LOCATION: 129 E. Alder

WEEKS: 8

DAY(S): Mondays

DATE(S): APRIL 15-JUNE 10 (No class May 27)

TIME: 3:30-4:30

AGES: 5-12 years of age

CLASS SIZE: 5-12 participants

COST: $200

*We offer a 15% discount for students from the same household.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Kaelyn Pyke

Kaelyn has enjoyed theater for over 20 years as an actor, stage manager, children’s choreographer, and director. As an educator she is thrilled to be able to bring these loves together in creating playshops for the youth in our community. As the Youth Director for the Walla Walla Summer Theater this is a dream come true. Her youth theater teaching started in high school with elementary and middle school students and she looks forward to helping create the programs that will allow the WWST to offer these opportunities in the future.

Katie Janis

Katie Janis was born in Walla Walla, Washington where she grew up studying ballet at The Dance Center of Walla Walla. She was a teaching assistant and instructor for the Dance Center’s youth ballet program and an active performer and choreographer for Walla Walla High School’s annual spring musicals. In 2017, she was selected for the Apprentice Program of Summer Dance Lab hosted at Whitman College and Katie graduated salutatorian from Walla Walla High School in 2019. 

Katie graduated in the spring of 2023 from the University of Washington (UW) earning a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Dance and a double minor in Drama-Theater Studies and Mathematics. In addition to choreographing her own works for UW’s Dance Majors Concerts and the Dance Student Association, she has performed in many choreographic works by faculty and M.F.A candidates of the Department of Dance. In 2022 she was the recipient of the Mary Aid de Vries Endowed Scholarship for outstanding academic and artistic endeavors. 

In addition to creating for concert dance, Katie has also made choreography for collegiate musical theater including work for Stage Notes at UW and the Walla Walla University Music and Drama Departments. In 2022 she participated in the Ballet Alliance’s Summer Project as a choreographer under the direction of Amy Seiwert.