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Juls' Story
Juls Bicki began her training with the International Ballet School before continuing on to train with Zamuel Ballet School, Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, and Ballet Society of Colorado Springs. While attending Walnut Hill on full scholarship, Ms. Bicki had the honor of performing at Carnegie Hall in 2008. She has twice won first place at the annual Esther Geoffrey Young Dancers Competition, and has won both fourth and fifth place at the Denver Ballet Guild Competition. Professionally, Julianna has danced with Boulder Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater under the directorship of Ben Stevenson O.B.E., Colorado Jazz Dance Company, Ballet Frontier (Texas), Owen/Cox Dance Group (Kansas City, MO), Napoles Dance Theater (San Francisco), and Arc Dance Company (Seattle). Juls has served as Lead Faculty at the Colorado Conservatory of Dance and for the last six years taught ballet at Lake Shore Dance. In addition to being Co-Director of SEBC, Juls is a Paraprofessional at Xoots Elementary School.
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Danny's Story
Danny Ryan (he/him) began his creative career as a child, bringing life to G.I. Joes, making baseballs out of rags and duct tape, and playing soldier in the forest on summer camping trips. It was the fascination of taking a little bit of magic and imagination to create something from nothing that attracted him to the arts and specifically to dance. Danny began his professional ballet training at the age of fifteen in his hometown of Milwaukee, WI with Rafael Delgado. From that humble beginning, he was able to further his studies at the Joffrey Ballet School (NYC) with teacher and mentor John Magnus. Through that training he secured a ten year professional career with major companies Louisville Ballet, Kansas City Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater to name a few, as well as international performance credits. Since retiring from the stage Danny has cultivated a thriving career as a Dance Educator - serving students nationwide, Community Engagement Manager - creating curriculum and working with students in their classrooms to support their academic studies through movement at Title 1 Elementary Schools, and eventually as Associate Artistic Director of the Colorado Conservatory of Dance. In 2018 Danny and his family relocated to Milwaukee where he stepped outside of his career in the arts and for 6 and a half years thrived as Operations and Specialty Assistant Store Manager for the Home Depot. It was with Home Depot that he honed his skills around business acumen, leading people through a values based lens, and serving his community. ​These diverse experiences bring Danny back to the Sitka Fine Arts Camp (SFAC) where he served as Dance Faculty for 5 consecutive summers beginning 2014, and co-founded Dance Alaska Project with long-time collaborator Adam W. McKinney. In addition to being Co-Director of SEBC, Danny works year-round for SFAC as the Events Manager.