Idaho Dance Education Organization Inc

LXCL:Includes Friday and Saturday workshops, performances, and Saturday lunch.

2- Day Conference- IDEO Members

2- Day Friday and Saturday Conference- General Admission

2-Day Friday and Saturday Conference- Student Admission

LXCL:Includes Saturday workshops, performance, and lunch.

1-Day Saturday Conference- IDEO Members

1-Day Saturday Conference- General Admission

LXCL:Two-Hour Teacher Workshop for adults with Leslie Kraus. Friday, October 2, 2026, from 5 PM to 7 PM in the Idaho Fine Arts Academy Dance Studio. Please stay for the FREE IDEO concert in the Black Box at 7:30 PM.

Friday Teacher Workshop ONLY

1-Day Saturday Conference- Student Admission

LXCL:Centennial Performing Arts Center @Centennial High School, 12400 McMillan Road, Boise, ID 83713 Co-Sponsored by West Ada School District, Idaho Dance Education Organization, Idaho Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Saturday RW Dance Company Concert Adult Ticket

Saturday RW Dance Company Concert Student Ticket

IDEO Conference Presenter

<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%;color:rgb(233, 237, 241);width:720px;font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(233, 237, 241); width: 720px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0px;"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1780788949/wysiwyg/pfunhwxrdsrrssjiiuti.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1780788983/wysiwyg/pnad0fzaml6jjpwgwrr8.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Idaho Dance Education Organization Announces Its 10th Annual Conference &amp; State High School Dance Festival: &ldquo;Building Dance Literacy&rdquo; Featuring Keynote Speaker Leslie Kraus, Artistic Director of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, with an evening performance by the company at the Centennial Performing Arts CenterMERIDIAN, IDAHO &mdash; The Idaho Dance Education Organization (IDEO) is thrilled to announce its 10thAnnual Conference and State High School Dance Festival, &ldquo;Building Dance Literacy,&rdquo; taking place Friday and Saturday, October 2&ndash;3, 2026, at the Idaho Fine Arts Academy (IFAA) in Meridian, Idaho. This year&rsquo;s conference welcomes distinguished keynote speaker Leslie Kraus, Artistic Director of the renowned Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, for a weekend of performance, learning, and community. Centered on the theme of dance literacy&mdash;the ability to read, create, perform, and respond to dance as an art form&mdash;the conference invites dance educators, college students, and high school dancers to deepen their craft alongside leading artists. Through keynote movement sessions, breakout workshops, and live performance, participants will explore how a shared language of movement can strengthen dance education across studios, schools, and stages throughout Idaho. Leslie Kraus brings a distinguished career spanning performance and academia. A former principal dancer and Assistant Director with the Kate Weare Company and a performer with the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk in Sleep No More (NYC) and The Drowned Man (UK), Kraus coordinated Oklahoma&#39;s FiveMoons Dance Festival and served as an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma before becoming Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 2025. