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Feb
28
4:30 PM16:30

Master Class with Valery Lantratov, Artistic Director of Russian National Ballet Foundation

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Valery Lantratov, Artistic Director of the Russian National Dance Foundation, a People’s Artist of Russia, and former dancer with the Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet and Kremlin Ballet.

Pre-registration is encouraged.

About Valery Lantratov
Mr. Lantratov had a distinguished career as a dancer in the companies of Vladimir Vasiliev, Maya Plitsetskaya and Ekaterina Maximova and international tours with Rudolf Nureyev. Most recently he has made international headlines for his role as Czar Nicholas II in a production of the new ballet Rasputin, with Farouk Ruzimatov of the Marinsky Theater (Kirov) and for successful international tours of Don Quixote and original choreography for the annual festival for the goddess Aphrodite in Cypruss.
A graduate of the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, Lantratov was selected as a first soloist with the Moscow Stanislavski Ballet. With the theater he danced principal roles in such ballets as Don Quixote, Copellia and Romeo and Juliet. He has received accolades in the Russian and international press for his strong technique, personality and expressiveness. In 1993, Lantratov began working for the Kremlin Ballet. This same year, he formed the Russian National Ballet Foundation. He has toured as a solo guest artist in such countries as Japan, Germany, Italy, Greece, France, Portugal, Spain and the United States. The Russian National Ballet Foundation has toured in Europe, Asia, The Middle East and the United States. In 1997, Russian president Boris Yeltsin named Valery Lantratov “ People’s Artist of Russia,” the Russian Federation’s highest artistic honor.


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the regularly scheduled 4:30pm Ballet 4 & 5 and 6:00pm Pointe 2 & 3 classes.

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Aug
3
4:30 PM16:30

Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, co-founder Youth America Grand Prix

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix

Pre-registration is encouraged: RSVP here

About Larissa Saveliev
Larissa Saveliev is the Founder and Artistic Director of Youth America Grand Prix. Born in Moscow, she trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and danced with the Stanislavsky Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet, before emigrating to the United States in 1994. She went on to perform with the Los Angeles Classical Ballet, New Jersey Ballet and Tulsa Ballet, and began an active teaching career. In 1999, together with Gennadi Saveliev, Larissa founded Youth America Grand Prix, in order to fill the void in connecting students and teachers with school and company directors, and to provide continuing educational and professional opportunities to dancers worldwide. Larissa Saveliev is the 2014 recipient of the Dance Magazine Award, recipient of the 2014 “Educator of the Year” award from the Russian-American Foundation. In 2015 she was recognized by the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York for her Outstanding Achievement and Contribution to Community Improvement. In 2017 Larissa Saveliev was named one of the top 25 most influential people in dance by Dance Magazine, and is a part of the Dance Magazine Advisory Board.


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Class: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the regularly scheduled 4:30pm Ballet 4 & 5 class.

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Jul
29
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former ABT soloist

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former Soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix

Pre-registration is encouraged: RSVP here

About Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev trained with the great master teacher, Pyotr Pestov at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and with Stanley Williams at the School of American Ballet. Mr. Saveliev was a member of Bolshoi Ballet before he joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996, upon winning a Silver Medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. In his 16-year tenure as a soloist with American Ballet Theatre, Mr. Saveliev has toured extensively and appeared as a Guest Artist in galas around the world. In 1999, together with Larissa Saveliev, he co-founded Youth America Grand Prix. He has taught at The Royal Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, Zurich Dance Academy and other prominent dance institutions around the world. He currently serves as a Company Teacher for the American Ballet Theatre, and appears as a Guest Master Teacher in the United States and internationally.


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the regularly scheduled 10:30am Ballet 4 & 5 class.

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Apr
1
9:45 AM09:45

Master Class with Clinton Luckett, Associate Artistic Director at American Ballet Theatre

Photo: Rosalie O’Connor

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Clinton Luckett, Associate Artistic Director at American Ballet Theatre!

Pre-registration is encouraged: RSVP here

Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

PLEASE NOTE: Two classes on April 1st will be cancelled: 9:00am Adult Intermediate and 10:30am Ballet 4&5.

About Clinton Luckett

Clinton Luckett was a dancer with American Ballet Theatre for 10 years, from 1992-2002. His professional career spanned 15 years and began at the National Ballet of Canada. As a dancer he created roles in original works by Glen Tetley, William Forsythe, John Neumeier and James Kudelka among others and appeared in featured roles in most of the full-length ballets in the classical repertoire. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he began his dance training there, and after two years of study at the National Ballet School in Toronto, joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1987. In 1992, Luckett came to American Ballet Theatre where he was featured in the works of Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Agnes De Mille, Martha Graham, Jiří Kylián, Lar Lubovitch, Kenneth MacMillan, Mark Morris and Antony Tudor. He appeared on television in the PBS/Dance in America programs ABT Now and Le Corsaire, and in the CBC/Rombus Media productions of Glen Tetley’s Alice and La Ronde.

In 2002, Luckett became the Artistic Associate for the Education and Training Department at ABT. In that position he worked closely with the ABT Studio Company, was a regular faculty member at the ABT New York Summer Intensives, and also served as a Company Teacher at ABT. In September 2006, he assumed the position of Ballet Master with the artistic staff of ABT. Luckett has been a guest teacher for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and taught ballet at New York University.

Luckett performs the roles of the Tutor in Swan Lake, Escalus and Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote in Don Quixote, Galifron in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, a Dacha Dweller in The Bright Stream and the Duke in Lady of the Camellias.

