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Attention CURRENT IFAA STUDENTS: Be on the lookout in PowerSchool for the 2024-25 School of Choice Intent to Continue. Go to School Forms through your PowerSchool account and let us know if you will be returning for the 2024.2025 School year or giving your spot up to someone who might be auditioning in January! The forms should be up by Saturday and you have until October 30, 2023, to let us know! Have a great weekend!

Idaho Fine Arts Academy Presents "Elemental Pulse Concert"
11.03.2023
7 PM
IFAA Middle School Vocal Music & Dance Concert Inspired by Body Percussion & Bluegrass Special Guests
The Bristol Lightning Bluegrass band: Dave Eggar, Blake Collins, Phil Faconti, Jamie Collins
MVHS Theater 2000 S. Millennium Way Meridian, ID 83642
$5 Student $10 General

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Idaho Fine Arts Academy Presents "Opulence"
11.02.2023
7 PM
High School Dance & Classical Baroque Music Concert with Special Guests, The Bristol Lightning Bluegrass band: Dave Eggar, Blake Collins, Phil Faconti, Jamie Collins
MVHS Theater 2000 S. Millennium Way Meridian, ID 83642
$5 Student $10 General

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Congratulations 🎊 Kaylee! “Bronze in Bloom” took 🥇first place at the Second Annual Scrap-to-Sculpture Design Challenge which was part of Boise Entrepreneur Week!

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Para Olympian and two-time silver medalist Kory Puderbaugh spoke to our seventh grade class yesterday about adaptability and its importance when dealing with adversity. Kory understands the importance of “Attitude over Adversity.” Kory attended Meridian Technical Charter High School then later graduated from Eagle High School in the West Ada School District in 2015. Kory competed in the 2018 and 2022 Para Olympics in Wheelchair Rugby! He is an inspiration to us all.

This October, IFAA will be teaming up with local nonprofits to spearhead a truly magnificent fundraiser that supports homeless teenagers in the Treasure Valley! The event will be held on October 10th from 4pm to 7pm at the JUMP building in downtown Boise. This will be an evening for our students to give the public a free performance highlighting the skills they have cultivated at IFAA. A student art gallery with live performances by all art majors will be on display! There will be raffles, and silent auctions for attendees to win prizes and donate to a good cause. All proceeds will be donated to the Boise Rescue Mission to assist with meeting the goal of $25k. The pressures of being a normal teenager with healthy social life hit close to home and our goal is to help provide these teenagers with a sense of normalcy and comfort during the holidays. Join us on the 6th floor of the Jump building in the Pioneer room for a glimpse into our future and a chance to make a difference!

Thank you Parker!
Like we always say
‘KINDNESS MATTERS’

This program is absolutely amazing! Here is a little about them from their page:
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We love everything about this! ❤️

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BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT!
We hope to see you all next Tuesday evening here at IFAA.

Loved watching these seniors help create a beautiful retreat day for IFAA!

What a great day at the Idaho Fine Arts Academy! Our theme this year is “unity”. The annual retreat was a success!

Calling Idaho high school juniors! Apply now for our Idaho Science and Aerospace Scholars (ISAS) program, an online STEM course provided at no cost to the student! Apply by October 15: https://www.sde.idaho.gov/academic/isas/

ISAS is a competitive program that allows high school juniors to take an engaging online NASA-developed course on space exploration through the Idaho Digital Learning Alliance. The course consists of eight online units teaching a broad range of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills, as well as a semester project allowing students to build their knowledge of space exploration and its relationship to Idaho STEM. Master educators will work with students online throughout the course. Based on their performance in this course, students will be invited to participate in a week-long summer academy at Boise State University and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Students will receive one science elective credit for successful completion of the online course. Students may also elect to earn dual credit. Class dates are January 8 - May 5, 2024.

Our Contemporary Instrumental Majors performed their original music on Idaho Today with award winning journalist and Idaho native, the one and only Mellisa Paul! Our kids were great! What a great opportunity for our students.

You did it class of 2023! Your future is bright…. Congrats!

