This pre-professional performing ensemble was founded by Robert Joffrey in 1981 to provide young artists from the School’s year-round Trainee Program the opportunity to experience life as a professional dancer. In the years since its founding, selected students studied and performed some of the most celebrated classical and contemporary repertoire, including the works of Gerald Arpino, Robert Battle, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, and Africa Guzman.
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