The Syzokryli Dance Ensemble offers plenty of activities during the summer months. Using the Ukrainian facilities of Soyuzivka and Verkhovyna, three sessions of dance instruction are offered.

The first, starting at the end of June is a 3-week workshop for more accomplished dancers.

The next two sessions are each a two week children's camp, A two week camp at Verkovyna takes place at the end of July. In mid-August Soyuzivka hosts the second children's camp.

Each camp offers traditional Ukrainian dance from numerous regions, along with interpretive dancing. The culmination of the child's progress is shown in a recital, and fun had by all.

INSTRUCTOR BIO

In addition to Andrij Cybyk and Orlando Pagan,

Kristine Izak ...brings to Camp over 13 years of professional teaching experience in a variety of dance forms. She began studying ballet and modern dance at an early age under Delphine Delbello, and character at the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance School in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1984, she attended the selective Pa. Governors School for the Arts at Bucknell University, where she was encouraged to pursue a career in dance. In 1983 she was accepted into the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, and had the opportunity to perform the works of many well known Ukrainian dance choreographers. At 22, she attended her first Workshop, and began her long-time affiliation with Roma Pryma Bohachevsky and her dance programs. She was invited to perform with the Syzokryli Ensemble of New York City and since 1991 has performed exclusively with them, including their tour of Ukraine in 1992. Kristine earned her B.A. Summa cum laude in Dance from DeSales University, and since that time, has taught at private dance schools in the Philadelphia area. Besides her work with Dance Camp, she is also an Assistant to the Director for the advanced Workshop. She is proud to inspire her students through her teaching and mentors many in careers in dance. This past May, her choreography entitled Reach, was presented at the closing ceremonies for the national fund raising event "Race for the Cure" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.