2025 Camps & Intensives

Little Ballerina Dance Camp

Prep Level 1, Level 1, Level 2A
July 7 - July 11, 2025 - 9AM - 12PM

Junior Junior Intensive

Level 2B, Level 3A, Level 3B


July 14 - July 19, 2025 - 9AM - 3 PM / week 1
July 21 - July 26, 2025 - 9AM - 3 PM / week 2

Junior Intensive

Level 4A, Level 4B, Levels 5-7


July 14 - July 19, 2025 - 9AM - 3 PM / week 1
July 21 - July 26, 2025 - 9AM - 3 PM / week 2

Dance with us this Summer!

Ballet Academy Ventura camps and intensives offer students from the youngest beginners to pre-professionals a chance to elevate their ballet technique and learn new dance styles like character dances from Russia, Italy and Eastern Europe as well as Musical Theater. Summer Intensives are a great opportunity to improve technique, learn dance history, experience new choreography, and make new friends.

Little Ballerina Dance Camp - Prep Level 1, Level 1, Level 2A | $225

Camp is Monday, July 7 - Friday, July 11, 2025 - 9AM - 12PM

Junior “Junior” Intensive - Level 2B, Level 3A, Level 3B | $400 for 1 wk | $750 for 2 wks

Week I Intensive is Monday, July 14 - Saturday, July 19 - 9AM - 3 PM

Week II Intensive is Monday, July 21 - Saturday, July 26 - 9AM - 3 PM

Junior Intensive - Level 4A, Level 4B, Levels 5-7 | $400 for 1 wk | $750 for 2 wks

Week I Intensive is Monday, July 14 - Saturday, July 19 - 9AM - 3 PM

Week II Intensive is Monday, July 21 - Saturday, July 26 - 9AM - 3 PM

An in-studio demonstration for friends & family is performed at the end of each session.

Meet the BAV 2024 Summer Camp & Intensives Faculty

  • Born in Russia, Ms. Fliagina graduated with distinction from the Perm State College of choreography in Russia. In 1990 she was accepted to Moscow State Theatre Kremlin Ballet where she worked with the renowned Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova. She was then accepted to the world-renowned Perm Ballet where she was a soloist at the Perm State Opera House/ Tchaikovsky Ballet. She has performed roles in all the famous classical ballets and has toured internationally with the Russian Imperial Ballet, Moscow Classical ballet, and the Moscow Festival Ballet. Ms. Fliagina joined State Street Ballet as a dancer in 1998 was promoted to Ballet Mistress in 2000. In addition to her Ballet Mistress duties, she continues to appear in character roles in ballets like The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and Cinderella. Ms. Fliagina has been an instructor at Ballet Academy Ventura since 2000. She has been Ventura County Ballet Company’s Associate Artistic Director and Choreographer and Ballet Mistress since 2005.

    Ms. Fliagina brings her vast store of ballet knowledge to the students at BAV where she instructs classes and choreographs ballet productions.

  • Leeza was born in Santa Barbara, CA and started her training at State Street Ballet Academy and Ballet Academy Ventura. Leeza continued her education at Perm State International Ballet Academy and graduated with honors.

    In 2016 Leeza became a finalist of International TV show for Youth Talent in Moscow ‘’Blue Bird". In 2019 Leeza won Second Place at the International Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition "Domenico Modugno" in Italy, were she also received a Special Jury Prize.

    She has performed a lead roles in ballets “La Fille Mal Gardee”(Lise), “Swan Lake” (Odette) “Coppelia” (Swanhilda), “La Bayadere” (Nikia), “Sleeping Beauty” (Princess Aurora), “Fire Bird” (Beloved Beauty), “Giselle” (Giselle) and “Nutcracker” (Dream Clara and Snow Queen). She has toured Internationally with professional ballet companies in Germany, Switzerland, China, Greece and Japan.

    Leeza has perform with Ventura County Ballet throughout her career, starting out as a Little Snow Flake and eventually staring as Dream Clara. She is a recent past company member with State Street Ballet.

    She has also been a lead instructor and rehearsal director at Northwest Studio of Ballet and Valley Performing Arts Council in Fresno.

  • Meredith Ventura graduated with honors from UC Santa Barbara, with a BFA in Dance. She studied with Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel, and received her MFA in dance at Hollins University in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, and The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company (formerly the Forsythe Company).

    She is now pursuing a PhD in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UCSB. Ventura has produced full evening-length performances and presented works throughout the US and abroad, most recently in France, Estonia, Norway, Finland, and Italy.

    She is currently on faculty at dance studios throughout Southern California, and travels nationally and internationally as a dance educator and advocate for the arts. She joined the faculty of State Street Ballet in 2021 and became the State Street Ballet Company Pro Track Director in 2023.

    She has performed with Ventura County Ballet and State Street Ballet.

    Sasha has been faculty of the Ballet Academy Ventura Jr “Junior” and Junior Intensives at BAV since 2020.

  • Sasha was born in Santa Barbara, CA. She started her training at State Street Ballet Academy and Ballet Academy Ventura. Sasha continued her education at Perm State International Ballet Academy in Russia and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Academy in Canada.

    She has performed with Ventura County Ballet and State Street Ballet.

    Sasha has been faculty of the Ballet Academy Ventura Jr “Junior” and Junior Intensives at BAV since 2020.

BAV 2025 SUMMER CAMPS AND INTENSIVE FACULTY