On 6 March 2020, the Minister for Education and Minister for Industrial Relations officially opened the doors of Queensland Ballet Academy's state-of-the art elite training facility at Kelvin Grove State College. This development represents an exciting new chapter enabling a transformational educational and artistic collaboration between Kelvin Grove State College and Queensland Ballet.
The new Academy building currently offers elite ballet training and education for Senior Program students in Years 10 to 12, with expanded Associate Program offerings for younger students. From 2021, full-time training in these facilities will be available to students from Years 7 - 12.
Our Academy building in Kelvin Grove features six world-class dance studios, student quarters including a green room, a classroom for additional studies, physiotherapy facilities, a Pilates studio, and weights gym.
Academy graduates will be professionally trained ballet artists, academically empowered and equipped with key attributes to best position them for their aspirations.
This new facility brings together the academic and artistic training of young aspiring dancers and will provide world-class training facilities that will rival those offered globally.
- Li Cunxin, Artistic Director