Ballet Academy Ventura Camps & Intensives
Ballet Academy Ventura, 2750 E Main Street, Ventura, CA 93003
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Ballet Academy Ventura Camps & Intensives offers the Little Ballerina Dance Camp, a Junior “Junior” Intensive, and a Junior Intensive. Camp and intensive activities include learning new dance styles such as character dances from Russia, Italy, and Eastern Europe, Musical Theater, improving technique, learning dance history, experiencing new choreography, and presenting an in-studio demonstration for friends and family at the end of each session.
• Schedule: Little Ballerina Dance Camp runs for 5 days, Monday, July 6–Friday, July 10, 2026, from 9am–12pm. The Junior “Junior” Intensive runs in two 6-day weeks: Week I from Monday, July 13–Saturday, July 18 (Monday–Friday 9am–3pm and Saturday 12–2pm) and Week II from Monday, July 20–Saturday, July 25 (Monday–Friday 9am–3pm and Saturday 12–2pm). The Junior Intensive also runs in two 6-day weeks with the same Week I and Week II dates and daily times as the Junior “Junior” Intensive.
• Price: Little Ballerina Dance Camp costs $225. The Junior “Junior” Intensive costs $400 per week or $750 for both weeks, and the Junior Intensive costs $400 per week or $750 for both weeks.
Ballet Academy Ventura camps and intensives are offered at Ballet Academy Ventura and use the Vaganova teaching method as part of a complete dance program from early Creative Movement and Pre-ballet through Pre-Professional, with new enrollment open year round and a free trial class offered for placement. The school has served Ventura County for over 30 years as a center for dance education and is the official school of the Ventura County Ballet, whose productions include an annual performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and other spring concerts involving youth and adults. The program’s mission states that Ballet Academy Ventura focuses on educating the whole child, building self-confidence and love of ballet, and using discipline to support a child’s own self-discipline through gentle and constructive correction.
The leadership team includes Director and founder Kathleen Noblin, Curriculum Director Marina Fliagina, Conservatory Instructors Nilas Martins and Sergei Domrachev, and instructors Hanna Chudinova and Elizaveta (Leeza) Domracheva, with Alexandra (Sasha) Domracheva serving on the faculty of the Junior “Junior” and Junior Intensives since 2020. Faculty credentials include extensive professional training and performance backgrounds in Russia, Denmark, Ukraine, Canada, and the United States, international touring with companies such as the Russian Imperial Ballet, Moscow Classical Ballet, and State Street Ballet, and university-level dance degrees and teaching roles. Ballet Academy Ventura’s community involvement includes participation in Ventura’s cultural planning, collaborations with local arts organizations and festivals, and bringing dance education to elementary schools in the Ventura Unified School District.
Program recognitions include the 2008 Mayor’s Arts Award to Ms. Noblin for her work as an arts educator and a 2006 Certificate of Recognition from the City of San Buenaventura for cultural programs provided through Ventura County Ballet. Individual staff honors include Sergei Domrachev’s bronze medals and Audience Favorite Award at the 1992 Vaganova and International Arabesque competitions, and Elizaveta (Leeza) Domracheva’s finalist placement on the “Blue Bird” youth talent TV show in Moscow and her Second Place and Special Jury Prize at the 2019 International Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition “Domenico Modugno” in Italy. Ballet Academy Ventura students have been accepted into professional ballet summer intensive programs such as American Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet School, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and School of American Ballet, and have earned scholarships to university programs including Butler University, Indiana University, University of California Irvine, Loyola Marymount College, and University of California Los Angeles.
Last updated June 18, 2026.
• Schedule: Little Ballerina Dance Camp runs for 5 days, Monday, July 6–Friday, July 10, 2026, from 9am–12pm. The Junior “Junior” Intensive runs in two 6-day weeks: Week I from Monday, July 13–Saturday, July 18 (Monday–Friday 9am–3pm and Saturday 12–2pm) and Week II from Monday, July 20–Saturday, July 25 (Monday–Friday 9am–3pm and Saturday 12–2pm). The Junior Intensive also runs in two 6-day weeks with the same Week I and Week II dates and daily times as the Junior “Junior” Intensive.
• Price: Little Ballerina Dance Camp costs $225. The Junior “Junior” Intensive costs $400 per week or $750 for both weeks, and the Junior Intensive costs $400 per week or $750 for both weeks.
Ballet Academy Ventura camps and intensives are offered at Ballet Academy Ventura and use the Vaganova teaching method as part of a complete dance program from early Creative Movement and Pre-ballet through Pre-Professional, with new enrollment open year round and a free trial class offered for placement. The school has served Ventura County for over 30 years as a center for dance education and is the official school of the Ventura County Ballet, whose productions include an annual performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and other spring concerts involving youth and adults. The program’s mission states that Ballet Academy Ventura focuses on educating the whole child, building self-confidence and love of ballet, and using discipline to support a child’s own self-discipline through gentle and constructive correction.
The leadership team includes Director and founder Kathleen Noblin, Curriculum Director Marina Fliagina, Conservatory Instructors Nilas Martins and Sergei Domrachev, and instructors Hanna Chudinova and Elizaveta (Leeza) Domracheva, with Alexandra (Sasha) Domracheva serving on the faculty of the Junior “Junior” and Junior Intensives since 2020. Faculty credentials include extensive professional training and performance backgrounds in Russia, Denmark, Ukraine, Canada, and the United States, international touring with companies such as the Russian Imperial Ballet, Moscow Classical Ballet, and State Street Ballet, and university-level dance degrees and teaching roles. Ballet Academy Ventura’s community involvement includes participation in Ventura’s cultural planning, collaborations with local arts organizations and festivals, and bringing dance education to elementary schools in the Ventura Unified School District.
Program recognitions include the 2008 Mayor’s Arts Award to Ms. Noblin for her work as an arts educator and a 2006 Certificate of Recognition from the City of San Buenaventura for cultural programs provided through Ventura County Ballet. Individual staff honors include Sergei Domrachev’s bronze medals and Audience Favorite Award at the 1992 Vaganova and International Arabesque competitions, and Elizaveta (Leeza) Domracheva’s finalist placement on the “Blue Bird” youth talent TV show in Moscow and her Second Place and Special Jury Prize at the 2019 International Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition “Domenico Modugno” in Italy. Ballet Academy Ventura students have been accepted into professional ballet summer intensive programs such as American Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet School, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and School of American Ballet, and have earned scholarships to university programs including Butler University, Indiana University, University of California Irvine, Loyola Marymount College, and University of California Los Angeles.
Last updated June 18, 2026.
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