Luckett was appointed Assistant Artistic Director in August 2016 and Associate Artistic Director in September 2020.

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Dec
10
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Nancy Raffa, Director of Repertoire at American Ballet Theatre

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Nancy Raffa, Director of Repertoire at American Ballet Theatre!

Pre-registration is encouraged: RSVP here

Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the regularly scheduled 10:30am Ballet 4 & 5 class.

About Nancy Raffa

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nancy Raffa received her early training with Madame Gabriella Darvash. In 1980, she became the youngest and first American female to win the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne competition in Switzerland. New York Times Dance Critic Anna Kisselgoff wrote of her: “(she is)…a young and extremely talented dancer” who “made mini-history in ballet. The dance is in her.”

Raffa joined Makarova and Company on Broadway and then, at 16, became a member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre. She went on to become principal ballerina at Ballet de Santiago, Chile and Ballet National Française de Nancy, France. She returned to the U.S. as principal ballerina with Miami City Ballet. During her career, Raffa partnered with ballet legends Rudolph Nureyev, Patrick Dupond and Fernando Bujones. She has also worked with prominent choreographers including Twyla Tharp, John Neumeier, Roland Petit, Hans Van Manen, Merce Cunningham, Birgit Cullberg, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Ben Stevenson, Ulysses Dove and George Balanchine. Her repertory as a principal dancer has been extensive and diverse.

Raffa began her teaching career as an adjunct faculty member in Miami at the New World School of the Arts. Transitioning from dancer to coach and stager, she became Senior Faculty member and Assistant to the Director at Miami City Ballet School, directing its Summer Intensive and Apprentice Program.

In 2005, Raffa was named Director of American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Summer Intensive programs, Company teacher, Director of Repertoire for ABT II and faculty member for the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.

Raffa was appointed Director of Repertoire at ABT in June 2007. In addition to her Repertoire duties, she performs roles in ABT’s Cinderella, GiselleLa Sylphide, OneginOn the Dnieper, Romeo and Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.

At ABT, Raffa has assisted Ratmansky on nearly all of his work since his appointment as Artist in Residence in 2009. She has re-staged many of Ratmansky’s creations for ABT at Atlanta Ballet, Het National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, The Paris Opera and The Washington Ballet.

Raffa assisted Twyla Tharp in the workshop production of Tharp’s Tony Award®-nominated Broadway show Come Fly Away. She has also staged Tharp’s Push Comes to Shove for Tulsa Ballet and In the Upper Room for ABT in collaboration with Shelley Washington.

Raffa has judged the Prix de Lausanne and Youth America Grand Prix in several countries. She delivers Master Teacher Classes by request and has taught all over the United States, Europe, South America, Japan and Asia.

In 2019, Raffa was nominated for the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Restaging/Revival/ Reconstruction” for her re-staging of Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy (2013) for San Francisco Ballet.

Raffa holds an Ace certification in exercise physiology, graduated magna cum laude in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from St. Thomas University in Miami and is certified as an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor. She is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in Ayurvedic Medicine.

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Oct
17
4:30 PM16:30

Master Class with Rasta Thomas: dancer, teacher, choreographer

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Rasta Thomas: dancer, teacher, choreographer and founder of Bad Boys of Dance! 

Pre-registration is encouraged: RSVP here

About Rasta Thomas

Rasta Thomas studied martial arts before training in ballet. At the age of 13 he became the youngest person ever to receive the Jury Prize at the Paris International Dance Competition. Already a seasoned performer despite being a minor, he was given a special dispensation, and was permitted to perform in the senior division of the USA International Ballet Competition (USAIBC). Thomas won the gold medal, and at 16 years old became the youngest to win in the senior division, beating Mikhail Baryshnikov's previous record age of 18. Upon returning to the US, he went to Los Angeles to begin his commercial career: he hired an agent, danced in a GAP commercial and had a solo in the Debbie-Allen choreographed for the Academy Awards. Thomas has appeared as a guest artist with such companies as: Dance Theater of Harlem, Washington Ballet, City Dance, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Loundin Ballet, Orlando Ballet, K Ballet, Alonzo King’s Lines Contemporary Ballet Company, Complexions, DanceBrazil, Rafael Amargo Dance Company, Universal Ballet, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, American Ballet Theater, Kirov Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Le Jeune Ballet de France, Joffrey Ballet, Maryland Youth Ballet, Arlington Dance Theater, Tulsa Ballet Theater, Victor Ullate, National Ballet of China, Hartford Ballet, Inoue Ballet, Philadanco, Imperial Russian Ballet.

He debuted on Broadway as the lead character Eddie in the hit musical Movin' Out and went on to work with the Movin' Out touring company.

Thomas founded the Bad Boys of Dance company (BBD). BBD selected dancers with strong technical backgrounds from competitions, Broadway, Juliard etc. Their debut performance was at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Rasta Thomas’ “Rock the Ballet” was created to showcase BBD. They made their international debut at the St. Pauli theater in Hamburg, Germany. In this show BBD incorporated jazz, hip hop, tap and gymnastics into ballet to some of today’s most popular songs. Over the years BBD featured alumni of So You Think You Can Dance (including Craig DeRosa, Nick Lazzarini and Danny Tidwell).

Today he continues to share his art and knowledge as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, producer and director.


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the regularly scheduled 4:30pm Ballet 4 & 5 class.

