Exciting programs are available this summer at WHDT. During the month of June, we’re shaking up our regularly scheduled classes to offer camps, intensives, pop-up classes, and discounted private lessons!
From June 1-27, we’ll be following a reduced class schedule to offer students new, immersive dance experiences. Discover inspiring dance training for all levels: from our youngest dancers to advanced pre-professionals, and seasoned adults. Join us for technique development, creativity, and end-of-week performances for family and friends. Be sure to enroll early to secure your spot!
Beginning June 29, we’ll resume our ongoing class schedule. Students enrolled during the week of May 18 will be automatically enrolled into the same classes for the June 29-July 25 billing period. No classes will be held on Friday, July 4.
Email staff@whdt.org with questions or for help enrolling!
Join us for a fun-filled week led by WHDT alumni! Each three-hour camp will provide age-appropriate dance instruction, strength and flexibility specific for dancers, and choreography, as well as creative activities and games, concluding with an in-studio showcase and family gathering!
Enroll by April 1st for $15 off each week.
Enroll for both weeks for an additional $30 off.
Late Registration Fee of $15 after 5/1.
Space is limited so sign up now!
SUMMER DANCE CAMPS
June 1-5 & 22-26
$395 PER WEEK
Meets Monday through Friday for three hours with a Friday afternoon in-studio showcase performance for families and friends at 4:30 pm.
Primary / Ballet 1 Dance Camps: 9am – 12pm
A fun, welcoming camp with a focus on classical ballet. Dancers explore technique, strengthening, creative movement, choreography, and enjoy a short in-studio showcase for families and friends. Recommended for ages 5 to 10, dance experience is not required.
Ballet 2 Dance Camps: 1pm – 4pm
This camp builds on classical ballet foundations with technique, strengthening, contemporary work, dance history, repertoire, and choreography and also includes the in-studio showcase on Friday. Recommended for ages 9 to 12 with some Level I dance experience.
Week #1 Camp Showcase & Family Gathering
Friday, June 5, from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Week #2 Camp Finale & Family Gathering
Friday, June 26, from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
$100 Non-refundable Deposit due upon registration. Remaining balance due 5/1 or upon registration.
SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE
June 8-20
Register by 4/1: $1,725 / $1,625 WHDT Students*
Register by 5/15: $1,775 / $1,675 WHDT Students*
Register after 5/15: $1,825 / $1,725 WHDT Students*
M-Th 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
F 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sat 6/13: 12 p.m. with 4 p.m. Studio Performance
Sat 6/20: 12-5 p.m. with 4 p.m. Studio Performance
Join us for a top-tier dance intensive with instructors, Alaine Haubert, from American Ballet Theatre and Amar Ramasar, from New York City Ballet, two of the most highly-regarded professional ballet companies in the world, along with special WHDT teaching artists.
Enrollment options include one week or both weeks, but for the most benefit, (and best weekly rate), please enroll in both weeks.
$200 non-refundable deposit due upon registration. Remaining balance due 5/15 or upon registration.
Single Week Pricing
Register by 4/1: $875 / $825 WHDT Students*
Register by 5/15: $900 / $850 WHDT Students*
Register after 5/15: $925 / $875 WHDT Students*
* Only students enrolled in the May 2026 session are eligible for the $100 off student discount.
LIMITED TIME OFFER!
DISCOUNTED PRIVATE LESSON PACKAGES
Available June 1st through August 1st
Skip the beach and boost your dance skills this summer! Get personalized dance instruction, strengthen your technique or create a small group class with your besties!
Four lessons in each package!
SOLO LESSON PACKAGE
30 minutes – Reg $220, now $180
45 minutes – Reg $300, now $270
60 minutes – Reg $360, now $300
90 minutes – Reg $540, now $360
DUET LESSON PACKAGE
30 minutes – $320, now $330
45 minutes – $480, now $450
60 minutes – $600, now $540
TRIO LESSON PACKAGE
30 minutes – $420
45 minutes – $585
60 minutes – $720
90 minutes – $990
Full payment is due when scheduled. May schedule package lessons with multiple instructors depending on availability. Lesson tuition is non-refundable and non-transferrable. Excludes Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®, GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® lessons.
Jamy Woodbury received his formal training with Denver-based Cleo Parker Robinson dance ensemble, where he trained extensively in such forms as Graham Norton and Dunham intermixed with a rigorous schedule of ballet. Seeking to broaden his classical understanding, Jamy did a year stint with the Boston Ballet.
Miho Morinoue is an acclaimed dancer and a visual artist. As a member of the Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company she performed extensively in the United States and Europe. As a visual artist, she collaborated on numerous projects, designing costumes and setting ballets for Complexions, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Oakland Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet and many others. She has shown her paintings in Hawaii, New York and Seattle.
A Mauka Lani Graduate, Marina began training with WHDT when she was 5. Ms. Terwilliger went on to become Miss Kona Coffee 2002, attended UH Manoa as a Dance Major for 2 years, and returns to the Big Island of Hawaii after pursuing a commercial print modeling career in New York City.
Fredrick Davis studied at the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School. He attended summer intensives at American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, and North Carolina Dance Theatre. He danced with the Roxey Ballet Company in New Jersey and eventually Dance Theatre of Harlem. While at Dance Theatre of Harlem, Davis danced in many roles including the male lead in New Bach, the Pas de Deux from Act III of Swan Lake, in Robert Garland’s Return, in George Balanchine’s Agon and Alvin Ailey’s The Lark Ascending. He performed Agon and The Lark Ascending with Dance Theatre of Harlem at Jacob’s Pillow Dance. After leaving Dance Theatre of Harlem in 2015, Davis participated in a Dance for America tour, was a featured artist with Dallas Black Dance Theatre, danced at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., danced in the Donald McKayle Tribute in Irvine, California, and danced for the Indiana Ballet Theatre. As a freelance artist, he has also performed with various ballet companies including Roanoke Ballet Theatre, Greensboro Ballet, San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet, and Dissonance Dance Theater. He is a principal guest artist at Ballet Tennessee and at Ballet Tucson. Davis returns to Chattanooga every summer as a guest artist in the Dance Alive program that first inspired his love of dance. He is featured in the film, From the Streets to the Stage: The Journey of Fredrick Davis. The documentary was created by Ann Cater of PBS and was filmed by the Emmy Award-winning crew from WTCI.
