Dallas Ballet Center

Attention dancers- Silas Farley will be teaching class tomorrow, Monday, 7/20, and next Wednesday, 7/29, from 5-6:30pm! This is your sign to get back in the studio!!!

Silas Farley currently serves as Armstrong Artist in Residence in Ballet in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He is a former dancer with New York City Ballet and former Dean of the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, CA.

Farley began his training in Charlotte, NC and completed his ballet training at the School of American Ballet.

He joined New York City Ballet in 2012 and danced with the Company until 2020. There he performed principal roles in the works of George Balanchine and Christopher Wheeldon and originated roles in ballets by Wheeldon, Lauren Lovette and Justin Peck.

Farley has taught nationally and internationally, including for the School of American Ballet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, Houston Ballet, Slovak National Ballet, Colburn School, Peabody Conservatory, Hartt School, Chautauqua School of Dance, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and the Kennedy Center.

He has choreographed for the School of American Ballet, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, the New York Choreographic Institute, Columbia Ballet Collaborative at Columbia University, Works & Process at The Guggenheim, Houston Ballet, The Washington Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. Farley’s choreography has been presented at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles, CA, and Teatro Nacional de Cuba in Havana.

Go to https://www.dallasballetcenter.com/guest-faculty to learn more about SilasFarley and to register for summer classes.

Sandy’s Dancewear at Dallas Ballet Center today 5-6pm! Stock up on everything with this exclusive discount for our summer intensive students!

2026-27 dress code at the link in bio or
https://www.dallasballetcenter.com/ballet-dress-code

July faculty announcement!! Sofia Bidne, DBC alum and Pacific Northwest Ballet Corps de Ballet member, is guest teaching at DBC this month! Register now!

Ms. Bidne will be teaching at our Half Day Ballet Intensive July 27-31, 1-5pm.

This is a technique-focused half-day workshop designed to challenge experienced ballet dancers ages 10-13 with one year or less of pointe experience (including pre-pointe students). Previous ballet training required. DBC Levels IIB-III.

She will also be teaching at our evening technique classes July 20, 22, 27, and 29.

Sofia Bidne trained at The Dallas Ballet Center and the Professional Division of Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Sofia has attended summer programs at School of American Ballet, Ballet West, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and European School of Ballet.

Since graduating from The Dallas Ballet Center, she has returned to teach at their summer intensives and lead occasional master classes. Last summer, Sofia spent time at Jacob’s Pillow, where she worked with choreographers Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Durante Verzola while collaborating with artists from across the country.

Click the link in bio to register or go to https://www.dallasballetcenter.com/summer to register!

Email [email protected] with any questions.

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Our Summer intensive men’s program included training with Dallas Ballet Company Artistic Director Brent Klopfenstein as well as strength and conditioning with Mr. Ken Dalton Ken Dalton in addition to the classes with our guest faculty Maté Szentes Christina Ghiardi Nycole Ray and our DBC faculty!

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Summer intensive students in PBT classes with DBC faculty instructor Jessica Lohr! Progressive Ballet Technique (PBT) focuses on core stability, weight placement and alignment.

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Always a favorite at our summer intensive: African dance with Nycole Ray , Jazmun McCoy, and Christopher King Rollins playing the drums!

The students learned the both the historical and modern day meaning behind this iconic dance!

Nycole Ray

Professional Guest Artist Maté Szentes with our oldest dancers during the first week of our ballet intensive at DBC!

Mr. Szentes was born in Budapest, Hungary, and danced professionally with the Hungarian National Ballet and the Richmond Ballet in Virginia. He was a soloist with Sacramento Ballet and is a principal dancer with American Contemporary Ballet in Los Angeles, CA. Additionally Mr. Szentes has performed many guest artist roles and we have been honored to have him perform the role of Cavalier in Dallas Ballet Company’s The Nutcracker!

Maté Szentes

How lucky are we to have had Christina Ghiardi all week at our ballet intensive and at every level?! Even our youngest dancers had the opportunity to take class with Ms. Ghiardi! She even taught our oldest dancers a few steps from the Dew Drop variation which she performed in Nevada Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker!

Ms. Ghiardi will be back at Dallas Ballet Center in August to choreograph her 9th original work on Dallas Ballet Company!

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We had an incredible first week here at DBC’s Ballet Intensive Summer Workshop with Nevada Ballet Company Artist Christina Ghiardi Christina Ghiardi , professional principal guest artist Maté Szentes , African dance artists Nycole Ray , Jazmun McCoy, Pacific Northwest Ballet Corps member and DBC alum Sofia Bidne Sofia Bidne and more!

Students ages 10-18 took classes in ballet technique and pointe, variations, men’s class, pirouette, petit allegro, African, contemporary, modern, musical theater, PBT, and strength/conditioning.

Thank you to all our guest artists and faculty 👏👏👏👏

Terrence Martin
Ken Dalton
Paula D'maris Reinke
Katie West
Libby Kroeger
Alexandra Hebert Lee
Charlotte Kelsey
Jess Lohr
🐇Anna 🇺🇸🇵🇷
Lori Nowak
Mary Story
Judy Averitt Klopfenstein
Brent Klopfenstein

DBC x 40 years 🇺🇸 USA x 250 years 🇺🇸 Happy Fourth of July!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