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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.