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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, stamped mailer. Visiting dancers who wish to audition for future Ballet Hawaii productions and Summer Intensive, may arrange an audition time with our Artistic 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. The summer intensive tuition is $1500.00 for 3 weeks and the weekly rate is $600.00 a week for the Advanced and Intermediate levels. The tuition for the Pre-pointe level is $800.00 or $300.00 a week. You must submit a $200.00 non-refundable deposit to hold your place, after acceptance, by May 1, 2013. Final payment is due June 1, 2013. Once you have been accepted, you will be able to pay the deposit and tuition online through our secure server.

Please mail all forms, DVDs and payments to our address:

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

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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.

In August 2012 Ballet Hawaii was delighted to culminate our program with the spectacular production of Alice (in Wonderland) newly choreographed by Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet, and new original score by Matthew Pierce. Guest artists from the Washington, Carolina and Eugene Ballets performed the principal roles with students from the intensive program. New sets by James Kronzer and new costumes by Liz Vandal were provided by the Washington Ballet.

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

In 2009, the production of Septime Webre’s 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. 

Septime Webre, Artistic Director, the Washington Ballet

Septime Webre was appointed artistic director of The Washington Ballet in June 1999 after six years as artistic director of American Repertory Ballet in New Jersey. Much in demand as a choreographer, he has created works that appear in the repertoires of many companies in North America, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Ballet Austin, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet and Colorado Ballet, among many others. As a dancer, Mr. Webre was featured in works by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Alvin Ailey, and Merce Cunningham, as well as in principal and solo roles from the classical repertoire. A former member of the board of directors of Dance/USA, Mr. Webre sits on the board of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, and has been honored by Young Audiences of the District of Columbia and has received a number of fellowships for his choreography. Mr. Webre is the seventh son in a large Cuban-American family, and he graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in History/Pre-Law.

Summer Intensive 2013
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.
		ALAINE HAUBERT  A fourth generation Californian and has the unique distinction of having been associated with America's three major ballet companies. She received her early training at the School of American Ballet, where she studied with the illustrious post-Diaghilev faculty of George Balanchine. After graduation from high school she performed with San Francisco's Pacific Ballet, then joined the National touring company of Camelot. In 1965 Alaine joined American Ballet Theatre, where she performed corps de ballet, soloist and principal roles. In 1969 she joined the Joffrey Ballet as principal dancer dancing leading roles in many ballets, including The Green Table, The Dream, The Moor's Pavane, The Three Cornered Hat, and Le Beau Danube.  After nearly a decade with the Joffrey Ballet, a serious back injury ended Alaine's performing career, and she began teaching and coaching internationally.    In 1986 Alaine moved to Hawaii, where she was on faculty at the University of Hawaii for seven years.  In 1993 she returned to New York as Ballet Mistress for ABT, where she coached, instructed and rehearsed America's leading dancers. In more recent years Alaine has been on faculty at Cal State Long Beach, and has offered Master classes throughout the United States. She continues her association with ABT, and annually travels the USA, auditioning dancers for the ABT Summer Intensives. Alaine was Artistic Director for the ABT Detroit Summer Intensive for 15 years, and now directs the ABT Summer Intensive at North Carolina School of the Arts. She also is an advisor for the ABT National Training Curriculum.  Alaine has been an adjudicator for RDA Pacific, Southwest and Northeast regions, and continues to travel world-wide, offering Master classes, coaching, adjudicating and scouting for future ballet professionals.
		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.
		LUIS TORRES - The Washington Ballet Repetiteur, Dancer LUIS R. TORRES, of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, is in his ninth season with The Washington Ballet. Prior to joining TWB, Mr. Torres was a soloist with Ballet Theatre of Annapolis in Maryland, and performed as a soloist and principal dancer with Ballet Arizona for six seasons. Roles have been created for him by a number of choreographers including Moses Pendleton, Ib Anderson, Dwight Rhoden and Alonzo King. Mr. Torres began his training in Puerto Rico under the direction of Elizabeth Calero before accepting a scholarship transfer to Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Featured roles include Snow King, Drosselmeyer and Anacostian Man in The Nutcracker, Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, Lord Capulet in Romeo + Juliet and Captain Hook in Peter Pan. Mr. Torres completed his bachelor's degree of interdisciplinary studies in dance and psychology at Arizona State University.
		MORGANN ROSE,  Lake Forest, CA, is in her twelfth season with The Washington Ballet after dancing one season with Elliot Feld's Ballet Tech in New York City. She began her training with Rebecca Wright, Tania Lichine and David Allen. She received scholarships to several prominent summer programs including the School of American Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and National Ballet of Canada. Ms. Rose graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts high school program before joining her first ballet company. In addition to dancing with The Washington Ballet, she has been a guest artist with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Carolina Ballet, City Dance Ensemble and ARKA Ballet. Some of her principal roles include Myrta in Giselle, Snow Queen in Septime Webre's The Nutcracker, Effe in La Sylphide and Choleric in The Four Temperaments. Recently, Ms. Rose has become a certified Gyrotonic instructor.
		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.
		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.
		YVONNE YANAGIHARA has a Bachelors degree in Marketing with a minor in Dance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She trained with Nolan Dingman in Orlando, Florida in the late 80s. She was the ballet instructor for the female water-ski team at Sea World in Florida and The Columbus Dance Center in 1987, and was the dance instructor at the American School in Japan for four summers in the early 90’s. Over the last 13 years Yvonne has appeared locally performing in numerous Diamond Head Theatre musicals, and productions for Lisa Matsumoto's Ohia Productions.
		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.
		MATHAIS MAAS, ActingMathias Maas started his theatre career in fourth grade in Missoula Children’s Theatre’s production of Cinderella. He holds an undergraduate degree in Theatre and Communications from Concordia College, Moorhead Minnesota. Currently a teacher at Diamond Head Theatre's Musical theatre experience, he has also worked at Honolulu Theatre for Youth for 8 years, assisting with their youth theatre programming such as Young at Art, and their Summer Session Programming. He has taught Punahou summer school, Intro to Drama. Mathias is a member of the dance-mask-theatre troupe Monkey Waterfall, a member of HālauMōhala ‘Ilima, and a regular actor-improvisor for the Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre at Dave & Busters. Recent performing credits include August: Osage County (MVT), Around the World in 80 Days (MVT), Ibsen’s Ghosts (TAG), The Sound of Music (DHT), The Reindeer Monologues (HRT), Frost/Nixon (MVT), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (HSF), King Lear (HSF), and The Joy Luck Club (KKT).
		ELYSE M STEVENS, born and raised in Hilo, began her study of dance at Island Dance Academy at the age of 4. In 2006 she began teaching ballet, pointe and jazz at IDA and has choreographed for several of their annual productions. In 2004, Elyse studied and performed at the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Dance Ensemble and in 2008 she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Hilo with a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts - Dance Emphasis. Elyse has also instructed dance classes and workshops at the Gull Pointe Community Center in Pensacola, Florida and through the CCECS program at UH Hilo. In 2012, Elyse recently earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Dance at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. During her MFA candidacy, she performed in several Footholds and Mainstage productions and instructed beginning ballet technique to the students of the university.

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