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Academy of Ballet and Tucson Regionegional Ballet Co. are proud to announce the achievements of their studentsnts whwho have been awarded scholarships to, or have received professional contracts with, the following dance schools, universities and companies:
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,eater, American Ballet Theatre Company & School, American Ballet Theatreatre IIII, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company, Ballet Arizona Company & School, Ballet Met, Ballet West, Baltimore Ballet Compa ny, Bolshoi/Vail International Summer of Dance, Boston Ballet Company & School, Boulder Ballet Company, California Institute for the Arts, Colorado Ballet Company, Columbia Classical Ballet Company, Dancence AsAspen, David Taylor Dance Theatre, Disney Product ions, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Hartford Ballet School, Houston Ballet II, Houston Ballet Academy, Interlochen Center foror the Arts, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre, Joe Tremaine Dance Center, Joffre y Ballet School, Juilliard, Kirov Academy, Le Jeune Ballet de Paris, Long Beach Ballet Arts Center,, Los AAngeles Classical Ballet Company, Milwaukee Ballet Company & School, Nevada Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet Company, North Carolina Dance Theatre, North Carolina School of the Arts, Oakland Ballet Company, Orlando Ballet School, Pacific Northworthwest Ballet School, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, Point Park College Conservatory, Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet Company (Copenhagen), San Francisco Ballet School, School of American Ba llet, School of the Hartford Ballet, State Street Ballet Company & School, Texas Ballet Theatre, University of Arizona School of Dance, Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, VirginVirginia School of the Arts, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Washing ton Ballet Company & School (D.C.)
Academy of Ballet, Tap, & Jazz is operated by Tucson Regional Ballet Company, a 501.c.3 non -profit arts organization.
ENROLLMENT PROCEDURE & DATES Academy of Ballet, Tap & Jazz classes commence August 19, 2019. Students continue to build technique through the recital May 24, 2020. Summer Intensive Workshops and Weekly Classes are also available commencing May 26, 2020. Academy of Ballet, Jazz, & Tap Students are welcome to join classes at any time through the season. Students beginning in the middle of the winter or summer season will be mainstreamed hhhomehome of into an appropriate level and tuition will be pro-rated. Quarterly dates for the winter season mark the beginning and end of the tuition pay periods only. Tucson Regional Ballet To enroll, please email [email protected] or telephone 886-1222. We will be happy to discuss class schedules with you. Students with previous and training may wish to make an appointment for an audition to ensure proper placement. Tuition for family members of the same household will be based on the amount of classes taken by the family per week. An annual Registration Fee of $25.00 for the first student plus $10.00 for each additional student in the same household is payable at the time of registration.
*QUARTERLY TUITION RATE 1 st TEN WEEK QUARTER
Classes Per Week Rate Per Class Total One $13.00 $130.00 Two $12.00 $240.00 Three $11.50 $345.00 Instructors: Four $11.00 $440.00 Jeff Hughes ** Pamela Reyman-Hughes Five $10.50 $525.00 Alexis Salmen ** Geri Salmen Six $10.00 $600.00 Aaron Smith ** Victoria Snapp Unlimited Classes $665.00 Single Class $14.00
*QUARTERLY TUITION RATES 2 nd , 3 rd , & 4 th NINE WEEK QUARTERS
Classes Per Week Rate Per Class Total One $13.00 $117.00 Founded in 1981 by Linda Walker, the Academy of Ballet, Tap and Jazz in Two $12.00 $216.00 Tucson has distinguished itself as one of Arizona’s leading classical dance Three $11.50 $310.50 training schools. Our highly skilled, professional staff offers ballet, tap, Four $11.00 $396.00 and jazz dance classes for students preparing for a professional career, as Five $10.50 $472.50 well as those wishing dance lessons for their many other benefits. All Six $10.00 $540.00 ballet classes, jazz classes, and tap classes are carefully graded for age Unlimited Classes $598.50 Single Class $14.00 and technical level. This allows each student to be given the individual attention necessary for his or her progress. Our dance studio offers *Due to the extended length, there will be an additional $1 charge, per class, for the Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday advanced pointe classes (Roses Level). fifteen levels of ballet and pointe classes, including a special technique class for our male dancers, and eleven levels of tap and jazz classes. Three Students having class(es) that fall on the following holidays will need to deduct spacious dance rooms are available to students from beginning through the per-class rate for each class missed within the quarterly pay period, as the advanced levels, ages three through adult. Academy of Ballet will be closed:
