Description

Elevate Your Ballet Technique, Dive into African Diaspora, Contemporary, and Latnix Dances, and Explore Screendance while Developing Your Leadership Skills. The Advanced Summer Intensive provides multi-disciplinary dance training in a rigorous and nurturing environment geared towards fostering individual growth through technical proficiency and movement literacy. Advanced Summer Classes Screendance A hybrid arts form that combines movement with the camera to stir the imagination and deliver a unique visual experience to explore motion and subject matter. Ballet Technique Dancers will be placed in a level that best supports their progress. Classes will focus on technique with an emphasis on proper alignment, functional anatomy, musicality and artistry. Pointe Dancers will be placed in a level that best supports their progress. Pointe classes will focus on foot articulation and strength. Power, Flight & Turn This class is designed to gain full-body strength, while perfecting the technical requirements necessary when performing jumps and turns. Dancers will learn variations and other excerpts from classical repertoire typically attributed to male danseurs. Variations and Repertoire This class will cover classical variations in addition to contemporary and modern repertoire by such choreographers as Crystal Pite, Yvonne Rainer, Twyla Tharp and Bill T. Jones, to name a few. Modern Dance This class will focus on building fundamental modern dance skills including floorwork, the dynamic use of weight, improvisation and elemental concepts of effort, space and time. This conceptual approach allows dancers to be successful in a range of modern styles while creating a full and developed physical understanding of their body and its abilities. Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) An innovative body-conditioning and strengthening program developed by Marie Walton-Mahon. PBT focuses on training muscle memory to strengthen and enhance technique. Classes may also include: Contemporary Partnering Anatomy & Kinesiology Composition Dance History Jazz Hip Hop Somatic Awareness Yoga