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Assistance

Financial Assistance

At NBS we believe that dance education should be accessible to all members of our community and work to remove barriers that may deter potential students from pursuing their passion and talent for dance.

 

Young Dancers Program Financial Assistance Application 

 

Young Dancers Program financial assistance offers percentage-based support for program fees to dancers in Canada's National Ballet School's Young Dancers Program, providing access for dancers during their formative years. Financial assistance will be awarded on a comprehensive, needs-based assessment.

 

We are no longer accepting applications for the 2023/24 season. Please contact the NBS Registrar's office at registrar@nbs-enb.ca or 416-964-3780 for inquires. 

The Renette Berman Family Scholarship Program

This scholarship provides all program fees and uniform costs to young students accepted into NBS’ Young Dancers Program. Providing access to dancers during their formative training years, it has been created and supported through the generous gift of Renette Berman and her family.

Eligibility: This scholarship is available to children ages 7-12 entering NBS’ Young Dancers Program. Current Young Dancers Program students, within the same age/level, are also eligible to apply. Scholarships are awarded on a comprehensive, needs-based assessment.

 

About This Scholarship: The Renette Berman Family Scholarship Program marks a significant growth in NBS’ capacity to support inclusion and accessibility in NBS’ Young Dancers Program. It enabled NBS to significantly grow the number of financially-subsidized spaces available in the Young Dancers Program, and builds upon financial support programs currently in place thanks to the contributions provided by the William R. and Shirley Beatty Fund, the Delaney Family Scholarship, and the Carole and Howard Tanenbaum Family Foundation.

The Delaney Family Scholarship Fund

The Delaney Family have been long standing donors to NBS. During NBS’ 60th Anniversary year, a fund was established to address student financial assistance for new dancers to the Young Dancers Program; this helped to ensure that dancers of all stages have access to the highest quality training at NBS.

Daniel Neville-Lake Fund

As a way to honour the memory of Daniel-William Roger Neville-Lake, and his love for dance, Many Hands Doing Good established this Fund with Canada's National Ballet School to encourage boys, particularly those aged up to 9 years of old, to remove financial barriers and encourage their participation in dance classes at Canada’s National Ballet School.

When Daniel was 6 years old he came to me and said, “Mom, I want to do ballet.” 

 

I was a little surprised and thinking that he might be confusing ballet with something else, asked if he knew what ballet was.  We took books and videos out of the public library and sure enough, it was ballet that he wanted to do.  He danced with the City of Brampton Dance Department and every Mother’s Day, my gift was that he was on stage dancing for me.  He had a passion and love for ballet and even when given a choice to do something else he always chose ballet.  He was starting his fourth year as a dancer and took a lot of pride in his art.

 

- Jennifer Neville-Lake, mother


As a way to honour the memory of Daniel-William Roger Neville-Lake, and his love for dance, Many Hands Doing Good established this Fund with Canada's National Ballet School to encourage boys, particularly those aged up to 9 years of old, to remove financial barriers and encourage their participation in dance classes at Canada’s National Ballet School.

 

Contributions from the community to the Fund are always welcome and can be done here:

  • Visit the NBS Endowment page

  • Select designation Daniel Neville-Lake Fund in the drop down.

The growth of the Fund provides ballet access to more boys.