Day 5: Artist Lecture and Demo

For this evening's demonstration, Flavio, with the help of his students, walked the campers through a typical ballet class.

Flavio Salazar, a native of Colombia, began his dance studies at the Colombian Institute of Classical Ballet (Incolballet). He joined Ballet de Cali in 1985, before joining the faculty of Incolballet upon his certification by the National Ballet of Cuba to teach methodology and pedagogy of ballet technique. In 1990, he studied at the Houston Ballet Academy as a full scholarship student, and later joined Ballet Arizona in 1992. In 1993, Salazar was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). During his thirteen-year career with ABT, Salazar danced nearly every ballet in ABT's repertoire, before retiring from the company in July of 2006. Salazar's teaching experience extends from his early years of professional dancing in Colombia. He has taught classes at ABT II, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the ABT Summer Intensive, the Alvin Ailey School, and Ballet Tech, among others.