Zhade's Ballet West Summer Intensive Fund

Help send Zhade to the Ballet West summer intensive! This February, Z auditioned for the summer intensive held at Ballet West in Utah. This is an amazing opportunity and we are asking for help to raise the funds to send her there.

Z's passion has been dance since she was very little and anyone who knows her, knows she dances all the time and dances some genre of some sort every day. Ballet is her most technical style of dance and intensives are the best way she can get top instruction at top academies with the limited access we have in rural Oregon. It is an honor to be accepted into a program like this. If we lived closer, we might be able to enroll her at a dance academy like this one, but since we don't, summer programs are the access point for this level of instruction for dancers like her.

At this intensive, she will be dancing 6 days a week, Monday thru Saturday including a two hour technique class, a one hour additional ballet class (such as pointe, men’s technique, pas de deux, variations, or repertoire) and a one hour class of a different dance genre (jazz, modern, contemporary, character, flamenco, Irish) each day. In addition, every level has a cross training class (such as Pilates, yoga, conditioning, or a seminar) each day.

Funds raised will go towards tuition, her housing and meal plan, travel expenses, and needed attire (you have no idea how many pointe shoes dancers go through).