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Ballet dancers experience boot camp-style training
Students improve in Gainesville Ballet Company's Summer Intensive Program
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The Gainesville Ballet holds its Summer Intensive Program at Brenau University on Friday afternoon. The program lasts two weeks.
Rhythmic pounding in time to the music reverberated off the floors and walls as 20 students performed a couple of jumps and turns Friday afternoon in a dance studio at Brenau Fitness Center. As they performed the French-sounding maneuvers, a petite teacher with a big voice snapped her finger in time and shouted encouraging and correcting words. “Lift the elbows!”