Holt Ballet Conservatory Summer Intensive 2025

With an emphasis on classical ballet, the two week Summer Program offers enrichment courses in many genres of dance. Week I specializes in ballet choreography. Matt Carney, Executive Director of San Diego Ballet, leads the ballet Performance Ensemble program with a presentation of works on Friday July 11.

Week II, along with classical ballet studies , Yelena Holt, owner/director of Holt Ballet, offer a Musical Theater Program, (a two week course), with singing, dancing, and pantomime acting, and a presentation of works on Friday July 18.

Week I and II, Tsal’gyur Starbuck, former soloist with San Francisco ballet, with her rich performance background, offers studies in classical variations and composition.

Nora Heiber, founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet leads classes in composition, and Sommer Huntley, choreographer and dancer from Nevada County, examines studies in classical and contemporary jazz.

HBC’s Dance Camp for Youths (July 7 to July 11, 9:00-11:30), features studies in ballet for the beginning student, ages 3 to 10. This summer’s theme is Island Fantasies. The workshop will focus on classical ballet technique for the youngster, while applying imagination, characterization, and performance studies to basic technique. Transporting each dancer to a magical realm where he or she can sway like an island breeze, dance to the beat of an island drum, set sail on a magical sea, and command the oceans like an island Neptune, all in his or her voyager Hawaiian canoe . Using music familiar to your child, he or she will be inspired to leap and turn in their island reef, and dance and spin with the tides and seas. The dancers will experience how to use their ballet technique to express and communicate a story through the imaginative creation of their fantasy island. The week ends with an invitation to family and friends to enjoy the presentation of their work.