 Ballet
by day
The tropics by night
Three weeks of discipline, inspiration,
and pleasure beginning July 28 through August 17.
Click here for the Summer
Intensive 2008 application form. Click here for the
pdf brochure.
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, Floor Barre, Modern, Jazz, body conditioning.
Dancers may have the opportunity to participate in a full length production of
Giselle at the Neal Blaisdell Concert Hall
on August 16-17. 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. Ballet Hawaii can recommend a company
that specializes in vacation rentals. HAWAII ON SALE 1-800-767-9603 or email at VMGHI@AOL.COM.
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. Please mail all forms and payment to our address:
Ballet Hawaii
650 Iwilei Rd. Box 221
Honolulu, HI 96817
OUTSTANDING FACULTY AND GUEST ARTISTS:
Our program offers each student the experience of a professional ballet training program and
working with some of the finest professional dancers in ballet. Students who enter our doors
will experience the demands of a professional dance program. We again are honored to have
outstanding guest faculty and guest artists for our Summer Intensive Program.
The student dancers have the opportunity to work with guest artists from the professional
ballet world. Last year’s production of Cinderella starred Joaquin De Luz from New York City
Ballet with Janessa Touchet in the title role. The prior year's production of
Sleeping Beauty starred Jose
Manuel Carreño from American
Ballet Theatre and Vanessa Zahorian from San Francisco Ballet in the leading roles. Featured
roles were danced by Romi Beppu, Boston Ballet along with ABT’s Melanie Hamrick and Tobin Eason.
Coppelia was the featured performance in 2005
starring Joan Boada and Amanda Schull, Tony-Award-nominee John Selya and dancers from San
Francisco Ballet
Summer Intensive 2008
MASTER TEACHERS
ROBERT BARNETT was Artistic Director of the Atlanta Ballet from 1962
until 1994 following a 12-year career with 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 authorized by the
Balanchine Trust to restage Mr. Balanchine's choreographic works. He has
served as head coach for the American delegation at the International Ballet
Competitions in 1980, 1981, and 1992 and served on the competitor Selection
Committee and as Master Teacher for the 1998 USA International Ballet
Competition in Jackson, Mississippi. 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.
JOHN SELYA was born in New York City. He received his training in the School of
American Ballet. Selya joined American Ballet Theater in 1988 at the invitation of Baryshnikov.
He received 2003 Tony and Drama Desk nominations and the TDF/Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer
and a Theatre World Award for Movin' Out, his Broadway debut. In 2000, he joined Twyla Tharp
Dance. Selya has performed in Ballet Hawaii’s The Nutcracker as the Snow King and Arabian as
well as performing the role of Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia. Film: Woody Allen's Everyone Says I
Love You.
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.
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