Private Ballet Lessons & Coaching

Individualized classical ballet coaching in Atlanta for serious dancers.

Private ballet lessons and individualized coaching at The International City School of Ballet provide serious dancers with focused one-on-one training built around their specific technical, artistic, and professional goals.

Located in Marietta and serving dancers throughout Metro Atlanta, ICSB offers private coaching in classical ballet technique, pointe work, variations and repertoire, competition preparation, summer intensive auditions, professional and company auditions, and ongoing supplemental training.

Private coaching is open to dancers ages 11 and older, including students enrolled at other ballet schools and training programs. Dancers do not need to leave their current school or enroll in ICSB’s year-round Ballet Institute to receive individualized coaching.

Individualized Ballet Coaching Built Around the Dancer

Even in an excellent ballet program, group classes are necessarily designed around the needs and progression of an entire room. Private ballet coaching creates dedicated time to examine one dancer closely: how the dancer is organizing movement, where technical patterns are limiting progress, which corrections require deeper attention, and what changes will create the greatest long-term effect.

At ICSB, private lessons are not simply additional class time. Each session is structured around the individual dancer, with focused work on technical patterns, alignment, coordination, strength, musicality, artistry, and the specific demands of the dancer’s current goals.

For some dancers, private coaching supports a particular audition, variation, competition, or performance. For others, it becomes an ongoing complement to their regular ballet training.

Private Ballet Coaching Services

Private Ballet Technique Coaching

Focused one-on-one work addressing the technical needs of the individual dancer, including placement, alignment, coordination, strength, turnout mechanics, turns, jumps, flexibility, musicality, artistry, and movement quality.

Rather than working from a predetermined syllabus, the instructor identifies patterns that may be limiting the dancer’s progress and develops the session around the corrections and physical understanding most relevant to that individual.

Pointe Coaching & Private Pointe Lessons

Individualized pointe coaching for dancers who need more detailed attention to placement, alignment, strength, articulation, stability, coordination, and the efficient use of the foot and ankle en pointe.

Private pointe sessions may support general technical development or address the specific demands of variations, auditions, competition repertoire, or advanced training. Pointe work is approached within the context of the dancer’s overall classical technique rather than as an isolated skill.

Summer Intensive & Ballet School Audition Coaching

Individualized preparation for selective summer intensive auditions, year-round ballet programs, pre-professional schools, trainee programs, and other competitive training opportunities.

Audition coaching may include review of program requirements, technical assessment, preparation and refinement of required exercises, pointe work where applicable, presentation, and strategic guidance on how the dancer can show their strongest qualities within the format of the audition.

For dancers preparing for multiple summer intensive auditions, coaching can also be structured over time to strengthen the technical and performance qualities most likely to affect results across an entire audition season.

Ballet Audition Video Coaching & Production

ICSB offers complete coaching and professional production for dancers submitting ballet audition videos for summer intensives, year-round programs, trainee programs, second companies, and professional opportunities.

This may include:

• Review of audition requirements

• Technical preparation of required material

• Individual coaching and refinement

• Selection of appropriate material when applicable

• Professional filming

• Professional video editing

• Delivery of polished, submission-ready files

Audition Video Preparation is priced separately from private tutoring and is quoted according to the scope of the project.

Professional & Ballet Company Audition Coaching

Focused private coaching for company, second-company, trainee, pre-professional, and other professional-track ballet auditions.

Sessions may include technical preparation, repertoire coaching, pointe work, presentation, audition strategy, review of required materials, and refinement of the qualities a dancer needs to communicate clearly in a highly competitive professional audition environment.

When appropriate, coaching can extend beyond a single audition to help a dancer develop a broader company-audition strategy and prepare materials for multiple opportunities.

Classical Variation & Repertoire Coaching

Detailed one-on-one coaching of classical variations and repertoire with attention to technique, musicality, style, épaulement, artistry, characterization, and presentation.

Coaching is shaped around both the demands of the choreography and the individual dancer, with the goal of developing a performance that is technically secure, stylistically informed, and artistically convincing.

Ballet Competition Coaching

Individualized preparation for dancers competing in major ballet competitions, with coaching that addresses both the technical demands of the repertoire and the larger strategy of presenting the dancer effectively onstage.

Competition coaching may include variation selection, classical technique, pointe work, musicality, style, artistry, stage presentation, refinement of existing repertoire, and the development of a preparation timeline leading into competition.

ICSB has extensive experience preparing dancers for major ballet competitions including Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), ADC|IBC, Universal Ballet Competition (UBC), Prix de Lausanne, USA International Ballet Competition (USA IBC), and other national and international events.

Across more than two decades, ICSB dancers have earned top distinctions at major national and international ballet competitions. Competition coaching at ICSB draws on that experience while remaining specific to the individual dancer rather than relying on a standardized competition formula.

Major competition outcomes at ICSB typically reflect sustained training and substantial individualized preparation over time. Supplemental coaching for outside dancers is tailored to the dancer’s specific needs and does not imply competition affiliation with ICSB.

Ongoing Private Ballet Lessons & Supplemental Coaching

Regular private ballet lessons are available for dancers who want ongoing individualized attention while continuing to train at their current school or program.

This can be especially valuable for dancers who are progressing well in group classes but need more focused attention on particular technical or artistic goals, recurring corrections, pointe work, coordination, strength, or movement patterns that require sustained individual attention.

The goal is not to replace the dancer’s primary training environment, but to provide a level of observation and specificity that is difficult to achieve consistently in a group setting.