Meet your Amazing Summer Intensive Instructors for 2026!
One of the best ways to learn something well is to learn from an expert.
SCB is bringing a group of supportive, fun, and talented experts to Billings to work with you.
Scroll down past bios for the sample intensive schedules.
June Intensive
Bethany Mitchell was raised in Mission Viejo, California, and has been a professional dancer for over 20 years on both coasts. She has performed with companies such as Liss Fain Dance and Robert Moses’ Kin in San Francisco, and Battery Dance and Indelible Dance in New York City. While living in New York, she toured as a dancer and teaching artist in more than 40 countries and performed original music at Rockwood Music Hall. In 2023 she founded her non-profit, ArtPärdē, and has proudly produced nine art salons at local San Francisco venues showcasing over 80 performing artists. She has also produced her one-woman musical, Boxsteps and Beers, at The Marsh and Potrero Stages and currently teaches ballet at ODC/Dance and Smuin Center for Dance.
Bradley Shelver received his training at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg and The Ailey School in New York. A prolific leader in the dance community, he currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Joffrey Concert Group and The Artistic Director of Contemporary Ballet Studies and the Pre- Professional Contemporary Summer Program and the Contemporary;other Ballet Winter Workshops at the Joffrey Ballet School. He is also the Director of Professional Career Development at Joffrey. From 2024-2026 he served as the Acting Artistic Director of the Joffrey Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Concentration. He currently sits on the Artistic Advisory Board of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.
Now in his 17th season as a principal dancer with The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Mr. Shelver has enjoyed an illustrious performing career. He has danced with Ailey II, Elisa Monte Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Hispánico, The Francesca Harper Project, and the Limón Dance Company. His international credits include Phoenix Dance Theater (UK) and projects with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Lar Lubovitch Dance, The Universal Ballet, Radio City Music Hall, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. Between 2013 and 2016, he also served as the Artistic Director of the STEPS Repertory Ensemble and the Production Director for Steps on Broadway, following his six-year tenure as co-producer and curator for the REVERBdance Festival.
As a choreographer, Mr. Shelver has created works for an array of prestigious companies and institutions, including vildwerk, Contemporary West Dance Theater, Richmond Ballet, Ailey II, Ballet Austin, Graham 2, the St Louis Dance Theater, Royal Danish and Royal Swedish Ballet Schools, Boston Conservatory, The Ailey School, Cedar Lake 2 and The Cape Town Dance Company, His teaching expertise is recognized worldwide; he has served as a company teacher for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, and The Lion King on Broadway.
Mr. Shelver has served on the faculty of the ABT/JKO School, The Ailey School, and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Montclair State University. He is a certified teacher of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and an international adjudicator for competitions such as the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition, Hit The Floor Canada and Global Dance Open. A former contributing writer for Dance Spirit magazine, he is the author of the book Performance Through the Dance Technique of Lester Horton, which is available worldwide.
August Intensive
Elisabeth Jeffrey started her classical training under the tutelage of Carlos Stroia in Minnesota, and went on to train at the Joffrey Ballet School under a full merit scholarship when she was fourteen. During her years there, she attended workshops with schools such as the American Ballet Theater, the Houston Ballet School, the Washington Ballet School, and the Royal Ballet School of Covent Garden. She also performed with Arts Umbrella Dance Company in Vancouver, Canada, and Peter Pucci Plus Dancers at City Center, in NYC. Elisabeth is currently freelancing in NYC and a company member of Thomas Ortiz Dance, and Rehearsal Director and dancer for Periapsis Music & Dance. She also enjoyed performing with Island Moving Company in Newport, RI during their summer festival 2018/19. She has danced at theaters such as Lincoln Center, City Center and The Joyce. Her classical roles include: The Nutcracker, Raymonda, Le Corsaire, Gisselle, Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Serenade- George Balenchine, Samsera- Margo Sappington, Birthday Variations- Gerald Arpino, Billboards Willing and Able- Peter Pucci, Kettentanz- Gerald Arpino, Capriccious- Trinette Singleton. For the past several years, she has regularly taught students of all levels in Tarrytown, NY.
Annie Valle (Anne Mercy Morabito) started dancing at 6 years old in Santa Cruz, California. She danced on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, School of American Ballet in New York City, and with Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Annie is a freelance performer and choreographer of classical and contemporary ballet throughout Montana. She also directs the Martinsdale Ballet, a free dance school and performance group in rural Montana. Annie has a degree in Agroecology from the University of Wyoming. She loves living on her husband's family ranch with their four children and an assortment of dogs, cats, horses, milk cows, beef cattle, lambs, chickens and ducks.
2026 Summer Intensive Schedules
Please note that these are EXAMPLE schedules from previous years. The schedules for this year will be similar - please see the most up-to-date schedules when posted on the blog/news page or on Facebook and Instagram!
In these examples, level 1 is most beginner/half day, level 2 is intermediate, and level 3 is most advanced.
