Ballet and Acrobatic dance training help your child focus.
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Why Ballet training helps children with school performance.
How acrobatic training helps all forms of dance
Warrenton Ballet received their Chraritable Tax Exempt status from IRS - 501(c)(3)
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The Ballet Academy of Warrenton Teaching Staff brings a strong and diverse educational and dance background to our dance program:
Melissa Yowell teaches creative dance, introduction to dance, introduction to ballet, and tap; and is the Academy’s Assistant Director. She has been dancing since age 8; and has been with the Ballet Academy since we opened in August, 2000.
Melissa enjoys how music and dance allows a person to express their feelings and to create lasting friendships with people of all ages.
She began working with children in her family’s daycare business; and has extensive business experience working in her family’s Glengary Christmas Tree Farm in Viewtown.
She appeared with the Berkshire Ballet
and the New Jersey Ballet in their Warrenton productions of The Nutcracker.
Ms. Yowell earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science and a
Post-Baccalaureate degree in Biology, both from Mary Washington College. When
government budget cuts in these fields led to the third job cut, Melissa did
much soul searching and praying while teaching at the Academy.
She decided to return to college and study nursing; and is now an RN working in the Neonatal ICU at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg. She works nights so that she can continue to dance with her friends and students.
Ms. Yowell, along with Academy Director Linda Voelpel, choreographed My Fair Lady for Fauquier Community Theatre in spring, 2003.
Philip S. Rosemond has 26 years performing experience as a professional dancer; 28 years experience teaching dance; 19 years experience as a director, choreographer, ballet master, counseling and workshop facilitator; 15 years experience in dance and arts management, consulting, and curatorship; and 5 years experience as a seminar and workshop facilitator in objectives training for artists and dancers.
He has performed with Washington (DC) Ballet, New York City Opera Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Ballet Met of Columbus, Cincinnati/New Orleans Ballet, Western Chamber Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, New York City Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Boulder Ballet Ensemble, and many other companies.
Mr. Rosemond has served as Ballet Master and Artistic Director at the Manassas Dance Company, Montana Ballet, SW Washington Dance Center, and Western Chamber Ballet.
He received the Bachelor of Fine Arts Cum Laude from the University of Cincinnati, completing his studies under a CCM full honors scholarship.
He began his dance training as a scholarship student at the Washington School of Ballet. He has studied at ABT and SAB, Joffrey Ballet, and Pennsylvania Ballet as a summer scholarship student. Mr. Rosemond studied ballet independently with Melinko Banovich, Wilhelm Burman, Maggie Black, Melissa Hayden, David Howard, Finis Jhung, Oleg Sabine and many others. He trained in Vaganova Pedagogy with Gretchen Warren, Marat Daukayev, Nikita Dolgushin, and Sergey Kozadayev/Zhanna Dubrovskaya. He studied modern and modern pedagogy with James Truitte: (Horton Technique & General Pedagogy), Fanchon Shur, Jan Van Dyke, Stephen Petronio, Murray Spalding, Karen Steele, Remy Charlip, and many others.
He is also trained in Performance Art and Ritual Theatre and yoga.
