SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
3-week Intensive, 5-week Intensive, and Choreographic Workshop
June 10-July 12, 2024
ABOUT our Summer Intensive
Dancers ages 13-21 years old. By audition or special invitation, only.
5 week Intensive runs June 10-July 12, 2024
3 week Intensive runs June 24-July 12, 2024
The Ballet West Academy Summer Intensive in Salt Lake City, Utah runs June 10-July 12, 2024. If you are accepted it will be recommended you attend the full 5 week session, but will be given the option to opt into the 3 week session. This intensive is designed for serious dancers ages 13-21 who desire individualized instruction in classical ballet. The Ballet West Academy Summer Intensive challenges dancers to improve their ballet technique and study other dance forms that complement classical ballet. Our program offers the unique opportunity for advanced dancers to be considered for Ballet West Academy’s year around programs at the Salt Lake City, Park City, and Utah County campuses.
The program offers unparalleled training by a distinguished staff of Ballet West Academy Faculty, Ballet West Artistic Staff (featuring Artistic Director, Adam Sklute), Ballet West dancers and well-known guest teachers.
Dancers will have classes Monday through Saturday and will have 5 hours of instruction. Saturdays will be abbreviated to guarantee students are getting proper rest on the weekends. Students will have ballet technique, pointe, variations, repertoire, pas de deux, and men’s class. They will also receive specialized genre classes such as contemporary, modern, character, jazz and flamenco.
Guest Instructors 2024
Karin Averty
Charmaine Hunter
Pavel Gurevich
Michael Waldrop
Sebastian Vinet
ABOUT our Choreographic Workshop in partnership with artÉmotion
Dancers ages 16 -21 years old. By audition or special invitation, only.
Choreographic Workshop runs June 10-July 12, 2024
artÉmotion Artistic Directors, Allison DeBona and Rex Tilton direct a “Company Experience” for pre-professional dancers June 10-July 12, 2024. Dancers will spend the first three weeks as students in the Ballet West Summer Intensive, and spend the final two weeks with artÉmotion.
Participants take part in a world premiere performance in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, July 12th, 2024. All dancers in the Choreographic Workshop will be considered by Ballet West Director, Adam Sklute, and Ballet West Academy Director, Evelyn Cisneros-Legate, to join Ballet West Academy as a Trainee or Professional Training Division dancer for the 2024-2025 season.
Past Choreographers include Penny Saunders, Rex Tilton, Joshua Whitehead, Adrienne Canterna, Jon Ole Olstad, Colby Damon, Emily Adams, Xin Ying, George Birkadze, Quinn Wharton, Christine McMillan and Mariana Oliviera.
artÉmotion is under the artistic direction of Allison DeBona and Rex Tilton. Allison DeBona retired a First Soloist with Ballet West in April 2022 and is the current Principal of Ballet West Academy’s Peggy Bergmann Park City Campus. Rex Tilton retired a Principal Artist with Ballet West in May 2022, and is currently Interim Principal and faculty at the Ballet West Academy Park City Campus.
Choreographic Workshop 2024 Choreographers
Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Charlotte Boye-Christensen Bio . . .
Charlotte Boye-Christensen, a native of Copenhagen, received her formal training as a choreographer and performer in Copenhagen, London and in New York. Charlotte has been commissioned to choreograph for companies and institutions nationally and internationally, including Danish Dance Theatre, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballet West, Milwaukee Ballet, Ballet de Camaguey in Cuba, The European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands, The National School for Performing Arts in Denmark, London Contemporary Dance School, Nanyang Academy of the Arts in Singapore, The Bauhaus in Germany, The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, The Alliance Francaise in Singapore, The New Opera House in Copenhagen, the Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Seoul International Dance Competition, Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, Princeton University and other institutions across the US and the world. Charlotte was the Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company for 11 years from 2002 to 2013. In this time, she created 22 new works on the company and commissioned the work of renowned choreographers, including Wayne McGregor, John Jasperse, Bill T. Jones, Alicia Sanchez, Susan Marshall, Johannes Wieland, Karole Armitage and more. In 2013 Charlotte founded NOW-ID with architect Nathan Webster. The company produces design driven, interdisciplinary work for/with unique spaces, with contemporary dance at the works' core. The company has created several site-specific productions, events, workshops/symposiums and films, and has toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. NOW-ID has forged partnerships with organizations that include Arts Access Victoria in Australia, The Australian Arts Council, The Copenhagen Opera Festival, Utah Museum of Contemporary Arts, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, V School, V. Project, Figura Music Ensemble, and The BBOY Federation, as well as with many academic institutions. NOW-ID is presently adapting their site-specific approach for a 10 year durational work: a coffee shop / art space in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to directing NOW-ID, Charlotte was Associate Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University for four years where she created a new BFA degree in dance with a focus on interdisciplinary performance and choreography. Currently she is directing the Dance Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, as an Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Associate Professor. Charlotte is the recipient of several awards and grants for her choreography, including awards from The National Foundation for the Arts in Denmark, Canada Council for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright, the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreographic Excellence, and more.Christina Ghiardi Bio . . .
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We're excited that you could be joining us for our 2024 Summer Intensives in Salt Lake City, UT!
Please refer to the following information to prepare for this program.
5 Week Intensive
June 10 - July 12, 2024
3 Week Intensive
June 24 - July 12, 2024
Choreographic Workshop
June 10 - July 12, 2024