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OIDF In-person Summer Intensive Faculty

Who We Are

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OIDF In-person Summer Intensive Faculty

Who We Are

OIDf Summer Intensive 2025 Faculty

 

Learn more about the dance artists who make up the Faculty for our Summer Intensive. 

 

*Please note that Faculty members for the Summer Intensive are subject to change*

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Alba Nadal

Classical Ballet - Repertory

Spain/Germany

Alba Nadal was born in Zaragoza and brought up in Catalonia, first with Olga Roig in Manresa and later on at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. She traveled to Madrid at the young age of twelve to continue with Victor Ullate and...Read more

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RAFFAELE IRACE

CONTEMPORARY BALLET

Italy/Germany

Raffaele Irace graduated as a dancer at the Fondazione Teatro Nuovo in Turin and specialized at the École-Atelier Rudra by Maurice Béjart in Lausanne, Switzerland.....Read more

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KEVIN O'DAY

classical and contemporary DANCE

The American Kevin O’Day was born in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2002 he was appointed artistic director of the Nationaltheater Mannheim Ballett, renamed Kevin O’Day Ballett NTM. From 2013 to 2016 he held the position of Ballett Intendant and Deputy Operating Manager. Beginning season 2018/2019 he holds the position of Artist in Residence of the Tanzcompanie Würzburg at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg ...Read more

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Vincent Gros

Classical Ballet and Repertory

France

Born in France, Vincent Gros was a finalist at the Grand Prix de Lausanne in 1994 and graduated the following year at the Royal Ballet School in London, where he was chosen to perform and tour with the Royal Ballet (under the direction of Sir Anthony Dowell) and Birmingham Royal Ballet (Sir Peter Wright).... Read more

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Ayinde Hurrey

African Dance 

USA

AYINDE HURREY was born in Manhattan, New York and raised in Goldsboro, North Carolina. At an early age, he began his career on the stage as a percussionist with The
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Robert Battle

Modern Dance

USA

Robert Battle’s dance journey began in Liberty City, Miami, Florida. Showing early talent, he studied at a high school arts magnet program, then at Miami’s New World School of the Arts under Daniel Lewis and Gerri Houlihan... Read more

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Austin Hartel

Modern Dance and Partnering

USA

Austin Hartel,   brings his extensive international experience to the Oklahoma International Dance Festival. Austin is very excited to be working with such a great team to bring OIDF to life in 2020.

Originally from Washington, D.C., Mr. Hartel took his first dance class at the Washington School of Ballet at 8. 

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