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Aug
13
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former ABT soloist

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former Soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix

Pre-registration is encouraged: RSVP here

About Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev trained with the great master teacher, Pyotr Pestov at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and with Stanley Williams at the School of American Ballet. Mr. Saveliev was a member of Bolshoi Ballet before he joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996, upon winning a Silver Medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. In his 16-year tenure as a soloist with American Ballet Theatre, Mr. Saveliev has toured extensively and appeared as a Guest Artist in galas around the world. In 1999, together with Larissa Saveliev, he co-founded Youth America Grand Prix. He has taught at The Royal Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, Zurich Dance Academy and other prominent dance institutions around the world. He currently serves as a Company Teacher for the American Ballet Theatre, and appears as a Guest Master Teacher in the United States and internationally.


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the regularly scheduled 10:30am Ballet 4 & 5 class.

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Aug
11
4:30 PM16:30

Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, co-founder Youth America Grand Prix

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix

Pre-registration is encouraged: RSVP here

About Larissa Saveliev
Larissa Saveliev is the Founder and Artistic Director of Youth America Grand Prix. Born in Moscow, she trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and danced with the Stanislavsky Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet, before emigrating to the United States in 1994. She went on to perform with the Los Angeles Classical Ballet, New Jersey Ballet and Tulsa Ballet, and began an active teaching career. In 1999, together with Gennadi Saveliev, Larissa founded Youth America Grand Prix, in order to fill the void in connecting students and teachers with school and company directors, and to provide continuing educational and professional opportunities to dancers worldwide. Larissa Saveliev is the 2014 recipient of the Dance Magazine Award, recipient of the 2014 “Educator of the Year” award from the Russian-American Foundation. In 2015 she was recognized by the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York for her Outstanding Achievement and Contribution to Community Improvement. In 2017 Larissa Saveliev was named one of the top 25 most influential people in dance by Dance Magazine, and is a part of the Dance Magazine Advisory Board.


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Class: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the regularly scheduled 4:30pm Ballet 4 & 5 class.

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Mar
19
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Nancy Raffa, Ballet Mistress at American Ballet Theatre

Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5. Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Pre-registration encouraged: Sign-up here

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the Ballet 5 class.


About Nancy Raffa

Nancy Raffa, American Ballet Theatre

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nancy Raffa received her early training with Madame Gabriella Darvash. In 1980, she became the youngest and first American female to win the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne competition in Switzerland. New York Times Dance Critic Anna Kisselgoff wrote of her: “(she is)…a young and extremely talented dancer” who “made mini-history in ballet. The dance is in her.”

Raffa joined Makarova and Company on Broadway and then, at 16, became a member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre. She went on to become principal ballerina at Ballet de Santiago, Chile and Ballet National Française de Nancy, France. She returned to the U.S. as principal ballerina with Miami City Ballet. During her career, Raffa partnered with ballet legends Rudolph Nureyev, Patrick Dupond and Fernando Bujones. She has also worked with prominent choreographers including Twyla Tharp, John Neumeier, Roland Petit, Hans Van Manen, Merce Cunningham, Birgit Cullberg, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Ben Stevenson, Ulysses Dove and George Balanchine. Her repertory as a principal dancer has been extensive and diverse.

Raffa began her teaching career as an adjunct faculty member in Miami at the New World School of the Arts. Transitioning from dancer to coach and stager, she became Senior Faculty member and Assistant to the Director at Miami City Ballet School, directing its Summer Intensive and Apprentice Program.

In 2005, Raffa was named Director of American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Summer Intensive programs, Company teacher, Director of Repertoire for ABT II and faculty member for the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.

Raffa was appointed Director of Repertoire at ABT in June 2007. In addition to her Repertoire duties, she performs roles in ABT’s Cinderella, GiselleLa Sylphide, OneginOn the Dnieper, Romeo and Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.

At ABT, Raffa has assisted Ratmansky on nearly all of his work since his appointment as Artist in Residence in 2009. She has re-staged many of Ratmansky’s creations for ABT at Atlanta Ballet, Het National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, The Paris Opera and The Washington Ballet.

Raffa assisted Twyla Tharp in the workshop production of Tharp’s Tony Award®-nominated Broadway show Come Fly Away. She has also staged Tharp’s Push Comes to Shove for Tulsa Ballet and In the Upper Room for ABT in collaboration with Shelley Washington.

Raffa has judged the Prix de Lausanne and Youth America Grand Prix in several countries. She delivers Master Teacher Classes by request and has taught all over the United States, Europe, South America, Japan and Asia.

In 2019, Raffa was nominated for the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Restaging/Revival/ Reconstruction” for her re-staging of Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy (2013) for San Francisco Ballet.

Raffa holds an Ace certification in exercise physiology, graduated magna cum laude in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from St. Thomas University in Miami and is certified as an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor. She is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in Ayurvedic Medicine.

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Mar
14
4:30 PM16:30

Master Class with Anna Laudere, Principal Dancer at Hamburg Ballet

Master Class is open to AB School students in levels 4 & 5. Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Pre-registration encouraged: Sign-up here

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note: This Master Class will be held in place of the Ballet 4 & 5 class.


About Anna Laudere

Anna Laudere

Photo: Kiran West

Anna Laudere was born in 1983 in Sigulda, Latvia. She was educated at the Riga Ballet School and the School of the Hamburg Ballet, before joining the Hamburg Ballet in 2001. In 2008 she was promoted to First Soloist and to Principal Dancer in 2011.

