Summer Intensive 2010 is under way!

School Director Mary Pat Robertson and Company Director Douglas Martin lead the all-star SI faculty this year which includes Mary Barton (ARB, Joffrey), Maria Youskevitch (ABT), Kyra Nichols (NYCB) and Kathleen Moore (ABT).
 
This year's choreographic workshop will be led by former Twyla Tharp dancer Kate Glasner.  Glasner is currently Assistant Chair and Senior Associate in the Dance Department at Barnard in NYC and was a long time member of the PBS faculty.

Special guest artists in the program include Muriel Hallé (Paris Opéra Ballet), Kirk Peterson (ABT), and Jeanne Solan (Lar Lubovitch, Nederlans Dans Theater).

The SI will culminate with a final performance which will include George Balanchine's "Serenade" restaged by Nichols; a suite from "Giselle" restaged by Youskevitch; original works by Barton and Robertson; and student choreography developed in Glasner's workshop. 

Summer Intensive Intermediates is going strong in Cranbury with Peggy Petteway Mahoney and Katie Scibienski at the helm, while Kate Castranova leads the Summer Intensive Juniors on the Princeton University campus.  The programs offer younger dancers daily technique classes, variations, dance history, anatomy, dance composition, and performance skills.

Adrienne Esposito
Photo by George Jones

Thanks to our two recent PBS alums, Adrienne Esposito and Meghan Salviejo, for contributing to the "Day in the Life at ARB/PBS" Blog.  Adrienne shares her Sleeping Beauty theater week experience, and Meghan brings us "inside" the Summer Intensive.  Meghan has also been our guest "tweeter". 

Also, check out: Highlights from The Sleeping Beauty: A video compilation of photography by George Jones and Mary Dunbar, edited by ARB Marketing Intern Kate McCambley

Stay tuned next month for an update on our graduating seniors and scholarship recipients...