VVAD SUMMER PROGRAMS 2025
VVAD summer 2025 enrollment begins April 1st, 2025!!!
2025 SUMMER PROGRAMS:
FAIRY TALE DANCE CAMPS:
DanceCamp #1: EDWARDS LOCATION
June 9-13, 2025 from 9:00am-12:00pm
Monday-Friday
9:00am-12:00pm
Ages 3-6 (Dancers must be potty trained)
$350 – Financial Aid Not Available
Join your favorite Princesses to dance, have snack time and crafts. All crafts and snacks provided. Please let us know if your dancer has a food allergy so we can plan accordingly. You do not need to be a current VVAD student to attend this camp. You do not need any dance training to attend this camp.
Registration opens April 1, 2025 (see your parent portal)
Dance Camp #2: EAGLE LOCATION
July 14-18, 2025
Monday-Friday
9:00am-12:00pm
Ages 3-6 (Dancers must be potty trained)
$350 – Financial Aid Not Available
Join your favorite Princesses to dance, have snack time and crafts. All crafts and snacks provided. Please let us know if your dancer has a food allergy so we can plan accordingly. You do not need to be a current VVAD student to attend this camp. You do not need any dance training to attend this camp.
Registration opens April 1, 2025 (see your parent portal)
TAP DANCE CAMP 2025:
August 4-8, 2025
Monday-Friday
Ages 7-9 (Beginning Tap) – 9:00am-10:45am
Ages 10-12 (Intermediate Tap) – 11:00am-12:45pm
Ages 13+ (Intermediate/Advanced Tap) – 1:00pm-2:45pm
$175
This Tap camp is for dancers looking to work on their tap skills while surrounded by dancers at their same level and skill set. This camp is intended to boost dancers’ confidence and knowledge all while having a great time in the studio. The dancers will learn more about the history of Tap and why it is so important to take tap as a dancer.
Registration opens April 1, 2025 (see your parent portal)
SUMMER COURSE INTENSIVE 2025:
June 16-27, 2025
Monday-Friday
9:30am-4:30pm
One or two week sessions available
Ages 12+ (Please contact us for an audition)
$1800 for both weeks / $950 for a single week – Financial Aid is available through Vail Friends of Dance.
This is a dance intensive for the most serious dancers. Classes offered in Ballet, Pointe, Variations, Contemporary, and Choreography. There will be guest Master Teachers brought in to facilitate the dancers furthering their dance education. You do not need to be a current VVAD student to attend this intensive, however, you do need at least two years of serious ballet training to attend this intensive. Dancers 14+ must be on pointe to attend. There is a non-refundable deposit due to attend this camp and hold your dancer’s spot. The non-refundable deposit is due when you register. Deposit - $200
Registration opens April 1, 2025 (see your parent portal)
Junior Intensive 2025:
July 21-25, 2025
Monday-Friday
9:00am-12:30pm
Ages 7-11
$400 – Financial Aid Not Available
This dance camp is for dancers who are interested in keeping up with their skills over the summer while taking a few new styles and preparing them for a successful dance year ahead. The dance styles offered at this intensive will include Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical/Contemporary and Strength. This intensive will focus on the dance training, but also offer some fun class activities to keep the dancers engaged and learning. To attend this intensive, dancers need at least one year of dance training to attend and do not need to be a current VVAD dancer to attend.
Registration opens April 1, 2025 (see your parent portal)
Competition Dance Camp 2025:
July 7-11, 2025
Monday-Friday
9:00am-3:00pm
Ages 9+
$1000 – Financial Aid is available through Vail Friends of Dance.