John Neumeier created the roles Kalliope in Orpheus and the title role in the ballet Anna Karenina, premiered in Hamburg in 2017. Her extensive repertoire with the Hamburg Ballet includes amongst others Ophelia in Hamlet, Giselle and Myrtha in Giselle, Solvei and Aase in Peer Gynt, Tatjana in Onegin, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Louise and La Fille du Pharao in The Nutcracker, Marguerite Gautier and Manon Lescaut in Lady of the Camellias.

Anna Laudere was awarded with the Dr.-Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize in 2008. In 2018 she won the Positano Award for Dance with her husband Edvin Revazov.

Photo: Kiran West

Photo: Kiran West

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Aug
14
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former ABT soloist


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former Soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix

Pre-registration encouraged: Sign-up here

About Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev, co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) was trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the School of American Ballet. He has studied with such distinguished teachers and coaches as Sergei Berezhnoi, Pyotr Pestov, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Stanley Williams, Eleanor D1Antuono, and Cynthia Gregory. Mr. Saveliev was a member of Bolshoi Ballet before he joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996. He has appeared as a guest artist throughout the United States and has toured in Europe, Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, and China, and has worked with such choreographers as Yuri Grigorovich, Lar Lubovich, Kevin McKenzie, Ben Stevenson, John Neumeier, and Twyla Tharp. Mr. Saveliev1s repertoire includes leading roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, Le Corsaire, Eugene Onegin, and Don Quixote. In 1996, Mr. Saveliev won a silver medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. 


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note:

This Master Class will be held in place of the Ballet IV & V class.

Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL

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Aug
10
4:45 PM16:45

Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, co-founder Youth America Grand Prix


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix

Pre-registration encouraged: Sign-up here

About Larissa Saveliev
Larissa Saveliev founded Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) with her husband Gennadi Saveliev in 1999. She received her dance training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. As a member of the Bolshoi Ballet, she has toured throughout Europe and Asia, and her repertoire included most of the ballets from the classical repertoire and works by Yuri Grigorovich, George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, and Agnes de Mille. In 1995, Ms. Saveliev moved to the United States and continued her dance career as both a dancer and an educator. In 1999, she was chosen to choreograph at the prestigious Princess Grace Awards. In starting YAGP, Ms. Saveliev aimed to create a ballet competition centered on career development. The primary goal of the competition is the learning process and a young dancer’s journey to the stage. Under Ms. Saveliev’s artistic direction, YAGP has become the largest international student ballet competition. 


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Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Class: $35

Questions: 714-520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note:

This Master Class will be held in place of the Ballet IV & V class.

Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL

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Apr
5
4:45 PM16:45

Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former ABT soloist


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former Soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix

About Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev, co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) was trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the School of American Ballet. He has studied with such distinguished teachers and coaches as Sergei Berezhnoi, Pyotr Pestov, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Stanley Williams, Eleanor D1Antuono, and Cynthia Gregory. Mr. Saveliev was a member of Bolshoi Ballet before he joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996. He has appeared as a guest artist throughout the United States and has toured in Europe, Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, and China, and has worked with such choreographers as Yuri Grigorovich, Lar Lubovich, Kevin McKenzie, Ben Stevenson, John Neumeier, and Twyla Tharp. Mr. Saveliev1s repertoire includes leading roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, Le Corsaire, Eugene Onegin, and Don Quixote. In 1996, Mr. Saveliev won a silver medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. 


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Pre-registration encouraged: Sign-up here

Questions: Contact school@anaheimballet.org

Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL

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Aug
12
4:45 PM16:45

Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former ABT soloist


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former Soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix

About Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev, co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) was trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the School of American Ballet. He has studied with such distinguished teachers and coaches as Sergei Berezhnoi, Pyotr Pestov, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Stanley Williams, Eleanor D1Antuono, and Cynthia Gregory. Mr. Saveliev was a member of Bolshoi Ballet before he joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996. He has appeared as a guest artist throughout the United States and has toured in Europe, Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, and China, and has worked with such choreographers as Yuri Grigorovich, Lar Lubovich, Kevin McKenzie, Ben Stevenson, John Neumeier, and Twyla Tharp. Mr. Saveliev1s repertoire includes leading roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, Le Corsaire, Eugene Onegin, and Don Quixote. In 1996, Mr. Saveliev won a silver medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. 


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $25

Pre-registration encouraged: Sign-up here

Questions: Contact school@anaheimballet.org

Please note:

This Master Class will be held outdoors at Anaheim Ballet - please review our policies here.

Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL

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Feb
27
4:45 PM16:45

Master Class with Valery Lantratov

Class is open to AB School students and dancers in levels IV and V. Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

This class will be in place of the 4:45p.m. Ballet IV and 6:00p.m. Ballet V.

$35 Master Class fee.

Pre Registration encouraged: (714) 520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Valery Lantratov has had a distinguished career as a dancer in the companies of Vladimir Vasiliev, Maya Plitsetskaya and Ekaterina Maximova and international tours with Rudolf Nureyev. Most recently he has made international headlines for his role as Czar Nicholas II in a production of the new ballet Rasputin, with Farouk Ruzimatov of the Marinsky Theater (Kirov) and for successful international tours of Don Quixote and original choreography for the annual festival for the goddess Aphrodite in Cypruss.