AA's theater program is putting on a play called Bullshot Crummond. It is a British comedy involving mystery, danger, and much more. Come see the show this weekend, May 11th, 12th, and 13th! Doors open at 6:30 and the show will start at 7:00. Tickets can be purchased using the link in our BIO!

IFAA's theater program is putting on a play called Bullshot Crummond. It is a British comedy involving mystery, danger, and much more. Come see the show this weekend, May 11th, 12th, and 13th! Doors open at 6:30 and the show will start at 7:00. Tickets can be purchased using the link in our BIO!

Enjoy a curated selection of Visual Arts, Classical Music and Film and Media by the students of Idaho Fine Arts Academy. 5.16.23 at 6 PM

☮️ Save the Date ☮️ May 18th at 6:00 PM ☮️ It’s gonna be groovy baby! ☮️

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical Pianists Present RESONANCE
Prelude in G Minor
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Pianist: Carlos Torres
Choreographers and Dancers: Katy Adams, Lilee McLean, Lauren Miller, Addisyn Jones
Music Artist Statement: The Prelude opens with dark and brooding
chords that set the tone for the entire piece. With the simple heartbeat of a Siberian march, the piece creates a rich soundscape of fiery romantic images. The dancers will accompany the galloping rhythms, swirling smokey arpeggios, and burning melodies. This is a dance of an infernal stallion.
Dance Artist Statement: This classical ballet dance was inspired by
Rachmaninov’s dynamic and intricate music. The music has a very
“springy” base that is represented in the dance. The dance includes lots of jumps and direction changes in the choreography to represent the dynamic music.
Photography by Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical
Sonata in C # minor, first movement, Adagio Sostenuto
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Pianist: Eden Rowles
Photography by Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical
Liebestfraum
Composer: Franz Litz
Pianist: Samantha Luke
Photography by Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical Pianists Present RESONANCE
Running in the Night
Composer: Andrea Dow
Pianist: Juliette Kling
Photography by Mike Reid

We love our IFAA senior dancers and will miss them next year. Tessa and Lauren, we cannot wait to see what you do for the dance world. Both are heading to the University of Utah’s School of Dance to earn a Bachelor of Fine Art in Modern Dance. Both earned merit scholarships and are graduating with honors. Both are amazing dancemakers, performers, and writers. The U of U is in for a treat! University of Utah School of Dance

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School and Middle School Dancers' National Honors Society for Dance Arts Induction and Awards Ceremonies. Photography by Mike Reid.

Highlight photos from the Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical Pianists RESONANCE Concert. Photography by Mike Reid.

IFAA ORIGINAL MUSIC AND DANCE:

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical Pianists Present RESONANCE

Original Composition #2
Composer: Samuel Bell
Pianist: Samuel Bell
Choreographers and Dancers: Tessa Trites, Ella Dabney, Izzabella
deBelloy, Arwen Hall
Dance Artist Statement: This piece revolves around the idea of hope. The music starts out slow with a single dancer onstage, showing that she is looking for others and has lost her “spark.” Through connection, people can find hope. The piece portrays the visual of connection and relying on others as then disconnecting. Through disconnection, there is always a path of hope of connection at the end. When the rest of the dancers appear, they dance in unison, showing that they have found hope in each other. Hope can be found in unusual ways.
Photography by Mike Reid

IFAA ORIGINAL MUSIC:

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical Pianists Present RESONANCE

A Single Rose in a Field of Azaleas
Composer: Arleth Bautista
Pianist: Arleth Bautista

Photography by Mike Reid

IFAA ORIGINAL MUSIC AND DANCE:

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical Pianists Present RESONANCE

