KSD Summer Intensive 2026

Monday, August 10th – Friday, August 14th, 2026

Intermediate/Advanced Level (Ages 13yrs+)//Minimum of 5 years of dance experience in ballet/ contemporary
Elementary Level(Ages 10-13 yrs)//Minimum of 3 years of dance experience in ballet/contemporary

$300 per student (+ Tap elective additional fees)

Schedule (May be subject to small changes)

Intermediate // Advanced

9:00-10:30am - Ballet with Charlotte Battegelli

10:45-12:15pm - Contemporary with Camille Spencer

12:15 - 1:00pm LUNCH

1:00-2:00pm - Theatre Jazz with Julia Leclerc

2:15-3:45pm - Stretch & Release with Kay Kenney

3:45-4:30pm - Tap with Julia Leclerc (Elective)

Elementary

9:30-10:15am - Conditioning with Kay Kenney

10:30-11:45pm - Ballet with Charlotte Battegelli

11:45-12:30pm - LUNCH

12:30-1:45pm - Contemporary with Camille Spencer

2:00-3:00pm - Theatre Jazz with Julia Leclerc

4:30-5:15pm - Tap with Julia Leclerc

Ballet with Charlotte Battigelli

Originally from Edmonton, A.B, Charlotte completed her formal training at Victoria Academy of Ballet in Victoria, B.C, under the tutelage of Bleiddyn Bellis and Andrew Pronger. During this time, she completed her Advanced 2 Cecchetti Exam and received 3rd place in the Senior Classical Division at the Youth American Grand Prix’s semi-finals. Charlotte spent a year in the Professional Training Program at the Washington Ballet in Washington, D.C, under the direction of Xiomara Reyes, Rinat Imaev, and Julie Kent. In Washington, Charlotte danced in both school and company performances including The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, and La Bayadere.

Charlotte began her professional career in 2019 at Nevada Ballet Theatre in Las Vegas, N.V, under the direction of Roy Kaiser. There, Charlotte performed various corps de ballet and soloist roles in both classical and contemporary works, including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and George Balanchine’s Four Temperaments. Charlotte then joined Ballet Kelowna in 2022, where she toured with the company across Canada, performing works by Alysa Pires and Simone Orlando. In 2023, Charlotte joined Alberta Ballet for their winter season, under the direction of Christopher Anderson, where she also toured with the company.

Conditioning with Kay Kenney

Kay Kenney has been dancing professionally since 2012. Her professional career has led her to work, teach, create, and perform across Ontario, Quebec, and Europe. She was a company dancer of Ottawa Dance Directive(2013-2020), collaborating with artists like Tedd Robinson, Chick Snipper, Andrew Turner, Mélanie Dermers, Harold Rhéaume, Jocelyn Todd, Jesse Stewart, and Yvonne Coutts, and acted as rehearsal director, and dancer for company Social Growl Dance(2012-2022), Toronto.
Founder of Movement Market Collective(2016), Kay has collaborated with many festivals, choreographed numerous new works, and produced dance films.
Kay resides in Kingston, where she is the Artistic Director of the Kingston School of Dance, and Co-Director of the Ground UP Dance Festival. She loves to teach and share her passion for dance with her community, and is also a Fletcher Certified Pilates Instructor.

Contemporary with Camille Spencer

Camille Spencer (BFA, BEd) is an independent dance artist residing in Sydenham, Ontario. She hails from Utah, USA where she was trained and attended school. She has explored the world while living and dancing in Scotland, United Kingdom, Western Australia, China, New Zealand, and now Canada. She teaches, choreographs, directs and focuses on bringing movement to a wider community. When not dancing, she is tending her farm, children and family where movement lives in other ways.

Camille's classes are based within Bartenieff Fundamentals, and explore the ease of movement within different body types and skill levels. She integrates ballet techniques into a modern flow. She is interested in improvisation and partnering work and instilling a creative approach to pedestrian movements. She likes to embrace the floor and the connection we have to the spaces around us. Her performances can be found outside the traditional stage setting, like the park, streets, waterfront, fields, in the schools, community, and on film.

Theatre Jazz & Tap with Julia Leclerc

Julia is a multi-faceted performer who began her dance journey at age 2 in her local dance studio in Whitby, Ontario and has been hooked ever since. She has studied various genres such as tap, ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, modern, musical theatre, song and dance, and partnering.

Upon getting more heavily involved in the tap dance community, she has had the opportunity to train and perform with Toronto Rhythm Initiative, the Tap Dance Centre, the Canadian National Tap Team, Rhythm & Sound Productions, and Dusk Dances. She has participated in the International Tap Dance Festival’s tap dance residency under the direction of Allison Toffan, Tanya Knights and Broadway choreographer, Ted Louis Levy, and has trained with tap master Heather Cornell, studying the techniques and choreography of historic tap dance pioneers that emphasise rhythm tap dancing and collaboration. More recently, Julia has become a choreographer for the Lightning Elite Performance Team, choreographing shows for dancers across North America to perform in Disneyland and Disney World Parks.

Julia teaches, choreographs, and adjudicates across Canada in all genres of dance with an emphasis on inclusive classrooms and accessible dance education. She is a graduate of the prestigious Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance Program at Sheridan College, majoring in commercial performance. Julia later attended Queen’s University’s Bachelor of Education program with a concentration in Artist in Community Education and is now a certified OCT teacher working in the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board, bringing her passion for the arts and inclusive practices to the classroom daily.

KSD 2026Pre-Professional Summer Intensive