1st Qtr. Labor Day 9/2 (Mon) 2nd Qtr . Halloween 10/31 (Thur), Thanksgiving 11/28 (Thur)
QUARTERLY DATES (see “Dates to Remember” for school closure dates) Quarterly dates mark the beginning and end of the tuition pay periods only. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS Students are welcome to join classes in the middle of a quarter. Tuition will then be pro-rated to the end of the same quarter. Jeff Hughes was born in Alameda, California, where he 1st Qt Aug 19-Oct 26 (10 weeks) 3rd Qt Jan 20-Mar 21 (9 weeks) started dancing att the aage of six. His first two teachers were 2nd Qt Oct 28-Jan 18 (9 weeks) 4th Qt Mar 23-May 24 (9 weeks) Vern Nerden and Madame Alexandria Baldina from the Maryinsky Theatrere in SSt. Petersburg Russia and Ballet Russe TUITION DUE DATES circa Nijinsky and Pavlova. As a young ster he was a member 1st Qt Aug 17 2nd Qt Oct 26 3rd Qt Jan 18 4th Qt Mar 21 of Oakland Metropolitan Ballet and was a guest artist with A 10% finance charge will be assessed on late payments. The listed rates apply to several companies in Northern California. students making full payment ON or BEFORE these tuition due dates. NO 10% finance charge will be assessed when a s tudent registers in the middle of a pay Mr. Hughes is in his ten th season ass artistartistic director for Tucson Regional Ballet. period. He has worked as artistic director of Ohio Ballet, interim director and then rehearsal director for Hong Kong Ballet, associate director/ballet master with PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES Ballet de Monterrey, ballet master foror AloAlonzo King’s Lines Contemporary Ballet, artistic director for Atlanta Ballet’s outreach program, and founder o f his own Season 2019-2020 annual recital will be Rapunzel. All students will have the educational performing group Ballet Atlantis. opportunity to perform in this wonderful production held at Tucson Convention Center’s Music Hall, Sunday, May 24, with dress rehearsals on Frid ay, May 22 & Over a twenty-two year professional career as a dancer, he danced principal Saturday, May 23. Each student purchases and keeps his/he r own costume roles with Joffrey II, Joffrey Ballet, LondoLondon Festival Ballet, Cleveland/San Jose (approx. $46 - $98). To cover the cost of the theatre re ntal, programs, etc., a fee Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Sacramento Ballet , and Atlanta Ballet. Mr. Hughes had a ($70) will be charged to each family choosing to participate. vast repertoire of roles. Listed among some of his favorites were the Moor in Jose Limon’s Moor’s Pavane, Fleming Flindt’s The Lesson, Franz in Coppelia, Students choosing to complete the Intensive Summer Workshop will have an Balanchine’s Tarantella , pas de deux from Le Corsaire, Prince Siegfried in Swan opportunity to perform. This informal demonstration, held at Tucson Lake, one of the two male leads in Lander’s Etudes, Fokine’s Spectre de la Rose, Convention Center Leo Rich Theatre Thursday, June 25, a llows the students to Prince Igor, and Les Sylphides , and danced sur la pointe as Bottom in Ashton's demonstrate the quality of technique achieved during the intensive workshop. The Dream and as Widow Simone in Spoerli's La Fille Mal Gardée . He danced Classic leotards purchased by the students (approx. $20 - $24 ) are worn for the in ballets by such choreographers as Ailey, Ashton, Bournonville, Cranko, demonstration and through the season in regular technique class. Nureyev, Robbins, Schaufuss, Tharp, Tudor, and Watts, to mention just a few. Mr. Hughes was privileged to be in Robert Joffrey’s Remembrances, enjoyed dancing in many of Gerald Arpino ’s balletballets, and danced and created many roles A SOUTHWEST NUTCRACKER CHILDREN’S CASTING CALL in Dennis Nahat’s ballets. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2019 Over the past twenty-nine years Mr. Hughes has choreographed over sixty In December, Tucson Regional Ballet will once again present A Southwest ballets. His ballets have been performed in the U.S., Asia, Mexico, and South Nutcracker with live accompaniment by the renowned Tucson Symphony Africa. He has been on the fac ulty of Hong Kong Academy for the Arts, San Orchestra. Children seven years and older with ballet training are invited to the Francisco Dance Center and New York Academy of Ballet, among others. Mr. casting call. A nominal performance fee per dancer is charged and all costumes Hughes' summer teaching credits include having taught and choreographed at are provided. For more detailed info rmation about children’s auditio ns and the Joffrey Workshop Texas in 2007 and 2008, and at the prestig ious Kaatsbaan qualifications, please email [email protected] or telephone 886 - Extreme Ballet in New York during the summers of 2014 -2016. He also taught at 1222 Orlando Ballet School during the summers of 2015 -2017. In 2017, Mr. Hughes returned to Hong Kong as a judge for the Star of Canaan International Dance TUCSON REGIONAL BALLET TEEN/ADULT COMPANY Competition and has been invited back for summer 2019.