Prelude on a Theme of Elgar
Composer: Carlos Torres and Edward Elgar
Pianist: Carlos Torres
Choreographers and Dancers: Tenley Howell, Lilee McLean, Izabell
Sanchez
Music Artist Statement: Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor is a beloved work of the classical repertoire and is widely considered to be one of the greatest works for cello and orchestra. It features a soulful and mournful melody that echoes on and on throughout the prelude. In this prelude version transcribed for piano, the whole and dark tones of the cello will be imitated by the piano, and the dancers will bring motion to the simple yet deep melody. This piece was written by Elgar amidst terrible grief and resonates with a sensation of longing, incomparable to any other pain.
Dance Artist Statement: This contemporary modern dance is inspired by the fast-changing tempo of the music. The emotions throughout the piece contribute to how the music is paced, when the music is heavy and slow, so are the movements. When the music is dark and emotional, the pianist strikes the piano keys intensely, and the choreography embodies the feeling and creates unexpected moments for the audience.
Photography by Mike Reid

IFAA ORIGINAL MUSIC AND DANCE:

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy High School Dancers and Classical Pianists Present RESONANCE

Clouds
Composer: Samuel Bell
Pianist: Samuel Bell
Choreographers and Dancers: Makella Bergeson, Ella Dabney, Izzabella deBelloy, Arwen Hall, Addisyn Jones, Olivia Walker
Artist Statement: The piece Clouds is about the relationship with the people around us. It tackles the idea of feeling completely alone even when surrounded by people. Loneliness is learning to deal with the absence of others within a person's life. It becomes confusing when you cannot seem to tell if you are truly alone, signifying the idea of clouds blurring the truth.
Photography by Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY
“Art matters because it illustrates the human experience—
the wonder of it, the bewilderment of it, the whimsy of it,
and so much more. We would not be connected so deeply
without the existence of art.” – Kathleen Dinsmore

ACT I
The Four Seasons- Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons is one of the most popular and well-known works to emerge from the Baroque Era of classical music. It was composed by Anton Vivaldi in 1723 and consists of four violin concertos, each representing a different season of the year. It was a highly innovative musical work for its time, as it was one of the earliest compositions considered to be Programmatic Music; instrumental music depicting a narrative that could be anything from a literary idea, landscapes, and scenes, or human behaviors/states of mind. In the case of The Four Seasons, Vivaldi takes us through his own vivid interpretation of the specific mood each season represents, as the listener is taken on a musical journey filled with bird songs, lightning storms, and falling on
ice.
Conductor: Monica Palmer
Musicians: Idaho Fine Arts Academy’s Middle School Classical Majors - Emma Bjorkman, Jade Carr, Abigail Cox, Indigo DellaBadia, Kathy Deng, Lillian Dwight, Rylee Lawrence, Delta Pomerans

Title: Spring
Composer: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Music Arrangement: Kees Schoonenbeek
Choreographers and Dancers: Gracelyn Dietz, Madison Forst, Harper Jones, Beatriz Nascimento, Elise Preller, Lyla Swenson, and variation by Anna Adaska
Artist Statement: This piece was inspired by Anna Adaska’s phrase of choreography and then varied and elaborated onto. The music of this piece has many textures. It has fast and slow sections which match the movement throughout the dance. The choreography represents budding flowers growing through the piece and lifting out of the ground. The dancers wear pointe shoes which require strength to show a floating sensation that gives character to this piece.

Title: Summer
Composer: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Music Arrangement: Kees Schoonenbeek
Choreographers and Dancers: Parker Buck, Avery Busch, Baylee
Stoneberg, Savannah Clark, Anneliese Van Auker, Abby Hansen, and
variation by Anna Adaska
Dance Artist Statement: The Summer season ballet dance was inspired by a phrase choreographed by Anna Adaska. The dancers pulled from her phrase to inspire movement. The dancers are trained technically in ballet and wear point shoes to elongate lines and create flowy, breathy movements reminiscent of a summer breeze. The musical composition has many textures and tempos. The dancers generated movement to fit both the slow and fast notes. The dance demonstrates the beauty of simplicity and the complexities of powerful movement. The dancers project a happy and joyful feeling of summer.

