Madissen Fujimoto
Assistant Artistic Director and Co-Founder
Madissen Fujimoto
Madissen is the Assistant Artistic Director and co-founder of Ballet Etude Company and Academy. Her love for ballet began at age six and led her to train in Sacramento, California under esteemed teachers such as Marguerite Phares, Barbara Crockett, Alyson Deane, and Shirin Keyani-Rose. She attended Natomas Charter School’s Performing and Fine Arts Academy, where she deepened her training and served as a teacher’s assistant for Ms. Keyani-Rose.
Madissen earned scholarships to attend summer intensives with Sacramento Ballet, Orlando Ballet, and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, where she studied with master teachers including Ron Cunningham, Carinne Binda, Nolan T’Sani, Fernando Bujones, Peter Stark, and Alonzo King. After graduating high school, she began teaching ballet in Sacramento before relocating with her family to Rexburg, Idaho — a rural city with no professional ballet opportunities at the time.
Longing for the kind of high-quality training and performance
experiences she had grown up with, Madissen began to dream of building something more. That dream became a reality in 2022 when she co-founded Ballet Etude in Rexburg, creating a home for serious ballet training and artistic development in a community she now calls home.
Since moving to Idaho, Madissen has taught for multiple studios throughout the region, danced for seven seasons with The Dance Collaborative, and credits much of her later training to Deborah Bean of Idaho Falls School of Ballet. From 2017–2019, she served as Director of the Ballet Department at Eagle Rock Dance in Idaho Falls. She also recently traveled to Pennsylvania to study the renowned Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet curriculum, founded by Marcia Dale Weary, which is now the foundation of Ballet Etude Academy’s training program.
Madissen is passionate about Shaping the Future of Ballet in Rexburg and is committed to providing top-notch training and meaningful performance opportunities for dancers of all ages and levels.