Nebraska Dance Camp

Welcome to the Nebraska Summer Dance Camp!

The Nebraska Summer Dance Camp invites you to be part of our 24th year! Join us for seven exciting days of intensive dance – plus outdoor recreation at the Nebraska National Forest – with top Midwest teachers plus our featured guest instructors, Sandra Organ Solis, Dalienne Majors, and Danielle Laurion.

This year’s camp dates are:

June 26 – July 2, 2011
Nebraska State 4-H Camp View Map
Halsey, Nebraska

How to register:

Click here to download a printable copy of the 2011 camp brochure and registration form. Complete the registration form (including your dance teacher’s recommendation) and send it in with your $200 deposit. We recommend registering early to assure your place!

If you have questions or need more information, contact the Omaha Academy of Ballet by emailing us at academy@oabdance.org or calling us and leaving a message at (402) 346-0469. We look forward to seeing you at camp!

About the camp: Exciting, intensive, affordable summer dance!

This fast-paced program will provide a rewarding challenge for dancers at moderate to advanced levels Enrollment is limited to 70; students will be grouped by ability to assure individual attention. Minimum requirements: age 10 and two years of ballet. Students will take three to four classes daily.

In order to achieve balanced enrollment, we limit the number of students in each age bracket – so to avoid disappointment, please send in your application early. When an age bracket is filled, a waiting list system will apply. Waiting-list applicants will be informed.

All students will have one classical ballet class each day, plus 2–3 other classes providing a balanced program for each level:

Pointe – Works on developing the strength and technique needed to allow the female dancer to dance on pointe. (For advanced students only.)

Modern dance – Includes exposure to various techniques, repertory, and specific strength, balance and flexibility training to assist in every form of dance.

Jazz – Full warmup, center work, progressions across the floor, and Broadway-style combinations.

Modern camp facilities and exciting activities amid spectacular scenery at the Nebraska State 4-H Camp

The State 4-H Camp is located on the edge of the nation’s largest man-planted forest, near Halsey. The camp location combines the best of a forest setting with the great Nebraska Sandhills. Go ‘tubing’ down the Middle Loup River, try your skill on the Challenge Course, walk the forest trails and enjoy the range of animal and bird life on view.

A quality program, affordably priced

The total cost for the summer dance camp is only $399, including tuition, room & board, all activities, and camp T-shirt. Please enclose a check with your registration form, payable to “Summer Seminar.” Register today to assure your place. Registrations will be due June 21.

2011 Camp Faculty

Sandra Organ Solis was a soloist with Houston Ballet and its first African-American female ballerina, leaving the company after fifteen seasons to work as a guest artist, independent choreographer, and Artistic Director of Earthen Vessels (SODC), a contemporary ballet ensemble in Houston. She was taught by Valerie Roche in her hometown of Omaha, completing all levels of the Royal Academy of Dancing syllabus, and graduated valedictorian from Duchesne Academy before entering Houston Ballet Academy as a scholarship student. Her international career with the Houston Ballet encompassed a diverse range of roles in the classical and contemporary realm, from choreographers Ben Stevenson, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, and Sir Kenneth MacMillian to Christopher Bruce, James Kudelka and Paul Taylor. A master teacher, she has served as a teaching artist in residence fro Houston Ballet, as well as on the faculty of Houston Ballet Academy.

Dalienne Majors is a native of Omaha. She began dance lessons at the age of four with Betty Jean Assmann and continued her professional dance training with Valerie Roche at the Omaha Academy of Ballet, the Juilliard School in New York City and the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Dalienne currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where she is Chair of the K-12 dance program at the Berkeley Carroll School.

Danielle Laurion is on the faculty of the Omaha Academy of Ballet and the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She holds a master’s degree in dance/movement therapy and counseling from Columbia College Chicago. She also earned her master’s certificate in Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), and is level one certified in Language of Dance (LOD). Throughout her professional dance career, she performed with companies such as David Dorfman, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, Ko Thi, and Hip Hop Connexions. She is a member of the National Dance Educators’ Organization and the American Dance Therapy Association. Danielle has choreographed for show choirs, musical theater productions, youth companies, dance teams, studios, and universities.

Barbara Hartmann teaches health for the Omaha Public Schools. She owned the Creative Dance for Children dance studio in Fremont, Neb. for 25 years, teaching creative movement, ballet, jazz and tap. She also has taught jazz at the Omaha Academy of Ballet and Creighton University and is certiﬁed by Dance Masters of America.

Karen Jamieson received her advanced training from Valerie Roche. She has a teaching diploma from Royal Academy of Dance and Associate Diploma from Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London. She is owner/director of Heartland School of Dance, Grand Island, Nebraska.

Patti Zukaitis received a BFA in dance from Creighton University and an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and holds the Associate Diploma through the ISTD Professional Teaching examinations. She is co-director of the Omaha Academy of Ballet and a faculty member in the dance department at Creighton University.

Lynne Nevin began her dance training in Lincoln with Flavia Waters Champe, and later continued her studies in Omaha with Valerie Roche. She received a BA degree in art history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She holds the Associate Diploma through the ISTD Professional Teaching examinations, and has studied the Alexander Technique (a method for analyzing and improving movement patterns.) She teaches dance at UNL and at studios in Omaha and Lincoln.