SRU student spending summer at NYC ballet school
SLIPPERY ROCK — Tyler Anderson is certainly "dialed" in to his summer internship this year at the School of American Ballet in New York City. Anderson, a Slippery Rock University senior dual dance and modern languages and cultures major from Allison Park, is among a select few college students working this summer through DIAL, the Diversity in Arts Leadership internship program, administered by the Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit organization that advances the arts and arts education.
"This is a really cool opportunity because it blends a whole bunch of my interests: diversity, dance, nonprofit work, and others," Anderson said. "When I found out I was selected, I was already overwhelmed with excitement, but then when I saw I was placed with the School of American Ballet (SAB), that put me at a loss for words."
SAB partnered with the DIAL program to host one of 11 interns who are placed in New York City arts organizations. Anderson was one of 22 interns in cities across the country selected from hundreds of applicants, and the only one placed at SAB, which is widely regarded as America's leading ballet school and is world-renowned for its classical training, established by the school's co-founders, teacher and choreographer George Balanchine and arts patron and writer Lincoln Kirstein. Located at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, SAB annually trains more than 1,000 youths ages 6 to 19.
Justin Zackal is a communication specialist with Slippery Rock University
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