SBC's Summer Intensive Workshop 2011

Monday thru Friday, August 1-5 and 8-12, 2011
9:00 a.m. to noon daily
$150 per week, or $15 per class

Hoogland Center for the Arts - Theatre II
Deadline for application - July 24, 2011 (or when class reaches capacity)
(Recommended age for dancers is 10 and up)

Click HERE for an application (PDF document).

The Springfield Ballet Company’s 2011 Summer Intensive Workshop is a great way for dancers to supplement their training and improve their skills, while working with outstanding master teachers in a positive, nurturing environment. Classes are held daily from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Theatre II at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Only 20 dancers will be accepted to each week long session; and admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Dancers must be at least 10 years of age and dancing at an intermediate level. Please contact SBC Artistic Director Julie Ratz with any questions. Deadline to apply is Sunday, July 24, 2011.

Week 1: August 1-5, 2011

Modern with JULIE TICE - former dancer with Paul Taylor Dance Company

Julie Tice was born and raised in Petersburg, Illinois, where she began her dance training and grew up dancing with the Springfield Ballet Company. She continued her training at the University of Michigan, where she earned a B.F.A. in dance with honors and performed works by Bill DeYoung, Peter Sparling, Martha Graham and Paul Taylor. She received a 2007 Emerging Artist Award from the University's School of Music, Theater and Dance. In New York, Ms. Tice has performed with various choreographers as well as choreographed and performed her own work. She became a scholarship student at The Taylor School in January 1999 and joined Taylor 2 in the Summer of that year. Fall 2000 marked Ms. Tice's debut with the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Jazz with FRANCESCA GENOVESE - dancer with Carolina Ballet Theatre

Francesca Ann Genovese has been dancing for 17 years. She began her dance training at age 4 at the Deborah MacKay School of Dance under the tutelage of Deborah Tiffany in Rochester, New York. Genovese is set to begin her fifth season with the Company. Before joining CBT in 2004, Genovese trained with many nationally and internationally recognized teachers and choreographers including Chet Walk, the choreographer of Fosse on Broadway and Denise Jefferson at The Ailey School, the school of the Alvin Alley Dance Company. In 2003, she trained with The American Academy of Ballet in Amherst, New York. In 2003 and 2004, Genovese received full scholarships to dance with the Garth Fagan School in Rochester, New York. Her repertoire with the Company includes Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker; Nikiya in Le Bayadere; the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella; Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty; Tarde Flamenca and Helen Keller in Celebration of Women; and other leading roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Le Corsaire, Ramonda, Paquita, Pulling the Strings, Dreams, It Takes Tu-Tu Tango, and Unhinged. Genovese has also become an accomplished choreographer. Genovese choreographed the piece Bicycle Race in CBT’s 2007 production during Artisphere. She also choreographed Take off With Us and Just About in CBT’s Tipping Pointe and Artipshere productions. In 2007 and 2008, she was invited to set her choreography on the Springfield Ballet Company. Genovese was also recently given the honor of being invited to serve as a guest artist in the Configuration Dance Spring Gala in Buffalo, New York.

Week 2: August 8-12, 2011

Ballet with HERNAN JUSTO - Artistic Director, Carolina Ballet Theatre

Hernan Justo began dancing in 1974 at the instituto Superior de Arte Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He joined the Ballet Estable del Teatro Colon in 1982 and then was invited to perfrom with the Ballet del Teatro Argentino de la Plata two years later. His career then took him to the Ballet de Santiago of Chile in 1988 where he work with teachers and choreographers nsuch as Gyula Pandi, Andree Prokovski, Ronald Hynd, Ivan Nagy, Lazlo Seregui, Jack Carter, simon Motramm, among many others. and after three years to the Ballet Clasico de Camara in Caracas and Ballet Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela where he worked with Kaleria Fedicheva, Nina Novak, Guiseppe Carbone to name a few. In 1992, Justo won the "Best Couple" award at the XV International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, the most prestigious competition in professional ballet. He has also won "Best Classical Interpretation" at the Prix Volinine in Paris, France. Justo became a Principal Dancer with the North Carolina Dance Theatre(NCDT) in 1994 under the artistic direction of world renowned Jean Pierre Bonnefoux, Patricia McBride, and Jerri Kumery. At NCDT he perform a wide range of ballets by several choreographers. By Balanchine The four Temperaments, Who Cares, Concerto Barrocco, Serenade, Allegro Brillante, by Alvyn Ailey Feast of Ashes, by Agnes de Mille Rodeo by Sal Aiello Turn of the Screw, The Nutcracker, Clown and Others, Journey, and by Alonzo King Map, Chants and Dreamer. In 2000 he was invited to become Artistic Director of the Carolina Ballet Theatre, by it's founder, Barbara Selvy. Justo is also a permanent guest teacher in several schools and ballet companies around the country.

Jazz with FRANCESCA GENOVESE - dancer with Carolina Ballet Theatre

See biography from Week 1.

Please return payment and registration to:
Springfield Ballet Company, Attn: Summer Intensive, 420 S. Sixth St., Springfield, IL 62701