 My Mama Had a Dancing Heart featured excerpts from classical ballets. | Congratulations and THANK YOU to all our dancers, staff, faculty, volunteers and audience members for an amazing spring show. Volunteers, if you work for a company that provides a donation to non-profits for employee volunteering (such as Microsoft and Boeing), please don't forget to submit your hours. You can pre-order a DVD of the performance here. Photographs are still being processed and organized, but we encourage you to catch sneak peeks on EBT's Facebook and Instagram pages. |  Open classes are an excellent way to stay in shape before intensives begin. | Regular classes end on Saturday, June 17, but we know many of you want to keep dancing. Dancers 10 and up are invited to drop in daily or sign up for our weekly sessions of open ballet and pointe/pre-pointe classes. ▪ June 19-23: 4:00-6:00 p.m. ($150 or $30/day)
▪ June 26-30: 4:00-6:00 p.m. ($150 or $30/day)
▪ July 3, 5-7: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ($120 or $30/day)
| ▪ | June 19-23: 4:00-6:00 p.m. ($150 or $30/day) | | ▪ | June 26-30: 4:00-6:00 p.m. ($150 or $30/day) | | ▪ | July 3, 5-7: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ($120 or $30/day) | For the safety of our students, only dancers who have been on pointe for 1+ years can wear pointe shoes during the pointe portion of class. Visit our website to see our entire line-up of summer camps, classes and ballet intensives. Camps are starting to fill, so it's important to sign up right away! Register online here. Questions? Email info@emeraldballet.org. |  Join us for Adult Ballet on Thursdays this summer. | Great news! Due to popular demand, we are offering adult ballet classes throughout the summer. June 22 - August 31
Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Mr. Roman is teaching in June and July, and Ms. Skye is teaching in August. $15 per class or buy a punchcard ($156 for 12 classes; expires in 3 months). |  The Teaching Institute is a valuable experience for new and returning participants alike. | EBT's Teaching Institute continues this summer, with workshops, camp internships, and the opportunity to earn community service hours for school. Whether it's your first year or fourth, teens should not miss out on this opportunity! IMPORTANT DATES: ▪ June 13: Summer workshop at studio (Pedagogy for Preballet and community-based dance; thematic lesson planning)
▪ July 24-28 and July 31-August 4: Summer Teaching Institute internship & classes at EBT and Bellevue School District (Register for one week)
▪ August 29: Summer wrap-up session at Perrigo Park
| ▪ | June 13: Summer workshop at studio (Pedagogy for Preballet and community-based dance; thematic lesson planning) | | ▪ | July 24-28 and July 31-August 4: Summer Teaching Institute internship & classes at EBT and Bellevue School District (Register for one week) | | ▪ | August 29: Summer wrap-up session at Perrigo Park | |  "Epic," "graceful," "powerful," and "exciting" were just some of the words audience members used to describe our assemblies. | Wow! Another fabulous season of outreach is in the books. This spring, the EBT Magic Bus reached 1,375 audience members during three performances at Sunset Elementary and Newport Heights Elementary. The "Language Arts" theme was brought to life by approximately 40 EBT dancers and our amazing Programming Director, Sarah Jacobsen. Special thanks goes to Katie Hatfield and Chantell Ray for coordinating costumes and organizing performers at the Magic Bus venues, and to Maggie Hsu and Amina Condel who took pictures and video. |  Book now for your EBT Magic Bus assembly next spring. The theme will be "Social Studies: Folktales of the Pacific Northwest." | One of the most rewarding parts of these assemblies is receiving feedback afterwards. An NHE teacher called it “the best assembly of the year,” and a para-educator working with students with severe special needs said, “Usually we dread assemblies with our kids, but Magic Bus was different. They were happy and welcomed to participate in their own way.” Students in the audience chose these words to describe the shows: “Epic,” “graceful,” “energetic,” “powerful,” “gentle,” “exciting,” “funny,” “athletic,” “not boring,” “soft,” and “wild and crazy,” among others. The Magic Bus will return next Spring with a new theme of "Social Studies: Folktales of the Pacific Northwest." Limited assemblies are available. Would you like EBT to come to your school? Please email info@emeraldballet.org for more information. |  Give BIG donations support EBT's Scholarship Fund ... thank you! | A huge thank you to our community for supporting us on Give BIG. We raised almost $500 for EBT's Scholarship Fund. This money will help provide dance education, pointe shoes, performance and competition opportunities for EBT dancers who otherwise could not afford them. Missed Give BIG? You can still contribute by donating directly through our website at emeraldballet.org. Designate “Scholarship Fund,” or we will determine where funds are most needed. Thank you! |  Sofia and Sidhya placed 3rd and 2nd in WA state's Reflections contest (Dance/Choreography category for grades 3-5). | ▪ We're thrilled to announce that Kate Leach and Misha Carnes have been chosen for the role of Little Clara in our next Nutcracker. These fantastic, dedicated dancers will begin rehearsing over the summer.
