Dance It! Spring Intensive is a week-long annual dance training program which takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria during the academic spring break. In 2017 it will be held between April 10th and 16th, at the Dance Station Studio at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, and with a stage performance on April 16th at Dom na Kulturata Iskar (Krastio Pastuhov St. 23,) showcasing the repertoire created during the six intensive days.   The program is an international collaboration targeting young dancers from Bulgaria (mainly) and from all over the world with the goal to contribute significantly to their dance training – to build upon their existing technique, expanding and enriching it with the vocabularies and practices of several fundamentally different dance forms. It aspires also to allow the dancers to take part in a creative process, as well as to benefit from the international exchange and intercultural communication.

In the course of the week young dancers (advanced and professionals) take classes in five different styles: Classical Ballet, Modern Dance, Jazz, Hip-Hop and Character Dance. The classes are taught by renowned teachers and choreographers from both continents professionals who are at the top of their career. They bring their unique expertise to the young dancers who do not have the chance to experience this in their routine dance curricula. Each student also participates in the creation of repertoire, which is showcased in the final day of the program. The spring program closes with a final stage production – a combination of the new pieces of the choreographers involving all workshop participants and repertoire shown by specially invited renowned guest dance artists. It also offers special master classes as well as public discussion events on relevant topics, which additionally enrich the program. Each year several of the best dancers receive scholarships for summer dance intensive programs at renowned schools and companies in the US.

This is the tenth edition of the program. Since 2008, more than 1000 dancers from Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Greece, Montenegro, Portugal and the US have participated in Dance It! More than 50 young talented dancers have received scholarships for schools such as Pacific Northwest Ballet School – Seattle, School of Ballet Chicago, Debbie Reynolds Dance Studios – Los Angeles, Syracuse University – New York, Deeply Rooted Productions – Chicago and others. Many of our scholarship recipients are currently employed at dance companies in Italy, Germany and the US, as well as at Bulgarian national dance institutions and private dance companies.

CLASSICAL BALLET

Paula Weber

Professor of Ballet, Chair of Dance, Conservatory of music and dance, University of Missouri at Kansas city

Paula Weber received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance from Butler University and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Smith College. She has studied ballet with such masters as Maria Tallchief, Jean Paul Comelin, Dermot Burke, Basil Thompson, Larry Long, Marjorie Mussman, and Maggie Black. During her professional career, Ms. Weber performed solo and principal roles of more than 45 major works which include such classics as Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), Giselle (Giselle), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Cinderella (Cinderella) and Coppelia (Swanhilda), and contemporary works as George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco (First Violin), Agnes DeMille’s Fall River Legend (Lizzy Borden), John Butler’s Carmina Burana, and Alvin Ailey’s The River. She has worked with renowned choreographers such as Bill T. Jones, Margo Sappington, Laura Dean, Sean Curran, Charles Moulton, and Kevin “Iega” Jeff. She has been a member of the Milwaukee Ballet (principal), the Albany Berkshire Ballet (principal), Lyric Opera Ballet of Chicago (soloist), Chicago Ballet and the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, and guest principal artist with the Hartford Ballet. She is currently the assistant director and rehearsal director for the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company and is ballet mistress for the Albany Berkshire Ballet. Ms. Weber has been a guest instructor of ballet in many prestigious schools throughout the United States. In 1996, she was invited to be a guest instructor of ballet for the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Shenyang, China, making her the second American ballet instructor to teach at that conservatory. Ms. Weber was the 1997 recipient of the Mrs. Ewing Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2001 recipient of the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2007-2008 recipient of the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2011 Muriel McBrien Kauffman Faculty Service Award all presented to her by the Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri – Kansas City. She is on the official adjudicator for Regional Dance America and a site evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Dance. Ms Weber’s choreography has been performed by the Kansas City Ballet, the Albany Berkshire Ballet, the Kansas Regional Ballet, the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company, Midwest Youth Ballet, Alexandra Ballet, Kansas City Youth Ballet, Allegro Ballet of Houston and City in Motion. Her first professional choreographic work, Carmina Burana, was performed by the Kansas City Ballet in 1996 with repeated performances in 1998 and May of 2002. In 2003 Ms. Weber was commissioned to create a new ballet for the Kansas City Ballet, “Canzone” which later by invitation became the three movement ballet, “Toccata e due Canzoni”, created for the 2005 Fall Season of the Kansas City Ballet. She has received three Craft of Choreography Awards from Regional Dance America (2004, 2008, and 2014). Summer of 2008 her work, “From Within” and 2013 her pas de deux in the piece “Blue” were selected to be performed for the Young Tanzommers Dance Festival in Austria by the Allegro Ballet of Houston. In 2010 she received the Regional Dance America National Choreographic Award and was named a choreographer for the 2011 National Choreographers Initiative. She is a member and former President of the CORPS de Ballet International, Inc.

