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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, February 16, 2012

GETTING READY FOR OUR SUMMER INTENSIVE

Summer Intensive at MBA
June 4th - June 29th



This year, as in the past, we are offering a summer intensive course for five levels during the month of June.  Our dates are June 4th - June 29th.
During this time we will have the following classes:  

for Beginner I: ages 3 & up we offer two classes/week,
Tuesdays & Thursdays at 9am-10am

 for Beginner II: ages 5 & up we offer three classes/week:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays  from 9am - 10:30am

For all other levels: Pre-Intermediate (ages 8 - 11), Intermediate (ages 11 & up) and Advanced (ages 13 & up) we will offer classes daily from 10am - 4pm. 

Classes will include:
 Ballet technique
         Variation
         Partnering
         Repertoire from famous ballet pieces
         Balanchine repertoire class
        Jumps & Turns class
        Character dance
        Jazz
        Hip-Hop
        Contemporary
        Neo-Classical choreography class
       Stage  make-up class
       Stretch & Strength;  work-feet strength
       History of ballet
       Art Class

Our faculty will consist of Slawomir and Irena Wozniak, Olga Tarasova, Nadiya Kovtun, Kevin Jenkins, Martin Naugle, as well as Slawomir Jr and Michal Wozniak, and more.

Price is $1100 for full session or $275/week for full program,
Beginner I - $35/week, Beginner II - $85/week. 

Sibling Discount of 10% will be available for all levels.  

Early Bird Special: If signed up and paid in full before May 10th, receive $100 off full session.  (this discount not available for Beginner I and Beginner II)



 
Master Ballet Academy Receives
OUTSTANDING STUDIO AWARD
at the Youth America Grand Prix San Diego, CA Semifinals


Our studio received the Outstanding Studio Award at the YAGP semifinals in San Diego, CA, thanks to the hard work and dedication of our teachers as well as our students who attended the competition.
It is the third year that we have participated in this prestigious ballet competition.  We have first learned about it two years ago, when we brought five students to the San Diego semifinals, after training them for a short month.  Even with such a short time of training, one out of our five girls won first place, and another one also made it to the top twelve.  Last year, we also had five participating students, and instead of San Diego, we took them to the Los Angeles semifinals, with similar results, third place and another top twelve out of five.
This year we had a team of nine outstanding ballet students who have proved that they really are some of the best dancers in the region.
 Gisele Bethea, who has been our full time student only since August, has proved that her natural talent paired with hard work and dedication can pay off very quickly.  Gisele won first place in both classical and contemporary categories for the junior division. Congratulations, Gisele!
Leanne Fromm has also made it to the finals for the third year in a row, placing third in the classical junior division.  She also made it to top twelve with her contemporary solo choreographed by our own Martin Naugle.
Alexa DiMuro, our full time student only for the past month has also proven that hard work can pay off quickly. She made it to the top twelve in the precompetitive classical division.
 Esther Huszar, competing her second year with us, has grown as a dancer, receiving higher scores this time than last year.  We are very proud of you, Esther and happy to see you continue to grow as a dancer!
Mia Rosin, Julianna Kassenbrock, Skyler White, Shea McAdoo and Brooke Read also received high scores, though they did not make it to the finals.  Neverthless, their beautiful performances and high scores helped our school get the Outstanding School Award.
We are very proud of all our girls, and wish to thank them all for their hard work and dedication.  A school is as good as its students, not only teachers.  We are very fortunate to have a team of dedicated, passionate dancers, whose work ethic and talent matches that of their teachers.  Thank you to all our wonderful dancers!