KSD 2025
Pre-Professional Summer Intensive
A highlight of summer for KSD student and beyond, is our pre-professional summer dance intensive. Each year the school welcomes new artists and teachers of different disciplines to give the dance youth of Kingston a taste of professional development beyond YGK.
KSD Summer Intensive 2025
Monday, August 11th – Friday, August 15th, 2025
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
Schedule (May be subject to small changes)
Intermediate/Advanced //Senior
9:00-10:30am - Ballet with Abigail Sheppard
10:45-12:15pm - Contemporary with Kay Kenney
12:15 - 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00-2:15pm - Jazz with Ellie Price
2:30-3:30pm - Conditioning with Kay Kenney
Elementary // Junior
9:30-10:45am - Contemporary with Kay Kenney
11:00-12:15pm - Ballet with Abigail Sheppard
12:15-1:00pm - LUNCH
1:00-2:00pm - Conditioning with Kay Kenney
2:15-3:30pm - Jazz with Ellie Price
Ballet with Abigail Sheppard
A graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School, Abigail joined the Estonian National Ballet in 2012 and was promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2015. Since the fall of 2015 Abigail has been a dancer with the Finnish National Ballet, rising to the rank of Principal Dancer in 2019. Her repertoire includes a vast array of classical and contemporary roles, including Aurora (Sleeping Beauty); Juliet (Romeo and Juliet); Kitri (Don Quixote); Clara (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King); Cinderella (Cinderella); Raymonda (Raymonda); as well as leading roles in works by Marco Goecke, Wayne McGregor, Christian Spuck, Nacho Duato, and Krzysztof Pastor, among others. Abigail is currently on sabbatical from the Finnish National Ballet pursuing a Bachelor of Health Sciences at Queen’s University.
Contemporary & 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.
Jazz with Ellie Price
Ellie Price is a dedicated and versatile dance artist, educator, and choreographer with over a decade of teaching experience and a deep passion for movement. After growing up as a competitive dancer at the Ontario School of Ballet, Ellie spent some time in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Performance Dance program. Here, she received conservatory-style training in ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, and West African, alongside studies in composition, improvisation, acting, and music. She also completed her secondary dance training at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, where she received daily instruction in classical ballet and a range of modern techniques. She has since returned to Kingston, where she continues her academic studies in Psychology and Mathematics at Queen’s University.