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1616 Broadway, Kansas City, MO
Dates
June 9 – July 4, 2008
2008 National Audition Tour
Click here for a full audition tour listing.
Video Audition
If unable to attend an audition, one may be arranged by video (deadline February 29, 2008) or by appointment at the Kansas City Ballet School, (816) 931-2299 or email school @kcballet.org. Fee $20. Click here for video audition requirements.
Curriculum
The four-week program offers students four levels for ages 11 – 21 years. A highly concentrated curriculum in the Kansas City Ballet studios that includes Ballet Technique, Pointe, Repertoire, Men’s Technique, Conditioning, Modern, Jazz, Music and Partnering (taught for the highest level). Students will showcase their progress in a studio demonstrations on Friday, July 4, 2008. Kansas City Ballet School reserves the right to place students in the appropriate level and to revise the curriculum as necessary.
Tuition
$1150/4 week session. A $250 registration fee is required to reserve a place in the Intensive. This fee applies toward the total tuition cost.
Housing
$1350 Room and Board
Supervised room and board accommodations for students ages 13 years and older are available on the lovely campus of the Kansas City Art Institute near the Country Club Plaza. Chaperones provide supervision and transportation to and from classes as well as to scheduled outings. A $250 residence hall deposit is required to reserve housing accommodations. This fee applies toward the total housing cost.
$300 Activities Fee - Required for boarding students
The students attend activities on evenings and weekends that in the past included a Kansas City Royals game, a Wizards soccer match, Worlds of Fun, Starlight Theater productions as well Shakespeare in the Park, the Kemper and Nelson Atkins Museums and of course, shopping at Oak Park Mall.
Scholarships
The school offers a limited amount of scholarships for the Summer Intensive. Awards are based on merit as well as need. Merit scholarships are awarded at the time of acceptance. For need based scholarship, contact the School Administrator for process.
Deadlines
- Jan/Feb Audition Tour (auditions results will be mailed within 2 weeks of the audition)
- February 29 - Video Auditions due
- April 4 - Application & Deposit for Tuition ($ 250) and Housing ($250) due
- May 2 - Balance of Tuition, Activity and Housing fees due.
Payment by installment may be made upon approval of the School Administration. Additional policy information will be enclosed in the registration packet.
- June 8 Arrival & Check-in
- July 4 Final Day of classes & Demonstration
- July 5 Departure Day
Schedule
Students attend class Monday – Friday 9:00am – 4:30pm. The program of study includes daily technique class for each of the four levels followed by classes in Pointe, Repertoire, Men’s Technique, Conditioning, Modern, Jazz, Music and Partnering (taught for the highest level). Students take 3-4 classes a day.
Faculty
Tenley Taylor, School Director
William Whitener, Artistic Director
James Jordan, Ballet Master
James Jordan is the Ballet Master for Kansas City Ballet and is celebrating his tenth season with the Company. Mr. Jordan’s responsibilities include teaching company class, scheduling and directing rehearsals and re-staging works in the Company’s repertory. Mr. Jordan was born in Staunton, Va. and began dancing as a high school senior. Shortly thereafter, he was offered scholarships to the Richmond Ballet and later to the North Carolina School of the Arts where Todd Bolender recruited him for the Company’s first season. Mr. Jordan would perform numerous principal roles over the next seven years, and he danced with the Santa Fe Opera and Santa Fe Dance Company during this period. Mr. Jordan continued his career as a guest artist in and around the New York area before accepting a press relations position with PBS television. In 1991, Mr. Bolender invited him to return as Ballet Master. Mr. Jordan has taught at Kansas City Ballet School, Dance Institute at Webster University in St. Louis, and the UMKC Conservatory of Music during summer hiatuses. In 2000, he received his B.F.A. in dance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and is now president of their alumni board. In addition to his artistic responsibilities for Kansas City Ballet, Mr. Jordan has staged ballets in San Francisco, Seattle and Tulsa for Mr. Bolender and on behalf of the Antony Tudor Trust.
Lisa Thorn, Associate Ballet
Mistress
Ms. Thorn was appointed Associate Ballet Mistress in fall of
2004. She received the majority of her training as a scholarship student
at North Carolina School of the Arts. While dancing at the School of
American Ballet in the summer of 1988, Mr. Bolender asked Ms. Thorn
to join the Kansas City Ballet. During her career as a dancer with the
Kansas City Ballet from 1988 to 2005, she danced in a variety of principal
roles, created by choreographers such as Ailey, Balanchine, Bolender,
Tharp, Cunningham, and DeMille. She has also performed professionally
with the Albany Berkshire Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet
Theatre, Starlight Theatre, The Lyric Opera and Wylliams/Henry Danse
Theatre.