A graduate of the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, Lantratov was selected as a first soloist with the Moscow Stanislavski Ballet. With the theater he danced principal roles in such ballets as Don Quixote, Copellia and Romeo and Juliet. He has received accolades in the Russian and international press for his strong technique, personality and expressiveness. In 1993, Lantratov began working for the Kremlin Ballet. This same year, he formed the Russian National Ballet Foundation. He has toured as a solo guest artist in such countries as Japan, Germany, Italy, Greece, France, Portugal, Spain and the United States. The Russian National Ballet Foundation has toured in Europe, Asia, The Middle East and the United States.
In 1997, Russian president Boris Yeltsin named Valery Lantratov “ People’s Artist of Russia,” the Russian Federation’s highest artistic honor.

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Sep
12
4:45 PM16:45

Ballet Master Class with Luc Louis de Lairesse

Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Luc Louis de Lairesse, international ballet master and coach!

Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V. Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Master Class Fee: $35

Please note: This class will be in place of the 4:45p.m. Ballet IV class.

If you have any questions, call (714) 520-0904 or email school@anaheimballet.org

Luc Louis de Lairesse studied in Brussels, Monte Carlo, Paris (M.Besobrasova, A. Howard, D.Franck, R.Franchetti) and performed with the Royal Opera, De Munt/La Monnaie, Bejart Ballet, the Paris Opera, Balletti Carla Fracci, Ballets Monte-Carlo, Geneva Ballet and as a First Soloist with Ballet du Grand Theatre de Nancy, Hannover State Opera Ballet, Festival Aix, Ballet Theatre Français both in the classical repertoire and in many creations and revivals (Lazzini, G.Caciuleanu, P.Lacotte, A.Howard R. Hightower, J.Charat, Bejart, Balanchine, D.Bagouet, J.Taras, etc...).

In his first years, strongly influenced by Stanley Williams and Alan Howard, Luc was considered by his Paris Opera teacher, Daniel Franck to be a natural teacher. As such he taught his first classes in 1975 substituting for Mr. Franck’s Academy while still performing. As of 1978, he became a guest with leading ballet companies worldwide as for William Forsythe in Frankfurt, John Neumeier in Hamburg, Maurice Bejart’s Company, upon Lucia Chase’s invitation for American Ballet Theatre Rpertory company and later ABT; at Mary Day’s Washington Ballet, for Gert Reinholm Deutche Oper Berlin, for the Joffrey, upon Robert Lindgren’s request for three tears at NCDT/ NCSA, at the National Ballet of Canada; ENB, Sadler’s Welch Royal Ballet and Rambert in London, Maria de Avila at the Ballet Nacional in Madrid, Yvan Nagy in Ballet Municipal Santiago (Chile), Munich, Paris, Buenos Aires, Ballet Nacional de Cuba-La Havana, AterBalletto, Boston Ballet, the Harkness Dance Theatre & School, Chamber Ballet USA, PBT, Alvin Ailey School, Universities Miami, Milwaukee, N-S Carolina, Royal Ballet of Flanders & Wallonie as well as private sessions and coaching for N. Makarova, F. Bujones, J. Carreno, E. Terabust, C. Arbo, Arantxa Arguelles, J. Arozarena, Lorena Feijo, Ana Lobe, M-T Del Real, Y. Morishita, S. Jaffe, A.Goudonov, P. Savoye, Anne Marie De Angelo, Loipa Araujo, David Nixon, Yoko Ichino, M-T Del Real, etc.

The co-founder director of NYC based youth company “Ballettoday” his record includes many choreographies (incl. first prizes: Lausanne, Moscow, Jackson, Paris), and coordinating the ballet for the Riverside Dance Festival in New York for 6 years. As a guest ballet master he also developed a profound stylistic knowledge of the classical repertoire. With respect to the creators needs, he rehearsed works by G. Balanchine, W. Forsyth, G.Tetley, L. Childs, M. Petipa, A.Bournonville, amongst others.

He founded Dance Development Fund, Natalia Makarova, Hon. President) in a yearly collaboration with ballet legends Irina Kolpakova and Vladilen Semenov highlighting in Belgium, Italy, Spain and the USA, the DDF (and later Ballettoday) to promote dance and ballet in his country and abroad.

Luc has successfully organized festivals in Brussels, Vienna, Santa Fe (NM, USA). He launched Europe's first Aids Gala (Dance for your Life), PACT and has been a guest speaker at humanitarian events (incl. Yehudi Menuhin’s Foundation, @ the United Nations NYC, Tokyo, etc.)

For his special attention to the needs of the dancer today, Luc’s alternative way of teaching has made him a popular guest with both classical and contemporary dance companies and schools. He remains a most respected guest teacher in demand and has been a welcome guest with Bejart Ballet Lausanne, IBC. Barcelona, RAMBERT Dance Co & School, ENB school, Compania Nac. De Danza, Madrid, Royal Conservatoire Mariemma Madrid, etc.).

Especially concentrating on the development of the dancers through a unique Injury Prevention Program (MBAC) and preparing them for the present day demanding variety of choreography, he founded over one hundred courses and “Healing the dancer” events and the successful Menorca Summer Course amongst others.

He has also been a juror in several IBC competitions such as the IBC. Korea, and Barcelona. Luc is fluent in six languages; loves humans, nature, good humor and a fun & healthy life.