CONTEMPORARY

Christian von Howard

Alvin Ailey School, VON HOWARD PROJECT

Christian von Howard is the Artistic Director of the VON HOWARD PROJECT, a New York City contemporary dance company. As an international artist, he has worked with many dance artists such as Doug VaroneFernando Bujones,Douglas Becker, Germaul Barnes,Daniel Gwirtzman and various others. Christian is a NJ State Council of the Arts Choreographic Fellow (2006). His choreographic work has been produced in various venues across the globe including Germany, Japan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Chile, South Korea and in the states at Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, and the Ailey Citigroup Theater to name a few. He is a teaching artist for Dance New Amsterdam (2013), the American Dance Festival (Winter Intensive), Korean Dance Festival (2012) and the Dance It! Program (Bulgaria). Christian is a 2013/2014 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts where he was part of the teaching faculty in the Department of Dance & Choreography from 2008-2014 He is currently an Associate Professor in the Theater and Dance Department at Montclair State University and concurrently teaches at  Alvin Ailey Schoolin New York City. He holds a BFA from the  School of Classical and Contemporary Dance at Texas Christian University and a MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

JAZZ

Kirsten Cooper

Pacific Northwest Ballet – Seattle and Westlake Dance Center – Seattle

Kirsten Cooper trained in Washington State then moved to Los Angeles when she was nineteen years old. She trained at Edge Performing Arts Center and Tremaine in Hollywood. She assisted Rhonda Miller, Jeff Amsden and Liz Imperio. While in Los Angeles she worked in film, video and stage. Kirsten danced on Costa Cruise Lines, toured with Los Angeles Dance Force convention, demonstrated on LADF and Jeff Amsden instructional videos, Sony Disc Industrial Film and numerous ABBA hair shows. Kirsten now teaches full time in the Seattle area as well as traveling the U.S. to do choreography and master classes. She teaches for the Dance This Intensive (STG) and Pacific Northwest Ballet Summer Program. She has run a pre-professional jazz company out of Westlake Dance Center since 1997. Her goal with the company is to train the dancers for dance careers and instill in them that hard work is just as important as talent. They have performed at “Sign of the Times”, “Bumbershoot Arts Festival”, “Dance This” and “Global Dance Party” @ The Moore Theatre and the PONCHO gala benefit. They were honored to dance in the Tanzsommer Dance Festival 2006 in Austria. Many of her students have gone on to do the one-year study program at Edge Performing Arts Center (LA) and Steps on Broadway (NYC). Manny of her current students have attended summer programs at Juilliard, Alvin Ailey, Alonzo King Lines Ballet and Hubbard Street. Her former students have gone on to exciting careers in dance. They have toured with Paul McCartney, Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ricky Martin, Pharrell Williams and The Glee Summer Tour. They have been in numerous videos and film including “Dreamgirls”, “Fame”, “Teen Beach Movie” and the live version of “Grease”. Her students can be seen in Hysterica Dance Company (LA), Odyssey (Salt Lake City) and the NYC Rockettes. Her students have also attended dance programs at Tisch (NYU), Marymount Manhattan, Loyola Marymount, Chapman University and SUNY Purchase.

