Montana Regional Ballet Intensive

June 19 – June 30
Livingston, Montana

BALLET • POINTE • VARIATIONS
PILATES • CONDITIONING • AERIAL
REPERTOIRE • CONTEMPORARY • PAS DE DEUX

Guest Teachers: Luis Santana Gonzales, Tricia Sundbeck, Thomas Bell, Fiona Lee, Camila Rosado

For more information and to request registration material please email yellowstoneballet@gmail.com.

pas de deux

Yellowstone Ballet Academy presents a cutting-edge intensive for intermediate and advanced ballet students. Classes include Classical Ballet Technique, Pointe, Variations, Repertoire, Pas de Deux, Contemporary, Conditioning/Stretch and Pilates.

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED INTENSIVE

Daily classes run from 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday,  June 19 – Friday June 30 with a performance during the weekend of June 24.
One week $425.00 Two Weeks $795
Non refundable registration fee $25

YOUNG DANCER INTENSIVE

Daily classes run from 9:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. June 19 – 23. The program includes Ballet Technique, Stretch, Variations, Repertoire, Pantomime, Acting, International Dance and dance games. Students must be 9 - 13 years old and have had at least 2 years of previous dance training. Teachers include: Luis Santana Gonzales, Tricia Sundbeck, Thomas Bell, Fiona Lee and Camila Rosado. Limited to ten students. $295, after May 1 $320.

 Guest teachers include:

TRICIA SUNDBECK (Ballet, Pointe, Variations) – apprenticed with the Sacramento Ballet through high school and danced as a principal dancer for eight years with the company. Ms. Sundbeck joined Cincinnati Ballet in 2000 and was promoted to principal dancer in 2004. She has performed principal roles in numerous classical ballets including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Swanhilda in Coppelia, and the title roles in Giselle and Cinderella and has an extensive Balanchine repertoire. Tricia has been coached by such notable stars as Frederic Franklin of the Ballet Russe and Allegra Kent of New York City Ballet. Ms. Sundbeck has also worked internationally performing in Canada, Portugal, Amsterdam, and Germany and performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in the Benois De La Danse Competition where she received critical acclaim.

THOMAS BELL (Ballet, Repertoire, Conditioning) –  graduated from East Carolina University with a degree in Drama and Dance. He attended the Washington School of Ballet and became a principal dancer with the Maryland Ballet and the Eugene Ballet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the Sacramento Ballet and numerous companies on both coasts. He is currently ballet master at the University of Cincinnati.

Fiona Lee

FIONA LEE –  started ballet at age 5 at the Yellowstone Ballet Academy. She spent two summers at the American Ballet Theatre’s Young Dancers intensive in New York and then received a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet and studied there year round. She joined Kansas City Ballet II in 2019 and was accepted into the Royal Danish Ballet of Denmark in 2021 where she is currently dancing.

CAMILA ROSADO (Ballet, Pointe, Variations) – began ballet studies in Puerto Rico at the Balleteatro Nacional de Puerto Rico. In 2020 she joined the company of Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico under the direction of Victor Gili, former principal dancer of Ballet Nacional de Cuba,  She has also performed with Coda21 in more contemporary and  modern style works. Camila is a ballet teacher in private dance schools in Puerto Rico.

LUIS SANTANA GONZALES was born in Mantua, Pinar del Río, Cuba. He completed his first ballet studies at the age of 8 at the Vocational Schoolof Art in Pinar del Río. Then he joined the National Ballet School in Havana in 2007. Later he became part of Ballet Nacional de Cuba under the direction of the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso. In three years he reached the position of soloist. After six years with the company, he decided to take the next step and defected to the United States during a trip to Mexico. A few months later he joined the Miami Cuban Classical Ballet.