KEEP-UP-TO-DATE ON THE
COVID -19: HEALTH AND SAFETY PAGE!
AUGUST 10, 2020
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Students and Families,
It certainly has been a tough year. All of you have been
doing the right thing while using plain common sense
with isolating, proper social distancing, wearing masks,
and constantly washing hands and trying to keep
sanitized. It is nice to be responsible and help limit the
|spread of the virus in any way we can.
From the beginning and during this “ordeal,” I would like
to thank all of you for working so hard taking the
Studio's Zoom Classes, my weekly free International
Ballet Class Series which I provided on Instagram, private
classes and now, during the Summer Courses. It means
so much to witness your diligence, hard work and
dedication. I also completely understand the
reservations one may have with sending their children to
participate in a class with others or trying to handle the
financial obligations of taking care of their daily living
necessities.
With Online Open Registration going on right now and
|classes starting on September 1, 2020, please rest
assured that my staff and I have done everything possible
to keep you and your families as safe as possible while
following all the guidelines and restrictions set forth, and
will continue to do so as long as necessary. As I
reported before, I have also scheduled the studio to be
professionally sanitized every month for an entire year.
|This of course, is above and beyond the daily deep
cleaning that was taking place before the pandemic.
Thank you very much for your support and your trust in me. My staff and I at Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory is very much honored, and appreciates it! I love and care about each and everyone of you.
This pandemic will not stop the joy and passion of dance! It’s going to be a great new dance year. Let us keep making a difference!
Sincerely,
Jean-Hugues Feray
Founder and Director Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory
AUGUST 1, 2020
THE STORM
As of this afternoon, it looks Hurricane Isaias will come close but it wont be a direct hit However, it will be
bringing strong wind gusts and lots of rain. Please, stay safe!
JULY 21, 2020
STUDIOS ARE STERILIZED
Paris Ballet and Dance’s building has been professionally disinfected and sanitized and will continue to be monthly for the next year!
Thank you Mark Jackson and Sterileze Cleaning Solutions ...ALL THE DETAILS
JULY 8, 2020
DIRECTOR JEAN-HUGUES FERAY TEACHES
A MASTER CLASS VIA ZOOM
Director Jean Hugues Feray had a blast guest teaching his Master Class on Zoom to the beautiful Professional Dancers of CIA Jovem Ballet of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The class was originally scheduled for June, 25, 2020 but due to poor Internet connection it was postponed to today, July 8, 2021.
He said, “What a pleasure to give a class as a guest teacher to these beautiful professional dancers in Rio de Janeiro. Thank you for inviting me! Stay strong dancers, we need you. Stay strong dear dancers, we need you!” When everything opens up and is safe, he will be going to Brasil in the future to teach again!
JULY 4, 2020
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
JUNE 21, 2020
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
JUNE 8, 2020
SUMMER CLASSES BEGIN TODAY
With strict guidelines, regulations, and after weeks of being in isolation, Director Jean-Hugues Feray, the staff and students are all very excited and extremely happy to be back in class! It is alss exciting to be dancing in a "refreshed" studio with new paint, carpets and even new Marley floors in three of the classrooms! (June 1 below) ...SEE NEW LOOK ON LOCATION PAGE
JUNE 1, 2020
STUDIO MAKEOVER
We are pleased to announce that thanks to a generous donation from a anonymous private donor, the studio has undergone a huge make-over. Expect to see new paint, new carpeting, and new Marley floors in Studios One, Three and Four.
While the studio was closed, the donation came at the perfect time! Mr. Feray and Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory are very happy to bring a higher sense of hygiene due to this great makeover.
JULY 15, 2020
THE SUMMER SCHEDULE IS OUT!
SUMMER IS COMING – AND IT’S GOING TO BE HOT!
The Souls and feet are ready.
EVERYONE IS VERY EXCITED AND EAGER TO DANCE THEIR HEARTS OUT!
There are a variety of classes for three year olds to pre-professionals. The Summer also features THREE
Intensives INCLUDING one for just boys and young men. The information and schedule is contingent on Phase 2 Issuance for Palm Beach County. All guidelines and restrictions will apply. ...DETAILED DAILY SUMMER SCHEDULE ON COVID - 19 PAGE
MAY 22, 2020
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!
MAY 21, 2020
PARIS BALLET IS PART OF KRAVIS @ HOME SERIES!
Excerpts of the February 2020 performance in the Rinker Playhouse are now available to view on the Kravis Center website as part of their "Kravis @ Home" segments. Thank you so much to the Kravis Center for including Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory along with the amazing other companies and artists. For Paris Ballet's big Ten Year Anniversary Performance, the school was scheduled perform in Dreyfoos Hall and S*T*A*R Series but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic! ....VIEW HERE
MAY 10, 2020
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
APRIL 11, 2020
HAPPY EASTER
APRIL 8, 2020
HAPPY PASSOVER!
