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2022 Summer Dance Camp Counselors
We're excited to spend Summer Dance Camp with you again!

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MacKenzie Aurin
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MacKenzie Aurin is 17 years old and is graduating from Oak Ridge High School. She will be attending East Tennessee State University in the fall and will be majoring in Elementary Education with a minor in Dance. She has danced with ORCBA for 12 seasons. This year’s camp will be her 13th camp and 4th as a counselor. Some of her favorite roles in ORCBA productions have been Snow Crystal and Harlequin Doll in The Nutcracker and Puss N Boots and The Gold Fairy in Sleeping Beauty. She is so excited for this year’s camp and to meet all of the campers! ​
Elaina Conger
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​Elaina Conger is sixteen and a rising junior at Farragut High School. She has been dancing for as long as she can remember, and she’s enjoyed performing in eleven shows with ORCBA. Her favorite roles include the Fairy of Serenity and the Silver Fairy in Sleeping Beauty and Chinese in the Nutcracker. When Elaina isn’t dancing, you can find her playing French Horn with the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra and her school band. This is her third year as a Summer Dance Camp counselor, and she’s excited to be back
Addie Cordray
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Addie Cordray is a rising freshman and dances at A Dancer's Place in Knoxville. She has been dancing with ORCBA for 8 years and some of her favorite parts include Petite Mirliton and Grand Fleur in The Nutcracker and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty. Later this summer Addie will be attending South Carolina Summer Dance Conservatory for 3 weeks in Columbia SC. She has been involved in Summer Dance Camp for 10 years and it's always her favorite week of the year! ​​
Elaina Cordray
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Elaina Cordray is a rising junior and has been dancing with ORCBA for 8 years. Some of her favorite roles have been Clara in The Nutcracker, Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and most recently Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. Elaina teaches and takes classes at A Dancer's Place in Knoxville and is looking forward to attending the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Ballet Intensive this year. She has been a part of Summer Dance Camp for 10 years and is excited to share her love of dance, and this super fun week, with all the campers this year.
Lily Egner
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​Lily Egner is a rising 9th grader and has been taking dance classes at Tennessee Conservatory of Fine Arts for 10 years. She takes ballet, tap, jazz, and modern. She has been dancing with ORCBA for 7 years and has enjoyed many roles, especially Petite Mirliton in The Nutcracker and The Snowman in The Snowman and Friends. Lily is excited to participate in Summer Dance Camp for the first time as a counselor.
Adalyn Garland
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 Adalyn Garland is a rising 8th grader and takes dance classes at A Dancer’s Place. This is her 3rd year dancing with ORCBA. Some of her favorite roles have been Jamie from The Snowman and Friends, Petite Mirliton from The Nutcracker, and from this year’s spring show,  Little Red Riding Hood from The Sleeping Beauty. This is her first year as a counselor and she is so excited to help and teach campers, it’s the best part of June!
Zoe Harper
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Zoe Harper is 14 and will be a freshman at Oak Ridge High School in the fall. She has been dancing for 6 years and has been with ORCBA for 4 years. Her favorite roles have been Chinese dancer, Fleur, and Snowflake in the Nutcracker. She is very excited to join as a counselor this year!
Elizabeth Maples
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Elizabeth Maples is 13 a rising Freshman at Clinton High School.  She has been dancing with the Dance Centre since she was 4.  Her favorite style of dance is Lyrical.  She has performed in several productions with ORCBA.  Her debut was a baby mouse in the Nutcracker.  Her favorite role was being a duckling in the Ugly Duckling Spring Show.  She has attended dance camp for many years and it so excited to be a counselor this year.   ​
Lily McDonnell
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Lily McDonnell is 16 and a rising junior at Farragut High School. She has been dancing for 15 years, 4 of which with ORCBA. Some of her favorite roles with the company have been Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the Lilac Fairy and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty. This will be her third year as a counselor and she is very excited to see the campers again. Dance camp is always her favorite part of the summer!
Allison Myers
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​Allison Myers is a rising freshman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her first ever performance was in the ORCBA show The Nutcracker at the age of 3 and she just completed her 15th year with ORCBA. Allison enjoys jazz, ballet, musical theater, lyrical, tap, and is on the senior competition team. Allison has also taught ballet, tap, and musical theater for 5 years. She is so excited for ORCBA’s summer dance camp 2022!
Caroline Peplow
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 Summer Dance Camp -- Counselor Spotlight! Caroline Peplow is going to be a freshman in college this upcoming year. She's been dancing for 12 year and been with ORCBA for 9. She loves being a part of ORCBA productions. Her favorite roles have been Snow Crystal, Harlequin Doll, and Merliton. She loves being an ORCBA camp counselor, it’s her favorite part of summer! 
Bethany Quillen
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Bethany has been a counselor for the ORCBA dance camp for 3 years. She is a member of the Dance Centre of Oak Ridge competition team and the East Tennessee State University dance team. She will be attending ETSU to major in psychology and minor in dance. ​
Monica White
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Monica White will be a sophomore at Oak Ridge High School. She has dancing for 12 years at The Dance Centre and has been on the competition team for 5 years. Her favorite style of dance is ballet. she has been attending Dance Camp since she was 5 and a rising kindergartner. She loves working with children and hopes to pursue a career as a pediatrician someday. This will be her 2nd year as a counselor and ORCBA dance camp is a lot of fun whether you have ever danced or not! She looks sforward to camp this year and hopes you will join her and her friends in the fun!ar!
Henry Williams
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Henry is a rising 7th grader at Farragut Middle School.  He is a ballet and jazz student at A Dancer’s Place in Knoxville under the instruction of Jan Valenti.  His first role with ORCBA was as the Fish Footman in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 2021.  He has gone on to play Fritz/Blue Soldier/Russian in The Nutcracker and Tom Thumb/Trumpeter in Sleeping Beauty.  Henry loves ORCBA and he is so excited for his first year as a counselor at dance camp!
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  • Home
  • Artistic Staff
  • ORCBA History
    • About ORCBA
  • Donate to ORCBA
  • Our Company of Dancers
  • "The Nutcracker" Tickets
  • "Fairy Tale to Fairy Tale" School Show
  • 2023 Summer Dance Camp
  • 2023 Pointe Intensive
  • Advertise with ORCBA -Spring 2023
  • Parent & cast members portal
  • Contact us