Summer Intensive

Eastern Connecticut Ballet offers comprehensive summer programs for students of all ages and levels.  They may select courses of varied intensity and focus on a range of styles to enhance their training. Summer is a wonderful time for progress and enrichment. Dancers may devote their full attention to their studies, working to their maximum potential.

Programs offered for Summer 2011 include:
• Evening classes for children and adults
• Children's dance and performing arts camps for ages 4 to 7
• Pre-professional summer intensives for experienced dancers
from ages 8 to adult, enriched by study with world-class
guest teachers.

Impressive lineup of 2011 Summer Intensive faculty announced!
 
Gloria Govrin- Soloist New York City Ballet, ECB Artistic Director
Krystin Baribault- BFA The Hartt School, ECB Assoc. Director

Vanessa Murgio-Dresden Ballet, Stadttheater Bremerhaven Ballet
Marylu Clark- Hartford Ballet Teacher Certification, ECSU
Martha Chamberlain- Principal, Pennsylvania Ballet
Jacqueline Cronsberg- Master Teacher, Boston Ballet
Maggie Pelton- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Lisa Viola - The Paul Taylor Company

Click here for Summer 2011 RegistrationFormal

Children’s Dance and Performing Arts Camp
July 11-15 and/or July 18-22  
Instructors: Marylu Clark & Krystin Baribault
Week 1- Fairy Dust Adventure!
Week 2- In The Jungle!
$225.00/week (props and materials included)
Ages 4-7   Monday-Friday   9:00 am-12:00 pm

Children and parents love this inspiring multi-arts program that has become a popular shoreline tradition. Each week young dancers will explore a magical theme through ballet, creative dance, crafts and games. Parents will enjoy a charming performance at the end of the week.

Sessions fill up quickly. A non-refundable deposit of $40 will reserve your place. To avoid disappointment please register early for an enchanting week (or two) full of magic! If your child is new to ECB this year, there is a $25 registration fee.
 
Summer Dance – Evening Technique Classes
July 11,12,13,14- 5:30-7 pm
July 18,19,20,21- 5:30-7 pm
ECB Levels 5,6 & 7- (Int/Adv)  
$ 90.00 per week- Single classes may be purchased.

Evening classes in ballet and pointe for pre-teens
through adults. Join us for the entire session or select individual classes to suit your needs. Classes are taught by ECB faculty.

Adult Ballet & Jazz Classes

JAZZ- Tuesdays: July 12,19,26 & Aug 2

BALLET- Thursdays:  July 14,21,28 & Aug 4

6:30-8pm                      

Teen/Adult                                                   

$18 per class

Children's Intensive
Ballet, Jazz and Repertory
July 11-15 and/or July 18-22
(ECB Levels 1,2,3 &4 + Ch. Level E with teacher approval)  
Ages 8-11
$262/week 
Monday-Friday  1:30pm -5pm

The Children’s Intensive is designed to introduce younger dancers to the joy of summer study with a developmentally appropriate lighter schedule of classes. The program is fashioned for students ages 8 to 12 (equivalent to ECB levels 1-4). Daily classes will include ballet and jazz- a mix of styles sure to excite and inspire.  New students should call for class placement.

Traditional Intensive: Intermediate to Advanced students
Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3
Ballet, Pointe Jazz, Modern and Repertory
ECB Levels 5,6 & 7 (ages 11-adult)

($350/week)
Week 1: July 25-29
Week 2: Aug 1-5

Week 3: Aug 8-12
Monday-Friday   9:00 am-3:30 pm

The goal of Summer Intensive 2011 is to provide a mentoring experience for intermediate and advanced dancers, ages 11 to Adult (equivalent to ECB Levels 5-7). Students will work very closely with master teachers in extended classes designed to strengthen personal technique and artistry. These prominent teachers are well respected in the international dance world and come to ECB with extensive professional performing and teaching experience. Past guests include Maia Wilkins, Michael Levine, Zelma Bustillo,Adrianna Suarez, Gianni D'Marco, Anna Reznik, Alexei Kremnev, Leslie Peck, David Krensing,
Christina Fagundes, Pollyanna Ribiero, Libby Nye, Marie-Christine, Mouis, Franco De Vita, Raymond Lukens, Alexander Iziliaev, Arantxa Ochoa, Andrew Parker, Laura Young, Tamara King and Konstantine Uralsky. Dedicated and nurturing, the teachers are sensitive to the needs of developing young artists.

Students not currently studying at ECB must call the school to arrange for a placement class.

Summer Guest Faculty
 
Martha Chamberlain

Martha Chamberlain began her dance training at age five at the Fellowship House in Media, Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised. She went on to study with Donna Muzio, Paul Klocke and Cherie Noble at West Chesters Dance Center and The School of American Ballets Summer Program from 1985 to 1988. She is a graduate of Friends Select and The School of Pennsylvania Ballet.