CHARACTER

Petur Iliev

Iliev Dance Art Foundation – Bulgaria; Pacific Northwest Ballet – Seattle; Ballet Chicago

Petur Iliev is a Bulgarian-born dancer and choreographer whose career is deeply steeped in the rich folk dance traditions of his family. He started dancing at the age of five at the dance ensemble of his father. Later he graduated from the Bulgarian National School of Dance Art and from the Bulgarian National Institute of Choreography in Sofia, Bulgaria. He began his professional career as a Principal Dancer of Kutev National Dance and Music Ensemble where he worked for five years, before continuing his training at the National Dance Institute in New York where he studied under the supervision of one of the gurus of American dance – Jacques d’Amboise. Subsequently, Iliev became the Artistic Co-Director of Believe in Me — a dance ensemble in Austin, TX, where for four years he trained more than a thousand young dancers. Moving to California, Iliev continued working in the American educational system teaching dance to hundreds of children in a performing arts magnet school. A year later he was appointed the Artistic Director of Westwind International Dance Company — one of the first companies in the US whose mission is to present to the American audience the richness and diversity of ethnic dance. All along Iliev has been teaching master classes in Character dance and Bulgarian folk dances at many colleges and universities in different parts of the US, and has been creating new choreographies for professional and non-professional dance companies in the US and Canada. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the renowned school of Pacific Northwest Ballet and two years later he was attracted to the school of Ballet Chicago. Along with that, for several years Iliev shared his expertise with numerous students in the public school system in Chicago through a 21st Century grant. With this invaluable experience in hand he resumed his activity in Bulgaria in 2008 through the various programs of his foundation established in the same year. The Iliev Dance Art Foundation has since been running several highly successful educational programs: the Spring and Summer Intensives Dance It, a solid scholarship program for summer training in the US, as well as the children’s dance program targeting youth from public schools. Most recently Iliev appeared as a judge on the national reality dance show Magadans – The Challenge, as well as created and staged a full-length children’s show Click, performed in October 2013 as part of Sofia Dance Week. In addition, he has also actively been teaching and choreographing at The Anglo-American School of Sofia, both instructing children from various classes, as well as choreographing for the final musicals performed by the graduating classes. In 2014 he choreographed and staged 5×5+1 – a conceptual, interdisciplinary project, and A Swallow’s Flight – a children’s dance show, and in 2015 – the highly original Who Stole the Chips? In Bulgaria Petur Iliev’s artistic creativity has gradually been coming to its full potential in the creation of many highly innovative choreographies that reach to the core of the Bulgarian ethnic dance – unlocking its structure and unleashing its potential as means of expression by enriching it with the vocabulary of ballet and modern technique.

The registration for this session of “Dancing Workshop” is closed. Thank you for your interest and see you soon!

Тhe Iliev Dance Art Foundation is a non-profit organization, which believes in high-quality dance education accessible for all. This is why the fees for our Dance Intensive are the lowest possible. Participants pay the registration fee after filling out the online registration form. The fee is paid in advance via bank transfer to the Iliev Dance Art Foundation bank account: First Investment Bank (Fibank), IBAN: BG49FINV91501215317191, BIC: FINVBGSF Put as “Reason for Payment”: Dance It! Participation Fee for … (full name of the participant). There is NO REFUND if you decide to stop taking classes after the first day of the Intensive. Participation feesEARLY REGISTRATION – BEFORE MARCH 15

• One style – 180 EURO
• More than one style – 240 EURO

LATE REGISTRATION – AFTER MARCH 15

• One style – 200 EURO
• More than one style – 260 EURO

The dance style HIP-HOP will be taught via master classes. If you have paid for more than one dance style, the classes will be free, they are included in the fee. If you would like to take only hip-hop classes – each class costs 20 EURO. Deposit Your registration is considered complete only the amount has been deposited to our account. You will be notified about it by us.

SCHEDULE – DANCE IT! SPRING INTENSIVE 2017  

The Dance It! Spring Intensive Program always concludes with a final stage performance, which this year will happen on April 16th at 7 pm at Dom na Kulturata Iskar (Krastio Pastuhov St. 23). It showcases the repertoire created by the five choreographers during the six intensive days with the young Bulgarian dancers. It also features performances by invited guest-artists. This is one of the most interesting and varied dance shows presented in Bulgaria, since is presents exciting new repertoire in five different dance styles performed by young and very enthusiastic students. The energy of the production is mesmerizing! Appearing on stage and showcasing their hard work is an important aspect of the dance training of every student – and we ensure to make it available to them. It is both challenging and very rewarding, a natural part of the intensive learning process. It is a highly treasured part of our activities and mission. At the end of the show, the Artistic Director of the foundation, together with all the teachers, will announce the scholarship recipients for 2017 who will have the opportunity to attend summer intensive courses in some of the most prestigious dance schools and companies in the US.

