Monday, July 28, 2008

Fun at Inland Northwest Ballet Dance Camp...

This summer at Sleeping Beauty Dance Camp, We learned how to warm up our muscles correctly, and how to perform beautiful port de bras! We also learned to perform demi plies, releves, battement tendues, retires, arabesque, pas de bourree, as well as many other ballet exercises!
Of course, we got to do our favorite...Imagination Dance!

We got to decorate beautiful Lilac Fairy Crowns, and wands, and
create foam pictures of the Sleeping Beauty Story!

We sat patiently and listened to Miss Janine or Miss Kaiti read the Sleeping Beauty Story...

We got to put on fairy tale make up...oh we love sparkles!

Shannon and Maddie helped us put on pretty purple tutus! After our class was over, the big girls got to come in and dance too!

We can't wait for Swan Lake Dance Camp next year! :)


Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Summer Dance!

Here at Spokane's own Inland Northwest Ballet, we are now in the midst of our summer dance camps...this year we are having our "Sleeping Beauty Dance Camp", and are having so much fun! Each day we dance, make crafts (today we decorated princess crowns!), have snacks, and read the story of Sleeping Beauty, and her very, very, very, long nap! We also had a very fun Hip Hop class, where we learned "skeeter" and "crazy leaps"...we enjoyed lots of giggles! Shannon, Meagan, and Maddie are being terrific class leaders for Miss Janine!

To those of you who we haven't seen this summer, we hope you are enjoying your vacation...Get some sunshine, play in the lake, do a triathlon, ride your bike, and sleep in! : )


Sunday, June 15, 2008

Our 2008 School Performance Photos

Below...Nicole Hansen dances the role of "fairy Godmother" in the Inland Northwest Ballet's "Cinderella"Below...Our little mice sit and color pretty pictures while awaiting performance time
Below...Miss Kaiti Bri's tap dancers wait quietly backstage for the curtains to open
Below... The fairy dust soloists and the fairies of the seasons await Cinderella's grand entrance
Below...Reaganne, Annie, Hanna, Katie, Tyana, Jessica, Kamila, and Olivia wait to be taken
backstage for our Inland Northwest Ballet School performance Below...Nicole Hansen as Fairy Godmother and Julie Sugano as Cinderella bourree on pointe, as
Brittany Klinke as Fairy Summer, and Kylie Pybus as Fairy Autumn balance in arabesque
Below...Saige sits in the wings and awaits
her turn to dance with Cinderella
Below...Makaila, Kristel, and Madison prepare to dance the roles of Fairy Dust
Below...Amanda extends in arabesque voyagee while dancing the role of Fairy Spring
Below...Jaelynn, Emma, Bethany, Kaitlin, Mary, Emma, and Madi sit and wait
to be taken backstage before they perform the Dragonfly dance!
Below...Inland Northwest Ballet tap dancers Hanna, Teayona, and Claire sit and color pretty
pictures while waiting to be led backstage!
Below...Our Cinderella waltz is performed by Fairy Dust, the Dragonflies, the Hours, and
airies of the Seasons, during Saturday's evening performance!
Below...Madison, Kali, Zoey, Dani, Sarah, Meile, and Jessica watch the
Cinderella ballet from the wings, awaiting their turn to dance!
Below... Nicole Hansen portrays the Fairy Godmother in our
"Cinderella" ballet on Saturday.



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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Performance time is near...

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Sat., June 14th, is opening night! We will present our "Cinderella", as well as other celebrations of dance. We will hold both a matinee and an evening performance on Sat. June 14th and June 21st, in Spokane, WA. For more info, e-mail School Director Janine Fraser at inlandnwballet@aol.com

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Check out our Inland Northwest Ballet website!

Check out our Inland Northwest Ballet website through our links on the right...Once the list loads, it can take you to see photos, give you class descriptions for our north Spokane studio, allow you to read our studio objective, inform you of upcoming events, and allow you to e-mail our school Director Janine Fraser for more info...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Congratulations to Julie Sugano!

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Congratulations to Julie, who has been awarded the honor of Valedictorian of Mead High School. She has worked very hard to achieve this title, and Miss Janine, our staff, and fellow dancers at Inland Northwest Ballet are very proud of her! We will miss her and her antics :), as she leaves Spokane this fall to attend the University of the Pacific in northern California. Her parents are Doug and Linda Sugano, and we are sure that they are very proud!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

June 7th rehearsal...

We will hold rehearsal for the Spokane upper level cast...Fairy Godmother, Fairies of the Seasons, Fairy Dust soloists, Cinderella, Dragonflies, and Midnight on Saturday, June 7th from 11:00 am - noon. Please arrive early (entering through the east door, the mian doors will be locked due to registration day). The focus of this rehearsal will be the Fairy Waltz, but all roles will be performed. See Miss Janine if you have questions...:)

Friday, May 16, 2008

May 30th Cinderella Rehearsal...

