En Pointe
Keeping you on pointe with Mill Ballet & Roxey Ballet

A Look Ahead...

- February 15th: Brown Bag & Ballet during Carmen rehearsals

- February 16th: Beer & Ballet during Carmen rehearsals

- February 24th: Carmen Opens

- February 29th: deadline to register early for Summer Dance

Thank you for Sharing the Love

Thank you to all of the families who have already participated in our Share the Love contest. We appreciate the kind words and are grateful for each and every one of you.

In case you missed it, when you Share the Love for Mill Ballet School this month you will be entered to win one of 3 prizes. The rules are simple: for every like and share of Mill Ballet School posts on Instagram and Facebook in February, you will receive one entry. For every 5 star review written on Google in February, you will receive one entry. (If you have already been so kind as to leave us a 5 star Google review, THANK YOU, and rest assured we will count those as entries too.) For every referral to a class or summer program that mentions your name, you will receive one entry. There are no limits to how many entries you can have.

The Importance of Diversifying Your Dance Training

Ballet students know the importance of form, extension, and having a lightness in the body, but expanding your dance training beyond ballet can enhance your skills and teach your body to move in new ways.

As part of our Summer Dance Intensive and Ballet Intensive, students learn flamenco from world-class dancer Lisa Botalico. Lisa challenges students to experience a new type of dance where feet rythmically stomp, skirts swoosh and fans are used as props. Movements are bold and intentional and with a passionate flare.

Register now for Summer Dance and give your dancer the opportunity to enjoy this unique experience.

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Summer Dance Guest Instructor Lisa Botalico

Mill Ballet School is excited to welcome back Lisa Botalico as an instructor for our Summer Dance Intensive and Ballet Intensive teaching flamenco to students ages 7-18.

Lisa Botalico is currently Assistant Director/Principal Dancer/Choreographer of Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre. Lisa toured the United States as Artistic Director and Principal dancer of La Compañía Folklorica Latina for the National Theatre of the Performing Arts. She was featured many times on NJN’s Images/Imagenes, including the Emmy Award winning documentary, The Spanish Guitar. New Jersey performances include: NJPAC, Morristown Community Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, George Street Playhouse and New Brunswick PAC.

A much sought after teacher/choreographer, Lisa founded the ongoing Children and Adult Flamenco Dance Program at the Arts Council of Princeton in 1999 and also teaches for Princeton Dance and Theatre Studio’s conservatory program. She has taught for the recreation departments of Rutgers and Princeton Universities and Union County College’s Continuing Education Program and as guest presenter for Rider University’s Dance Program. Lisa’s arts in education residences include: Princeton Regional Schools, Princeton Day School, Stuart Country Day School; Lawrenceville School and Ewing Public Schools.

Lisa’s photo was included in the retrospective, 100 Years of Flamenco in NYC at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center and she was the Arts Council of Princeton’s 2014 Artist in Residence. Lisa has collaborated with the Roxey Ballet in their productions of Carmen and Latin Creations. In 2019 Lisa was nominated for a Perry Award for Best Choreography by the New Jersey Association of Community Theaters for her choreography in the North East American premier of Zorro, the Musical, music by the Gipsy Kings, produced by PinnWorth Productions at the Kelsey Theater. In June, 2024, Lisa Botalico will have a studio named in her honor commemorating her twenty five years of teaching and performing at The Arts Council of Princeton.

Lisa can be seen performing in the upcoming run of Carmen, February 24-March 3.

For information and to register for all our summer programs, click here.

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