Princeton Dance and Theater Studio is proud to include the AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE® National Training Curriculum, a breakthrough 8 level program that combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development. The ABT® National Training Curriculum consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels.
PDT's ABT® Certified Teachers include: Nora Cotter who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and received her NYU masters degree in ABT Ballet Pedagogy; Brian Reeder (Primary-Level 7); and Risa Kaplowitz (Primary -Level 3).
PDT instructors who have successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive include: Director, Risa Kaplowitz
(Primary - Level 5); Assistant Director Maura Ryan (Primary-Level 3); Nora Cotter (Primary-Level 7 and received her NYU masters degree in ABT Ballet Pedagogy); Brian Reeder (Primary-Level 7); and Jung Soo Kim (Primary-Level 7).
PDT's instructors are of an extremely high quality. While they may have different personalities and different ways of getting the information across to PDT ballet students, all of our ballet students are ensured of getting the same authentic, un-stylized, and physiologically correct training, which AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE® National Training Curriculum provides.