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Aug
14
4:45 PM16:45

Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former ABT soloist


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former Soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix

About Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev, co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) was trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the School of American Ballet. He has studied with such distinguished teachers and coaches as Sergei Berezhnoi, Pyotr Pestov, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Stanley Williams, Eleanor D1Antuono, and Cynthia Gregory. Mr. Saveliev was a member of Bolshoi Ballet before he joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996. He has appeared as a guest artist throughout the United States and has toured in Europe, Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, and China, and has worked with such choreographers as Yuri Grigorovich, Lar Lubovich, Kevin McKenzie, Ben Stevenson, John Neumeier, and Twyla Tharp. Mr. Saveliev1s repertoire includes leading roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, Le Corsaire, Eugene Onegin, and Don Quixote. In 1996, Mr. Saveliev won a silver medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. 


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Fee: $35 per Master Class

Pre-registration encouraged: (714) 520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note:

This Master Class will be held in place of the Ballet IV and Ballet V classes.

Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL

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Aug
13
4:45 PM16:45

Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, co-founder Youth America Grand Prix


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix

About Larissa Saveliev
Larissa Saveliev founded Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) with her husband Gennadi Saveliev in 1999. She received her dance training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. As a member of the Bolshoi Ballet, she has toured throughout Europe and Asia, and her repertoire included most of the ballets from the classical repertoire and works by Yuri Grigorovich, George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, and Agnes de Mille. In 1995, Ms. Saveliev moved to the United States and continued her dance career as both a dancer and an educator. In 1999, she was chosen to choreograph at the prestigious Princess Grace Awards. In starting YAGP, Ms. Saveliev aimed to create a ballet competition centered on career development. The primary goal of the competition is the learning process and a young dancer’s journey to the stage. Under Ms. Saveliev’s artistic direction, YAGP has become the largest international student ballet competition. 


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Fee: $35 per Master Class

Pre-registration encouraged: (714) 520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note:

This Master Class will be held in place of the Ballet IV and Ballet V classes.

Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL


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Mar
5
4:45 PM16:45

Ballet Master Class with Luc Louis de Lairesse

Class is open to AB School students and dancers in levels IV and V. Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

This class will be in place of the 4:45p.m. Ballet IV and 6 :00p.m. Ballet V.

$35 Master Class fee.

For more details, call (714) 520-0904 or email school@anaheimballet.org

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Luc Louis de Lairesse studied in Brussels, Monte Carlo, Paris (M.Besobrasova, A. Howard, D.Franck, R.Franchetti) and performed with the Royal Opera, De Munt/La Monnaie, Bejart Ballet, the Paris Opera, Balletti Carla Fracci, Ballets Monte-Carlo, Geneva Ballet and as a First Soloist with Ballet du Grand Theatre de Nancy, Hannover State Opera Ballet, Festival Aix, Ballet Theatre Français both in the classical repertoire and in many creations and revivals (Lazzini, G.Caciuleanu, P.Lacotte, A.Howard R. Hightower, J.Charat, Bejart, Balanchine, D.Bagouet, J.Taras, etc...).

In his first years, strongly influenced by Stanley Williams and Alan Howard, Luc was considered by his Paris Opera teacher, Daniel Franck to be a natural teacher. As such he taught his first classes in 1975 substituting for Mr. Franck’s Academy while still performing. As of 1978, he became a guest with leading ballet companies worldwide as for William Forsythe in Frankfurt, John Neumeier in Hamburg, Maurice Bejart’s Company, upon Lucia Chase’s invitation for American Ballet Theatre Rpertory company and later ABT; at Mary Day’s Washington Ballet, for Gert Reinholm Deutche Oper Berlin, for the Joffrey, upon Robert Lindgren’s request for three tears at NCDT/ NCSA, at the National Ballet of Canada; ENB, Sadler’s Welch Royal Ballet and Rambert in London, Maria de Avila at the Ballet Nacional in Madrid, Yvan Nagy in Ballet Municipal Santiago (Chile), Munich, Paris, Buenos Aires, Ballet Nacional de Cuba-La Havana, AterBalletto, Boston Ballet, the Harkness Dance Theatre & School, Chamber Ballet USA, PBT, Alvin Ailey School, Universities Miami, Milwaukee, N-S Carolina, Royal Ballet of Flanders & Wallonie as well as private sessions and coaching for N. Makarova, F. Bujones, J. Carreno, E. Terabust, C. Arbo, Arantxa Arguelles, J. Arozarena, Lorena Feijo, Ana Lobe, M-T Del Real, Y. Morishita, S. Jaffe, A.Goudonov, P. Savoye, Anne Marie De Angelo, Loipa Araujo, David Nixon, Yoko Ichino, M-T Del Real, etc.

The co-founder director of NYC based youth company “Ballettoday” his record includes many choreographies (incl. first prizes: Lausanne, Moscow, Jackson, Paris), and coordinating the ballet for the Riverside Dance Festival in New York for 6 years. As a guest ballet master he also developed a profound stylistic knowledge of the classical repertoire. With respect to the creators needs, he rehearsed works by G. Balanchine, W. Forsyth, G.Tetley, L. Childs, M. Petipa, A.Bournonville, amongst others.

He founded Dance Development Fund, Natalia Makarova, Hon. President) in a yearly collaboration with ballet legends Irina Kolpakova and Vladilen Semenov highlighting in Belgium, Italy, Spain and the USA, the DDF (and later Ballettoday) to promote dance and ballet in his country and abroad.

Luc has successfully organized festivals in Brussels, Vienna, Santa Fe (NM, USA). He launched Europe's first Aids Gala (Dance for your Life), PACT and has been a guest speaker at humanitarian events (incl. Yehudi Menuhin’s Foundation, @ the United Nations NYC, Tokyo, etc.)

