Katnap Dance Center . 12932 Venice Blvd . Los Angeles, CA 90066 . (310) 351-1536
February 25, 2010:
Thank you to Jenny-Lyn Marais for organizing
a studio "field trip" to see the Bolshoi
Ballet's Don
Quixote at the Orange County Performing Arts
Center. A special treat for everyone was meeting
Yuri's daughter Anna Leonova, a Bolshoi
first soloist
who danced the role of Street Dancer.
February
2010: Congratulations to our students
Katherine McDermott (senior division),
Arianna Spitz (junior division) and
Jolie Moray (pre-competitive division)
who participated in the YAGP Regional
competition in Long Beach. Many months of hard
work culminated in superb performances by all
three girls, with Jolie earning a top-twelve
placement and an invitation to compete in the
National round in New York.
Save these dates for
our Spring Recital and Summer Intensive
June 5, 2010:
Spring Recital at Pepperdine University's
Smothers Theatre This year's recital will
include two shows at 1 PM and 5 PM on Saturday,
June 5. The program will showcase our
talented dancers in classical ballet group and solo
variations, character dances and
modern compositions, and will include original
choreography by Viktor Kabaniaev, Vladimir
Kolesnikov, Alina Volynsky
and Seda Aybay. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15
for children and seniors.
August 9 - August 28,
2010: Summer Intensive In
August, we will once again be
joined by Arkady Nikolaev, a
Ballet Master of the Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet
to offer a world-class summer intensive for beginning
through advanced students, featuring training in ballet technique, pointe, variations, character and modern styles,
as well as stretch and conditioning. Guest
faculty will include Nancy Raffa of ABT, Viktor Kabaniaev
of the Diablo Ballet and Vladimir
and Nina Kolesnikov. For more
information and to reserve your place,
please call the school.
Sept, 2009: Congratulations to our student
Alexia Caramitsos-Tziras
on her acceptance to the American Ballet
Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School's pre-professional division. We wish her
the very best!
Aug, 2009: Congratulations to
Indiana Woodward
and Amanda de Oliveira who won
first and second place respectively at the
Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive in New
York City. As winners,
they were invited to participate in the Spring
2010 Gala
Performance of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy at the
Moscow Bolshoi Theater and to study at the Academy full time.
Three other Bolshoi summer intensive participantsfrom our studio -- Nina Dubovitsky, Grace
Gottlieb and Kalea Power, as well as our
alumnae Mallory Clark and Jodi Labowe
also received year-round invitations. Amanda and
Mallory accepted and will enter the Bolshoi
trainee program this October.