We will hold rehearsal for Cinderella, the Stepsisters, and the Stepmother on Friday May 30th from 7:15 - 8:30 pm. This Spokane rehearsal will be in costume, to work out costume changes before our Sat. group rehearsals. See you there! See Miss ZJanine if you have questions about your role or your choreography...:)

Upcomings rehearsals!

Cinderella Rehearsal – In studio

Sat., May 31…

This is a full cast rehearsal (except for the mice, who are still a little young)

Check your paperwork for your performance date, and you will know when you are dancing!

12:00 – 12:55 Cast A - for our first performance, the matinee of June 14th

1:00 – 1:55 Cast B - for our second performance, the evening of June 14th

2:00 – 2:55 Cast C - for our third performance, the matinee of June 21st

3:00 – 4:00 Cast D - for our fourth performance, evening of June 21st

Please note: This is a fun rehearsal, and although not required (we know Saturdays are busy, so only soloists are required to attend) it is a wonderful time for the little ones to watch “the big girls” dancing close up, and see how rehearsal creates a beautiful performance. They learn a little more about how a story ballet is put together, about entrances and exits, and the importance of staying with their own group. Please bring your child dressed in normal dance attire with hair up, and please note, that at rehearsals, any color leotard is acceptable. Please remind your child to stretch and warm up (plies, tendues, releves) on their own, as this is not done during rehearsal.

Important note: Please bring your dancebags into the studio, as in order to make studio traffic easier, we will have students enter through the usual door, but exit out the “staff only” door, once a parent is seen outside. To make it easier for parents retrieving children, all traffic will be “one way”, so please don’t leave anything out in the observation area, as you won’t be able to exit that way.

Qustions? Please see Miss Janine!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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Congratulations to Kylie, Kaiti Bri, Nic, Julile and Amanda, our Inland Northwest Ballet upper level students who recently auditioned and were accepted into the advanced divison at Evergreen City Ballet. Miss Janine and Miss Kaiti took the students on a road trip earlier this month from Spokane to Seattle, and spent our time at the audition, as well as attending the company performance of Swan Lake that evening. We are proud of our hard working dancers!

Monday, March 10, 2008

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Remember, Spring Break is coming up...We do not have class during the week of March 31st through April 7. Miss Janine and the our staff says "Get outside and enjoy the sunshine!" :)
Rehearsal will be held on Sat. March 15, and March 22 from 1:00 - 2:30 for the following soloists...

Stepsisters
Stepmother
Fairy Godmother
Level IIIB...optional! :)

There will be no rehearsal held on Sat. March 9th, or Sat., April 5th.

Fairies should know all, or almost all of your solos by now*, so no rehearsal will be held this month. Keep rehearsing on your own, so that you will be polished next month, when we all rehearse together with the Hours!

* Except Winter, we will wait for you to heal to finish your choreography! :)

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Cute things our dancers have said...

Note: Some names have been changed to protect the parents :)

We look like a “Nake”!... Katelynn, describing the girl’s crooked line, when not yet able to pronounce her “s”.

Madeline, in wondering why her little friend did not stand up when the instructor asked, said “Whats the matter, Kaelynn, is your tush glued to the floor? She didn’t really say “tush”, but you get the idea.
“I’m alredy “abracked”... Madeline, when Miss Janine asked if the girls can “abracadabra” their feet into 1st position.

We need some “flirt scuffers”... “Princess Jim”, wanting some dancers to help fluff tutus. What’s a flirt scuffer?

“I understand that cows get pink eye too”... Laina, making an absolutely out of the blue comment made during imagination dance.

“They’re not togethering”... Elizabeth, when asked what is wrong with the instructor’s feet (as she stood with them slightly apart).

“It was siscusting!” ...Stephanie, after first seeing men dancing in tights, while attending the Nutcracker Ballet.

“My dad has a belly like that!” ... Anonymous :), when shown a Santa Claus belly and asked if that looks pretty.

“Linda?”... Kaitlin, when asked the name of the white swan in Swan Lake…um, close, the correct answer is Odette.

“Bloom like a flower to “yo fifth”…Anastasia, when leading the class in blooming to “low 5th". Maybe hip hop is her true calling?

When asked what she had just done (after having performed a pas de bourree”), Bethany said “I pas de bourated”. Hmmm…is that really correct French?

Sometimes the girls will perform an arabesque with their heads down, (rather as if smelling there armpits). When Miss Janine joked with little Madelynn, asking “How do your armpits smell, Maddy?” She replied “Like sugar!”.

On another occasion, little Maddy announced to the class that her parents were going on vacation to Costa Rica and leaving the kids in a kennel (Um…she was confused).
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