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 Ballet
by day
The tropics by night
Three weeks of discipline, inspiration, and
pleasure beginning August 2 through August 22, 2010.
Click here for the Summer
Intensive 2010 application form.
SUMMER INTENSIVE offers two levels of training at the Intermediate and Advanced level. The
classes meet Mon-Fri 9:00-3:00 with rehearsals until approximately 6:00pm. The Ballet Hawaii
studios are located at the Dole Cannery at 650 Iwilei Rd. near downtown Honolulu. The classes
offered will include: Technique, Pointe, Character, Floor Barre, Modern, Jazz, body conditioning.
Dancers may have the opportunity to participate in a full length production
with dancers from mainland ballet companies at the Neal Blaisdell Concert
Hall on August 21 & 22. Auditions for the performances are held during the first week Summer
Intensive. Few summer ballet intensive programs in the nation provide the caliber of dancers and
professional standards that this opportunity offers, which is rapidly drawing students from
around the state, the mainland, and other countries.
AUDITIONS: Please submit a photo in 1st arabesque position and a video of the dancer
with your application. The video should not be more than 10 minutes of basic barre and center
work. Please include adagio, pirouettes en dedans and en dehors, petite and grand allegro. We
ask that women please wear point shoes for center. Video auditions are due by April 1. The video
is not returnable unless you supply a self addressed mailer. Visiting dancers who wish to
audition for future Ballet Hawaii productions may arrange an audition time with the Director
during any of the weeks in the session.
HOUSING: Student housing arrangements must be handled by each student. Some housing with
families of Honolulu students is available upon request.
APPLICATION FORM: Please
click here and print our
application form. If you cannot print the form, then please provide the information
requested in an email. The summer intensive tuition is $1200. You must submit a $200 deposit to
hold your place after acceptance
by June 1. Final payment due July 21. Please mail all forms and payment to our address:
Ballet Hawaii
650 Iwilei Rd. Box 221 Suite 295
Honolulu, HI 96817
OUTSTANDING FACULTY AND GUEST ARTISTS:
Our program offers each student the experience of pre-professional dance training with an
outstanding guest faculty. In addition, the student dancers have the opportunity to work with
exceptional guest artists who come here to participate in Ballet Hawaii's August summer
production.
Last year's production of Peter Pan starred Janessa Touchet and
Cervilio Miguel Amador from the Cincinnati Ballet and dancers from the
Washington Ballet.
In 2008, the production of Giselle starred Joaquin De Luz and
Tiler Peck of the New York City Ballet in the title roles, along with
Tony-Award nominee John Selya and dancers from the New York City Ballet.
In 2007, the production of Cinderella starred Joaquin De Luz from
New York City Ballet with Janessa Touchet from the Cincinnati Ballet. The
prior year's production of Sleeping Beauty had Jose Manuel Carreño
from American Ballet Theatre and Vanessa Zahorian from San Francisco Ballet
in the principal roles. Also featured, were Romi Beppu, of Ballet
West, along with ABT's Melanie Hamrich and Tobin Eason.
Summer Intensive 2010
MASTER TEACHERS
 ROBERT
BARNETT was Artistic Director of the Atlanta Ballet from 1962 until
1994. Mr. Barnett began his serious study in dance with Bronislava Nijinska,
in Los Angeles, California. He joined the Original Ballet Russe performing
throughout Europe. He continued his studies in Paris, France, with Lubov
Igorova and in 1949 returned to the United States to dance with the New York
City Ballet. He was privileged to have roles created especially for him by
George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Sir Frederick Ashton.
Mr. Barnett is called upon to guest teach, coach and stage his own
choreographic works, as well as being authorized by the Balanchine Trust to
restage Mr. Balanchine's choreographic works, in this country and abroad. He
has served as head coach for the American delegation at the International
Ballet Competitions in Varna Bulgaria in 1980 and again in Moscow, Russia in
1981, The Benoise de la Dance Competition at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow,
Russia in 1992 and in 1998 on the competitor Selection Committe and Master
Teacher at the sixth USA International Ballet Competition, in Jackson,
Mississippi. He continues to serve on the Advisory Committee for the
International Dance Competitions in Jackson, Mississippi, The International
Dance Alliance, LTD. and for The National Board for Regional Dance
America.He has been honored by many dance organizations in this country and
has been an adjudicator or teacher in all five regions represented by
regional Dance America.
MARIA VEGH is a noted ballet instructor and author of the book “To Dance”. Before
devoting all her time to teaching she danced professionally with Ballet Repertory Company of New
York for 13 years.
Along with David Howard, she co-directed New York’s prestigious Harkness Ballet School
beginning in 1971. She established the Pennsylvania Repertory Company and School and then became
Director of Marin Ballet School. She now operates her own studio in Petaluma CA and guest
teaches extensively throughout the United States and Japan.
KATHRYN McBETH began her dance career in her home state of California, studying with
Madam Maria Bekefi and Mr. Richard Nordt, RAD and in 1966 she became a
member of the Royal Academy of Dance. In 1972 she was invited by Mr. Robert
Barnett to join the Atlanta Ballet where she was a principal dancer for
twelve seasons. She danced principal roles in “Giselle”, “Cinderella”, “Swan
Lake”, “and The Still Point ”,“ Concerto Barocco ”,“ Pas De Dix ”,“ Serenade
and The Nutcracker”. In 1986, in addition to teaching at the Atlanta School
of Ballet she was appointed Ballet Mistress of the Atlanta Ballet II. Miss
McBeth also performed as a guest artist from 1984 until her retirement in
1997.
