ACADEMIE DE BALLET SENIOR 2019 INTENSIVE SUMMER JULY 29 - AUGUST 16 INTENSIVE Monday through Friday 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM SERIES Levels 3/4 Through 6 SAMPLE SCHEDULE: 9:30am - 10:00am: Devotions 10:00am - 11:30am: Ballet Tech 11:30am - 12:30pm: Pointe 12:30pm - 1:00pm: LUNCH 0 & 1:00pm - 2:00pm: Character/Conditioning 2 . T 3 d E 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Contemporary/Modern 3 L R R 2 L E 3:00pm - 4:00pm: Jazz/Lyrical Jazz e A T A v B N V o E , r Registration Fee: $25 E e C G D k E E (Non-Refundable) k a I C a e N 3 Week Tuition: $525 M p O E A a 4 D D s 0 A e 9 C h A C REGISTRATION: Name: EXPLORE EXCELLENCE Age: Address: IN DANCE EDUCATION City, State, Zip: SENIOR Phone #: IN SUMMER 2019 WITH Email: JULY29 - AUGUST 16 [ ] Check #: ONE OF THE FINEST [ ] Credit Card: 904 OAK GROVE RD. Name on Card: DANCE INTENSIVES CHESAPEAKE, VA 23320 Expiration Date: ON THE EAST COAST (757) 548-2122 ACADEMIEDEBALLET.COM FELICIA BAKER MELISSA MOORE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ Melissa Moore began dance lessons in 1971 BALLET and never looked back. Teaching since 1984, Melissa became certified to teach Currently living in Memphis, Tennessee, Felecia through Dance Masters of America and was Baker is from Chesapeake, Virginia. She began a Carolina Dance Masters protégé. A career her training at Academie de Ballet and continued teacher, Melissa Moore has been afforded there through high school, performing in both the pleasure of teaching students in both Masterworks shows and on the studio private and public schools in North competition team. Carolina, Virginia, and Washington State, Felecia also trained in high school at the Governor's School for the Arts as a including the Governor’s School for the Arts ballet major. Her professional training includes American Ballet Theatre and in Norfolk, and as an adjunct professor at Richmond Ballet. Felecia has danced professionally with charlottesville Ballet Salem High School PAC in Virginia Beach. has been under contract with Memphis Ballet since 2017.She attended the She has taught for the past thirty four years. SPEND 3 WEEKS TRAINING University of Cincinnati before starting her professional career. Her favorite professional roles include The Firebird, Clara in the Nutcracker ( featured in Melissa is the director of Associate Arts, studio manager and administrator at IN EXCELLENCE Dance Magazine), and Don Quixote. Felecia also studied tap, jazz, contemporary, Academie de Ballet. Melissa also serves as a lead choreographer for and Hiphop on an advanced level at ADB. We are thrilled to have Felecia teaching Masterworks Performing Arts, a professional not-for-profit ballet company. A Academie de Ballet and Dance Center, one of the largest Contemporary Ballet during the Senior workshop! competition judge for many years, Melissa is the Competition dance team SAVANNAH Director for the ADB All- Stars. She also choreographs talent routines for dance studios on the East Coast, features world-class competitors in the Miss America scholarship program, including Miss Virginia instructors for our 2019 Summer Intensive in Chesapeake, TARDIBONO NIX 2016, Michaela Sigmon. After an accident, Melissa retired from full-time teaching in 2014. She continues to mentor teachers, choreograph competition Virginia. Your child will learn proper Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, LYRICAL Contemporary, Lyrical, Character, Variations, Modern, and pieces, and teaches upper level classes. Melissa has many students that have gone on to dance professionally- Some in commercial dance (music video Growing up in a family of dancers, Conditioning techniques through 3 weeks of classes. Our work, tap companies, and cruise line work) and some with companies such as: Savannah trained and competed summer intensive will help students become strong in Nashville Ballet, Israeli Ballet, Ballet West, Pittsburgh Ballet, Todd Rosenlieb extensively in all major dance styles. She Dance, Faye Driscoll NYC, and Carolina Ballet. Her students have also been technique, increase flexibility, experience diversity with received state and national honors, such selected for programs at The Juilliard, Joffrey Ballet, UNCSA, Joffrey as Teen Miss Dance and Miss Dance new dance forms and train under some of the best dance Contemporary, American Ballet Theater, Alvin Ailey Dance, Dance Theater of of Oklahoma, and trained under the late instructors from around the country. Focused learning Harlem, and the Harid Conservatory, among others. She also trained and