L’ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE DE BALLET DU QUÉBEC In service of excellence since 1966

Our pioneering founder

Ludmilla Chiriaeff was a true pioneer, bringing Quebec society its first institution dedicated entirely to training professional dancers: the École supérieure de ballet du Québec. She also founded Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, one of the country’s leading dance companies.

In 2024, the École supérieure will mark this exceptional woman’s centennial. She was recently named a Personnage historique du Québec by the provincial government.

International acclaim

While we can proudly admire our former students’ performances with major Quebec companies such as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballets Jazz Montréal, Compagnie Marie Chouinard and RUBBERBAND, to name a few, several of our alumni are also excelling with major international companies, including Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin (France), Opéra de Paris, Ballet Zürich, Ballet of Difference (Cologne), Nederlands Dans Theater 2 and Staatsballet Berlin.

Our motto: developing excellence, creating emotion

A proven springboard to a professional dance career, the École supérieure’s professional performance program enables its graduates to achieve a very high level of technical accomplishment in classical and contemporary dance, opening the way for them to embody even the most eclectic artistic visions created by today’s dance companies.