This is a dance camp for serious competitive dancers. Classes offered in Contemporary, Lyrical, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre, Turns, Jazz, and Auditioning. A mixture of VVAD Staff members and Guest Teachers will teach at this camp. Dancers need at least three years of dance training to attend this camp. This camp will help dancers already accepted into Altitude Dance Company prepare for their upcoming competitive season as well as dancers interested in competitive dance. Non-competitive dancers and dancers who do not attend VVAD can attend this camp but will need to contact VVAD for an audition. The non-refundable deposit is due when you register. Deposit - $200
Registration opens April 1, 2025 (see your parent portal)
Summer Course Intensive Instructors:
Sarah Tallman -
A native of Colorado, Sarah holds a BA with honors in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Northern Colorado, where she was the two-time recipient of the esteemed honor of Dancer of the Year. She has participated in the Inside ODC Professional Workshop, Baardar Dance Institute in Oslo, Norway and Perry- Mansfield Performing Arts School. Sarah has danced with David Taylor Dance Theatre, Kim Robards Dance, Lynn Barr, and Gleich Dances Contemporary Ballet. Off- season, Sarah has been a Principal Artist with Central City Opera performing in Carmen, Anna II in Seven Deadly Sins and Dream Laurey in Oklahoma!. Since joining Wonderbound, Sarah has danced leading roles in Garrett Ammon’s When the Power Goes Out, Intersection, Boomtown, Gone West, and Love in the Digital Age, among others, as well as Dawn Fay’s Like An Onion. Sarah has been featured in world premieres by Alex Ketley, Maurya Kerr, Amy Seiwert, Mark Godden, Ma Cong and Lauri Stallings. An accomplished choreographer, she has created several works for Wonderbound including See Yourself, In-Between Seams, Intimate Letters and I Didn't Hear You, I Was Away with the Fairies. Sarah has taught and created works for the Colorado Conservatory of Dance, and has directed the Intermediate Program at Burklyn Ballet Theatre. Sarah's interests include her loving husband, yoga, the mountains, twinkling lights and the color orange.
Richy Romero -
Richy Romero, of Vineland, New Jersey, received his ballet training with the Vineland Regional Dance Company, where he performed multiple roles in various productions. Richy is the recipient of numerous scholarships, including the Jonathan Phelps Memorial Scholarship from Regional Dance America/Northeast and the Delaware Dance Festival Artistry Award. He joined First State Ballet Theatre in 2015. Richy has danced in pas de deuxs such as Harlequinade and Pas D’esclave from Le Corsaire. Richy’s roles also include The Hooligan from The Young Lady and the Hooligan, Mercutio in Viktor Plotnikov’s Romeo and Juliet, and as Prince Desirè in Sleeping Beauty. He danced for FSBT for five seasons while also majoring in Education at Wilmington University. When he is not in the studio, Richy enjoys photography, sports, and spending time with his family and friends and golf.
Brianna Mesa
Brianna is originally from Minot, ND, where she began her training at the age of 10 under the instruction of Rinat Mouzafarov. She attended summer programs at The Kirov Ballet Academy, and The Pilobolus Institute. She graduated from The Boston Conservatory Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance Pedagogy and Performance. At Western Arkansas Ballet, in Fort Smith, AR, Brianna teaches a range of classes from Ballet and Pointe to Modern where she has developed the Modern program to four levels for ages 9 and up. Brianna is the new Associate Artistic Director of Western Arkansas Ballet. During the summers, Brianna works for Burklyn Ballet Theatre, where she teaches Ballet and Pointe and has the privilege of setting many classical Ballets. Brianna has been the director of the Burklyn Ballet Intermediate program for 5 years. She has performed the lead roles in classical ballets across the country such as Giselle, Le Corsaire, La Bayadere, Rodeo, Sleeping Beauty, Graduation Ball and The Nutcracker. She has also had the honor of performing classical works by Jose Limon, Alwin Nikolais and Ohad Naharin. Brianna’s teaching method has been influenced by many teachers including Rinat Mouzafarov, Donna Silva, Arthur Leeth, Helen Starr, Dylan Crossman and Thom Clower. She is certified in Progressing Ballet Technique. In 2018 and 2021, Brianna’s choreography was chosen to be performed at RDA’s southwest festival. She believes that Ballet technique comes from the understanding of Ballet History and its vocabulary. If you know where ballet comes from, you can appreciate how the art is evolving. Brianna is excited and honored to work with the dancers in Vail.
Ezra Schenck
Raised on a homestead in the mountains of Vermont, Ezra began dancing at a local studio as a
child. He joined the Boston Ballet School at age 15 and trained under Peter Stark for two years
before moving to Florida to continue his training with the Sarasota Ballet School. Ezra spent
three years in Sarasota, where he had multiple works choreographed on him by guests Gemma
Bond, Arcadian Broad, and resident choreographer Ricardo Graziano. He also danced in the
corps de ballet for several company productions including Johan Kobborg’s La Sylphide,
Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations, and Balanchine’s Western Symphony. Ezra joined
Ballet Austin in 2023 and has been featured in company performances including Stephen Mills’s
Hamlet, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty.