Summer
The University of Oklahoma School of Dance Summer Intensive
Dates: June 2-28, 2025 | Ages: 14-20
Possible Two-Week Options: June 2-14, 2025, or June 16-28, 2025
Young Performer’s Program
Dates: June 9-14, 2025 | Ages: 10-13
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 accepted into the young performer’s week-long program will end the week with a studio performance at the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center at OU. Students accepted into the full-length Summer Intensive (Dates: June 2 – June 28, 2025) will conclude with an on-stage performance at the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center at OU, featuring classical, modern, and contemporary repertory. Names of OU faculty and guest faculty will be announced on our Instagram and Facebook page soon.
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 14, 2025
• All audition results will be emailed by February 28, 2025
• Get Accept’d Auditions only available to the full-length program attendees.
OUSI Live Audition [$20 live/application fee].
Live Auditions will be held in Norman, Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas.
Norman in-person live audition will be held at the OU School of Dance on Saturday, February 8, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Dallas in-person live audition location/date/time details coming soon!
Please provide the following at registration: an 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.
All OUSI students applying to the Young Performer’s Program are required to audition in-person at Norman, Oklahoma OU School of Dance live audition (details above).
Audition Attire – Female Identifying: black leotard, pink or complementing skin tone tights, coordinating ballet technique shoes; Male identifying: white t-shirt, black tights, coordinating ballet technique shoes.
Please contact us if you have any questions: ousi@ou.edu
Norman Area Audition:
Saturday, February 8, 2025
OU School of Dance
Reynolds Performing Arts Center, room 3002
560 Parrington Oval
Norman, OK 73019
Registration: 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Audition: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 P.M.
Pre-register here: OUSI Norman Audition