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photo by Anne Mcelwain

 

 

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.


Intermediate Level Summer Intensive 2005, Photo by Kevin Meyers

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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