Robert L. Reed II as a member of the choreographed for a contemporary finalist at Youth America Grand Prix, and through summer helps to maintain dancers' abilities and “St. Louis Hoofers Club”. increase their overall performance skills. All interested was a 2 time choreographer for the Seattle Tap Festival. Melissa is proud of She has appeared in numerous performances and televised events, and her many students who have also chosen to be dance educators. students must currently be in dance training and able to traveled to the 2008 Beijing Olympics to perform the day the torch entered dance for 5.5 hours daily, five days per week. Each student Beijing. Savannah studied dance at the University of Central Oklahoma, and will be evaluated for level placement on the first day of completed her Bachelor's degree at Southwestern Christian University. She is ANDREI YEMELIANOV certified to teach through Dance Masters of America, where she is the Vice workshop. President of the Central Tri-State Chapter. Most recently, Savannah was cast as & NATALLIA YEMELIANOVA a tap performer in the North American Debut of Derek Deane’s “Strictly Gershwin”. With a passion to pass on the love of dance to the next generation, CHARACTER, CONDITIONING, VARIATIONS REIGNER BETHUNE Savannah has taught internationally at workshops in universities, churches, and orphanages, and Darrin Henson’s “House of Hip Hop”. Her choreography BALLET/POINTE and students have placed in national competitions, won numerous state and national honors, including DMA and ADA state titles and National Miss Encore. Reigner Bethune is from Chesapeake, Alongside her mother, she is Co-Director of Dove Dance School and Company Virginia. He bagan to immerse himself in in Oklahoma City where she has taught for over a decade. dance at the age of 10 at Academie de Ballet, studying Classical Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Joppa desires to give God glory with the JOPPA WHITEHEAD Contemporary, and Hip Hop. Hard work and talent He has given to her. Joppa trained diligence has paid off and he has been HORTON METHOD in ballet with Andrei Yemelianov and has afforded a successful career in professional taken summer Intensives at Dance dance. He has traveled the country and MODERN Theatre of Harlem and Orlando Ballet. Academie de Ballet has been blessed with this couple for over twenty years. world performing. He has performed professionally with Ballet MAgnificat, Virginia Ballet She has been a part of Todd Rosenlieb Andrei Yemelianov serves as Ballet MAster, playing an integral role in the Theatre, Pensacola Ballet, Greenville Civic Ballet, And Carolina Ballet, where Dance Company since 2009. Joppa has training of many dancers going on to professional careers. Andrei is from the he has danced for the past four seasons. Reigner did his graduate studies at performed in numerous repertoire Ukraine and received his training from the Kiev Choreographic Institute. He Pittsburgh Ballet. He ejoyed a 2 year contract with Todd Rosenlieb Modern concerts by both Todd Rosenlieb and has performed professionally with the Donetsk BAllet, Jewish Independent Dance company before returning to performing and teaching Classical Ricardo Melendez, as well as with Theatre, and Richmond Ballet. He has guest performed across the US with Ballet. He served as Ballet Master at Greenville Civic Ballet, and after leaving Virginia Ballet Theatre (The Nutcracker), many companies. Andrei is Co- Director of the ADB Ballet Training Company the Carolina Ballet Company he worked as the Ballet Master for the new Virginia Musical Theatre (Oklahoma), and lead choreographer/Direcor of Masterworks. Natallia, as a Ballet Mistriss Artistic Director and served as the Nutcracker Children's Coordinator for Lyrical Opera Virginia (The King and I) at ADB, has also trained and nurtured many dancers in the areas of pointe and Carolina Ballet. Reigner currently lives in Raleigh, NC with his beautiful wife and Virgina Symphony Opera. Ms. variations. She hails from Belarus, where she trained at the Belarussian State Alex (also a ADB graduate) and their two beautiful children. He teaches at Whitehead will be instructing students in Choreographic College. She had danced professionally with The State Musical several studios in the Triangle area and teaches at the Carolina Ballet proper Horton method modern Comedy Theatre of Belarus, The National Academic Opera and BAllet Theatre Summer Intensives. technique. of Belarus, Renaissance Ballet, and Masterworks. Andrei and Natallia live in Chesapeake with their three wonderful children..