Summer

The University of Oklahoma School of Dance Summer Intensive

Dates: June 3-29, 2024 | Ages: 14-20

The OU Summer Intensive provides a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive experience through high-level training. The focus of this program is on ballet technique, modern dance, and learning choreography within a top university dance program. We aim to transform your dancing and propel your future through dance.

OU Summer Intensive coincides with the OU School of Dance’s Bachelor of Fine Arts summer session, allowing summer intensive dancers and university students to collaborate closely, create enduring connections, and perform alongside in a final performance. The OU Summer Intensive program is a four-week program [with a two-week option] allowing students to grow through individual coaching in a professional and concentrated environment.

The OU School of Dance offers supervised housing accommodations on the OU Norman campus as well as a commuter student option. Summer Intensive faculty will include OU School of Dance professors and world-renowned guest choreographers, teachers, and dancers from around the globe.

The University of Oklahoma’s Summer Intensive will bring dancers together for a rigorous ballet and modern dance experience in our state-of-the-art facilities on one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation. This is an experience that can be particularly exciting for those who plan to dance professionally or who are planning on earning a degree in dance.

Students will conclude the Summer Intensive with an on-stage performance at the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center at OU, featuring classical, modern, and contemporary repertory. Those participating in the first two weeks will culminate in a studio showing. Names of OU faculty and guest faculty will be announced on our Instagram and Facebook page soon.

OUSI 2024 Pricing Information

OUSI Video Guidelines

University of Oklahoma’s Summer Intensive Dance Program ballet dancer

OU Dance Classes include but are not limited to:

Ballet and Pointe
Modern Dance
Partnering
Ballet Repertory
Modern Repertory
Improvisation Technique
Yoga/Pilates
Hip-hop
Music for Dancers
Body Science Lecture
Ballets Russe Archive visits & lectures

OUSI Auditions

OUSI Virtual Audition Applications [$35 virtual/application fee].

Applicants may audition by applying through a video submission via Get Accept’d
Submission deadline: February 15, 2024
All audition results will be emailed by March 7, 2024
For more information, please contact OUSI@ou.edu

OUSI Live Audition [$25 live/application fee for Dallas and Tulsa Auditions].

Please provide the following at registration:
Please bring a headshot image of how you appear in the studio. A simple photograph taken after class on your phone for our reference is all that is needed. No glossy headshots are required.
Dress Code:
Female-identifying dancers wear black leotards and pink tights. Bring pointe shoes for those who are training on pointe. Those training in contemporary/modern, pointe is not required.
Male-identifying dancers wear white shirts, black tights and black shoes.
For more information, please contact OUSI@ou.edu