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summer
2011
Ballet Camp
So You Think You Can Dance Camp
This camp will be held from 1 to 6 pm each day. Areas covered
This camp offers a wide variety of classes. Ballet, tap, jazz, and
during camp will inclusde stretching,
stretching will be covered each day. Also covered during this
ballet, Pointe, reper-
tory, modern, jazz, and choreography.
and highly qualified instructors
of camp workshop performance
week: gymnastics, audition class, hip-hop, ballet terminology,
Professional dancers
and choreography.
will teach this camp. An end
An in-studio performance
will be held on the
last day of camp. This camp is for the well-rounded
will be presented each week.
student.
This camp is for dancers ages 12 and above. Camp attendance
This camp is designed for dancers ages 9 to 14 and is recom-
must be approved by instructors.
mended for all Terre's Dance Team members.
Sessions:
Sessions:
July 18-22 and July 25-29
August 1-5
10 am to 3 pm each day
1pm to 6pm each day
Terre Hoke Manning
holds a BS in
Dance Performance, concentration in
Ballet, from Ball State University. Further
study includes John Rodriguez, Dayton
Ballet and Broadway Dance Center, the
latter both in New York City. Terre is owner
and principle teacher of Terre's Dance
Workshop. She is founder and director
of Miami Valley Dance Company. Terre's
Dance Workshop has been in business
over thirty years.
Pam Turner Ellis
studied dance for
camp
artistic
staff
Sergey Pakharev
DeShona Pepper Robertson
is
a native of Chicago, Illinois and trained
at what is now the Barat College Conservatory of DePaul University.
ongoing professional
During her
development
with
Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre,
Karamu House in Cleveland, and Alvin
is a native of
St. Petersburg, Russia and trained at
Ailey American Dance Theatre in New York
City; DeShona saw Dayton Contemporary
the Academy of Russian Ballet and The
School of the Kirov Ballet. Upon gradua-
Dance Company perform the holiday
ballet Black Nativity. This event foreshad-
tion, he danced as a Soloist at the Mary-
owed her being hired to DCDC in 1992.
fifteen years at Terre's Dance Workshop.
insky Theater. He has had an exciting
career, receiving a diploma at the Interna-
She was a soloist for Kettering Youth
tional Ballet Competition.
Ballet for five years. Pam has a degree in
dance and education from Wright State
to the United States, Sergey danced as a
of her artistic achievement,
University. She has danced professionally
in musical theater and has been dance
soloist with the Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet.
He was with Cincinnati Ballet from 20032008, and has performed lead roles in
Robertson accepted a job to direct the
dance department at Stivers School for
captain and assistant to the choreogra-
Coppelia, Swan Lake, Balanchine's
pher in many shows.
Cares?, and Prodigal Son and the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux.
Teaching Award in 2008. DeShona Pepper Robertson holds a Masters in Educational Leadership from Antioch McGregor
Katherine
Midwest, a BFA degree in dance and a BA
in marketing from Barat College Conserva-
Joyelle Fobbs
is a graduate of the
University of Michigan with a BFA in
Dance Performance.
A former ballerina
with the Dance Theatre Harlem, she has
been teaching and dancing profession-
Since coming
Who
Pixley
attended Wright
State University's dance program where
Robertson emerged as a valuable dancer
for DCDC where her performance career
spanned twelve years. At the pinnacle
as a dancer,
the Arts, and received the Excellence in
tory.
she was a member of the dance en-
William B. McClellan Jr. hails
ally for the past decade and Is currently a
semble. During her undergraduate years
she was also a member of Dayton Ballet II
freelance dancer with regional companies
throughout the tri-state area.
As a member of DBII she had the opportu-
ied at the Sammy Dyer School of Theater,
Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater
nity to work with choreographers
and Whitney Young High School. He
Suzy Payne
was born and raised in
Dayton, Ohio. She danced for Dayton
Contemporary
Dance Company for seven
years, performing nationwide. Ms. Payne
earned the coveted JOSIE Award in 2007.
She received her BFA in Dance with a
minor in Psychology from Wright State
University.
(DBII) which is a pre-professional
program.
such as
from
the South side of Chicago, where he stud-
Dermot Burke and Septime Webre as well
as perform in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake
graduated with a B.F. A. in dance from the
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
and Romeo and Juliet. She attended
in 2000. In 2002 he joined DCDC, and Is
graduate school at Antioch University
New England where she earned a MA in
now entering his eighth season as teacher
and resident choreographer. His awards
Dance/Movement
Therapy and Counsel-
ing in order to become a counselor to
children and their families.
as an artist include the Josie Award and
the Princess Grace Award. He has created
works on Cincinnati Ballet, Pennsylvania
Ba lie\, and DCDC.