Dance It! Spring Intensive is a week-long annual dance training program which takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria during the academic spring break. In 2017 it will be held between April 10th and 16th, at the Dance Station Studio at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, and with a stage performance on April 16th at Dom na Kulturata Iskar (Krastio Pastuhov St. 23,) showcasing the repertoire created during the six intensive days.   The program is an international collaboration targeting young dancers from Bulgaria (mainly) and from all over the world with the goal to contribute significantly to their dance training – to build upon their existing technique, expanding and enriching it with the vocabularies and practices of several fundamentally different dance forms. It aspires also to allow the dancers to take part in a creative process, as well as to benefit from the international exchange and intercultural communication.

In the course of the week young dancers (advanced and professionals) take classes in five different styles: Classical Ballet, Modern Dance, Jazz, Hip-Hop and Character Dance. The classes are taught by renowned teachers and choreographers from both continents professionals who are at the top of their career. They bring their unique expertise to the young dancers who do not have the chance to experience this in their routine dance curricula. Each student also participates in the creation of repertoire, which is showcased in the final day of the program. The spring program closes with a final stage production – a combination of the new pieces of the choreographers involving all workshop participants and repertoire shown by specially invited renowned guest dance artists. It also offers special master classes as well as public discussion events on relevant topics, which additionally enrich the program. Each year several of the best dancers receive scholarships for summer dance intensive programs at renowned schools and companies in the US.

This is the tenth edition of the program. Since 2008, more than 1000 dancers from Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Greece, Montenegro, Portugal and the US have participated in Dance It! More than 50 young talented dancers have received scholarships for schools such as Pacific Northwest Ballet School – Seattle, School of Ballet Chicago, Debbie Reynolds Dance Studios – Los Angeles, Syracuse University – New York, Deeply Rooted Productions – Chicago and others. Many of our scholarship recipients are currently employed at dance companies in Italy, Germany and the US, as well as at Bulgarian national dance institutions and private dance companies.

CLASSICAL BALLET

Paula Weber

Professor of Ballet, Chair of Dance, Conservatory of music and dance, University of Missouri at Kansas city

Paula Weber received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance from Butler University and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Smith College. She has studied ballet with such masters as Maria Tallchief, Jean Paul Comelin, Dermot Burke, Basil Thompson, Larry Long, Marjorie Mussman, and Maggie Black. During her professional career, Ms. Weber performed solo and principal roles of more than 45 major works which include such classics as Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), Giselle (Giselle), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Cinderella (Cinderella) and Coppelia (Swanhilda), and contemporary works as George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco (First Violin), Agnes DeMille’s Fall River Legend (Lizzy Borden), John Butler’s Carmina Burana, and Alvin Ailey’s The River. She has worked with renowned choreographers such as Bill T. Jones, Margo Sappington, Laura Dean, Sean Curran, Charles Moulton, and Kevin “Iega” Jeff. She has been a member of the Milwaukee Ballet (principal), the Albany Berkshire Ballet (principal), Lyric Opera Ballet of Chicago (soloist), Chicago Ballet and the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, and guest principal artist with the Hartford Ballet. She is currently the assistant director and rehearsal director for the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company and is ballet mistress for the Albany Berkshire Ballet. Ms. Weber has been a guest instructor of ballet in many prestigious schools throughout the United States. In 1996, she was invited to be a guest instructor of ballet for the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Shenyang, China, making her the second American ballet instructor to teach at that conservatory. Ms. Weber was the 1997 recipient of the Mrs. Ewing Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2001 recipient of the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2007-2008 recipient of the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2011 Muriel McBrien Kauffman Faculty Service Award all presented to her by the Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri – Kansas City. She is on the official adjudicator for Regional Dance America and a site evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Dance. Ms Weber’s choreography has been performed by the Kansas City Ballet, the Albany Berkshire Ballet, the Kansas Regional Ballet, the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company, Midwest Youth Ballet, Alexandra Ballet, Kansas City Youth Ballet, Allegro Ballet of Houston and City in Motion. Her first professional choreographic work, Carmina Burana, was performed by the Kansas City Ballet in 1996 with repeated performances in 1998 and May of 2002. In 2003 Ms. Weber was commissioned to create a new ballet for the Kansas City Ballet, “Canzone” which later by invitation became the three movement ballet, “Toccata e due Canzoni”, created for the 2005 Fall Season of the Kansas City Ballet. She has received three Craft of Choreography Awards from Regional Dance America (2004, 2008, and 2014). Summer of 2008 her work, “From Within” and 2013 her pas de deux in the piece “Blue” were selected to be performed for the Young Tanzommers Dance Festival in Austria by the Allegro Ballet of Houston. In 2010 she received the Regional Dance America National Choreographic Award and was named a choreographer for the 2011 National Choreographers Initiative. She is a member and former President of the CORPS de Ballet International, Inc.

