The Company Trainee Program draws on the synergy of this institutional symbiosis in order to prepare advanced students of the age of 17 and older for the transition into a professional career. Under the personal guidance of director and choreographer Carole Alexis, who is renowned for her method of teaching clean and strong technique and developing artistic sensibility, trainees are to study, to make noticeable progress in the advanced levels, rehearse and perform alongside the professional dancers of Carole Alexis Dance Theatre /Ballet des Amériques.