Summer Intensives
Current BYB Students Pre-Ballet 2 and up are eligible for BYB’s Summer Intensive. Non-BYB students with previous ballet training ages 8 and up contact enrollment@bluegrassyouthballet.org to schedule a placement evaluation for our Summer Intensive programs. BYB welcomes males and females with a strong ballet background, who have a great love for dance, and who are not afraid to push themselves to the next level in a healthy and positive environment. Spots will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. BYB reserves the right to adjust a student’s class placement if necessary at any given time. Tuition fees are non-refundable except for documented cases of extreme illness/injury. Our faculty includes our current faculty as well as guest teachers. An informational email that consists of the dress code, our studio policies, and weekly intensive schedules will be sent to all registered dancers before the beginning of intensives.
BYB Summer Faculty
TBD – Coming Soon
Green Group (Ages 7 – 9)
Our Green level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Pre-Ballet 2 or Elementary A. Our Green level intensive meets twice a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in conditioning, ballet, contemporary or character dancing, and choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 and Thursday, June 8, 2023 from 9:00 – 1:00.
Yellow Group
Our Yellow level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Elementary B or Elementary C. Our Yellow level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Orange Group
Our Orange level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate A or Intermediate B. Our Orange level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe/Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Red Group
Our Red level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate C, Advanced, and Pre-Professional. Our Red level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
TBD – Coming Soon
Green Group (Ages 7 – 9)
Our Green level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Pre-Ballet 2 or Elementary A. Our Green level intensive meets twice a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in conditioning, ballet, contemporary or character dancing, and choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 and Thursday, July 20, 2023 from 9:00 – 1:00.
Yellow Group
Our Yellow level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Elementary B or Elementary C. Our Yellow level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Orange Group
Our Orange level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate A or Intermediate B. Our Orange level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe/Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Red Group
Our Red level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate C, Advanced, and Pre-Professional. Our Red level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
TBD – Coming Soon
Green Group (Ages 7 – 9)
Our Green level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Pre-Ballet 2 or Elementary A. Our Green level intensive meets twice a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in conditioning, ballet, contemporary or character dancing, and choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 and Thursday, July 27, 2023 from 9:00 – 1:00.
Yellow Group
Our Yellow level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Elementary B or Elementary C. Our Yellow level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Orange Group
Our Orange level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate A or Intermediate B. Our Orange level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe/Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Red Group
Our Red level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate C, Advanced, and Pre-Professional. Our Red level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Theresa Bautista
A freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in the Louisville, KY area, Theresa Bautista trained in Southern Indiana and Louisville where she gained experience in both dance and musical theatre. While earning her biology degree from Indiana University, she continued her dance studies in a program headed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride.
Theresa has performed with ICONography Dance, The Susie Thiel Collaborative, Anna Sapozhnikov’s MOYAMO DANCE, Gordon Dance Projects, Rachel James, jan street dance theatre, and Art! Art! Barking Dog Dance Company. Theresa is the founder and Co-Artistic Director of Moving Collective, a contemporary dance company in Louisville KY and has been hailed by the Louisville Courier Journal as “a delight to watch” and by Louisville Arts Review as “mesmerizing” on stage.
As a choreographer, she has created works for Centre College, Moving Collective, the University of Kentucky’s Department of Theatre and Dance, Berea College Modern Dance Troupe, the University of Louisville Dance Theatre, The Center for Women and Families, Empujon, Bluegrass Youth Ballet, the University of Kentucky Dance Ensemble and the Louisville Ballet Youth Ensemble. Her work Victims, received Gala honors at the Southeast Regional Ballet Festival and her work, Go Round, was showcased at the Regional Alternative Dance Festival in Kalamazoo, MI.
Green Group (Ages 7 – 9)
Our Green level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Pre-Ballet 2 or Elementary A. Our Green level intensive meets twice a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in conditioning, ballet, contemporary or character dancing, and choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023 and Thursday, August 3, 2023 from 9:00 – 1:00.
Yellow Group
Our Yellow level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Elementary B or Elementary C. Our Yellow level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 1:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Orange Group
Our Orange level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate A or Intermediate B. Our Orange level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pre-Pointe/Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Red Group
Our Red level intensive is for BYB students currently enrolled in Intermediate C, Advanced, and Pre-Professional. Our Red level intensive meets five times a week from 9:00 – 4:00. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Variations, Character, Dance Theory, and Choreography. Please bring your own lunch.
Blue Group
Our Blue level intensive is for current BYB students in our Pre-Professional level, BYB Alumni, or Professional dancers. Our Blue level intensive meets five times a week from 5:00 – 9:00 pm. Students will participate in Conditioning, Ballet, and Contemporary.