BORN TO DANCE A.V. STUDENT TO START EARLY AT CALARTS.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Unlike most 16-year-olds, Sonja Bailey won't be taking a summer job and anticipating her junior year at high school. Instead the straight-A student graduates this month and in September will start classes at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. in Valencia. Bailey completed ninth grade and two months of her senior year at Lancaster High School Lancaster High School may refer to:
``I was on home study so I did too much homework because I got bored,'' Bailey said of her early graduation. Bailey won a $3,000 scholarship from CalArts after an audition in modern dance at the school. Other financial aid will pay another $3,000. The remainder of the $41,000 tuition per year will be paid through school loans and Sonja's part-time job at the Antelope Valley Performing Arts Conservatory, where she has been taking classes for several years in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, hip hop, pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or and salsa dancing. After CalArts she plans on auditioning for Broadway shows. She also hopes to earn a master's degree from Julliard. Bailey has lived in Lancaster since 1997 when she moved here with her parents and seven siblings from West Hills. A sister and three younger brothers are also dancers. Bailey began dancing at age 10. Something Sonja hated - ballet - soon became the love of her life. In 2002 and 2003, she auditioned for and received admittance Admittance The ratio of the current to the voltage in an alternating-current circuit. In terms of complex current I and voltage V, the admittance of a circuit is given by Eq. (1), and is related to the impedance of the circuit Z by Eq. (2). to a summer program with the Kirov Ballet in Washington, D.C. Last year, during a lift with her partner, she slipped and broke her collarbone col·lar·bone n. See clavicle. . Despite the broken collarbone, Bailey spent three intense days teaching her role to a replacement dancer. Bailey has performed in 45 productions over the past two years with the Antelope Valley conservatory. She danced most recently in ``The British Are Coming,'' ``Rock Around the Clock,'' and can be seen in the upcoming, ``West Side Story.'' On Saturday she performed as Jasmine in ``Aladdin, the Ballet'' at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. . ``I like it because you can never be perfect at it,'' Bailey said of dancing. ``You're always learning, you're never done.'' While at CalArts, she will perform in four productions a year at the institute's REDCAT REDCAT The Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater - Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater - in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . ``It's a cool theater. I can't wait to dance in it,'' said Sonja. Peggy Hager, (661) 267-5741 peggy.grimm-hager(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Sonja Bailey performs with Ryan Hanson at the Poppy Festival news conference. Bailey will be attending CalArts. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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