Emily received her early training in her hometown of Schenectady, New York and later trained in Saratoga Springs, NY, with Elizabeth Carroll and Olga Kostritzky. Emily danced professionally for nine years with Nevada Dance Theatre, Ballet Iowa, and Ballet Omaha. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. Fulfilling a three year Graduate Assistantship, she had teacher training in both classical and contemporary techniques under the tutelage of Francoise Martinet, Alicia Brown, and Alan Senar. After graduate school, Emily worked as an assistant professor at the University of Idaho, and was later promoted to Director of the Dance Program. As program director, her responsibilities included directing biannual productions, overseeing faculty, curriculum and program development and teaching ballet and contemporary, as well as a dance history course. Prior to coming to Boise and Ballet Idaho, Emily lived with her family in Cremolino, Italy where they ran a Bed & Breakfast and hosted programs in Dance, Art, and Education. She also taught locally as a freelance ballet instructor. Emily has gained additional teacher training credits through the Vaganova method beginning level course while in Italy, and through intensive seminars with David Howard and just recently with Pacific Northwest Ballet. She loves her work at Ballet Idaho Academy and remains committed to curriculum development and building a strong faculty, which together leads to high student achievements. During her leadership, a number of students have studied at high caliber summer programs and year-round programs on scholarship while others have gone on to dance professionally.

Madeline began her training at Illinois Ballet Theater in Moline, Illinois. At 16, she became a member of their pre-professional company, River Point Ballet Theater. She studied under scholarships with the Bolshoi Ballet, Ballet West, Northwest Dance Project, Pittsburgh Ballet, Orlando Ballet, and Texas Ballet Theater. Upon high school graduation, she moved to Salt Lake City to study at the University of Utah and joined their resident ballet company, Utah Ballet, in 2009. She also performed soloist and lead roles as guest artist for Salt Lake City Ballet and danced several performances with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Madeline graduated in 2012 with a B.F.A. double emphasis in ballet performance and teaching. Upon graduation, she joined Ballet Idaho as a company member and began teaching for the Ballet Idaho Academy. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Boise State University. The past three summers, she had the opportunity to perform in Seattle with ARC Dance, under the direction of Marie Chong. While with ARC, she had the opportunity to work with Alex Ketley, David Fernandez, and Edwaard Liang. She performed with Boise Dance Co-op for four seasons where she worked with local artists: Lydia Sakolsky-Basquill, Marla Hansen, and Sayoko Knode.

A native of Walden, Vermont, Cyrus studied at the School of Ballet Chicago, under the direction of Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair. He also attended summer programs at Ballet Chicago, Nutmeg Conservatory and at the American Ballet Theatre Collegiate Summer Intensive in New York. For the Ballet Chicago Studio Company, he danced in the Corps de Ballet in George Balanchine’s Rubies, Grand Pas in The Nutcracker, and Waltz Boy in Serenade; and as a soloist in Ted Seymour’s Intermezzi, as well as his “Winter” in a Young People’s Concert at the Chicago Cultural Center. He spent the past few seasons dancing in the Midwest, first with Minnesota Ballet then with Madison Ballet. As a company member he has had the opportunity to perform a range of works including Embraceable you from Gorge Balanchine’s Who Cares?; Salvatore Aiello’s Clowns and Others; and W. Earle Smith’s Dracula. The 2017/2018 Season will be his second with Ballet Idaho. Sponsored for the 2017-18 season by Iris and Don Hendrickson.

Ryan Callan began his career in musical theatre in Spokane, WA. At only 20 years old he was commissioned to choreograph My Fair Lady under the direction of Troy Nickerson. In 2002 he began his professional dance training with Ballet Spokane. Later, in 2008, he joined Ballet Idaho as an apprentice dancer and received the opportunity to begin training as a dance instructor. Eventually producing and directing the Ballet Idaho Youth Ensemble, he found his passion for teaching dance and working with children. Ryan spent the 2011/2012 season performing with the San Diego Ballet. Ryan returned from California to teach at Ballet Idaho Academy in 2013.

Biography coming soon

Biography coming soon

Adrienne began ballet in Albuquerque with Karen Alwin and Deanna Encinias. The youngest student in Boston Ballet’s Summer Dance Program, she also received subsequent scholarships at American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Chicago, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Ballet West, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Adrienne placed in the top 12 with multiple bronze honors in solo classical and contemporary categories at Youth America Grand Prix semi-finals in Denver and Dallas. She also performed in the New York City national finals. Adrienne was invited to train at Pacific Northwest Ballet School on full scholarship at age 14 and made her professional debut in the Chinese quintet of Stowell/Sendak’s The Nutcracker nine months later. She joined Ballet Idaho at age 17 as a trainee where she has since originated corps, solo, and principal roles for Alex Ossadnik, Peter Anastos, and others. Her repertoire includes full-length classics George Balanchine’s Serenade and Who Cares?, as well as works by Marius Petipa, and Bruce Wells. In addition, she has studied principal parts from Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, and Don Quixote with Gelsey Kirkland in New York City. Adrienne’s past principal roles have included the title role in Firebird, Kitri in Don Quixote, Odile in Swan Lake, Dewdrop Fairy and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Tall Girl in Rubies and, most recently, Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has also performed with Project Flux, Boise Dance Co-op, and is a requested teacher in ballet and jazz. She has taught classes at Classical Youth Ballet in Tacoma, as well as Boise State University, Ballet Idaho Academy, and select advanced private students.