▪ After advancing to state, Sofia Hatfield and Sidhya Ganesh were honored at the Reflections ceremony, where Sofia received 3rd place and Sidhya 2nd. A fifth grader at Spirit Ridge, Sidhya has entered the Reflections program in the Dance/Choreography category several years in a row and has won in her district each year.
▪ Congratulations to Danil Zinovyev, who placed in the Top 6 of the Junior Men’s category at the YAGP NY Finals, and was offered multiple scholarships to some of the world’s top academies. He has decided to attend the John Cranko Schule (Stuttgart Ballet) in the fall.
▪ Maria Gringauze was accepted to the Long Beach Ballet summer intensive.
| ▪ | We're thrilled to announce that Kate Leach and Misha Carnes have been chosen for the role of Little Clara in our next Nutcracker. These fantastic, dedicated dancers will begin rehearsing over the summer. | | ▪ | After advancing to state, Sofia Hatfield and Sidhya Ganesh were honored at the Reflections ceremony, where Sofia received 3rd place and Sidhya 2nd. A fifth grader at Spirit Ridge, Sidhya has entered the Reflections program in the Dance/Choreography category several years in a row and has won in her district each year. | | ▪ | Congratulations to Danil Zinovyev, who placed in the Top 6 of the Junior Men’s category at the YAGP NY Finals, and was offered multiple scholarships to some of the world’s top academies. He has decided to attend the John Cranko Schule (Stuttgart Ballet) in the fall. | | ▪ | Maria Gringauze was accepted to the Long Beach Ballet summer intensive. | Is there an EBT superstar you would like to thank or celebrate? Email leah@emeraldballet.org so we can include more kudos and accomplishments in our next newsletter. | We need: ▪ Grocery store gift cards to purchase healthy foods/drinks for snack sales
| ▪ | Grocery store gift cards to purchase healthy foods/drinks for snack sales | Please email info@emeraldballet.org if you can help. Donations to non-profit EBT are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. | June 13: Teaching Institute training workshop at EBT
June 17: Last day of regular classes
June 19: Open classes for ages 10+ begin
June 22: Thursday Adult Ballet begins
June 24: Saturday PreBallet classes for ages 3-7 begin
July 10-13: Flower Fairy camp
July 10-14: Master classes with Daniel Wilkins
July 17-21: Dance & Discovery camp |  Be our guest at this year's Music Can Dance camp, when younger kids will learn excerpts from Beauty and the Beast. | July 17-21: Music Can Dance musical theater camp - Beauty and the Beast & Oklahoma
July 24-27: Flower Fairy camp
July 24-28: Master classes with Gary Lewis
July 24-28 and July 31-Aug. 4: Teaching Institute weeks
Aug. 1: Online registration for fall begins
Aug. 7-11: Master classes with Erin Crall
Aug. 29: EBT Summer Picnic
Sept. 6: Fall classes begin
Sept. 11-16: Open House week - Free trial classes!
Sept. 23: Open Nutcracker auditions
Dec. 2-3 and 9-10: The Nutcracker | Emerald Ballet Theatre is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that is committed to advancing the art of ballet through education, performance, community outreach, and collaboration with other arts organizations. The Academy offers classes for ages 3 through adult. | |
