2008 Summer Dance Schedule

Creative Movement-  This is the perfect class for your young dancer.  Students will use gross motor and listening skills, while improving balance, flexibility, and coordination through a variety of fun upbeat songs.   Students will learn about dance through a short story time and will receive a memorable souvenir at the end of the week.  This class is great for first time dancers or returning students.

Intro. to Jazz/HipHop- This class focuses on traditional beginning jazz & hiphop technique.  Students will participate in a daily warm-up to modern, kid appropriate, hiphop music.  They will be taught hiphop floor progressions and turns along with a super fun, high energy, choreographed dance that will be performed in the studio for parents on the last day.  Every student will make a keepsake, dance craft to keep as a souvenir of their summer dance experience.

Jazz/HipHop Technique-  This class is perfect for intermediate and beginner dancers. While beginners will get a taste for the essentials of jazz and hiphop, intermediate students will have the opportunity to brush up on important dance technique.  This class will enhance balance, flexibility, turns and spotting, performance technique, and much more through a variety of combinations that can be tailored to meet each dancers needs.   Dancers will learn a professional choreographed dance that will be performed in the studio for parents on the last day.  Every student will make a keepsake, dance craft to keep as a souvenir of their summer dance experience.

Modern I: This class will explore the beginning technique of modern dance through warm-ups, exercises, and combinations borrowed from various modern styles. The class will learn how to be in touch with their bodies and weight by learning how to contract, fall, and use the floor in their dancing. We will learn about improvisation and creative movement by using the imagination, and we will investigate some beginning partnering with the other dancers in class. Look forward to an energetic, creative approach to this unique style of dance!

Modern II: An extension of the repertoire covered in Modern I, this class for older dancers will build on modern dance fundamentals & styles. We will learn about the powerful Horton/Ailey technique, soften into breath & gravity through release technique, and find the lyrical upper body in Limon technique to cover a wide range of movement and dynamics. The class will explore partnering in duets and groups, dance improvisation, and beginning choreography. The group will meld their own improvisations and partnering with the movement learned in class to create a short modern dance piece.