Juneau Dance Theatre

Don’t miss our season 2026-2027 dance team auditions on Monday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 9, 5:30-7:00, at our Airport Blvd studio. Ages 5-17 are welcome to join. Visit juneaudance.org for more information and to register for auditions. 

Congratulations to our inaugural class of NHSDA inductees: Lyra, Abigail, Shaina, and Autumn! JDT is proud to sponsor a secondary chapter of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts, through its membership in the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). Candidates must have a minimum cumulative academic GPA of 3.5, and exemplify outstanding artistic merit, leadership, and achievement in the study of dance. High school juniors and seniors meeting the criteria, are eligible to apply.
We are thrilled to celebrate and recognize two juniors and two seniors, in our very first year as a chapter sponsor. As JDT students, these dancers log countless hours in the studio, training upwards of 1,600 hours of ballet during their high school years alone, not including rehearsals and performances; and each of these dancers is also a current or former member of our dance team (tack on another 60 hours of class time, per semester!) Performances, rehearsals, community engagements, outreach, fundraising events and appearances, collaborations, teaching/assisting, choreographing, and attending summer intensives and competitions, (WHEW!) are all part and parcel of what serious, dedicated dance students do, day in and day out. Thank you, Lyra, Abigail, Shaina, and Autumn, for your scholarship, leadership, dedication, and talent. You are true advocates for yourselves, JDT, and dance education! Be proud!
Ruth Banaszak Snooky Gemino Fernandez Phillip Subeldia

It’s a great day for the ballet! Treat your mother, a friend’s mother, your children’s mother, or yourself, if you know a mother! 🥰😉 JDT’s final performance of Coppélia is at 2:00 TODAY at the JDHS auditorium. Online sales close at noon, but tickets are available at the door! Trust us, you don’t want to miss the adorable storytelling and exquisite dancing of Coppélia! Run time: 1:45 Audience: all ages!
https://juneaudance.org/spring-showcase/

Wow! Check out these preview photos from our dress rehearsal, by our friend Ron Gile! So many more where these came from, and enough to entice you into the performance! Help spread the word about Coppélia, and don’t miss it. Three remaining performances- Sat. 5/9 at 2pm and 7pm; and Sun. 5/10 at 2pm. Join us!

Congratulations to the cast, crew, and all involved in JDT’s delightful production of Coppélia! THREE more chances to see the show: Saturday, 5/9 at 2pm & 7pm, and Sunday, 5/10 at 2:00pm. Tickets available at the door, or online until 2hrs before showtime.
https://juneaudance.org/spring-showcase/

Coppélia opens tomorrow!

Juneau Dance Theatre to present classical comic ballet 'Coppelia' this weekend Young romantics, Swanilda and Franz are among villagers celebrating the upcoming installation of a new clock in the town square.

Coppélia opens and closes this weekend! Do you have your tickets yet? Purchase online at https://juneaudance.org/

‼️📣 SUMMER FACULTY ALERT! It’s a privilege to have Kaitlin Niewoehner return to Juneau! We are excited to have Kaitlin teach musical theater and jazz at Summer Intensive. Registration coming soon!
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Kaitlin started out in gymnastics and competed seriously until she moved to Juneau, Alaska, and began dancing with the JDHS Dance Drill Team. That grew a love of movement that grew over time into many different styles - jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, and hiphop. Later, while obtaining her degree in Architecture, she studied with The Ailey School, Stephens College and Missouri Contemporary Ballet. Her professional career spans more than a decade and many countries and cities around the globe. National tours include A Chorus Line, Memphis, Beauty & The Beast, An American In Paris, and South Pacific. She premiered the 360 degree production of West Side Story at IHI Stage Around Tokyo. Regionally, she’s performed in Can Can, The Little Mermaid, All Shook Up, Singin’ In The Rain, A Chorus Line, Annie, Hairspray, and Spelling Bee. Most recently, she is served as the dance captain for the international tour of West Side Story. Currently, she teaches pilates and serves as co-director of ALMA NYC dance company.
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1) pc Darnell Bennett
2,3) pc KAMera Shoots, Katie Mollison

‼️📣 SUMMER FACULTY ALERT! What’s better than a Quiner sister? TWO Quiner sisters! We are thrilled to bring Savannah Quiner to Juneau, for summer intensive! July 26-August 9. Registration coming soon!
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Savannah Quiner was born and raised in Northern New Jersey and began her formal ballet training at the age of five at her local ballet studio. In 2017, she placed first in classical at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Semifinals in Boston and was a scholarship recipient at the YAGP Finals. In 2019, she attended the American Ballet Theatre’s summer intensive before joining the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School for three years. During that time, Savannah trained under the direction of Cynthia Harvey, Petruskja Broholm, and Caridad Martinez. She has danced the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy for various studios in New Jersey from 2018–2020 and in New York Theatre Ballet’s Nutcracker in 2021. She performed with ABT at Lincoln Center in Swan Lake (2019, 2022, and 2023) and in Manon (2019). In 2021, she received second runner-up at The Dance Awards in Orlando for Senior Best Dancer. Savannah joined American Repertory Ballet in 2022 as an apprentice and was promoted to company the following year. At ARB, she has performed in The Nutcracker as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Odette in Swan Lake, Myrtha in Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, Paquita, Kitri in Don Quixote, Amy Seiwert’s Sight Line, Stephanie Martinez’s The Time That Runs Away, and Lar Lubovitch’s Something About Night. In 2025, she appeared in Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s TV series Étoile as a background dancer.
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1) pc Harald Schrader
2) pc Chris Stark
3) pc David Hofmann
4) pc Rachel Neville