A Note From Artistic Director Hernan Justo:

What is it like to be a professional dancer?  “Living the dream,” so to speak? 
 I have been a dancer myself since the age of nine, and it is a life I embraced from the start. Now, as the artistic director of CBT’s professional company,
I have designed Summerworks with this idea in mind
to allow students to share in the physical and emotional experiences of professional dancers in their day-to-day lives.   
                  Through our program, students are able to realize that much of a dancer’s day and most of the decisions a dancer makes
relate to the fact that he or she is a dancer. What will I eat?  
Will I walk or will I drive?  What clothes will I use, for rehearsal or comfort?  What shoes are best today? 
For a dancer, it is not vanity, but reality that presents these questions the answers help the dancer optimize their body and perfect their art. 

                  CBT’s Summerworks has the structure of a professional ballet company schedule, but includes more classes due to the educational component.  Students are enriched by the ability to share in the daily routine of the ballet company the rehearsals and everything involved to bring a production together.   The pressure, the excitement, and even the problems that arise all of these provide invaluable experience to the young dancer.  Most importantly, each student learns to find his or her own place in a ballet company through a process where the end result may be the performance, but the real goal is the journey each dancer takes to the stage.
                   At CBT we are confident that our Summerworks program will provide the tools each student needs, enabling them not only to excel in the final performance, but to create, enjoy, and succeed in their own journey to the stage.  We look forward to having you join us.