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2025 Summer Schedule
Summer Intensive
Junior and Senior Company dancers
June 2-6, 2025
A wonderful opportunity for our Junior and Senior company dancers to experience a one week summer intensive right here in our own studio! Dancers will take ballet, pointe and musical theater jazz classes.
Alayna Wong
Alayna Wong, originally from Sothern California, trained at Huntington Academy of Dance in California and International Ballet Academy in Washington state before joining Oklahoma City Ballet as a trainee for their 2018/19 season. Alayna joined Ballet North Texas in 2023; her featured roles include Dew Drop and Snow Queen in Nicolina Lawson’s The Nutcracker, Cupid in Lawson’s Don Quixote, and in Penny Saunders’ Sur le Fil and George Balanchine’s Valse Fantaisie; she was also featured in original works by Gabriel Speiller, Carrie Ruth Trumbo, and Sam Jones.
In 2023, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA in Ballet Pedagogy. With the OU School of Dance, her performance repertoire included George Balanchine’s Serenade, Jirí Kylián’s Falling Angels, Penny Saunders’ Deux Amours, and Gerald Arpino’s Viva Vivaldi. In 2022, she toured with OU to perform at the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City and was selected to represent Moscelyne Larkin at the Five Moons Dance Festival. Since then, she has performed with New Narratives Contemporary Dance in their inaugural show Whistling in the Dark, danced with Central Oklahoma Ballet Theatre for two summer seasons, and has been a principal guest artist with Hot Springs Children’s Dance Theatre since 2021. Outside of dance, Alayna is a ballet instructor at Hathaway Academy of Ballet and crochets stuffed animals in her free time.
Merrill West
Merrill West is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in NYC for 20 yrs. Her choreographic work at Casa Mañana includes Annie, Carrie, Tuck Everlasting, Grease, Sweeney Todd, Madagascar, Big Bad Musical, The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Wizard of Oz. She also serves as Associate Director/Choreographer to award winning Director/Choreographer, Karma Camp, at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. She currently serves as adjunct faculty for Theatre TCU and has taught master classes for CCM, NYU, Towson University, ACU, OCU, and The Radio City Rockettes.
As a performer, Merrill had the pleasure of being one of the world famous Radio City Rockettes for eight seasons and appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award winning revival of 42nd Street. She was also seen in the national tour of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. She has appeared on the Today Show, The David Letterman Show, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Tony Awards Broadcast. She is a featured performer on Broadway’s Lost Treasures DVD from PBS. Her regional theatre credits are numerous and include a Helen Hayes Award for her appearance in the ensemble of Hello Dolly! at Ford’s Theatre in DC. She holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from New York University and is both a proud member of AEA and SDC.