Master Class with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Jacqueline Burnett

Join us at Michigan Ballet Academy on March 8 for a special masterclass with professional dancer Jacqueline Burnett!

Jacqueline Burnett (she/her, Pocatello, ID) received her formative classical ballet training
in her hometown of Pocatello, Idaho, from Romanian Ballet Master Marius Zirra. She moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue the Ailey School/Fordham University joint BFA degree,
graduating magna cum laude with departmental honors in 2009. She joined Hubbard Street
Dance Chicago in January 2008 as a Center Apprentice while completing her degree and
became a member of the main company in August 2009. She received a 2011 Princess Grace
Honorarium for Dance and was a member of the HSDC contingent for DanceMotion USA 2013, a U.S. State Department/Brooklyn Academy of Music cultural diplomacy tour in Algeria, Morocco, and Spain. In addition to dancing with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, she also teaches company class, and has served as an Artistic Lead and teacher for Hubbard Street
Summer Intensives, a choreographer for Hubbard Street’s CREATE Intensive, a repetitor for
choreographies by Penny Saunders (Ballet Idaho, Seattle Dance Collective, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet), and a freelance dancer with Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists and Seattle Dance Collective. She choreographed for Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production of Murder on the Orient Express under the direction of Annika Boras and was commissioned to co-choreograph with David Schultz, for Danza Visual in Mexico City.

This Masterclass is for Intermediate - Advanced Level Community Dancers or Level 4-6 MBA Dancers

Cost:

Masterclass fee: $75*

Enroll Here

*Masterclass fee is included in current MBA student tuition; no registration is necessary.

Master Class SCHEDULE

Saturday (3/8/25) 10:00am-12:45pm

For enrollment information or questions contact:

Grace Hendrian
School Administrator
616.710.1666
administrator@michiganballet.org

Michigan Ballet Academy
1595 Galbraith Ave. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546