Staged workshops, open to a larger public, are presented with minimum costuming and lights. Throughout the year, many students work on independent projects that, if approved by the faculty, are presented along with new or old works by student and faculty choreographers and others. With live music provided by the Juilliard Orchestra, a series of public dance concerts is given in the spring, featuring works of well-known choreographers.

Each spring, a "Composers and Choreographers" concert presents the results of collaboration of six Juilliard student choreographers with six Juilliard student composers. A high point of the year is senior production week, held in late April. Eight selected senior choreographers create new ballets for six performances that are danced by the entire student body, with all the technical work and other behind-the-scenes matters in the hands of the third-year stagecraft class and the fourth-year production class. These are fully designed works, exhibiting the full creative challenges these young artists have received and dealt with as they are about to embark on their careers.

In the late spring, a final series of concerts is held in the Juilliard Theater. These repeat the most successful works of the past year and, once again, generally find most of the division dancing. The final graduation performance is composed of solos, duets, and group works designed to show off the particular skills of the seniors before an audience filled with large numbers of professional choreographers, artistic directors, and other dancers.