APRIL 5, 2020
INTERNATIONAL BALLET CLASSES ONLINE AND IN THE NEWS
The Coronavirus has affected the entire world!
Artistic Director has been reaching out and offering his FREE International Ballet Online Ballet Class Series for the past few weeks on his Instagram page @jeanhugesferay_offical. Today was the fifth installment with over 150 "attendees," from Washington State to Europe. Since Florida is now in "self-isolation" and "lock-down", he started presenting his class for from his home. WPTV News Channel 5 filmed and interviewed Mr. Feray today. His class featured in a future news story about people reaching out to each others during the pandemic.
APRIL 4, 2020
REGULAR CLASSES ON ZOOM BEGAN ON APRIL 1, 2020.
After countless hours of Mr. Feray working diligently to set everything up, and with all tests and trials
...Online classes were a huge success! As we continue, we will evolve.
Thank you to the all the teachers who helped make this happen. Thank you to the students who are able to continue their dance education online.
We certainly look forward to the students who will be able to continue their classes when the Country starts to get back on its toes.
REMEMBER: Stay safe and follow the guidelines, This way we can all dance together when it is safe for the studio to reopen.
MARCH 28, 2020
VIRTUAL CLASSES WILL BEGIN
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory will begin virtual classes on ZOOM. In the meantime, please stay safely isolated, and follow ALL the C.D.C. guidelines until this is over. This way, everyone can be dancing together - very soon.Together, we can make a difference! ...ALL INFORMATION
MARCH 22, 2020
INSTAGRAM CLASSES - MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Students,
Thank you to all of my students here and internationally including those from France, for taking online class today. I am looking forward to reaching out to you in the very near future! Thank you to Clare Keavy who demonstrated, and assisted me.
Please keep an eye out here on Facebook, Instagram, and on our website for more information. Let us keep making a difference as we continue to stay safe
...AND IN SHAPE!
Love,
Jean Hugues Feray
Founder and Director Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory
MARCH 20, 2020
PERFORMANCES OF CINDERELLA - CANCELLED
Performaces are cancelled due to COVID-19.
MARCH 15, 2020 - UPDATED MARCH MARCH 20, 2020: NO CLASSES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Based on the recommendations provided by the CDC and following the School District of Palm Beach County and in an effort to help preventing spread of Coronavirus in the community, Paris Ballet will be closed effective tomorrow Monday, March 16, 2020, and through Spring Break - as planned. The Studio is planning on reopening as soon as it is advised it is safe to resume with a regular schedule.
...READ MORE
MARCH 2, 2020
THANK YOU OHIO - A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear, Friends, Families, Donors and Patrons,
I would like to thank Directors Steve Beirens and Hannah Dorfmueller of Le Jeune Dance. It was an extreme
pleasure to be part of last weekend’s performances of Don Quixote Suite and other Works, in Anderson, Ohio. It takes a lot of time and work to organize and run a show of this size. Thank you to the wonderful dancers, families, staff and volunteers of Le Jeune Dance. Thank you to the production staff and the crew of The Anderson Center. Everyone’s genuine hospitality made it even more of an pleasurable experience!
Marking an historic event for Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory, this fabulous collaboration with Le Jeune Dance was our first “tour.” I was able to bring 19 of our dancers to another state, and to share the stage with the talented dancers of Le Jeune Dance.
I would like to thank all my dancers. Your dedication, desire, hard work and great performances always make me extremely proud. And I am so glad to have a school filled with students like you. Also, thank you to all the parents of my students who are there every day! I can not tell you how much I appreciate all of you.
We happily look forward to seeing Le Jeune Dance as they tour here to close our big Tenth Anniversary Season with the End-of-the-Year last phase of our Spring Performance 2020.
Sincerely,
Jean-Hugues Feray
Founder/Director
Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
BEST WISHES AND SAFE JOURNEY
...To and From Ohio on Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory's FIRST historic tour. (Information below in February 18 Post) ...SEE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
ON TOUR WITH PARIS BALLET AND DANCE
February 28 – March 1, 2020, Paris Ballet and Dance Le Jeune Dance present Don Quixote Suite along with Contemporary Works at the Anderson Carter Theatre in Anderson, Ohio.
Paris Ballet and Dance will be performing The Dream and Matadors in Don Quixote Suite, and Mr. Feray’s Peer Gynt Finale.
Paris Ballet Director Jean-Hugues Feray is leaving for Cincinnati next Wednesday, March 26, 2020 with dancers: Olivia Alintoff, Endia Banks, Gabriella Betancourt, Sebastian Bondar, Crina Ciolacu, Maia DeOreo,
Raelin Flanigan, Caelan Gagnon, Lily Golish, Isabella Gutierrez, Sophia Jackson, Addison Joslin, Clare Keavy, Cyan Love, Devon Luxton, Andrea Medina, Mario Mery, Ali Spector, and Juliana Wolfington.
