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Draper Center Summer Dance Intensive Faculty Annou

Draper Center Summer Dance Intensive Faculty Announcement!
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✨Alexandra Insinga will be joining us!!✨
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Alexandra Insinga received her early training in Melbourne, Australia, where she received a Diploma of Art with Honors, passed her RAD Advanced II exam with Distinction and was a finalist in the City of Sydney McDonald’s Ballet Scholarships. She continued her studies at the New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD), during which time she was invited to compete in the 2003 New York International Ballet Competition and performed in the semi-finals at Lincoln Center. She graduated from NZSD the same year, attaining a National Certificate in Dance Performance.

Following her formal training, she was coached by legendary American ballerina Gelsey Kirkland and was the recipient of the Kingston City Arts Grant, which allowed her to further her training with Ms. Kirkland in New York City.

Alexandra was trained as a teacher in the Vaganova method by Nina Osipyan and Robert Ray. She also studied the Bournonville Enchainments alongside Gelsey Kirkland, and assisted her and Michael Chernov in research for their 2007 production of The Sleeping Beauty for American Ballet Theatre.

Alexandra moved to New York City in 2010, when she began teaching for Joffrey Ballet School and Gelsey Kirkland Academy (GKA). She became Associate Artistic Director of GKA and Gelsey Kirkland Ballet in 2015. In addition to teaching all levels of the Academy as well as the Company, she was Assistant Choreographer for Kirkland and Chernov’s new production of “The Nutcracker”, and she staged and coached repertoire from numerous ballets, including full-length versions of “The Sleeping Beauty”, “Don Quixote”, and “Pas de Quatre”, as well as excerpts from “Swan Lake”, “Paquita”, “Le Corsaire”, and “La Bayadere”, and several rare Bournonville ballets. During her time in New York, Alexandra also conducted extensive audition tours and was a guest teacher throughout the US and Canada…

Draper Center Summer Dance Intensive Faculty Annou

Draper Center Summer Dance Intensive Faculty Announcement!
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✨Brittany Shinay will be joining us!!✨
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BRITTANY SHINAY
Brittany Shinay trained with Jamey Leverett and Tim Draper at the Draper Center for Dance Education in Rochester, NY. Shinay attended Juilliard’s BFA in Dance on full scholarship where she was honored to work with several of the world’s leading choreographers. A principal dancer with the Rochester City Ballet under the artistic direction of Jamey Leverett, The Georgia Ballet, and guest artist with City Center Ballet, Shinay danced the title roles in Cinderella and The Firebird; Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker; Medora in Le Corsaire, and Titania in Frederick Ashton’s The Dream. Moving to NYC in 2017, she was hired by choreographer, Jason Wise, as associate choreographer for Mamma Mia!, the inaugural production of the equity theatre, A.C.T. of Connecticut founded by Broadway’s Daniel C. Levine, Katie Diamond, and Bryan Perri, under the artistic advisory of Stephen Schwartz. She then served as associate choreographer for Ryan Raftery’s The Obsession of Calvin Klein at The Public Theater. Shinay has taught ballet and choreographed for Draper Center and other studios throughout the U.S. for the past 13 years, coaching students for prominent U.S. and international competitions. She is an ABT National Training Curriculum Certified Teacher in Pre-Primary through Level 7 and currently holds faculty positions at the ABT JKO School, Princeton Dance & Theater Studio, and Bay Ridge Prep School. Shinay is a 2023 graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in History where she performed in Jeremy McQueen’s Kinetic with the Columbia Ballet Collaborative. She earned her Master’s degree in Dance Education and ABT Ballet Pedagogy from American Ballet Theatre and New York University in 2024.

Draper Center Summer Dance Intensive Faculty Annou

Draper Center Summer Dance Intensive Faculty Announcement!
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✨Ivonne Lemus will be joining us!!✨
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Ivonne Lemus begin her dance study at the Provincial Art School in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba and then was selected to continue her training at the National School of Ballet in Havana, Cuba. After graduating she joined the ballet national of Cuba where she trained by Alicia Alonso, Joséfina Mendez, Loipa Araufo & Laura Alonso. Lemus was promoted to soloist and later joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Canada. She has appeared in various work including Swan Lake, Gisele, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, La Fille Mal Gardee, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Paquita, Raymonda Theme and Variations, Apollo, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Carmina Burana. As a teacher and coach, Lemus has taught at Costal Dance Center, Jose Mateo Ballet Theater, and at Boston Ballet and Harbor University in Boston. Lemus joined the Patel Conservatory in August 2007 & is the Ballet Mistress for the Next Generation Ballet. During her time at the Patel Conservatory, Lemus’ students placed 1st at the @yagp regionals semi-finals (2008-2011); won Silver Medal at the 2011 @worldballetcompetition; won 2011 @yagp Reginald semi-final Grand Prix; won the 2011 Gold Medal in the Junior Division at the @yagp Finals; and won the Silver Medal at the 2011 @yagp Finals in the Ensemble Category.

2025 Graduating Senior Spotlight! Miss Gwendolyn

2025 Graduating Senior Spotlight!
Miss Gwendolyn Nellis ❤️
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