Pre-Professional Program

(AGES 8-18) BY AUDITION / INVITATION ONLY

Pre-Professional Program Open auditions will be held in August 14 – 16, 2025, for the 2025-26 School Year

Stay tuned for audition details!

This unique and highly specialized, tuition-free program provides motivated, talented and focused students ages 8 -18 with intensive instruction in ballet, body conditioning, pointe, modern and repertoire, plus workshops in other dance forms such as hip hop, jazz and West African dance, and unprecedented opportunities to study and even perform with world-renowned artists through the Master Artist Series.

Classes and activities will be held weekly between September 6, 2025 – May 17, 2026, at NORD partner locations throughout the New Orleans area as well as Tulane University’s McWilliams Hall, depending on track/level. Accepted students also perform in NOBA’s exciting annual productions of The Nutcracker Suite and Spring Concert Evening of Dance.

Teaching faculty includes highly qualified local instructors and select students will receive training with NOBA Master Artists in Residence, such as recent guest faculty Donald Williams (former principal dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem), Ronald K. Brown (Artistic Director, EVIDENCE), Arcell Cabuag (Associate Artistic Director, EVIDENCE), Emily Wagner (former Armitage Gone! Dance soloist), Jamal Callender (Princess Grace Award-winning Bajan-American artist and former principal dancer with Ballet Hispánico, among others), and Earl Mosley (Choreographer and Founder / Artistic Director of Diversity of Dance).

Students are also offered unique opportunities such as special master classes with NOBA Main Stage artists, performances on local and national stages, and deeply discounted tickets to NOBA Main Stage performances.

QUESTIONS? Have questions about NOBA’s Pre-Professional Program or need assistance? E-mail mwhite@nobadance.com or call 504.522.0996 x 213.