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American Repertory Ballet
Eliana Trenam has been accepted into
the American Repertory Ballet Trainee Program in
Princeton, New Jersey. The Trainee Program is the bridge
between the student phase of training and that of a
professional career. ARB Trainees start each day with
intensive classes designed to polish technique and build
strength. These classes are exclusively for the Trainee
dancers with a focus on the individual participant. The
Trainees finish each day with two more classes in our
Professional Training Program, the most advanced of our
non-Trainee classes. These classes also include ballet,
pointe/variations, partnering and modern dance. In
between the two class segments of the day, Trainees join
ARB company rehearsal where they understudy company
roles. This exposes the Trainee to the expectations of a
professional company, learning repertory, polishing
technique and performance skills in the more intense
professional atmosphere. Trainees also participate in
the ARB Workshop, which is their pre-professional
performance group.
Eliana Trenam, who grew up in Petaluma, was a student at
Marin Dance Theatre for eight years, was accepted into
the Honors College at Iowa University. She won a
University of Iowa National Scholar's award, as well as
the prestigious Center for the Arts award, given to
incoming freshman showing the most promise in
dance. Although Eliana was accepted to a number of
universities, including the Tisch school at New York
University, University of Utah, the University of Iowa
and nearly full tuition scholarships at Barnard College
(of Columbia University) and Smith college, she chose to
accept Iowa's offer over the other schools because she
could double major in dance and in International
Studies.
She has recently graduated from the University of Iowa,
with a double B.A. in religious studies and dance, with
honors in dance. While at Iowa, she was awarded the Iowa
Center for the Arts scholarship as a freshman, was also
awarded a two -year research grant through the Iowa
Center for Research by Undergraduates, funding the
research which culminated in her honors thesis: Sylphs
and Savages: the Woman Question in Romantic Orientalist
Ballet, which was featured in the magazine of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University
of Iowa.
Eliana's parents said that she gives all the credit to
the fine training she received over the years at Marin
Dance Theatre, which taught her the discipline she
needed for her academics, while instilling in her the
necessary technique to pursue ballet at a college
conservatory level.
http://americanrepertoryballet.org/PBS/Trainee-Program
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