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The Academy consists of three segments: Public Ballet, Lower School and Upper School.

The Public Ballet classes are offered for students too young to enter the academy to begin their training so they may one day be an academy student, and for others to take dance classes as exercise or hobby.

The Lower School, ages 8 thru 12, requires entrance and placement examination s, and starts a student on the path of development.

The Upper school, ages 13 thru 19, is for Lower School graduates who choose t o pursue careers in professional dance (as performing artists, teachers, choreog raphers, designers, or dance therapists). Below is a description of the different schools and their requirements.

Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias envisioned an international fine arts institutio n in which all of the arts would be studied under one roof. Her belief was that young artists of divergent fields of expression would enter into conversations a bout the core issues of art (expression, interpretation, focus, et cetera), and would consequently develop a deeper understanding of the artistic purpose of the ir endeavors. She and Ken Ludden worked together to develop this concept for the last twelve years of her life, but died before the institution could be built.