
Barre: tendu, fondue, grand battement
Adagio in the center
One combination of pirouettes at the center
3 combinations of jumps: small, medium and big
2 combinations on points
A classical variation (optional)

* free by 31 October 2024. 
* if you send us a video, please, make sure it is of good quality (not dark, at least 480p) and the link to it will not expire within a year. Don't delete the video as we may need to get back to it and rewatch the audition material.

Technical support is provided if needed to each student after inscription.

CANCELATION OR CHANGES
In case it is not possible to organize the camp, the full refund will be offered.
In case the camp takes place, but a student decides to cancel or in case of no-show, the prepayment is non-refundable.

For more detailed information, please contact intensive@russianmastersballet.com


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