Interlochen, Mich. – Alexis Drabek will spend the next four weeks working with the Interlochen dance department, serving as a guest artist in residence. She will be teaching modern and ballet classes to Academy dance students.
Drabek attended the Academy as a student when she was 16 years old. She had spent her earlier years training in Littleton, Colo. at the Belliston Academy of Ballet. After graduating from the Academy, she went on to study at the Julliard School in New York City.
Her dance career began with Kim Robards Dance and David Taylor Dance Theater in Denver while also teaching dance throughout Colorado. She has returned to Interlochen for three summers to teach ballet and modern dance. Since moving to the San Francisco area in 2003, Drabek has danced with the Oakland Ballet, Diablo Ballet, and is currently performing with Company C Contemporary Ballet in Walnut Creek. She has been on faculty at Berkeley City Ballet for three years and was named Associate Artistic Director in 2006.
Interlochen Arts Academy, a fine arts boarding high school, engages students artistically and academically. A ballet-based curriculum with additional emphasis in modern and jazz techniques encourages dancers to be versatile performers. Students and faculty stage three fully-produced dance concerts each year. College-prep academics foster cross-disciplinary thinking to prepare students for any professional endeavor.
This winter, Interlochen dance faculty will conduct auditions across the country for admission to either of Interlochen’s world-renowned educational programs: Interlochen Arts Camp and Interlochen Arts Academy. Please visit www.interlochen.org/audition for more information and a full audition schedule.
Interlochen Arts Academy attracts exceptionally talented and motivated students from nearly every state and more than 20 other countries to study creative writing, music, dance, visual arts, theatre, motion picture arts and rigorous college-preparatory academics.
