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OPDI-M34

Exploring Ballet: History and Practice

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Feb. 10 to March 23, 2025

Professor: Cari Freiberger

Tuition: $310 member / $385 non-member

6 Weeks; 1.5 NDEO-Endorsed PDCs

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This course will dive into the history, current practices, and future considerations of ballet training and performance. Knowledge of the timeline of the development of the art of ballet will blend with the importance of contextual understanding that can be incorporated into your individual practice as well as solid information to pass onto students in teaching contexts. Through the course, we will explore the development of ballet as a dance form and many of the influences that shaped ballet as an art form, while exploring issues that exist presently and that will impact the future of ballet. As the course aids you in enhancing your own complex understanding of the art of ballet, it will assist you in delivering content that is relevant to your own important relations and interpretations of ballet and will guide you in new understandings and delivering of ballet teachings and learnings for yourself and your students.

Questions about this course? Send an email to opdi@ndeo.org

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Professor Bio

Cari Martin Freiberger (she/her) is a Professor of Dance at Jacksonville University, Florida where she teaches ballet, history, and pedagogy to undergraduate and graduate students. She also teaches master classes and is a guest artist choreographing and staging ballets, teaching yoga, contemporary, improv, and inclusive dance. She received her early training at Washington School of Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and Pennsylvania Ballet and performed with Alabama Ballet Company/Ballet South, Appalachian Ballet Company, Festival Ballet-Atlanta, and Ballet Company of Spokane. Her education includes a BA from Birmingham- Southern College and her MFA in dance at Florida State University where she was the recipient of the Suzanne Farrell Fellowship. Current research focuses are on François Delsarte and Isadora Duncan movement explorations and historical philosophical influences on contemporary dance. When not teaching or dancing, you will most likely find her on her sailboat named ‘Grand Jeté’ !

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