CONTEMPORARY

Christian von Howard

Alvin Ailey School, VON HOWARD PROJECT

Christian von Howard is the Artistic Director of the VON HOWARD PROJECT, a New York City contemporary dance company. As an international artist, he has worked with many dance artists such as Doug VaroneFernando Bujones,Douglas Becker, Germaul Barnes,Daniel Gwirtzman and various others. Christian is a NJ State Council of the Arts Choreographic Fellow (2006). His choreographic work has been produced in various venues across the globe including Germany, Japan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Chile, South Korea and in the states at Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, and the Ailey Citigroup Theater to name a few. He is a teaching artist for Dance New Amsterdam (2013), the American Dance Festival (Winter Intensive), Korean Dance Festival (2012) and the Dance It! Program (Bulgaria). Christian is a 2013/2014 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts where he was part of the teaching faculty in the Department of Dance & Choreography from 2008-2014 He is currently an Associate Professor in the Theater and Dance Department at Montclair State University and concurrently teaches at  Alvin Ailey Schoolin New York City. He holds a BFA from the  School of Classical and Contemporary Dance at Texas Christian University and a MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

JAZZ

Kirsten Cooper

Pacific Northwest Ballet – Seattle and Westlake Dance Center – Seattle

Kirsten Cooper trained in Washington State then moved to Los Angeles when she was nineteen years old. She trained at Edge Performing Arts Center and Tremaine in Hollywood. She assisted Rhonda Miller, Jeff Amsden and Liz Imperio. While in Los Angeles she worked in film, video and stage. Kirsten danced on Costa Cruise Lines, toured with Los Angeles Dance Force convention, demonstrated on LADF and Jeff Amsden instructional videos, Sony Disc Industrial Film and numerous ABBA hair shows. Kirsten now teaches full time in the Seattle area as well as traveling the U.S. to do choreography and master classes. She teaches for the Dance This Intensive (STG) and Pacific Northwest Ballet Summer Program. She has run a pre-professional jazz company out of Westlake Dance Center since 1997. Her goal with the company is to train the dancers for dance careers and instill in them that hard work is just as important as talent. They have performed at “Sign of the Times”, “Bumbershoot Arts Festival”, “Dance This” and “Global Dance Party” @ The Moore Theatre and the PONCHO gala benefit. They were honored to dance in the Tanzsommer Dance Festival 2006 in Austria. Many of her students have gone on to do the one-year study program at Edge Performing Arts Center (LA) and Steps on Broadway (NYC). Manny of her current students have attended summer programs at Juilliard, Alvin Ailey, Alonzo King Lines Ballet and Hubbard Street. Her former students have gone on to exciting careers in dance. They have toured with Paul McCartney, Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ricky Martin, Pharrell Williams and The Glee Summer Tour. They have been in numerous videos and film including “Dreamgirls”, “Fame”, “Teen Beach Movie” and the live version of “Grease”. Her students can be seen in Hysterica Dance Company (LA), Odyssey (Salt Lake City) and the NYC Rockettes. Her students have also attended dance programs at Tisch (NYU), Marymount Manhattan, Loyola Marymount, Chapman University and SUNY Purchase.

