— Halana Dash, student, age 12
Summer Intensive
Metropolitan Ballet Academy hosts an inspiring and challenging 5–week summer dance program.
July 11 – August 12, 2011
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Classes include ballet, pointe, men’s technique, variations, partnering and repertoire as well as character, modern & jazz.
Many of our area’s most well-known dance professionals visit as guest faculty.
Please refer to the current school calendar for dates. To find out more or to register for the summer dance camp, please call (215) 663-1665
Guest faculty and staff of recent programs have included:
- Ballet
- Dede Barfield: Principal PA Ballet
- Martha Chamberlain: Principal PA Ballet
- Philip Colucci: Soloist PA Ballet, Juilliard
- Christine Cox: MBA faculty, co-director BalletX
- William DeGregory: MBA faculty, Art. Dir. PA Ballet II
- Alexander Iziliaev: Principal PA Ballet
- Riolama Lorenzo: Principal PA Ballet
- Cherie Noble: Choreographer, Ballet Master, Teacher
- Arantxa Ochoa: Principal PA Ballet
- Andrew Pap: MBA faculty, Univ. of The Arts, Ballet Director
- Natalya Zeiger: MBA faculty, former Bolshoi Soloist
- Modern
- Madeline Cantor: Assoc. Dir. of Dance, Bryn Mawr College
- Carlos dos Santos, Jr.: Alvin Ailey, Complexions
- Joy Friedlander
- Jessica Lang: Modern faculty for ABT Studio Co., Juiliard, Twyla Tharp’s THARP!
- Tara Madsen: Tania Isaac Dance
- Amanda Miller: Miro Dance Theater
- Kanji Segawa: Battleworks Dance Co., Mark Morris Dance Group
- Katarzyna Skarpetowska: Lar Lubavitch, Parsons Dance, NYC
- Janet Pilla: Jeanne Ruddy Dance
- Character
- Andrea Kulyk: Assoc. Art. Dir., School of Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
- Taras Lewyckyj: Art. Dir., Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
- Andrew Pap: MBA faculty, Univ. of The Arts, Ballet Director
- Jazz
- Karen Cleighton: Univ. of the Arts
- Tim Craskey: MBA faculty
- Melissa Kershner: Koresh
- Tracy Ann Librizzi: Koresh Dance Co.
- Molly Misgalla: Univ. of the Arts
- Eve Persicketti
- Wayne St. David: Univ. of the Arts, Jazz Director