She has coached competitive ice skaters in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Sun
Valley, Idaho. In 1992 she helped create Capital City Ballet with Artistic
Director Tom Pazik and took over as Artistic Director in 1993. In 2000 she
was invited to teach for the Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre and she continues
there as company teacher. Miss McBeth has taught throughout the U.S. at
summer intensives and dance festivals. She is also the trustee of the
choreography of Tom Pazik and has had the privilege of staging his work for
many companies in the South.
 TIMOUR BOURTASENKOV began
his professional education with the Moldavian Opera House and the Bolshoi Ballet. Upon coming to
America he danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet, New Jersey Ballet and the New York based Daring
Project. In 1998, Mr. Bourtasenkov joined Carolina Ballet as a Principal dancer and founding
member of the company. His repertory includes ballets by Marius Petipa, August Bournonville,
George Balanchine, John Cranko, Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, Peter Martins, Robert
North, Margo Sappington, William Forsyth, Richard Tanner, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Christopher
Wheeldon. Carolina Ballet's Artistic Director, Robert Weiss, has created numerous principal roles
for him in the company's repertory.
Mr. Bourtasenkov has choreographed works for Carolina Ballet, Infinity Ballet, New Jersey Ballet
and most recently, the New York Choreographic Institute, using New York City Ballet members. His
ballets include Light and Dark, sections of Messiah, Rag House, Elements, Memories, Visions,
Intrigue, Dance of the Spirits, Fallen Dreams and Tango! Tango! Tango! Mr. Bourtasenkov won the
Bronze Medal in the VII Massako Ohyo World Ballet Competition of Osaka, Japan and the V
International Competition of Paris, France. He was awarded a jury prize at the 2nd Luxembourg
International Ballet Competition. Mr. Bourtasenkov has appeared in two USSR movies:
The Long Way
and The Magic Star. In 1996, he filmed Little Red Ridinghood, directed by Davis Koplan and
choreographed by Elena Tchernichova. In 1996, Mr. Bourtasenkov became the Artistic Advisor of
Infinity Ballet and in 2005 he was named the Artistic Director of Carolina Performing Arts Center
in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
ROMI BEPPU joined Ballet West as a Principal Dancer in 2008, after a 10-year
career with Boston Ballet. She began her training at the age of seven under
the direction of John Landovsky at the Hawaii State Ballet. She went on to
dance with American Ballet Theatre, and joined Boston Ballet's corps de
ballet in 1998. She was promoted to soloist in 2003 and to principal dancer
in 2005.
Beppu's repertory with Boston Ballet included Marius Petipa's The
Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora), Mikko Nissinen's Swan Lake
(Odette/Odile) and The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen),
Stanton Welch's Madame Butterfly (Cio Cio San), James Kudelka's
Cinderella (title role), John Cranko's Onegin (Olga), Val
Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias (Nichette) and Sonata for Two
Pianos and Percussion, Mark Morris' Maelstrom and Drink to Me
Only With Thine Eyes, William Forsythe's In the middle, somewhat
elevated, David Dawson's The Grey Area, Jiri Kylian's Falling
Angels, Asaf Messerer's Moszkowski Waltz, Marius Petipa's
Raymonda, Act III, and Helen Pickett's Etesian.
Her extensive Balanchine repertory includes principal roles in Rubies,
Duo Concertant, Divertimento No. 15 Monumentum/Movements and Serenade,
and she has also appeared in Who Cares?, Theme and Variations, The Four
Temperaments, and Symphony in C.
ANDREW VEYETTE was born in Denver, Colorado,
and began his dance training at the age of nine, studying with Betty Downs
at Dance Arts in Visalia, California. Mr. Veyette continued his studies at
Westside Ballet in Santa Monica, California. While at Westside Ballet, Mr.
Veyette trained with Yvonne Mounsey and was personally coached by Nader
Hamed. Mr. Veyette entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official
school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 1998.
In the spring of 2000, Mr. Veyette became an apprentice with New York
City Ballet, and later that season he joined the Company as a member of the
corps de ballet. In March of 2006 he was promoted to soloist. In May 2007
Mr. Veyette was promoted to principal dancer.
MEGAN FAIRCHILD is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. Ms
Fairchild was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began her dance training at
the age of four, studying with Judy Levitre and Kaelynne Oliphant at Dance
Concepts in Sandy, Utah; and at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake
City with Sharee Lane, Deborah Dobson, and Maureen Laird. While at the
Ballet West Conservatory, Ms. Fairchild was also a Ballet West trainee.
Ms. Fairchild entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official
school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 2000.
In November 2001, Ms. Fairchild became an apprentice with New York City
Ballet, and in October 2002 she joined the Company as a member of the corps
de ballet. Ms. Fairchild was promoted to the rank of soloist in
February 2004, and in January 2005, she was promoted to principal dancer.
ROBERT FAIRCHILD was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began dance
training at the age of ten at the Ballet West Conservatory. Mr.
Fairchild attended the 2002 and 2003 summer courses at the School of
American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, and
enrolled as a full time student in the fall of 2003. In June 2005, Mr.
Fairchild became an apprentice with NYCB, and the following June, he joined
the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to soloist
in May 2007 and in October 2009 was promoted to Principal Dancer.
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