This is an incredible opportunity for the students from Paris Ballet and Dance to experience what is like to be
in a professional company while dancing many shows in three days - while away from home!
Thank you so much to Le Jeune Dance Artistic Directors Steve Beirens and Hannah Dorfmueller.
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
THANK YOU
Thank you to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts for everything while Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory performed on February 16, 2020.
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped get everything to and from the theatre. Thank you to, Karen Manucy, Tangi Colombel, and Jessie Betancourt, Joseph J. Bucheck III, Kristin Finley, Dina Fleck, Angela Gutierrez, Christi Keavy, Molly Kimmerling, Reilly Kimmerling, Gwen King, Roxy King- Currann, Krystle Little, Steve Luxton, Julie Luxton, Kristin Malkholm, Lindsey Moretti, James Nobel, Risselle Alexandra Portuondo, Suanne Rothman, Sean Rothman, and Emily Saito for their help backstage – all day long.
Thank you all the families, friends, patrons and donors who attended the performance, and for help making a difference! ...SEE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK
FEBRUARY 16 2020
TONIGHT SOLD OUT PERFORMANCE OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTY SUITE AND MORE
Tonight, the dancers will perform The Sleeping Beauty Suite Le Corsaire Pas de Deux and Etudes to a SOLD OUT house at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. They will also be "sharing the theatre with the National Tour of Hamilton.
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
JANUARY 25, 2020
PARIS BALLET AND DANCE WINS AND PLACES AT YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX SEMI -FINALS
Congratulations to Director Jean-Hugues Feray and
● CAELAN GAGNON: Hope Award 2020! The Hope Award is given for the best overall performance in thePre-Competitive Age Division. These awards are given to the dancers who, by the consensus of the Youth America Grand Prix Jury Panel, have exceeded all other dancers in their age division in both the Classical Ballet and Contemporary/Open Dance categories. He will be going to the Finals!
● SEBASTIAN BONDAR: Second Place in Junior Men Category and going to the Finals!
● DEVON LUXTON: Top 6 Senior Men Category. This is Devon’s first time competing as a Senior. he will be going to the Finals!
● LILY GOLISH: Who did an outstanding job while performing beautifully in the Junior Ladies Category.
Needless to say, Mr. Feray, and everyone at Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory are so happy and proud of this year’s competitors. As Mr. Feray said, “thrilled and in heaven.”
Thank you Youth America Grand Prix!
Also, congratulations to the many other dancers who competed at Youth America Grand Prix Semi-Finals 2020 in Winston Salem, North Carolina. ...SEE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK
JANUARY 22, 2020
PARIS BALLET AT YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX
Today, Competitors Sebastian Bondar, Caelan Gagnon, Lily Golish and Devon Luxton with Director Jean-Hugues Feray head out to Winston-Salem, North Carolina for Youth America Grand Prix Semi-Finals. Competition begins on January 23, 2019.
It it important to note on an international scale, Youth America Grand Prix is like the Olympics. The competition is long, rough and tough! Students train and are coached hours and hours each day. Only the best of the best make it through Semi-Finals to get to the Finals. In the past, Paris Ballet and Dance’s has done very well sending several students to the Finals in New York.
While having great scores and the possibility of winning are great, there are other outcomes which are very
important. Students are seen by the some of the most important luminaries of the dance world. These young
dancers can be offered a contract into a major international dance company. However, it is also very important to know most of the world's greatest dancers have never competed nor have they wanted to do so.
Through this competition Paris Ballet and Dance, and Paris Ballet Conservatory students have been offered
positions and scholarships to some of the most renown Summer Intensives in the world including France, Italy, The Netherlands, Russia/NY, and of course the USA.
Best wishes to every single competitor this week and weekend! ...SEE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK
JANUARY 8, 2020
MAGNIFIQUE INTERNATIONAL BALLET WINTER INTENSIVE IS OVER
Thanks to Director Jean-Hugues Feray bringing great French Master Teachers, Stephanie Roublot, Oliver Pardina, and the Legendary Charles Jude, Magnifique International Winter Ballet Intensive was again, a huge success. Dozens of young dancers attended from all over.
Special thank you's to The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts for being a co-collaborator. Also, thank you to Miranda Hawkins and Tracy Butler at the Kravis Center for their help! ...SEE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK
DECEMBER 31, 2019
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
There are lots of things exciting things, performances and happenings planned for 2020 - The Ten Year Anniversary! ALSO
...On January 2, 2020, the first important dance "event" of the New Year begins as Magnifique International
Ballet Winter Intensive begins! Director Jean-Hugues Feray welcomes the Legendary Charles Jude, Stephanie Roublot and Olivier Pardina to West Palm Beach, Florida for this incredible Intensive taught in the French School!
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Paris Ballet and Dance one of just three schools in the entire State of Florida to have been selected to be part of the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School Outreach and Collaboration Program. ...Read More
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