Master Classes
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Ballet Ensemble of South Texas is offering an amazing opportunity for dancers to take class with acclaimed instructors on a quarterly basis.
| Soili Arvola |
Sunday, February 5, 2006
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Houston International Ballet Academy
301 Highway 3 North, League City
Sunday, April 2, 2006
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Kennedy Dance Theatre
15210 Highway 3, Webster
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| Buddy and Susan Treviño |
Sunday, May 7, 2006
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Houston International Ballet Academy
301 Highway 3 North, League City
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| Amber Thornton |
Sunday, August 6, 2006
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Houston International Ballet Academy
301 Highway 3 North, League City
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Each class is limited to 30 students. Participants must be at least 11 years old and at the intermediate level. Reservations are preferred, though walk-ins will be accepted. Space is filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tuition is $25 per class
Submit the following to Ballet Ensemble of South Texas:
The complete package can be mailed to:
Ballet Ensemble of South Texas
P.O. Box 1787
League City, TX 77574
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Soili Arvola |
Soili Arvola began her training at the age of 8 when she was accepted to the Ballet Academy of the National Opera House in Helsinki, Finland. At the age of 17 she joined the National Ballet of Finland and toured around the world. The Prima Ballerina has appeared as a guest ballerina with the Finnish National Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Chicago Ballet, Houston Ballet, London’s Royal Ballet Choreoraphic Group, Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Ballet International de Ochi of Japan, and with numerous Symphony Orchestras and Civic Ballet Companies around the world.
Ms. Arvola's ballet roles include Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Coppelia, Don Quijote and many more. She has also choreographed and staged Tarzan, Dracula, and Samson and Delilah for “new style” full-length ballets. |
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Buddy and Susan Treviño |
Susan Treviño |
 Ms. Treviño and her husband Buddy have been Co-Directors of The Joffrey Workshop since 1978, and co-directed the Dance Department of the University of the Incarnate Word since 1977. Trained in her native Oklahoma, she achieved solo and principal status in regional and professional companies including Oklahoma City Civic Ballet, Austin Ballet Theatre, Festival Ballet of San Antonio, Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Ballet Arts Company of Denver, Rocky Mountain National Ballet, and Ruty Page International Ballet Company. As choreographer, she has more than 150 original works to her credit, including Gaite City's Hunter College in 1996, for tours in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Ms. Treviño is a 1990 inductee in the San Antonio Women's Celebration and Hall of Fame, and in 1986 the San Antonio Express-News awarded her Outstanding Young Woman in the Arts. She is a member of the National Society of Arts and Letters and the National Association of Schools of Dance. Happily married to Alberdo "Buddy" Treviño for 30 years, they have one daughter, Teresa, and a new granddaughter. |
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Buddy Treviño |
| A native of San Antonio, Texas, Abelardo "Buddy" Treviño began his formal dance training at age 11 with the Mexican-American Cultural Exchange Institute of San Antonio. Through the Institute he received a full scholarship to study at the Academia National de Danza in Mexico City. Upon completion of the academic curriculum, Mr. Treviño was accepted into the Ballet National de Mexico where he performed extensively for five years throughout the Republic of Mexico, Central and South America. |
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| In 1977, Buddy and Susan Treviño established the dance program at the University of the Incarnate Word. In 1990, Mr. Treviño co-authored An Introduction to Fine Arts, a textbook for a course published by Ginn Press, a division of Simon & Schuster. |
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| In 1977, Robert Joffrey asked the Treviños to develop and host a workshop as part of his vision of a summer workshop that would attract young, talented dancers from across the country and expose them to the rigors and demands of a progessional career in dance. Having the privilege of working directly with Mr. Joffrey, Mr. Treviño knows the importance Mr. Joffrey placed on the regional dance movement. Twenty-seven years later, The Joffrey Workshop TX continues to draw some of the most exceptional dancers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. The Joffrey Workshop TX enjoys the unique distinction of being one of the most highly regarded summer ballet programs in the U.S. It has served as the conduit for many dancers who have been accepted into the Joffrey II Dancers and the Joffrey Ballet, as well as American Ballet THeater, New York City Ballet, The San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and numerous others. |
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Amber Thornton |
Amber Thornton has studied and performed with Delia Stewart Jazz Dance Company, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Company, Bay Area Houston Ballet & Theatre, Euroasia Ballet, The Houston Met, and Dorrell Martin's Dance Fusion to name a few. She has also studied with Houston Ballet Academy, Hubbard Street of Chicago, Broadway Dance Center and Steps in NYC amongst others.
Amber performed in the 1988 Sammy Awards with Jaime Rogers and Ben Vereen and has appeared as a guest artist for various companies, including "Dance Explosion" in Vail, Colorado. She has appeared in local commercials and has done promotional work for Macy's, Capezio, and Matuszewski fashion productions, as well as starring in the promotional film, Bonhomme with Zircon pictures.
Amber is currently on staff with Planet Funk. She was the 1998 recipient of the Monticello Scholarship for her choreographed work, "Unzipped Entropy", at the Regional Dance America Festival where her works have been performed many times, including the 2001 National Gala. Amber's 2002 piece, "Portraying Picasso", as well as her 2004 piece, "Twenty-Nine" was selected for the National Choreography Plan, "which is a National Endowment for the Arts program to recognize and support artistic and choreographic excellence.
Amber was a selected commissioned choreographer for JCC's 2004 Choreographers x 6, and participated in their Summer Texas Tanz concert. In addition, her choreography has been performed in various venues including Dance Houston, Big Range Dance Festival's "Late Night at the Cabaret" and at the Kirov Academy's gala in Washington D.C. Amber's choreography has also been seen at many benefits, fund-raising events, and local festivals throughout the Clear Lake and Houston area. In addition to creating the art of movement, her true love is her wonderful children, Hudson and Savannah.
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