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Three weeks of discipline, inspiration, and pleasure beginning late July.

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 777 S. Hotel St. Suite 101, 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 11 & 12. 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 DVD 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 if you are on pointe. 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 to mail. If you cannot print the form, then please provide the information requested in an email. The summer intensive tuition is $1400.00. You must submit a $200.00 deposit to hold your place, after acceptance, by June 1, 2012. Final payment due July 1, 2012. Please mail all forms, DVDs and payments to our address:

Ballet Hawaii
777 S. Hotel St. Suite 101
Honolulu, HI 96813

 Click here for an APPLICATION FORM (pdf) to Print

Click here to e-mail to request additional information from School Coordinator

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.

2011 year’s production was “Romeo and Juliet” and starred Lilyan Vigo Ellis and Marcelo Martinez of Carolina Ballet and dancers from the Carolina Ballet and Eugene Ballet.

2010 year’s production of “Cool Ballet for a Hot Summer! A Medly of American Dance”, starred Megan Fairchild and Andrew Veyette of New York City Ballet, Timour Bourtasenkov of Carolina Ballet and Romi Beppu of Ballet West.

In 2009, the production of Peter Pan starred Janessa Touchet and Cervilio Miguel Amador from the Cincinnati Ballet along with Timour Bourtasenkov of Carolina 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 2006 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 2012 Choreographer - TBA

Summer Intensive 2012
MASTER TEACHERS

		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.
		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.
		PAM SANDRIDGE is a dance/choreographer/ producer and has worked with entertainment artists in Hawaii since 1974. She has instructed Jazz dance classes at Punahou Dance School, Honolulu Academy of Theatre Arts, Kamehameha Dance Theatre, University of Hawaii Rainbow Dancers, and her own companies - The Jazz Factory and Big City Productions. In 1999 she was certified by The PhysicalMind Institute in Pilates Method Mat and Equipment. She is also certified in a method called "Bones for Life" by Ruthy Alon, the Feldenkrais practitioner who created the work. Under the COREography, she utilizes her training from these modalities, fused with her dance experience, to inspire movement with reduced effort and a dialogue of heightened awareness between mind and body.
		DEREK DANIELS was born and raised in Hawaii and left at the age of 18 to pursue his dream in the entertainment, fashion and music industry. He has worked as a show producer, director, choreographer, singer, dancer, instructor, costume designer, model, DJ and a photographer. Derek studied dance mainly in New York City with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem, Broadway Dance Center, Steps and San Joaquin concert ballet in Stockton, California. Some of his international and national credits include the Broadway musical Cats, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, The Wiz, Grease, South Pacific, Evita, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular, the television Fame, Paris Disney and appeared in numerous commercials, music videos, fashion shows and films. In addition he has worked with international acclaimed recording artists such as Grace Jones, The Pet Shop Boys, Salt ‘n Pepa, Boy George, Martha Wash, Kristen W, Pepper Mashay, Kevin Aviance, Joi Cardwell; haute couture fashion designers including Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Kenzo, Comme Des Garcons and photographer Tom Bianchi. Derek returned back to Hawaii in 1999 and started his own entertainment production company where he now has three ongoing shows in Waikiki at The International Market Place, The Waikiki Town Center and The American Timescape show at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani hotel. Derek Daniels Productions has worked independently for many entertainment companies including Star of Honolulu, The Navatek dinner cruise, Tihati Productions, Jack Cione's Mardi Gras Follies, More Models, Ballet Hawaii, Hawaii Ballet Theater, Diamond Head Theater, Army Community Theater, Current Affairs, Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park and numerous special events and private parties.
		MARIE TAKAZAWA - began her dance training in Hawaii. She studied and performed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, with Dances We Dance Company and Hawaii Dance Theatre. Moving to New York she performed on Broadway, with the Uncompany as the lead dancer in the Yul Brynner production of The King and I, and in a tour of The King and I, starring Rudolph Nureyev. Returning to Hawaii, Takazawa was co-director of Danceworks Honolulu, which was selected as the 1994 People’s Choice Awards "Best Dance Company." Ms. Takazawa is a freelance choreographer and teaches jazz, ballet, modern and street dance at local dance studios and fitness centers. She is presently Ballet Mistress and resident choreographer for the Tau Dance Theatre and on the faculty of Ballet Hawaii.
		NATALIYA ANDRIYEWSKA, is originally from the Ukraine where she received her choreographic education from Kherson Cultural College, Ukraine, majoring in ballet, historical ballroom dance, modern and character folk dance. She began her career touring with various venues throughout Ukraine, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Greece and Macedonia. Since she moved to Hawaii in 2001, she has been involved as a dancer and choreographer in many venues around Honolulu, including Mardi Gras Follies, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii Opera Theater and Army Community Theater and is currently involved in the Allure Dance Ensemble project as well as teaching creative dance and ballet classes for the beginners at NIXPAC and Ballet Hawaii in Kapolei.
		AMY LYNN SCHIFFNER is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance and Theatre at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her primary areas of teaching include pedagogy, theory and criticism, and dance technique. Amy holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance from the University of California at Irvine, a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Education from California State University Long Beach and a California Single Subject Teaching Credential.  Amy is a strong arts education advocate who supports local community outreach programs and serves leadership roles in many professional arts organizations.  During 2005-2007 Amy held the position of artistic assistant to world renowned choreographer Donald McKayle. She has choreographed many original works including, Traffic (05), Faith (06) and Angular Articulation (07) that have been showcased in a variety of performance venues. Amy was a 2004 Innovative Choreographer recipient from the National Dance Alliance. Her dance training includes being a scholarship student at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre School in NYC.  Amy has danced with many southern California dance companies including Inland Pacific Ballet, Inland Dance Theatre, and Intersect Dance Company where she performed numerous principle roles including Sophia Carreras 2004.
		PAUL WESCOTT, Yoga Instructor, got his Certification for Hatha Yoga teacher in New York after a year of practicing yoga in San Francisco, CA and realizing how tight his limbs were. So he knows what we all go through regarding the adjustments one has to make in breathing, posture pains, tightness and trauma that the human body condition itself to as years go by. A yoga instructor that lives the lifestyle with daily practices of meditation, chanting, pranayama (breathing exercises) reading ancient texts on the science of yoga from India like the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam and following a vegetarian nutrition program, specializing in beginner and intermediate levels for a broad and diverse population, from the beginner to the fit in all shapes and sizes. Has a keen sense for delivering precise instructions and posture correction. He has taught yoga in the corporate fitness industry in the past 13 years which includes 24 HRS fitness, Gold's Gym, Honolulu Club, HMSA, and The Tin man triathalon. He presently teaches at Clark Hatch fitness and First Hawaiian Bank main branch. Expect to feel energized, a delighted sense of euphoria, relaxed and an energized a connection with your body, mind and spirit.

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