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTSFriday, October 2, 2026 &mdash; Idaho Fine Arts Academy3:30&ndash;6:30 PM Technical Rehearsal for performers &mdash; IFAA Black Box Theater4:30&ndash;6:00 PM High School Dance Class &mdash; IFAA Commons Area5:00&ndash;7:00 PM Teacher Workshop with Leslie Kraus &mdash; IFAA Dance Studio7:30&ndash;9:00 PM IDEO Performance &mdash; IFAA Black Box Theater Saturday, October 3, 2026 &mdash; Idaho Fine Arts Academy8:00&ndash;9:00 AM Registration9:00&ndash;10:30 AM Opening Keynote &amp; Group Movement Session with Leslie Kraus10:45&ndash;12:00 PM Breakout Sessions #112:05&ndash;1:00 PM Lunch &amp; Member Meeting (lunch provided by IDEO)1:00&ndash;2:15 PM Breakout Sessions #22:30&ndash;3:45 PM Breakout Sessions #34:00&ndash;5:30 PM Closing Keynote &amp; Group Movement Session with Leslie Kraus5:30&ndash;6:30 PM Dinner Break (on your own) Saturday Evening, October 3, 2026 &mdash; Centennial Performing Arts Center7:00 PM Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Performance at the Centennial Performing Arts Center (Centennial High School Theater) REGISTRATION &amp; TICKETSThis event is open to adult dance educators, college dance students, and high school dance students ages14 to 18. Two-Day Conference (Friday &amp; Saturday): $50 students, $75 IDEO members, $85 general admission. One-Day Conference (Saturday): $40 students, $65 IDEO members, $75 general admission. Registration is available now at <a fr-original-style="" href="//Zeffy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Zeffy.com</a> Location: Idaho Fine Arts Academy, 915 E Central Dr, Meridian, ID 83642. Local dance groups interested in performing in the Friday evening IDEO Performance are encouraged to contact the conference chair. ABOUT RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMPANYFounded in 1964 by Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is Utah&rsquo;s longest-standing international contemporary dance institution. Guided by the motto &ldquo;dance is for everybody,&rdquo; the company commissions bold new works and offers education programs that make dance accessible to all ages and backgrounds. Over six decades, RWDC has performed across the U.S. and worldwide, and is the only company worldwide with the rights to perform full evenings of Alwin Nikolais&rsquo; groundbreaking works. Today, under the Artistic Direction of Leslie Kraus, the company continues to champion innovation, community, and the transformative power of dance. ABOUT THE IDAHO DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONFounded in 2015, the Idaho Dance Education Organization (IDEO) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to advancing dance education through professional development, networking, and advocacy.IDEO provides valuable resources and opportunities for dance educators, students, and enthusiasts across Idaho, and is a state affiliate of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). ABOUT IDAHO FINE ARTS ACADEMYIdaho Fine Arts Academy (IFAA) is an audition-based, free, public arts school for grades 6&ndash;12 in the WestAda School District, located in Meridian, Idaho. Dancemaking and contemporary dance are at the heart ofIFAA&rsquo;s dance program, where students study dance eighty-five minutes a day. The curriculum includes technique, choreography, improvisation, dance history, writing, research, anatomy, conditioning, and filmmaking, as well as college and career preparation. IFAA holds institutional membership in IDEO, NDEO, and Dance and the Child International (daCi) USA, and consistently ranks in the top ten percent of similarly sized schools in Idaho for academic performance. EVENT CONTACTRachel Swenson &mdash; IDEO Board Member, Conference Chair, and IFAA Dance Teacherrswenson@idahodeo.org | (208) 949-8017 | www.idahodeo.org | InstaGram: @ideo_dance | Facebook: @IdahoDEO<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%;color:rgb(233, 237, 241);width:720px;font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(233, 237, 241); width: 720px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0px;">

