CDC - Summer2008

Classes start on June 16 till August 22

REGULAR CLASSES
(New students are placed in a level as determined by the Artistic Director)

JULY INTENSIVE SCHEDULE INCLUDES GUEST TEACHERS

Classical Ballet with Ms. Ivonne Lemus
June 30 - July 11
(No class on 4th of July)

Musical Theater with Ms. Vivienne Bews Sulkoski
Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18

Classical Ballet with Ms. Sandra Burnham
Musical Theater with Ms. Vivienne Bews Sulkoski
Drama Workshop with Mr. Howard Burnham
Monday, July 21 – Friday, July 25

*New Incoming students have to do a level placement class prior to attending the Intensives.
The level classification will be determined by the Director.

GUEST FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

Ivonne Lemus
Ivonne Lemus began her dance studies at the Provintial Arts School in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and was
selected to continue her training at the National School of Ballet in Havana, Cuba. She graduated from the
National School of Ballet in 1986 and joined the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, where she was trained by Alicia
Alonso, Josefina Mendez, Loipa Araufo and Laura Alonso. Lemus was promoted to soloist in 1996 and later
joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Canada as a soloist. She has appeared in both classic and
contemporary works, including Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, La Fille Mal Gardee, Don
Quixote, The Nutcracker, Paquita, Raymonda Theme and Variations, Apollo, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet,
Sleeping Beauty and Carmina Burana. Lemus has also participated in numerous international ballet
festivals through Ballet Nacional de Cuba – Festival Cervantino Mexico, Arts Festival Scotland, Summer
Festival Spain -- and has performed in the U.S. and in more than 30 other countries including those in
Europe, South America, Australia and Asia. As a teacher and coach, Lemus has taught at Coastal Dance
Centre in Murrells Inlet,South Carolina, Jose Mateo Ballet Theater and most recently, at Boston Ballet. In
2006, she coached an International Ballet Competition gold medalist. She joined the Orlando Ballet School
at the Patel Conservatory as a main ballet instructor in 2007.

Vivienne Bews-Sulkoski
Vivienne began classical training at age nine, and became a professional dancer at the age of 18,
performing throughout her native country, England, until her marriage in 1968. She then directed her own
school for 10 years, before moving to the South of London. At Elmhurst Ballet School, Surrey, she
developed the Musical Theatre 3 year program and served as Head of Musical Theatre .During this time,
Vivienne was also invited to become a Children's Grade Examiner and ultimately, a Major International
Examiner for the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. She was also invited to adjudicate and teach at
Festivals throughout the UK. In 1991 she remarried and relocated in USA. In recent years Vivienne has
organized Examination tours for the Royal Academy of Dance, UK., and was official host of their Summer
Program in California for two consecutive years. She has lectured and taught extensively throughout USA,
Canada, and Europe, and has worked with the Company Dancers of Miami City Ballet. During recent
months she has worked with DPHS, and Valencia College, Orlando, and has presented her work to the
FDEO conference in West Palm Beach. Vivienne is also a fully licensed therapist specializing in the field of
neuromuscular therapy. Realizing the body's amazing capacity to regenerate healthy muscle tissue, this
inspired her to devise and create the 'Myokinetics' program to assist young dancers to reach maximum
flexibility and strength... without risk of injury.

This program - along with 'hands on therapy' - has proved invaluable to patients suffering with chronic
injury, and disabilities. With this in mind she adapted the exercises and stretches used in 'Myokinetics for
the Dancer', to help patients reduce pain and increase flexibility through 'Myokinetics in a Chair' and
'Myokinetics Aqua Therapy'.

Sandra Burnham
Sandra Burnham received her RAD training in Yorkshire England. At the age of 16, she danced with "Ballet
For All", an education unit of the Royal Ballet. Following this, a contract was offered to dance in Paris,
France, with the famous "Bluebell Girls" at the Paris Lido, where she stayed for 7 years. After working in
New York as a television production assistant, she returned to England to open her ballet school, to which
she dedicated 23 years. Many pupils went on to gain scholarships and places at England's most
prestigious vocational schools including the Royal Ballet School. Due to the success of her school, Ms.
Sandra was invited to become a Graded Examiner and Tutor for the Royal Academy of Dance, a position
which she has held for the past 19 years. She currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina where she
teaches on a private basis. Her passion in life is to visit California.

Howard Burnham
Mr. Burnham was educated at Clayesmore School, Dorset, and at the University College in the University
of Durham, where he read Modern History. He has worked as an actor, educator and museum curator. In
1973 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He began performing his acclaimed
dramatic monologues in 1981 for the first Helmsley Arts Festival, when he depicted John Aubrey, the 17th
century antiquary and gossip. Subsequent one-man shows has featured Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear,
Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne, "the Unfortunate Doctor Dodd" (Shakespeare's first anthologist), and
Thomas Hardy. Howard's American programs have included Lord Cornwallis. He filmed the role of the earl
for the BBC2/PBS series "Rebels and Redcoats." Johnny Burgoyne and Saratoga plays regularly at Bunker
Hill, and Saratoga. He is noted for his Shakespeare and Dickens characterizations, which are popular with
high schools and colleges. He is on the Approved Artist Roster of the South Carolina Arts Commission and
a Literary Resident of the Richland County Public Library.