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Ellen O'Connell and Lila Dodge performing choreography by Shane Scopatz
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Second Annual Summer Dance Intensive
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The 2006 Summer Dance Intensive
presented by Ballet Santa Barbara together with
the Santa Barbara Ballet Center
July 17th-28th, 2006
For serious ballet students ages 12-20 years
- Ballet, Pointe, Variations
- Horton Technique (modern), Pilates
- Music for Dancers and Student Choreography
- Balinese Dance
- Student Performance
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Variations from Les Sylphides
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Ballet Santa Barbara, together with the Santa Barbara Ballet
Center, presented its second annual Summer Intensive
for dancers ages 12 and older. Open to dedicated students, the 2-week Summer Intensive
was grounded in a strong daily ballet component including variations and pointe,
but also featured modern dance, music for dancers, Pilates, Balinese dance, and creative
exploration. An informal performance rounded out the two-weeks. The showing
included repertory works, improvisation, and student choreography. |
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Our highly experienced and qualified faculty includes: |
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Carrie Diamond, Founder,
Ballet Santa Barbara and the New American Ballet Ensemble, New York: ballet, pointe,
choreography |
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Denise Rinaldi, Director,
Santa Barbara Ballet Center and Cecchetti examiner: ballet, variations |
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Christina Sanchez,
Dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre: Horton technique, Pilates |
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Carlos Fittante, Artistic
Director, BALAM Dance Theatre: Balinese dance, ballet
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Eric Valinsky, Music
Director of Ballet Santa Barbara: music for dancers
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About the Faculty
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CARRIE DIAMOND
Founder, Artistic Director
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Carrie Diamond returned to California in 2002 after many years as dance professional in New York City. She founded Ballet Santa Barbara in 2005, a professional ballet company and training venue for local dancers including an annual summer intensive program for young dancers. She began her career in Los Angeles, dancing with the Storie-Crawford Dance Theatre and studying ballet with Don Hewitt. In New York City, she studied with such luminaries as Margaret Craske, Benjamin Harkarvy and Jacque D’amboise and performed and toured extensively with the New York Theatre Ballet. She has particularly enjoyed dancing principal and soloist roles in the works of such choreographers as José Limón, Kurt Joos, Ohad Nahirin, and Benjamin Harkarvy. In 1990, she founded the New American Ballet Ensemble, a New York City company that promoted new music and choreography, commissioning two ballets by Harkarvy as well as choreographing many of her own. She has taught ballet for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and for the 92nd St Y and was the Co-Director for the Harkness Youth Ballet. Ms. Diamond holds an MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a certified teacher for children through DEL (Dance Education Laboratory). She has choreographed locally for several musical productions at Dos Pueblos High School, the Crane School, and Santa Barbara City College.
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DENISE RINALDI
Director, Santa Barbara Ballet Center
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Denise Rinaldi, FISTD FCUSA, holds Fellowship in the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, Cecchetti Branch and is an Examiner for Cecchetti USA. The Fellowship is the highest qualification awarded by the Imperial Society. As a teacher she enters a wide range of students from grade level through professional in the Cecchetti examinations. As an examiner she travels around the country evaluating students in the method. She also serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors for Cecchetti USA. MS. Rinaldi's early training was with Carol Garland whose Cecchetti background emphasized pure classical styling. She studied also at the University Of California, Santa Barbara where she had the opportunity to work with many fine teachers. Ms. Rinaldi was a soloist for Goleta Civic Ballet for 10 years and danced for many independent choreographers in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. She also received private coaching from Shiela Darby, FISTD, head of Cecchetti USA, who coached her as a dancer and a teacher. In 1983, her first choreographed piece was submitted and was winner of the NARB Monticello Scholarship to Craft of Choreography Conference from the Pacific Region. She has since choreographed many other works for the company. She has taught ballet, jazz and creative movement since 1979.
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CHRISTINA SANCHEZ
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Christina Sanchez has relocated to Santa Barbara this past year after sixteen years in New York City. She attended the San Francisco School of the Arts and later decided to continue her dance education in NYC, where she received training on scholarship at the Alvin Ailey School. She has had the privilege of being a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as well as Ailey II. It was there that she performed the works of such noted choreographers such as Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Ron Brown, Donald Byrd, Bill T. Jones, Lar Lubovitch, Barry Martin, Earl Mosley, Kevin Wynn, and Shapiro and Smith among others. She has also danced with Ballet Hispanico, Buglisi/Foreman Dance, and most recently with Complexions Contemporary Ballet under the direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson.
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CARLOS FITTANTE
Artistic Associate and Guest Artist
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Carlos Fittante is a dance artist of remarkable diversity who specializes in Balinese and Baroque dance. He is a graduate of the School of American Ballet and has a BA in Dance from Empire State College (SUNY). He studied with ballet master Benjamin Harkarvy who created two ballets on him while dancing with the New American Ballet Ensemble. Other ballet credits include New York Theatre Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and the Universal Ballet Company in Seoul, Korea. Since 1990, he has been the artistic director of BALAM Dance Theatre, a contemporary dance company inspired by Balinese theatre and founded by Islene Pinder. He has performed internationally and studied extensively in Bali and Indonesia. As a Baroque dance specialist he has been featured in a number of Baroque operas including soloist roles for New York City Opera’s production of Rinaldo, and the Boston Early Music Festival’s production of Thesée. He danced principal roles with the New York Baroque Dance Company during the period of 1989-2002 and also served as rehearsal director. His choreographic work in East/West fusion, contemporary, and baroque styles has been presented at a number of New York festivals and venues including DUMBO Dance Festival, COOL Festival, and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. He teaches Mask & Gesture at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and Balinese and Baroque dance at Peridance Center in New York.
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ERIC VALINSKY
Music Director
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A native Manhattanite, Eric Valinsky has, for more years than he would like to admit, maintained dual careers in computer systems design and music. He was educated at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois, finally achieving his DMA in music composition from Columbia University. He studied composition with Walter Aschaffenburg, Salvatore Martirano, Jack Beeson, and Darius Milhaud; piano with Sara Crawford Drogheo and Emil Danenberg; and conducting with Harold Farberman. While living in Los Angeles, he became music director and composer-in-residence or The Storie-Crawford Dance Theatre Ensemble. Returning to New York, he served in a similar capacity for Danny Buraczeski's Jazzdance, Uris Bahr and Dancers, and The New American Ballet Ensemble as well as composer-in-residence for The Rachel Harms Dance Company, Opera Uptown, and the Dance Department at City College of New York. He currently moonlights as founder and partner of Plainwrap Solutions, a strategic Internet consulting company.
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© 2006 Ballet Santa Barbara
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