Petrus Bosman , Guest Teacher
Born and trained in Capetown, South Africa, Mr. Bosman was the first soloist to join the England’s Royal Ballet without having passed through its school. During his 18 years with the Royal Ballet he frequently partnered ballerina Merle Park in Ashton’s Birthday Offering, Nureyev’s Nutcracker and MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet. Noted for his classical roles in Giselle and Les Sylphides, Bosman also created witty character roles such as Widow Simone in La Fille Mal Gardee and the ugly stepsister in Cinderella. After retiring from the stage, Mr. Bosman began an impressive international teaching career and began associations with Maryland Ballet, Pittsburg Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Austin, Milwaukee Ballet, Richmond Ballet, and Ballet Met as a stager of Coppelia, Swan Lake, Les Patineurs and choreographer of his own work, a Garland for Judy. He recently he retired as Artistic Director of Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchburg, VA.
Paula Weber, Guest Teacher
Paula Weber received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance from Butler University and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Smith College. She has studied ballet with such masters as Maria Tallchief, Jean Paul Comelin, Dermot Burke, Basil Thompson, Larry Long, Marjorie Mussman and Maggie Black. During her professional career, Ms. Weber performed solo and principal roles of more than 45 major works which include such classics as Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, and Coppelia, and contemporary works as George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, Agnes DeMille's Fall River Legend, John Butler's Carmina Burana and Alvin Ailey's The River. She has worked with such renown choreographers as Bill T. Jones, Laura Dean, Charles Molton and Kevin Jeff. She has been a member of the Milwaukee Ballet (principal), Lyric Opera Ballet of Chicago (soloist), Chicago Ballet and the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, and guest artist with the Hartford Ballet. She is currently a member of the Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre and is a principal dancer/ballet mistress with the Albany Berkshire Ballet. In 1996, Ms. Weber was invited to be a guest instructor of ballet for the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Shenyang, China, making her the second American ballet master to visit that conservatory. Ms. Weber was the recipient of the 1997 the 2001 Muriel McBrien Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award presented to her by the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Of most recent acclaim, Ms. Weber choreographed Toccata e due Canzone for the Kansas City Ballet. She also choreographed the highly successful Carmina Burana for the Kansas City Ballet and the Albany Berkshire Ballet, Albany, NY.
Tamara Sanders, Principal Teacher
Ms. Sanders began studying with the Kansas City Ballet School in 1981 upon the arrival of Todd Bolender, then Artistic Director. The majority of her training was through the instruction of Mr. Bolender, Diana Adams and Una Kai. Additionally, she had the privilege of studying with Violette Verdy, Jaques D’Amboise, Thalia Mara, Jonathon Watts, and Judith Jamison. Ms. Sanders danced with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on scholarship, Gus Giordano’s Jazz Group, Theater Under the Stars and The Lyric Opera of Kansas City. She began teaching at the Kansas City Ballet School in 1989 and upon graduation from college was asked to return to teach full-time in 1993. Ms. Sanders graduated from Loyola of Chicago with Bachelor Degrees in French and Business Administration with a Sequential Degree in anatomy and Physiology (Pre-Med.) Her philosophy of teaching stems from the Balanchine method.
Sean Duus, Faculty
Mr. Duus, a native of Mesquire, Texas, has been teaching in the Kansas City Ballet School since 1987. He was a principal dancer with KCB for 15 years, where he danced the leading roles in The Nutcracker, Apollo, Firebird, An American in Paris, Filling Station, Classical Symphony and Coppelia. Mr. Duud received his early training from George Skibine, Marorie Tallchief, and Kevin Brown and studied on scholarship at School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. In addition to teaching at the KCBS, Mr. Duus also teaches in the R.O.A.D outreach program which brings dance training to elementary schools in the Kansas City area.
Susan Lewis, Faculty
Ms. Lewis originally from Sudbary, Massachusetts where she began her early training under Jaqueline Cronsberg of the New England School of Ballet. After spending several summers studying at the School of American Ballet she moved to New York City to study full time at SAB. Ms. Lewis joined KCB in 1985 at the invitation of Todd Bolender. As a principal dancer for 12 years she performed in Balanchine’s Serenade, Rubies, Western Symphony, and La Sonnambula as well as Jerome Robbin’s Afternoon of a Faun and Alvin Ailey’s The River. Ms. Lewis began teaching for the KCBS in 1991.
Policies
Kansas City Ballet School reserves the right to place students in the appropriate level and to revise the curriculum if necessary.
A $250 registration fee is required to reserve a place in class. A residence hall deposit of $250 is required to reserve housing accommodations. These fees apply toward the total housing and registration costs.
Payment by installment may be made upon approval of School Administration. Additional policy information will be enclosed in summer intensive registration packets.
If unable to attend an audition, one may be arranged by video or appointment at Kansas City Ballet School, 816-931-2299 or email school@kcballet.org. Fee $20.
Deposits are due by April 4, 2008. Balance of tuition, activity and housing fees are due by May 2, 2008. Tuition and housing fees are nonrefundable.
For more information about Kansas City housing or policies contact Kansas City Ballet School at 816-931-2299, school@kcballet.org,
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