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.

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