Advanced ballet/pointe dancers interested in becoming a teen/adult member of Mr. Hughes won Emerging Choreographerapher Award at 1995 Southeastern Regional the TRB please email: [email protected] or telephone 886 -1222. Ballet Festival and a Choreographer awaraward at Tao Li Bei Competition in China in 1997. He performed in Soviet Russia with the Joffrey Bal let and Communist China with London Festival Ballet.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Victoria Snapp disdiscovered her passion for dance at a very Pamela Reyman-Hughes is in her ten th season with young age whenn perfperforming her first solo at age six. She has Tucson Regional Ballet. Born in New York City, she began trained in a variety of genres which include ballet, pointe , her dance training at the age of fifteen. She trained with tap, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, and hip hop. Her tap Istvan Rabovsky and at the American Ballet Theatre School accomplishments include a National Title Soloist at KAR with Valentina Pereyslavic, Olga Merinowa, and Patricia Dance, along with national titles in contemporary and Wilde. lyrical. Along with numerous intensive dance training experiences, Ms. Snapp was awarded a Joffrey Ballet In 1977 she began her professional career with Dennis scholarship which gave her the opportunity to extend her Wayne’s Dancers in NYC. Over the course of her twenty-two year performing ballet and contemporary training in Los Angeles. She has worked with Gregg career she a lso danced as a principal dancer with Cleveland/San Jose Ballet, Russell and Ryan Lohoff (masters of tap) through Tap in the Network and is a Atlanta Ballet, Dayton Ballet and Ohio Ballet as well as performing as a guest scholarship recipient. She wa s also a member of the Catalina High School artist with small companies in the United States. An artist recognized for her Pomline, BC Dance Team and Dance Force 1 Elite Team. Ms. Snapp’s vocal versatility, Ms. Reyman-Hughes h as danced a range of roles, including Tzarina, training led her to theatrical leading roles in Big, Fame, All Shook Up , and Sugar Plum Fairy, Dew Drop, Dying Swan, Giselle, Juliet, Lizzie Borden in Princess and the Pea . She is attending the University of Arizon a Honors College deMilles’s Fall River Legend , Emilia in Limon’s Moor’s Pavane, the Partisan in with a major in Physiology and a minor in Dance. She plans on continuing to Jooss’ The Green Table, The Woman in His Past in Tudor’s Lilac Garden , perform but also finds it rewarding to teacteach young dancers and watch them grow Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother in Holder’s Cinderella. She danced to become technically accomplished and as they develop their passion for this principal roles in an extensive Balanchine repertoire including Tarantella, fine art. Ms. Snapp is currently on staff at the Academy of Ballet as a tap Square Dance, Minkus Pas de Trois, Agon, Apollo, Serenade, and Nutcracker. instructor. Ms. Reyman-Hughes has also performed in works by Butler, Van Dantzig, Lubovitch, Byrd, Arpino, Flindt, Fokine, Massine, Nault and many others, ABOUT THE DIRECTOR including her husband Jeff Hughes. In 1990, she performed in Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival in Flindt's The Overcoat with Rudolf Nureyev. As a principal Bridget Wilde began her dance training at the age of dancer with Cleveland/San Jose Ballet, she had roles created for her by Dennis seven at Lisa Boehm’s School of Ballet, where she also Nahat in many of his ballets. She has also participated as a dancer in New Steps, studied Luigi-style jazz under Frank Boehm. Later she a choreographic workshop in Ohio and in Festival of Life, a benefit for children studied Marthaa GrahGraham technique with Terry Slaney. She and adults with AIDS in Atlanta. also worked as a tec h hand and stage manager for community theatre company Independent Players in Elgin, Ms. Reyman-Hughes was ballet mistress for Ohio Ballet, interim ballet mistress IL. After graduating from the Illinois Mathematics and for Hong