The Pre-Professional Program, Peabody Dance's core training curriculum for students ages seven to young adult, is an intensive, graded course of study in Ballet and Contemporary Dance. The program is designed to help motivated and eventually, career-minded, students meet the dance arena's highest standards. The path to attaining that goal is based on the Dance Department's collective belief in the proven results of sound, concentrated training: the more classes, diligently applied, the faster the student's growth and progress. Therefore, students with special potential and commitment are urged to take as many classes as they can, and artistic as well as financial incentives are in place to enable that possibility (See Pre-Professional Program Policies and Procedures). Most importantly, the mode of procedure for the entire Pre-Professional Program is designed to encourage and enable students to advance at a pace that matches their abilities, interests and time commitments.

The following Curriculum and Class Levels and related Policies and Procedures affirm the Department's convictions and have been carefully designed to encourage and facilitate student and parent understanding and participation. Students are also expected to observe Peabody Dance's dress code for all classes.