Ilse Kapteyn

Ilse Kapteyn has been a professional dancer for over ten years and loves it more and more each year. She grew up in Deerfield, Massachusetts and started taking dance classes as a toddler, training more seriously as the years progressed. For her senior year of high school, Ilse traveled to Moscow to study at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and then joined the New Jersey Ballet Company the following year.

She has performed many featured and principal roles in the classical repertoire, including Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, and Giselle. She has also performed works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, Harrison Ball, Lauren Lovette, Roderick George, and Gustavo Ramirez Sansano.

She is a certified instructor of BodyCode System, an innovative training method that helps improve body awareness and function, and has traveled to Italy to train with the founder. As she continues her own journey as a dancer and artist, Ilse finds it incredibly rewarding to share what she has learned so far with people of all ages.​

Ilse will be teaching Ballet, Modern Dance, and Body Conditioning at Middle and High School Camp.