Desiree began her professional career at 18 in Los Angeles dancing at Disneyland and soon moved to dancing on the high seas with Norwegian Cruise Lines. Desiree then traveled to Las Vegas,utilizing her gymnastics background and performing in high energy acrobatic shows. Her next stop was New York City where she studied at Steps, Broadway Dance Center and at Alvin Ailey along with being a back up character dancer for several Broadway shows. Desiree is also a 14-year certified Romana’s Pilates instructor.

Stephanie began her training in 1992 with the San Francisco Ballet School where she danced with both School and Company for the next ten years. In 2002, Stephanie moved to Boise, Idaho and danced with Ballet Idaho’s School and Company for one year. She then moved to Basel, Switzerland to dance with the Basel Ballet School and Company for one year. Stephanie came back to the states in 2004 and joined the Inland Pacific Ballet as a principal dancer, dancing there for eight years. Stephanie’s teaching and choreographing career also began at the Inland Pacific Ballet in 2005. In 2011, Stephanie moved to Portland, Oregon where she instructed and choreographed for The Portland Ballet, Bodyvox, Westside Dance Academy, Allegro Dance Academy, Center for Movement Arts, and Polaris Dance Theater. In 2016, Stephanie moved back to Boise, Idaho to raise her family. Stephanie is very excited to get back into the studio and be teaching with Ballet Idaho Academy.

Morgan Phillips has been with Ballet Idaho Academy for 14 years. She began when she was 8 years old studying with the academy all the way through her high school graduation in 2015, during which time she had the opportunity to dance with the company. She first performed in Peter Anastos’ production of The Nutcracker, where she danced several roles beginning with Party Girl, followed by company roles in Chinese and Flowers. Other roles included being part of the corps de ballet in Swan Lake and an understudy in Balanchine’s Serenade and Rubies. While with Ballet Idaho, Morgan studied classical ballet, contemporary, modern, and jazz. She has attended the Jillana School summer intensive and Joffrey Ballet’s summer intensive in San Francisco. When she graduated high school in 2015 she directed her studies to business and marketing with Boise State University and College of Western Idaho. In the 2016/17 season while attending school, she began teaching in Ballet Idaho’s Preparatory Division as well as their outreach program, Learning Through Dance. Morgan is excited to once again teach classes in the academy this season and share all she has learned with her students.

Sada Popick was born in Portland, Oregon, and received early training at the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre. She attended summer intensives on scholarship at San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Boston Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet Chicago, and Oregon Ballet Theatre. She finished training at The Portland Ballet and performed with The Portland Ballet Youth Company. Sada moved to Boise to join Ballet Idaho where she danced with the company for five seasons. During this time she also performed with Boise Dance Co-Op for four seasons. She is excited to be teaching in the school on a regular basis this year.

Nathan is from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he received his early dance training. He started professional training at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and had the chance to tour with the school throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. He received a RBC Youth Excellence Scholarship in 2006 as a member of Festival Dance at the Banff Centre, and performed with Northern Plains Ballet before joining Festival Ballet Providence for three seasons under Mihailo Djuric. Nathan spent several summers with Ballet Montana and, before coming to Ballet Idaho, danced with Ballet San Antonio. In 2012, Nathan had his Ballet Idaho choreographic debut with a new ballet Timepiece, which reviewer Dana Oland from Idaho Statesman called “a fun character ballet with a sci-fi twist.” He has also choreographed works on Anchorage Ballet, Ballet Montana, and the Boise Dance Co-op. This is Nathan’s seventh season with Ballet Idaho.

Sarah Powell earned her BA in Dance from Chapman University, after receiving a high level of instruction from Ayako School of Ballet and performing with Peninsula Youth Ballet for five years. Her professional performing experience includes Anaheim Ballet, Disneyland Resort, the Glory of Christmas at the Crystal Cathedral, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and the Boise Dance Co-op (where she got to dance with her now husband). She was thrilled to be part of Ballet Idaho’s The Sleeping Beauty production in April 2016. This is Sarah’s sixth year teaching at Ballet Idaho Academy, where she enjoys teaching creative movement, pre-ballet, youth ballet, ballet, tap, and ballet themed summer camps. Sarah also rehearses Ballet Idaho Academy children for The Nutcracker, and is involved in Ballet Idaho’s Learning Through Dance outreach program, where she teaches dance to third graders in their schools. This year she will be directing the Youth Ensemble.