Kong Ballet, and was on the staff of the Hong Kong Academy for the Science Academy, s he earned her BA and MA in East Asian Performing Arts. She has guest taught thr oughout the U.S. and has Languages and Cultures, with a focus on Japanese choreographed two chamber ballets that have been performed in Ohio and literature, from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Switzerland. Locally, Ms. Reyman-Hughes has taught at Ballet Arts in Tucson Champaign. In addition to working in numerous business administration roles and briefly worked as a part-time ballet mistress for Ballet Tucson. She has also since 1997 and running a consistently profitable hom e business since 2000, Ms. choreographed a number of ballets for Academy of Ballet and Tucson Regional Wilde also taught Japanese at Pima Community College from 2009-2017 and Ballet. For the summers of 2015-2017, she was a guest teacher for Orlando has worked as a contract transcription editor for 3Play Media. Ballet School's summer intensive. She is a certified Gyrotonic® Expansion System Level I Instructor. Ms. Reyman-Hughes is grateful to the many teachers Ms. Wilde has been with Academy of Ballet and T ucson Regional Ballet since who have inspired her throughout her career and would especially like to thank 2002, first as a parent and volunteer,r, then as the Lobby Manager and Assistant Maggie Black and Alonzo King. to the Executive Director. In July of 2019, she stepped into the role of Executive Director/Business Manager of the TRB and Academy of Ballet, working in Ms. Reyman-Hughes is married to Jeff Hughes, and they have a daughter, Maya conjunction with Artistic Directors Jeff Hughes and Pamela Reyman -Hughes to Esperanza. continue to deliver the quality ballet instruction Academy of Ballet has been renowned for since 1981.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS DATES TO REMEMBER 2019 -2020 SEASON
Alexis Salmen began her dance training at the Academy of Aug 5 Tickets go on sale for TRB’s A Southwest Nutcracker and The Tortoise Ballet at the age of seven where s he studied tap, jazz and and the Jackrabbit & La Bayadère Act III. continues to study ballet. She has been accepted to Long Aug 10 & 17 Open House 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Beach Ballet Arts Center with partial tuition scholarship and Aug 17 Tuition Due 1st Quarter ‘19-‘20 State Street Ballet summer programs. She performed with Aug 19 Fall-Winter-Spring ‘19-‘20 Classes Commence Tucson Regional Ballet for six seasons and attended five Aug 19-Sept 26 Accepting Donations for the TRB Fall Rummage Sale Regional Dance America Festivals. Ms. Salmen is currently Aug 24 Tucson Regional Ballet Nutcracker Children’s Casting Call on staff at the Academy of Ballet as a ballet instructor and Sept 2 Labor Day-School Closed works in a supervisor position at Agero Inc. Sept 11 Sweet Tomatoes TRB Fundraiser Sept 28 & 29 Rummage Sale TRB Fundraiser Oct 21-26 Class Observation Week Families Invited Geri Salmen began her dance training at the age of fifteen. Oct 21-26 Tuition Due 2 nd Quarter She studied with Zuleka's School of Belly Dance, Fritschy's Oct 26 009: License to Thrill at the Gaslight Theatre TRB Fundraiser Dance Academy, and Academy of Ballet, where she has Oct 31 Halloween-School Closed performed in annual school recitals. She has performed in Nov 28 Thanksgiving Day-School Closed Tucson Regional Ballet’s production of A Southwest Dec 9-14 Academy of Ballet Closed-Nutcracker Performances Nutcracker since its inception and is currently the TRB’s Dec 14-15 TRB A Southwest Nutcracker Performances, TCC Music Hall Wardrobe Director. It was in the fall of 2002, when Ms. Dec 16 Academy of Ballet Classes Resume (2 nd qt cont) Salmen began working as a teaching assistant with the Dec 16 Chipotle TRB Fundraiser younger children, that her natural abilities as an instructor Dec 23-Jan. 4 Academy of Ballet Closed -Holiday Break were revealed. This revelation led to an invitation to be on staff at Academy of Jan 6 Academy of Ballet Classes Resume (2 nd qt