The first week at the intensive was just sort of adjusting to new classes, teachers, and habits. You take a placement class that’s just like the audition, so anyone who’s interested in coming here can just relax and take a technique class, like it’s no big deal (but of course look your best!) The first week [...]
The Wizards and Wands Summer Dance Camp sure put a spell on me. The two groups of dancers we had for each camp were truly amazing. Many of the dancers have never danced before and were completely in awe of the whole experience. The others who had taken dance previously found a new realm of [...]
I auditioned for the Jillana School of ballet on February 14 when Jillana came to Boise and was accepted. The Jillana School is in Taos, New Mexico in the ski valley. It was so beautiful and surrounded by mountains. We lived in condos during our stay and mine was called the Powderhorn. Some condos had up [...]
Jillana! I remember the first time I saw her name on a New York City Ballet poster and wondered, Who is this exotic creature with one name? This was WAAAAY before Cher or Madonna coined their own one-name celebrity status.
As a collector of early NYCB memorabilia, I followed her name through foreign tours, premieres, New [...]
The last week of Pre-Ballet camps could not have gone better. As an instructor it is always nice to end on a positive note, and that’s exactly what the week of Angelina Ballerina was for myself and the other instructors. The students were so eager to learn that we moved on to harder and more [...]
It’s been so exciting to hear the fun stories from our girls who are attending Jillana’s Summer Intensive. It’s also been rewarding to hear from their parent’s who are sharing their thoughts about sending their daughters away to a 4-week Summer Intensive.
Julia Dunlop, Ballet Idaho Academy Student
The flight down was typical, but the 3 hour drive from [...]
A huge smile crept across my face and I am ever so slightly embarrassed to say a small tear appeared in my eye as I saw the parents join their budding ballerinas on stage for the finale of the end of camp performance. As they leapt into their parents arms or twirled around, smiles across [...]
First week of Pre Ballet Camps – what a journey! Every summer brings new excitement and new dancers to begin the love of ballet. This past week we had two camps for ages 2-3, as well as ages 3-5. Each one of these camps started out with a lot of excitement and nerves on the [...]
Ditch the Workout—Join the Party!
On Tuesday June 22nd Ballet Idaho’s Natalie Gallegos Wickstrom and guest instructor from Seattle, Washington set up studio 1 at the Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy with live drummers and 30 guests for some intense, energy-induced Zumba!Â
Natalie is high energy and an extremely talented dancer and instructor! She gets in the class [...]
This year’s Ballet Idaho Summer Intensive had a lot of interesting students from Idaho, Montana, New Jersey and British Columbia, Canada. In a previous blog you can read what Madison Cole’s mom said about their experience here in Boise at the Summer Intensive. Madison is going to be 12 years old soon and she comes [...]
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