For his special attention to the needs of the dancer today, Luc’s alternative way of teaching has made him a popular guest with both classical and contemporary dance companies and schools. He remains a most respected guest teacher in demand and has been a welcome guest with Bejart Ballet Lausanne, IBC. Barcelona, RAMBERT Dance Co & School, ENB school, Compania Nac. De Danza, Madrid, Royal Conservatoire Mariemma Madrid, etc.).

Especially concentrating on the development of the dancers through a unique Injury Prevention Program (MBAC) and preparing them for the present day demanding variety of choreography, he founded over one hundred courses and “Healing the dancer” events and the successful Menorca Summer Course amongst others.

He has also been a juror in several IBC competitions such as the IBC. Korea, and Barcelona. Luc is fluent in six languages; loves humans, nature, good humor and a fun & healthy life.

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Feb
28
4:45 PM16:45

Ballet Master Class with Valery Lantratov

Class is open to AB School students and dancers in levels IV and V. Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

This class will be in place of the 4:45p.m. Ballet IV and 6 :00p.m. Ballet V.

$35 Master Class fee.

For more details, call (714) 520-0904 or email school@anaheimballet.org

Valery Lantratov has had a distinguished career as a dancer in the companies of Vladimir Vasiliev, Maya Plitsetskaya and Ekaterina Maximova and international tours with Rudolf Nureyev. Most recently he has made international headlines for his role as Czar Nicholas II in a production of the new ballet Rasputin, with Farouk Ruzimatov of the Marinsky Theater (Kirov) and for successful international tours of Don Quixote and original choreography for the annual festival for the goddess Aphrodite in Cypruss.

A graduate of the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, Lantratov was selected as a first soloist with the Moscow Stanislavski Ballet. With the theater he danced principal roles in such ballets as Don Quixote, Copellia and Romeo and Juliet. He has received accolades in the Russian and international press for his strong technique, personality and expressiveness. In 1993, Lantratov began working for the Kremlin Ballet. This same year, he formed the Russian National Ballet Foundation. He has toured as a solo guest artist in such countries as Japan, Germany, Italy, Greece, France, Portugal, Spain and the United States. The Russian National Ballet Foundation has toured in Europe, Asia, The Middle East and the United States.
In 1997, Russian president Boris Yeltsin named Valery Lantratov “ People’s Artist of Russia,” the Russian Federation’s highest artistic honor.

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Jan
19
10:15 AM10:15

Ballet Master Class with Clinton Luckett

Class is open to AB School students in levels IV and V. Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

This class will be in place of 10:30am Ballet V.

$35 Master Class fee.

Pre-registration encouraged: (714) 520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Clinton Luckett was a dancer with American Ballet Theatre for 10 years, from 1992-2002.  His professional career spanned 15 years and began at the National Ballet of Canada. As a dancer he created roles in original works by Glen Tetley, William Forsythe, John Neumeier and James Kudelka among others and appeared in featured roles in most of the full-length ballets in the classical repertoire.  Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he began his dance training there, and after two years of study at the National Ballet School in Toronto, joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1987. 1n 1992, Luckett came to American Ballet Theatre where he was featured in the works of Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Agnes De Mille, Martha Graham, Jiří Kylián, Lar Lubovitch, Kenneth MacMillan, Mark Morris and Antony Tudor.  He appeared on television in the PBS/Dance in America programs ABT Now and Le Corsaire, and in the CBC/Rombus Media productions of Glen Tetley’s Alice and La Ronde.

In 2002, Luckett became the Artistic Associate for the Education and Training Department at ABT.  In that position he worked closely with the ABT Studio Company, was a regular faculty member at the ABT New York Summer Intensives, and also served as a Company Teacher at ABT.  In September 2006, he assumed the position of Ballet Master with the artistic staff of ABT. Luckett has been a guest teacher for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and taught ballet at New York University.

Luckett performs the roles of the Dacha Dweller in The Bright Stream, a Photo Journalist in Cinderella, the Duke in Lady of the Camellias, Escalus and Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Galifron in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Catalabutte in The Sleeping Beauty and Gonzalo in The Tempest.

Luckett was appointed Assistant Artistic Director in August 2016.

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Aug
14
4:45 PM16:45

Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, formerly with the Bolshoi Ballet


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Larissa Saveliev, former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix


Class is open to Intermediate/Advanced level dancers – ABS Levels IV+. (This class in in place of Ballet IV, and no Ballet V will be held).
Fee of $35 for the class.

If you have questions, call (714) 520-0904 or email info@anaheimballet.org
Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL


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Aug
11
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former ABT soloist


Join Anaheim Ballet School for a Master Class with Gennadi Saveliev, former Soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Co-Founder of Youth America Grand Prix

About Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev, co-founder of Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) was trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the School of American Ballet. He has studied with such distinguished teachers and coaches as Sergei Berezhnoi, Pyotr Pestov, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Stanley Williams, Eleanor D1Antuono, and Cynthia Gregory. Mr. Saveliev was a member of Bolshoi Ballet before he joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996. He has appeared as a guest artist throughout the United States and has toured in Europe, Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, and China, and has worked with such choreographers as Yuri Grigorovich, Lar Lubovich, Kevin McKenzie, Ben Stevenson, John Neumeier, and Twyla Tharp. Mr. Saveliev1s repertoire includes leading roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, Le Corsaire, Eugene Onegin, and Don Quixote. In 1996, Mr. Saveliev won a silver medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. 


Master Class is open to AB School students in levels IV & V.

Non-ABS students are welcome, but must be an intermediate or advanced level.

