Be a Choreographer - Create a Ballet - Summer 2025
Pre-K4 - 2nd Grade
In this ballet camp, students choreograph, rehearse and perform a new ballet.
Develop skills in artistry, musicality and classical ballet technique during this creative process.
At the end of each week, parents are invited to a studio performance of the ballets’s progress and its première.
Camp Attire: wear a leotard or play clothes and ballet shoes.
Pre - K4 through 2nd grade students: bring a snack and water bottle.
When:
Session 1: Monday June 16 - Wednesday June 18, 2025
Session 2: Monday, June 23 - Thursday, June 26, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Where: South Campus Dance Studio
Eligible Grades: Pre-K4 - 2nd grades
Cost:
$250 for Session 1 (June 16 - 18)
$335 for Session 2 (June 23 - 26)
Instructor: Lisa Howell
Complete Their Week! For an additional $185 per week, your camper can join us for their grade-level Day Camp for the entire week. You can drop them off in the morning carpool, and we will get them to their Specialty Camp when it begins. You can pick them up when their camp is over, or in Day Camp carpool at 2:45 p.m. if their camp happens during the camp day.
If you’re “Completing Their Week” by adding on a day camp for your camper, please be sure to pick the correct option:
Firefly Camp is for campers entering Pre-K4
Discovery Camp is for campers entering K and 1st
Adventure Camp is for campers entering 2nd - 4th
Explorer Camp is for campers entering 5th - 8th
Instructor Bio:
Lisa Howell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Birmingham-Southern College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance. Her Ballet and Character Dance teacher while studying at Birmingham-Southern College was Mira Popovich. By invitation of Ms. Popovich, Lisa taught Character Dance at the Summer Ballet Workshops at Birmingham-Southern for over a decade.
Ms. Howell moved to Mississippi after accepting a teaching position with Jackson Ballet School, under the direction of Thalia Mara. The following year, Jackson Ballet became Ballet Mississippi. Charles Dickson was appointed Artistic Director of Ballet Mississippi. He named Ms. Howell, Principal of Ballet Mississippi School and Assistant Chairman of the Dance Department of APAC (the Academic and Performing Arts Program offered through Jackson Public Schools). She taught for Ballet Mississippi for ten years. During that time, along with Mr. Dickson, she had the privilege of learning from her colleagues, Alan A. Woodward and Gillian Davis.
As a Ballet Mississippi school teacher, she began teaching ballet in the St. Andrew’s Lower School. She continues to enjoy this association and their support of her ballet program, now in its 35th year.
Mary Golde Howell, as Director of Beth Israel Pre-School, invited Lisa to teach “Dance and Movement” class to the 4 and 5 year-old classes. For 7 years, she was honored to teach these classes.
Lisa Howell is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance, receiving Highly Commended on her Advanced Executant Examination and Distinction on her Royal Academy of Dance Teaching Examinations.
In June 2023, she successfully completed training on The Royal Ballet School’s INSPIRE: Series 1, Seminars 1 - 6, which was offered during the USA IBC.