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Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Master Ballet Academy offers the highest quality instruction in ballet, while also offering contemporary, jazz and lyrical dance classes. We are commited to bringing out the very best in each and every one of our students.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

The Best of Master Ballet

We had auditions last Sunday for the second part of the spring show. All of our students who auditioned looked great, they will all get to perform!
The show is not long enough to have every dancer perform all of their solos, so it will be a very hard decision to just pick one or two from each of them. We may have to ask some of the soloists to perform different numbers for the different shows.
We have some wonderful talented dancers at Master Ballet! We are very proud of them all!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

ANNUAL SPRING SHOW

Everyone at the studio is working hard to put together our annual spring show, presented this year at the Center for Performing Arts of the Paradise Valley Community Center. The show will consist of two acts:

Act I - THE MAGIC OF BIZET - CARMEN
choreographed by Slawomir Wozniak

After and intermission audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy

Act II - The Best of Master Ballet
"Fix You" and "Complicated" Contemporary and Jazz group numbers choreographed by Kevin Jenkins and
solos of our most talented dancers

Show times:
Friday, May 27th at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 28th at 2:00pm

Tickets: $15.00 Adults, 10:00: Children 12 and under -
available at Master Ballet Academy and will also be available at the venue starting next week.

OUR DANCERS DO GREAT IN SHOWS AND COMPETITIONS

Weekend of April 29-30

In the Hall of Fame Dance Competition our studio was represented by Arianna Malone, Gabriella Keski and Tessa DesRoche
And the results...

Arianna Malone won
High Gold and won an All Star Award in the Junior Category for a performance that she felt proud of.

Gabriella Keski won
Judges Technique Award
2nd Place Teen Overall and Platinum, 1st in Category with "Paquita Wedding Variation"
Platinum and 1st in Category with "Fireflies"
Platinum and 2nd in Category with "Dance Dance Dance"
1st Place Overall Teen Duos/Trios, Judges Technique Award and Platimun, 1st in Category for "Swans"

Tessa DesRoche won
Judges Best Costume Award for the Kitri costume
6th Place Teens Overall, Platinum, 1st Place in Category for "Kitri"
High Gold, 1st Place in Category for "Nothing Else"
High Gold, 1st Place in Category for "Paquita"

Congratulations to all, we are very proud of you!


A few of our students danced at the Paradise Valley Community College's Spring Show. Allie Burman presented her Paquita variation, Leanne Fromm danced La Esmeralda, and Katelin Ahern danced the Black Swan variation on Friday, April 29th, along with Elizabeth Mann, who danced as a PVCC student, but she is also our own teacher/student/front desk helper. For the Saturday show Esther Huszar joined Allie, Kate and Elizabeth, performing her Play, after being called in last minute. Thank you, Esther! All of the dancers did a great job, making our studio look good.


The 12th Annual Celebration of Dance was a great show this year, with professional and student dancers from around the Valley presenting their routines in front of a full house. Our studio was represented at the April 30th show by Leanne Fromm with La Esmeralda variation. Their second show, on June 4th will present Gabriella Keski and Allie Burman.

Great Job Everyone! To top it all, none of the girls even missed rehearsals while competing and performing everywhere. You girls are all wonderful!