Ms. Chamberlain joined Pennsylvania Ballet as an Apprentice in the fall of 1989 and was promoted to the Corps de Ballet three months later. She was promoted to Soloist in 1997 and to Principal after her premiere as Juliet in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet in March 2000. Ms. Chamberlain has danced several leading roles including Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Swanhilda in Copplia, Myrtha in Giselle, Dewdrop and Sugarplum Fairy in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, and Helena and Divertissement pas de deux in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has also had featured roles in George Balanchine’s Ballo della Regina, The Four Temperaments, Agon, Western Symphony, Serenade, Apollo, and Rubiesfrom Jewels; Paul Taylors Company B and Arden Court; and Christopher d’Amboise’s Franklin Court. She has created roles for such choreographers as Trey McIntryre, Kevin O’Day, Jessica Lang, Jeffrey Gribler and Matthew Neenan. She has had the opportunity to dance internationally in Portugal, England, and Germany.

Ms. Chamberlain has designed costumes for Matthew Neenan’s The Crossed Line, 11:11, As It’s Going, Keep, and At the border as well as for choreographers such as Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Jorma Elo, Helen Pickett Zane Booker, and Meredith Rainey. Her jewelry has been sold in stores in Philadelphia and New York.

 
Jacqueline Cronsberg
Jacqueline Cronsberg has a long, prominent and enviable career as a ballet educator, artistic director and career guidance counselor.  She founded the well known Ballet Workshop New England with studios in Waltham and Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Massachusetts Youth Ballet, the semi-professional youth dance company known for its acclaimed performances of Balanchine  choreography.  Following her semi-retirement from those demanding years, she was invited by Mikko Nissenen, Artistic Director of Boston Ballet, to join the Boston Ballet faculty as a Faculty Member and Artistic Advisor to the Boston Ballet School Ensemble.   In addition to her contributions to her faculty and advisory work in the school, she also coached and accompanied 2 advanced students to the first International Ballet Competition in Beijing, China and was honored to be asked to teach classes at the Beijing Dance Academy while she was there.

After several years with Boston Ballet, she and her husband moved to their new home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She continues with her professional credits by guest teaching and career mentoring of talented young dancers; currently she will be spending five weeks this summer as a guest teacher in Boston Ballet’s Summer Dance Program as well as teaching in the Eastern Connecticut Ballet pre-professional Summer Intensive for experienced dancers.

Ms. Cronsberg  has an impressive record over many years in her own school, as a ballet teacher, educator, artistic director and guidance  counselor that is a testimony to the quality of her work, her expertise and her dedication.  She has trained dancers that have gone on to careers with New York City Ballet, Boston, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, Kansas City, and Miami City Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Danish Ballet, Houston, Tulsa, and Fort Worth Ballet and New York Ballet Theater.  Four of her students competed in the prestigious Prix de Lausanne and two were Princess Grace Award winners.   Fittingly, she was recognized by Dance Magazine in their first of a series of articles in their “Great Starts”, American Teacher Series, a “tribute to teachers who have produced outstanding results”.

 One of Ms. Cronsberg’s greatest frustrations over the years was the lack of performing opportunities for talented young dancers to provide the training and experience needed to pursue their career potentials.  What was needed, she decided, was to form her own non-profit dance company which would provide those opportunities, and the Massachusetts Youth Ballet (MYB) was born.  It’s mission was to provide training geared to a professional career and performing opportunities in the greater Boston area of works by the master choreographers of the 19th and 20th centuries including Petipa, Bournonville, Fokine, and Balanchine.  The greatest contribution made to the community by MYB and that had the greatest impact on the young dancers was the granting of licenses by the George Balanchine Trust to perform the ballets of this genius; MYB presented many major works including Apollo, Serenade, Concerto Barocco, and Divertimento #15.  Ms. Cronsberg’s close professional relationship with the Trust was a major factor in the licensing process.  Many graduates from this special program are still dancing professionally  with American ballet companies including New York City Ballet, San Francisco, Miami City, Kansas City and Houston Ballet.

Maggie Pelton
Maggie grew up in the New Jersey Ballet Company.  Her studies expanded to different disciplines while attending the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the Martha Graham and Jose Limon schools in New York City.  After receiving her BFA in dance from the Juilliard School and a scholarship from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, she was asked to join Ailey II which performed all across the United States and the Caribbean.  Ms. Pelton had the great honor of being the last female chosen by Alvin Aiely himself to join his company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater which tours internationally.  While living in California and now Nashville, Maggie has danced in television commercials and music videos and has gone on to teach, choreograph, and act as a consultant for dance and fitness in various projects.  From time to time Maggie and her All-American decathlete husband, Dave Pelton hold assembly programs and talk about the similarities between sports and dance. 

Lisa Viola

Lisa Viola danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1992-2008, receiving a Bessie Award in 2004 for sustained achievement with the acclaimed company.  Utilizing Mr. Taylor’s vast movement vocabulary, she emphasizes a strong foundation in technique, musicality, and a sweeping use of space and offers a unique and challenging approach to the Taylor style.  She continues to teach for the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation and currently is a licensed massage therapist residing in New York City.

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