WHAT IS VIVANCE?
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VIVANCE is an annual international ballet residency bringing together a curated faculty, an exceptional destination, and a community of experienced adult and professional dancers.
Each edition is intentionally unique—its location, teaching artists, and complementary movement experiences evolve from year to year, while ballet, artistic exploration, restoration, and community remain at its core.
WHO IS VIVANCE FOR?
VIVANCE brings together dedicated, experienced adult dancers and professional artists who share a desire to keep growing, creating, and finding new inspiration through ballet.
Professional dancers benefit from a flexible environment responsive to individual artistic goals—with opportunities for coaching, creative development, and choreographic exploration. Adult dancers are invited beyond the class experience to participate in faculty-led creative work and experience themselves as part of the artistic process.
Different journeys. A common love of the art form. One community.
ARTISTIC CURATION
ARTISTIC CURATION
At the heart of each VIVANCE residency is a carefully curated faculty of distinguished teaching artists selected not only for their accomplishments, but for their ability to inspire, connect, and create a generous studio environment.
As a team, faculty bring complementary perspectives, experience, and artistic voices—creating space for exceptional training, individual attention, creative exploration, and meaningful exchange.
RESTORE & RECONNECT
RESTORE & RECONNECT
VIVANCE balances the rigor and joy of dancing with time to restore. Movement and wellness practices are woven into the week alongside opportunities to slow down, connect, share a meal, enjoy the surroundings—or simply leave some time unscripted.
Because sometimes renewed inspiration comes from a change of place, pace, and perspective.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Brenda Erlinger is a program development leader and ballet enthusiast with more than two decades of experience researching, designing, and launching innovative education and social-impact initiatives. Her work is grounded in understanding people and context, identifying unmet needs and opportunities, and translating ideas into programs that work in the real world.
Through her own return to ballet in midlife, Brenda rediscovered not only the joy of dancing, but the friendships and sense of community that can grow from a shared love of the art form. That experience deepened her appreciation for the challenge, joy, growth and connection that can keep ballet meaningful throughout a dancer’s life.
VIVANCE brings together her love of ballet, program design, adventure, and community.
Inaugural Residency · 2027
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