Carlene Raibley trained at Northern California Dance Conservatory where she focused on Modern and Contemporary styles under the instruction of Jen Bradford and Theodore Constant. Her interest in exploring the dance world and culture took her to London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts First Class Honours degree. While at LCDS she studied under dancers and choreographers from Scottish Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, Punchdrunk, Batsheva Dance Company, DV8 Physical Theatre, Gravity and Levity, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance, Rubberband Dance, and Van Huynh Company. During her time living aboard, Carlene also worked at Disneyland Paris as a Parade Dancer and Performer. She enjoyed bringing magic to life for three seasons with Disney. Since then Carlene has worked at Northern California Dance Conservatory as a Ballet instructor and choreographer. Currently she loves exploring many social partnering styles including Contact Improvisation, Swing, Salsa, Bachata, and Blues dancing in her free time while expanding her own choreographic work. She is very excited about joining Ballet Idaho Academy as a faculty member in our Children’s Division as well as in our outreach program, Learning Through Dance. Carlene will also be dancing with Project Flux.

Hannah Dunlop began her ballet training at the Geraldine Inder School of Dance and Drama in Masterton, New Zealand at the age of 3, participating in many workshops and master classes with the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Footloose Modern Dance Company. After returning to the United States for high school at Boise High, she began dancing at the Ballet Idaho Academy and danced under Arlene Larson and then Carol Roderick. She then danced briefly with Marla Hansen at Boise State. After graduating from Boise High School she pursued a Dance Minor at Idaho State University under the direction of Joséphine Garibald and was fortunate enough to study Ballet under Serge Brindusa and Beth Moore. She returned to Boise to finish her degree in International Relations and continued taking classes at Ballet Idaho. Hannah began teaching in the Ballet Idaho Summer Camps in 2010 and for the Academy in 2011. In 2012 she moved to Moscow, Idaho and began teaching beginning ballet at the University of Idaho.

Born in Rochester, New York, Lydia studied with the late Eric Coffman in Boise. She graduated with an AA from Miami’s NWSA, where she focused on classical ballet and modern techniques and performed as a soloist in Michael Utoff’s Ballet, Canyon Pass. Lydia continued her studies to pursue a BFA at ASU where she danced the reconstruction of José Limón’s Missa Brevis, Mazurkas, and El Dances for Isadora. She left to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Summer Lee Rhatigan. At SFCD she danced parts in Robert Moses’ The Supplicant, Netherland Dance Theatre’s Fallen Angels, as well as contemporary works with the Foundry’s Alex Ketley and Christian Burns. She is a Ballet Idaho Academy faculty member and outreach instructor.

Jessica grew up in Jackson, New Jersey. She studied dance with the Princeton Ballet School and the Academy of Dance Arts, where she successfully passed the Royal Academy of Dance major examinations and performed as a pre-professional dancer with Company of Dance Arts. She has attended summer intensive workshops at the Kirov Ballet, the Washington School of Ballet, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Jessica has been with Ballet Idaho for seven seasons, performing leads such as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, and Dew Drop Fairy in The Nutcracker and Tall Girl in Rubies. She has performed with Nevada Ballet Theatre, Anchorage Classical Ballet as the lead in La Bayadère, Project Flux, and Boise Dance Co-op. Aside from performing, Jessica teaches at the Ballet Idaho Academy, Ice World, and throughout New Jersey. She is a certified yoga instructor and lead actress of locally produced Boise film, Almosting It.

Danielle Troyano, from Long Island, New York, began her early training there, continuing with Sara Knight at SLKBallet, in New York City. Danielle received scholarships to summer intensives at The Rock School, The Walnut Hill School, the HARID Conservatory, Orlando Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet. She has also received training from the Gelsey Kirkland Academy and Ellison Ballet. In 2012, Danielle studied in London at the Central School of Ballet as part of an exchange program with SLK Ballet.

At 19, Danielle joined Montgomery Ballet under the direction of Darren McIntyre. There, she performed soloist roles such as Snow Queen and Arabian Princess in The Nutcracker, Carmen Pas De Deux, and the title role in Mr. McIntyre’s original ballet, Liberty Bell. Danielle has worked with the Albany Berkshire Ballet for 2 seasons where she danced in Carmina Burana, and as Sugar Plum Fairy and Dew Drop in the ABB’s Nutcracker tour. Danielle has been a guest artist with Hinsdale Ballet Theater, originating their title role in Cinderella and in the same year, performed as the Fairy Godmother in the Charleston Ballet Theater’s Cinderella.

Since joining Ballet Idaho, Danielle has had many performance opportunities such as Twyla Tharps Nine Sinatra Songs, George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Valse Fantasie, and the first Pas de Trois in Agon. She has danced lead Marzipan in Peter Anastos’ The Nutcracker, the Fairy of Grace in Anastos’ The Sleeping Beauty, a Pirate in Peter Pan, Pas de Trois in Swan Lake, among others.

In addition to teaching for Ballet Idaho Academy, Danielle is proud to be certified and currently teaching Dance for Parkinson’s, a movement class designed to ease the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. This is her fourth season with Ballet Idaho.