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OPDI-M34: Exploring Ballet – History and Practice
February 09, 2026 - March 22, 2026
This course is designed to let the you dive into the history, current practices, and future considerations of ballet training and performance. Knowledge of the timeline of the development of the art of ballet will blend with the importance of contextual understanding that can be incorporated into your individual practice as well as solid information to pass onto students in teaching contexts. Through the course, we will explore the development of ballet as a dance form and many of the influences that shaped ballet as an art form, while exploring issues that exist presently and that will impact the future of ballet. As the course aids you in enhancing your own complex understanding of the art of ballet, it will assist you in delivering content that is relevant to your own important relations and interpretations of ballet and will guide you in new understandings and delivering of ballet teachings and learnings for yourself and your students.
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Cari Freiberger
<p>Cari Freiberger is a Professor of Dance at Jacksonville University and teaches in the undergraduate Dance BFA and BA Programs and MFA Choreography graduate program. She has choreographed contemporary and ballet pieces stages classical ballets. Her current academic and artistic research is in the field of Inclusive Arts. </p><p>She received her early training at Washington School of Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and Pennsylvania Ballet and performed with Alabama Ballet Company/Ballet South, Appalachian Ballet Company, Festival Ballet-Atlanta, and Ballet Company of Spokane and appeared as a guest artist for many projects including the Spoleto Festival-Charleston, the International Ballet Competition Gala-Jackson, the International Improvisational Festival- Birmingham, Adele Myers and Dancers-New Orleans, Several Dancer’s Core- Atlanta, The People’s Touring Project-NYC, and Sydney Olympics. She received her BA from Birmingham-Southern College and her MFA in dance at Florida State University where she was the recipient of the Suzanne Farrell Fellowship and the School of Visual Arts and Dance Teaching Fellowship. </p><p>While her primary teaching focuses on advanced undergraduate ballet and graduate theory courses at JU online, she also teaches ballet at The Florida Ballet and other local studios. Her current interests focus on inclusive arts and she teaches dance classes for person's living with Parkinson’s with training from the Mark Morris program, Inclusive Dance for all abilities with training from AXIS dance, and Yoga with a RYT 200hr certification. When not teaching or dancing you will most likely find her in or near the water or on her sailboat named<i> ‘Grand Jeté</i>’ !</p>
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Jacksonville University |
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