Ballet Ensemble, established in 2011, is the pre-professional group of young dancers who perform both in theatrical settings and throughout the community. Ensemble members have the opportunity to work with guest artists in residencies, master classes and workshops as well as in outreach performances and lecture demonstrations while learning in an apprentice environment, which prepares them to enter academic dance programs as well as the professional dance industry.

For this fall season Ballet Ensemble will be partnering with the Santa Ana College Dance Department for lecture demonstrations on campus as well as participating as guest performers in the Faculty Dance Concert, Dancewatch 2011: Fall/Rise, on November 11th, 12th and 13th in Philips Hall Theatre on the Santa Ana College campus.

Ballet ensemble dancers need to be enrolled in a minimum of 3.5 hours of ballet per week in addition to their ensemble class.

For more information on upcoming Ballet Ensemble performances or auditions please contact Jaclyn Butterfield at 714.444.1144. ext. 209.

Mychelle Pérez earned her BA and MFA in Dance from UC Irvine and has performed extensively both locally and abroad.  She has been a guest artist/lecturer for ABT’s Summer Intensive, California Riverside Ballet, Kinetic Dance Project, DeFore Dance Center and Bare Dance Company. She has been on the faculty of Coast Ballet Academy, Fullerton College, Golden West College, California Conservatory of the Arts, Saint Joseph Ballet and Laguna Beach Dance Company, where she was the founding Classical Program Director. Currently she is on the faculty of the Santa Ana College and Cypress College Dance Departments.  In addition to her work in the dance field she is also a BASI certified Pilates instructor with a specialization in Pilates for dancers and is on staff at St. Jude Centers for Rehabilitation and Wellness.