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1780788949/wysiwyg/pfunhwxrdsrrssjiiuti.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;padding:0px 1px;max-width:100%" /><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1780788983/wysiwyg/pnad0fzaml6jjpwgwrr8.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;padding:0px 1px;max-width:100%" />Idaho Dance Education Organization Announces Its 10th Annual Conference &amp; State High School Dance Festival: “Building Dance Literacy” Featuring Keynote Speaker Leslie Kraus, Artistic Director of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, with an evening performance by the company at the Centennial Performing Arts CenterMERIDIAN, IDAHO — The Idaho Dance Education Organization (IDEO) is thrilled to announce its 10thAnnual Conference and State High School Dance Festival, “Building Dance Literacy,” taking place Friday and Saturday, October 2–3, 2026, at the Idaho Fine Arts Academy (IFAA) in Meridian, Idaho. This year’s conference welcomes distinguished keynote speaker Leslie Kraus, Artistic Director of the renowned Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, for a weekend of performance, learning, and community. Centered on the theme of dance literacy—the ability to read, create, perform, and respond to dance as an art form—the conference invites dance educators, college students, and high school dancers to deepen their craft alongside leading artists. Through keynote movement sessions, breakout workshops, and live performance, participants will explore how a shared language of movement can strengthen dance education across studios, schools, and stages throughout Idaho. Leslie Kraus brings a distinguished career spanning performance and academia. A former principal dancer and Assistant Director with the Kate Weare Company and a performer with the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk in Sleep No More (NYC) and The Drowned Man (UK), Kraus coordinated Oklahoma's FiveMoons Dance Festival and served as an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma before becoming Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 2025. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTSFriday, October 2, 2026 — Idaho Fine Arts Academy3:30–6:30 PM Technical Rehearsal for performers — IFAA Black Box Theater4:30–6:00 PM High School Dance Class — IFAA Commons Area5:00–7:00 PM Teacher Workshop with Leslie Kraus — IFAA Dance Studio7:30–9:00 PM IDEO Performance — IFAA Black Box Theater Saturday, October 3, 2026 — Idaho Fine Arts Academy8:00–9:00 AM Registration9:00–10:30 AM Opening Keynote &amp; Group Movement Session with Leslie Kraus10:45–12:00 PM Breakout Sessions #112:05–1:00 PM Lunch &amp; Member Meeting (lunch provided by IDEO)1:00–2:15 PM Breakout Sessions #22:30–3:45 PM Breakout Sessions #34:00–5:30 PM Closing Keynote &amp; Group Movement Session with Leslie Kraus5:30–6:30 PM Dinner Break (on your own) Saturday Evening, October 3, 2026 — Centennial Performing Arts Center7:00 PM Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Performance at the Centennial Performing Arts Center (Centennial High School Theater) REGISTRATION &amp; TICKETSThis event is open to adult dance educators, college dance students, and high school dance students ages14 to 18. Two-Day Conference (Friday &amp; Saturday): $50 students, $75 IDEO members, $85 general admission. One-Day Conference (Saturday): $40 students, $65 IDEO members, $75 general admission. Registration is available now at <a href="//Zeffy.com" target="_blank">Zeffy.com</a> Location: Idaho Fine Arts Academy, 915 E Central Dr, Meridian, ID 83642. Local dance groups interested in performing in the Friday evening IDEO Performance are encouraged to contact the conference chair. ABOUT RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMPANYFounded in 1964 by Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is Utah’s longest-standing international contemporary dance institution. Guided by the motto “dance is for everybody,” the company commissions bold new works and offers education programs that make dance accessible to all ages and backgrounds. Over six decades, RWDC has performed across the U.S. and worldwide, and is the only company worldwide with the rights to perform full evenings of Alwin Nikolais’ groundbreaking works. Today, under the Artistic Direction of Leslie Kraus, the company continues to champion innovation, community, and the transformative power of dance. ABOUT THE IDAHO DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONFounded in 2015, the Idaho Dance Education Organization (IDEO) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to advancing dance education through professional development, networking, and advocacy.IDEO provides valuable resources and opportunities for dance educators, students, and enthusiasts across Idaho, and is a state affiliate of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). ABOUT IDAHO FINE ARTS ACADEMYIdaho Fine Arts Academy (IFAA) is an audition-based, free, public arts school for grades 6–12 in the WestAda School District, located in Meridian, Idaho. Dancemaking and contemporary dance are at the heart ofIFAA’s dance program, where students study dance eighty-five minutes a day. The curriculum includes technique, choreography, improvisation, dance history, writing, research, anatomy, conditioning, and filmmaking, as well as college and career preparation. IFAA holds institutional membership in IDEO, NDEO, and Dance and the Child International (daCi) USA, and consistently ranks in the top ten percent of similarly sized schools in Idaho for academic performance. EVENT CONTACTRachel Swenson — IDEO Board Member, Conference Chair, and IFAA Dance Teacherrswenson@idahodeo.org | (208) 949-8017 | www.idahodeo.org | InstaGram: @ideo_dance | Facebook: @IdahoDEO