CHARACTER

Petur Iliev

Iliev Dance Art Foundation – Bulgaria; Pacific Northwest Ballet – Seattle; Ballet Chicago

Petur Iliev is a Bulgarian-born dancer and choreographer whose career is deeply steeped in the rich folk dance traditions of his family. He started dancing at the age of five at the dance ensemble of his father. Later he graduated from the Bulgarian National School of Dance Art and from the Bulgarian National Institute of Choreography in Sofia, Bulgaria. He began his professional career as a Principal Dancer of Kutev National Dance and Music Ensemble where he worked for five years, before continuing his training at the National Dance Institute in New York where he studied under the supervision of one of the gurus of American dance – Jacques d’Amboise. Subsequently, Iliev became the Artistic Co-Director of Believe in Me — a dance ensemble in Austin, TX, where for four years he trained more than a thousand young dancers. Moving to California, Iliev continued working in the American educational system teaching dance to hundreds of children in a performing arts magnet school. A year later he was appointed the Artistic Director of Westwind International Dance Company — one of the first companies in the US whose mission is to present to the American audience the richness and diversity of ethnic dance. All along Iliev has been teaching master classes in Character dance and Bulgarian folk dances at many colleges and universities in different parts of the US, and has been creating new choreographies for professional and non-professional dance companies in the US and Canada. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the renowned school of Pacific Northwest Ballet and two years later he was attracted to the school of Ballet Chicago. Along with that, for several years Iliev shared his expertise with numerous students in the public school system in Chicago through a 21st Century grant. With this invaluable experience in hand he resumed his activity in Bulgaria in 2008 through the various programs of his foundation established in the same year. The Iliev Dance Art Foundation has since been running several highly successful educational programs: the Spring and Summer Intensives Dance It, a solid scholarship program for summer training in the US, as well as the children’s dance program targeting youth from public schools. Most recently Iliev appeared as a judge on the national reality dance show Magadans – The Challenge, as well as created and staged a full-length children’s show Click, performed in October 2013 as part of Sofia Dance Week. In addition, he has also actively been teaching and choreographing at The Anglo-American School of Sofia, both instructing children from various classes, as well as choreographing for the final musicals performed by the graduating classes. In 2014 he choreographed and staged 5×5+1 – a conceptual, interdisciplinary project, and A Swallow’s Flight – a children’s dance show, and in 2015 – the highly original Who Stole the Chips? In Bulgaria Petur Iliev’s artistic creativity has gradually been coming to its full potential in the creation of many highly innovative choreographies that reach to the core of the Bulgarian ethnic dance – unlocking its structure and unleashing its potential as means of expression by enriching it with the vocabulary of ballet and modern technique.

The registration for this session of “Dancing Workshop” is closed. Thank you for your interest and see you soon!

Тhe Iliev Dance Art Foundation is a non-profit organization, which believes in high-quality dance education accessible for all. This is why the fees for our Dance Intensive are the lowest possible. Participants pay the registration fee after filling out the online registration form. The fee is paid in advance via bank transfer to the Iliev Dance Art Foundation bank account: First Investment Bank (Fibank), IBAN: BG49FINV91501215317191, BIC: FINVBGSF Put as “Reason for Payment”: Dance It! Participation Fee for … (full name of the participant). There is NO REFUND if you decide to stop taking classes after the first day of the Intensive. Participation feesEARLY REGISTRATION – BEFORE MARCH 15

• One style – 180 EURO
• More than one style – 240 EURO

LATE REGISTRATION – AFTER MARCH 15

• One style – 200 EURO
• More than one style – 260 EURO

The dance style HIP-HOP will be taught via master classes. If you have paid for more than one dance style, the classes will be free, they are included in the fee. If you would like to take only hip-hop classes – each class costs 20 EURO. Deposit Your registration is considered complete only the amount has been deposited to our account. You will be notified about it by us.

SCHEDULE – DANCE IT! SPRING INTENSIVE 2017  

The Dance It! Spring Intensive Program always concludes with a final stage performance, which this year will happen on April 16th at 7 pm at Dom na Kulturata Iskar (Krastio Pastuhov St. 23). It showcases the repertoire created by the five choreographers during the six intensive days with the young Bulgarian dancers. It also features performances by invited guest-artists. This is one of the most interesting and varied dance shows presented in Bulgaria, since is presents exciting new repertoire in five different dance styles performed by young and very enthusiastic students. The energy of the production is mesmerizing! Appearing on stage and showcasing their hard work is an important aspect of the dance training of every student – and we ensure to make it available to them. It is both challenging and very rewarding, a natural part of the intensive learning process. It is a highly treasured part of our activities and mission. At the end of the show, the Artistic Director of the foundation, together with all the teachers, will announce the scholarship recipients for 2017 who will have the opportunity to attend summer intensive courses in some of the most prestigious dance schools and companies in the US.