SUMMER INTENSIVE GUEST FACULTY: Allegra Lillard. Teaching Ballet, Pointe, and Variation June 18 & 19. Allegra began dancing in her home state of Texas and attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Massachusetts. She received further training in New York City at The School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theater summer programs and in Canada at the Banff Centre. Dance has taken her throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia. In her professional career, she was featured in solo and principal roles in the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, Ballet Hawaii, Hawaii Ballet Theatre and the Oregon Ballet Theatre. Allegra and her husband Mark Morgan moved to Santa Fe in 1996. From 1997-2004 she worked with NDI New Mexico in positions including Residency Director, Associate Artistic Director and Master Teacher. Allegra was the Founding Director and Operator of Dance for Joy, a dance school that offered creative movement and ballet for all levels from 2004-2011. In 2011 she returned to NDI New Mexico as The Dance Barns Artistic Director where she held that position until August 2018. Allegra is currently the Director of Young Children’s Curriculum at NDI New Mexico and continues to teach and to share her experience and knowledge with those who work with children. You can learn more about our other guest faculty and register for Summer Intensive at midlandfestivalballet.org/summer!🩰☀️ (fb)

SUMMER INTENSIVE GUEST FACULTY: Cara Radke. (Ok, maybe she's not a guest, but she we're still excited to have her teaching Modern during Week 3!) Cara Radke is a multi-faceted performer, choreographer, teaching artist, and business professional. Her technical dance training credits include Houston Ballet Academy, Houston Met, and Royal Academy of Fine Arts (RAFA). In addition to her extensive training, she also attended the High School for the Performing & Visual Arts in Houston, TX. Cara had a very versatile professional dance career performing for Bay Area Houston Ballet & Theatre, Houston Rockets Basketball, PMT Productions, and Juxtapose Arts Collective. Some of her favorite performances, to name a few, include The Nutcracker (Ginger Child to Sugar Plum Fairy), Cinderella (Autumn Fairy), Swan Lake (Pas De Quatre), Firebird, A Chorus Line, The Wild Party, and many mixed repertoire performances. Since 2006, Cara has had the pleasure of teaching multiple dance disciplines at RAFA, Juxtapose Emphasis Theatre and Performing Arts Center, and Midland Festival Ballet. In 2016, Cara co-founded a non-profit 501(c)(3) dance company with friends, Juxtapose Arts Collective, where she was company manager, resident choreographer, and performer before moving to Midland, TX and joining the Midland Festival Ballet family in 2022. Cara currently lives in Midland, TX with her husband, Dan, and daughter, Ada. You can learn more about our other guest faculty and register for Summer Intensive at midlandfestivalballet.org! 🩰☀️ (fb)