cont) Ballet as a ballet instructor. Jan 6-March Accepting Donations for the TRB Spring Rummage Sale Jan 18 Final Day to order your May Recital Costume Jan 13-18 Class Observation Week Families Invited Aaron Smith received his BS in Dance from Wayne State Jan 13-18 Tuition Due 3 rd Quarter University. He has danced for Ron De Jesús Dance and Feb 3-8 May Recital Fee Due, $70 per family performed at The Joyce Soho, Chicago Auditorium Theatre March (dates TBD) Rummage Sale TRB Fundraiser and Music Ha ll Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Smith Mar 16-21 Tuition Due 4 th Quarter has performed original works by Dwight Rhoden, Sonya Mar 16-21 Class Observation Week Families Invited Tayeh, Larry Keigwin, Janis Brenner, Nicholas Leichter, Ray Mar 23 Intensive Summer Workshop Registration Begins Mercer and Miguel Perez. He has created original works for Apr 18-19 TRB The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit & La Bayadère Act III institutions that include Joffrey Acade my of Dance in performances, TCC Leo Rich Theatre Chicago, University of Arizona, Dance Kaleidoscope, Island Apr 20 Sweet Tomatoes TRB Fund raiser Moving Company, Visceral Dance Chicago and Denver School of the Arts. His May 22 Tap & Jazz Recital Dress Rehearsal, TCC Music Hall choreography was presented at American College Dance Association and May 23 Rapunzel Ballet Recital Dress Rehearsal, TCC Music Hall International Association of Blacks in Dance conferences. Mr. Smith went on to May 24 Rapunzel Ballet & Tap - Jazz Recital, TCC Music Hall receive his MFA in Dance at the University of Arizona, where he received the May 25 Sweet Tomatoes TRB Fundraiser – Costume Party School of Dance 2017 Graduate Creative Achievement Award. He has instructed May 26-June 25 Intensive Summer Workshop the graduate research course Critical Issues in Dance, taught j azz, ballet, tap, June 23 Sweet Tomatoes TRB Fundraiser and modern dance technique, and worked as a teaching assistant. He finds the June 25 Intensive Summer Workshop Performance , TCC Leo Rich Theatre ability to support, inspire and instill professionalism in the next generation of July 1 Fall-Winter-Spring ‘20-‘21 Registration Begins dancers the most rewarding part of teaching. Mr. Smith is currently on staff a t July-Aug Summer Mini & Get In Shape Workshops the Academy of Ballet as a jazz instructor. Aug 15 Tuition Due 1st Quarter ‘20-‘21 Aug 17 Fall-Winter-Spring ‘20-‘21 Classes Commence Sept 7 Labor Day-School Closed
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
Academy of Ballet was founded in 1981 by Linda Walker , who began her dance training at the age of six in California. She studied with many small ballet schools throughout California, Robert Joffrey in New York, and San Francisco Ballet on full scholarship. She is the founder of Academy of Ballet (formerly Tu cson School of Ballet, 1981), founding Artistic Director of Tucson Regional Ballet (1983), proud mother of four, and grandmother of lots and lots. From 1988 through May 2002, Ms. Walker instructed students from St. David, Sierra Vista, Dragoon, Pomerene, Benson, and Wilcox at her Benson site. Ms. Walker’s dedication to quality ballet led the Tucson Regional Ballet to audition for, and gain membership in, Regional Dance America/Pacific (1994), and her innovative creativity has brought TRB to new heights with the original production of A Southwest Nutcracker. TRB also premiered Ms. Walker’s original ballet adaptations of Susan Lowell’s best-selling children’s books, The Three Little Javelinas and The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit. She has served on the board o f Regional Dance America/Pacific and as a panelist for Tucson Pima Arts Council. In Ms. Walker’s spare time she cares for her three rescue dogs and traps, spays/neuters, releases, and feeds dinner every night to feral cats. Ms. Walker retired from active t eaching in June of 2019, but may still be found at the school operating her boutique, Arabesque Dan cewear. To contact her directly please email [email protected]