Title: Autumn
Composer: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Choreographers and Dancers: Alexa Braun, Makena Elle, Sienna Francel, Layla Martinez, Bridget Pechota, Katelyn Tuller, and variation by Anna Adaska
Artist Statement: This smooth adagio inspired by Anna Adaska’s
variation represents the angelic and elegant movement of Autumn
leaves. As the dancers calmly move across the stage, people can picture a bright and gentle Autumn scene. The dancers choreographed this piece full of extensions and flowy movement to a three/four rhythm. The triplet rhythm is commonly associated with the waltz which influenced the choreography in the dance-making process.

Title: Winter
Composer: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Choreographers and Dancers: Olivia Benitez, Sophie Clark, Callay
Cromwell, Bella Goggins, Anna Martindale, and variation by Anna
Adaska
Artist Statement: This ballet dance was inspired by Anna Adaska’s ballet variation that was choreographed for the middle school dance majors. The music expresses all the stages and different dynamics of winter. This piece is all about being creative with fast, energetic movement. The waltzing and the jumping can represent dynamic textures and the feel of the light, airy music that performs. The music starts off gently like snowflakes falling slowly. The music then gets more intense progressively as the wind picks up and the storm builds causing one to shiver and chatter teeth. The different speeds at which instrumentation changes have a dramatic and calming effect in which the dance varies. Winter is a season where warmth brings people together, and gratitude makes special, energetic connections.

Photography: Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY
Title: Used to Be Mine - Waitress
Composer: Sara Bareilles
Pianist: Indigo Della Badia
Vocalist: Ellorie Jones
Photography: Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY
Title: Hopelessly Devoted to You - Grease
Composer: John Farrar
Choreographers and Dancers: Alexa Braun, Parker Buck, Avery Busch, Madison Forst, Sienna Francel, Bella Goggins, Anna Martindale, Elise Preller, Katelyn Tueller
Artist Statement: The 1950s musical Grease tells a story of a young girl, Sandy, who is deeply devoted to her summer lover, Danny. This song is from the 1970s movie version of the musical. The movement was inspired by the simple flowy movement of the time period and song. The dancers tell a story through dance and emphasize the character’s devotion to a special someone using unison and repetition to empower the character. The movement is inspired by the heartbreak and longing for someone through free and thrashing movement through space.
Photography: Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY
Music Title: America – West Side Story
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Choreographers and Dancers: Savannah Clark, Makena Elle, Abigail Hansen, Layla Martinez, Bridget Pechota, Baylee Stoneberg
Guest Dancers: Jaxon Katseanes, Benjamin Morris, Max Redd, Oliver Southwick, Stockton Stone
Artist Statement: Taking inspiration from the musical West Side Story and the Latin style of salsa, this musical theatre piece is full of energy and sass. As you watch this piece, imagine a happy, upbeat Puerto Rican community in the upper West side of Manhattan. The characters share their life experiences as immigrants in the United States and debate the pros and cons of living in New York.
Photography by: Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY
Title: Nicest Kids in Town - Hairspray
Composer: Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
Choreographers and Dancers: Olivia Benitez, Sophie Clark, Callay
Cromwell, Graclyn Dietz, Harper Jones, Beatriz Nascimentos, Lyla
Swenson, Anneliese Van Auker
Guest Performers: Max Redd, Levi Schurdell
Artist Statement: This musical theater dance is from the musical
Hairspray is about having fun, being kind, and ending racial segregation. You will see the nonverbal connections with everyone in the piece and familiar dance moves you may have seen in the past. The music has high energy and dramatic parts to make it appealing. A story will be told by expressing movements such as getting ready for something big and by having heels to add to the 1960s vibe. The nicest kids in town show people that there is never a dull moment in life and that people should always stay strong and stay kind.
Photography: Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY
Title: The Lamest Place in the World – Thirteen
The Musical
Music: Allie Trim
Performer: Brynlee Katseanes
Photography: Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY
Title: Skinny Love
Music: Birdy
Vocalist: Josefin Cull
Photography: Mike Reid

The Idaho Fine Arts Academy Middle School Dancers
& Special Guests Present CONNECTIVITY

Title: Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 18
first movement
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Performers: Indigo DellaBadia, piano, and Kathy Deng, piano
Photography: Mike Reid