Shaina Leibson has had an over fifteen-year career as a professional ballet dancer. She has been a dancer with several companies including Alberta Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Ballet San Jose where she performed for eight years. Shaina was a soloist dancer with Ballett im Revier in Germany and spent five seasons as a Principal Dancer with Bay Pointe Ballet which was based in the San Francisco area. Shaina received her ballet training from the renowned San Francisco Ballet School.
Timour began his professional education with the Moldavian Opera House and the Bolshoi Ballet. Upon coming to America he danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, and the New York-based Daring Project. In 1998, Mr. Bourtasenkov joined Carolina Ballet as a Principal dancer and founding member of the company. Mr. Bourtasenkov has choreographed works for Carolina Ballet, Infinity Ballet, New Jersey Ballet and most recently, the New York Choreographic Institute, using New York City Ballet members. His ballets include Light and Dark, sections of Messiah, Rag House, Elements, Memories, Visions, Intrigue, Dance of the Spirits, Fallen Dreams and Tango! Tango! Tango! Mr. Bourtasenkov won the Bronze Medal in the VII Massako Ohyo World Ballet Competition of Osaka, Japan and the V International Competition of Paris, France. He was awarded a jury prize at the 2nd Luxembourg International Ballet Competition. Mr. Bourtasenkov has appeared in two USSR movies: The Long Way and The Magic Star. In 1996, he filmed Little Red Ridinghood, directed by Davis Koplan and choreographed by Elena Tchernichova. In 1996, Mr. Bourtasenkov became the Artistic Advisor of Infinity Ballet and in 2005 he was named the Artistic Director of Carolina Performing Arts Center in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Called “one of San Francisco’s leading dance teachers”, Henry Berg has, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, “carved a strong artistic niche as a teacher”. With a career that spans over three decades in dance, film, television, theatre, and academia, Mr. Berg has established himself as one of the foremost dance teachers in the country. His guest teaching engagements now include annual seminars for the Boston Ballet, the Academia Anna Pavlova in Bogata, Columbia, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Educators of America, Oregon Dance Academy, and the Village Dance Arts in Los Angeles. Mr. Berg traveled to Japan where he taught seminars in Tokyo and Nagoya, staging “American Ballet Selections” in 1994 for several companies there. Mr. Berg began his dance career in Hollywood, California, appearing in such films as “State Fair”, “How The West Was Won”, and “Babes In Toyland”. In 1962, he joined the San Francisco Ballet. Subsequently, he danced for over seven years with the Joffrey Ballet and assisted choreographer Twyla Tharp in New York City. In 1975, Mr. Berg created the Pacific Ballet Company with co-founders John Pasqualetti and Sue Loyd. He also joined the faculty of the San Francisco Ballet. The list of directors, dancers, and choreographers Mr. Berg has worked with include: George Balanchine, Robert Joffrey, Gerald Arpino, Lew Christensen, Ann Sokolov, Kurt Joos, Jon Hart, and Margaret Jenkins. Additionally, he has worked with skaters John Curry and Peggy Fleming, cartoonist Charles Schultz, and has appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Alaine Haubert, a fourth generation Californian, has the unique distinction of having been associated with America’s three major companies. She received her training from age fifteen at the School of American Ballet in New York City where she studied with George Balanchine and his illustrious post-Diaghilev faculty. After graduation from high school, she performed with San Francisco’s Pacific Ballet and then joined the national touring company of Camelot. In 1965, after a year on the road with Camelot, Alaine joined American Ballet Theatre, where she performed corps de ballet, soloist and principal roles. She was coached, during this period by such diverse and exciting choreographers as Tudor, DeMille, Robbins, Feld, Culberg, Lander, and Tetley, and also danced the classics. 
Leo Ahonen was accepted to the Ballet Academy of the National Opera House in Helsinki Finland at the age of six. He joined the National Ballet of Finland at the age of 14, and at age 17 guest performed with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. At the famed Vaganova Choreographic Institute in Leningrad, Mr. Ahonen became a private student of Mr. Konstantin Shatilov and received the “Kirov Trained” Certificate at graduation. Mr. Ahonen won a Bronze Medal in the Men’s Senior category at the Second International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. He was a principal dancer and company teacher for the National Ballet of Holland, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and the National Ballet of Finland. With his wife Soili Arvola, he danced as a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and was hailed by critics as The Flying Finn, West Coast Nureyev, and the Fantastic Finn.
Soili Arvola was accepted to the Ballet Academy of the National Opera House in Helsinki Finland at the age of eight. After graduating from the Academy at age 17, she was invited to join the National Ballet of Finland, touring with the company around the world. Among her numerous honors, Ms. Arvola won a Bronze Medal and Diploma for High Artistic Achievement in Women’s Senior (Professional) Category at the prestigious International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. She has appeared as a guest ballerina with the Finnish National Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Chicago Ballet, Houston Ballet, London’s Royal Ballet Choreographic Group, Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Ballet international de Ochi of Japan, and with many symphony orchestras, opera companies, and civic ballet companies throughout the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Arvola has performed as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, the title roles in Giselle and Cinderella, Swanhilda in Coppelia Kitri in Don Quixote and many others.