Fee: $35 per Master Class

Pre-registration encouraged: (714) 520-0904 or school@anaheimballet.org

Please note:

This Master Class will be held in place of the Ballet V class.

Master Class • 10:30 a.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL

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Jul
30
4:45 PM16:45

Ballet Master Class with ABT Ballet Mistress Nancy Raffa

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nancy Raffa received her early training with Madame Gabriella Darvash. In 1980, she became the youngest and first American female to win the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne competition in Switzerland. The same year, Raffa joined Makarova and Company on Broadway and, at age 16, became a member of the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre. She joined Ballet de Santiago in 1985 as a principal dancer and was also a principal dancer at Ballet National Française de Nancy. In 1992, she became a principal dancer with Miami City Ballet.

Raffa began her teaching career in Miami at the New World School of the Arts. In 1994, she joined the staff of the Miami City Ballet School, becoming the coordinator for the School’s summer intensive program and Ballet for Young People program. Among her many awards, Raffa was twice awarded a special teacher’s recognition from the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts and won a grant from the United States Information Services to act as a cultural ambassador and teacher for the company and school in Honduras.

Raffa holds an Ace certification in exercise physiology and graduated magna cum laude in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from St. Thomas University.

Raffa was appointed ABT Ballet Mistress in June 2007.


Class is open to Intermediate/Advanced level dancers (ABS Levels 4 and 5). (The 4:45 p.m. Ballet 4 class will not take place).
Fee of $35 for the class.

For more details, call (714) 520-0904 or email info@anaheimballet.org
Master Class • 4:45 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL


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Apr
21
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Hope Boykin, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

Hope Boykin was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina and was a three-time recipient of the American Dance Festival’s Young Tuition Scholarship. She attended Howard University in Washington, DC., when she felt a call to move to New York City to study at The Ailey School.  Hope worked as assistant to choreographers Milton Myers and the late Talley Beatty, was an original member of Complexionsand danced many years with Philadanco, The Philadelphia Dance Company. Hope joined The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2000, where she continues to perform her duties as a dancer as well as her work as an educator, mentor, speaker, and choreographer.  Find out more about Hope at www.hopeboykindance.com

Class is open to Intermediate/Advanced level dancers (Ages 12+).  Master Class fee of $35.

This class will be in place of 10:30 am Ballet 5.

Call (714) 520-0904 or email school@anaheimballet.org with any questions.
 

Anaheim Ballet: More Than Dance... Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater member, Hope Boykin shares her thoughts and dancing. ballet...ballet...ballet...

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Mar
24
10:30 AM10:30

Master Class with Adam Blyde, Joffrey Ballet ballet master

Adam Blyde trained at The Royal Ballet School, graduating in 2001. He has appeared with The Royal Ballet and joined the Scottish Ballet in 2003, where he was promoted to Principal in 2008. While there, he danced in Ashley Page’s Cheating, Lying, Stealing32 CryptogramsSoft UnderbellyNightswimming into dayThe NutcrackerWalking In the HeatThe Pump RoomFearful SymmetriesCinderellaThe Sleeping BeautyPennies From Heaven, and Alice. He also performed in Siobhan Davies’ White Man Sleeps; Stephen Petronio’s MiddleSexGorge and Ride the Beast; Richard Alston’s Dangerous Liaisons and Carmen, Krzysztof Pastor’s In Light And Shadow and Romeo & Juliet; Hans van Manen’s Five Tangos; George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, EpisodesAgon, and Rubies; Diana Loosmore’s Chasing Ghosts; Peter Darrell’s Five Rückert Songs and Othello; William Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and Workwithinwork; Frederick Ashton’s Façade and Scenes de Ballet; Paul Liburd’s From Where; Val Caniparoli’s Still Life; Jorma Elos’ Kings 2 Ends; Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth; Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire; and Martin Lawrance’s Run For It.

Mr. Blyde joined Rambert Dance Company in 2013, dancing Mark Baldwin’s The Comedy of ChangeWhat Wild Ecstasy, and The Strange Charm of Mother Nature; Christopher Bruce’s Rooster; Merce Cunningham’s Sounddance; Richard Alston’s Dutiful Ducks; Ashley Page’s Subterrain; Lucinda Childs’ Four Elements; Barak Marshall’s The Castaways; Shobana Jeyasingh’s Terra Incognita; and Itzik Galili’s A Linha Curva. He joined The Joffrey Ballet as Ballet Master in June 2016.


Class is open to Intermediate/Advanced level dancers (ABS' Levels 4+). (This will be in place of the 10:30 a.m. Ballet 5 class).
Master Class fee of $35.

For more details, call (714) 520-0904 or email school@anaheimballet.org
 


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Nov
30
6:00 PM18:00

Ballet Master Class with Luc Louis de Lairesse

Luc Louis de Lairesse, Belgian-Flemish born, has more than four decades in dance, (as a first soloist, ballet master, choreographer with leading international companies and schools American Ballet Theatre, Bejart, most national opera companies and their schools in Europe, the USA, South America, Japan, Korea, etc.) I wish to pass on ancient wisdom and knowledge (revisited) for the future generations to develop into decent human beings using art for the better of the society and all involved.


Class is open to Intermediate/Advanced level dancers (ABS Levels 4+). (The 6 p.m. Ballet 5 class will not take place).
Fee of $35 for the class.

For more details, call (714) 520-0904 or email info@anaheimballet.org
Master Class • 6:00 p.m. • ANAHEIM BALLET SCHOOL


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