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"Dancing" is different than "Doing Choreography"! Particularly in advanced classes, dancers get caught up focusing solely on getting the moves down and forget to add intention. During class (and eventually on the stage) it's our job to connect with the music and emulate how it feels and sounds through the choreography.
Learn how to best optimize class flow and structure for a successful and engaging preschool class.
In a world where people are sensitive to cultural appropriation shadowing appreciation, Afro/Jazz can be taught and enjoyed by everyone in an exciting, educational, respectful, and embracing manner. Join me in a high energy class that intertwines movement, music, and culture for tweens to teens.
All about the building blocks of proper adage. This session will focus on strengthening the core and extension.
Learn how adding (or removing) one sound can help make 8 counts build to a full step.
This class will feature stylized and fun progressions that can be used for all levels of students.
This class will focus on some terrific strengthening and flexibility exercise for boys. Additionally, Steve will present several great port de bras center work and power building exercise that will help you boy dancers soar.
This session on pointe class from the perspective of a studio that offers pointe from an experiential perspective. Starting from beginning / intermediate barre emphasising rolling through the foot and more importantly knowing your ups and downs and weight changes. Breaking down turns from chaines to piques to soutenous and finally to pirouettes we will discuss what our challenges are when teaching pointe.
This class will focus on progressive movements and fluid transitions
Get your Jazz on! This class will be offering a jazz combination taking inspirations from Broadway and the simple stylist techniques you may very well see in many traditional broadway shows.
As educators and mentors it's important to keep our classroom fresh and fun!Join Nancy O'Meara for some warm up tips, progressions and a combo that will have you smiling from ear to ear. A great sense of humor is required.
This is a balletic/classical tap piece done to one of the most famous trumpet concertos of all time- the Haydn trumpet concerto in E flat Major by Franz Josef Haydn. It combines traditional ballet technique with tap steps that follow the trumpet melody and also fill in with close work. The result is a piece which is visually ballet and audibly tap.
Science is not a big, scary monster, and it is necessary in dance! “Making Sense of Science: Choreographing a Reduced Risk of Dance Injuries” will be an interactive, enlightening trip into how science should inform the practice of dance to reduce the risk of injuries. This process will be compared to planning, creating, and executing choreography. While “injury prevention” is not realistically attainable, many injuries are not necessary. Thus, risk reduction is key. Young dancers’ bodies must be protected to improve performance ability and increase career longevity from a whole-person perspective.
5, 6, 7, 8. How to explore alternative counting systems to make dynamic and interesting mixed meter dance phrases.
From teens to adults, we all need to know how to manage our lives when things get rough. National Motivational Speaker, Robert Landau, will give you a road map to combat whatever tries to stop one’s journey, personally and/or professionally.
Based in the ideas and values of some of the Masters of Tap from Chuck Green to Bunny Briggs, Jeremy Kiesman and Gregory Hines, these "secrets" of tap dance can make all the difference in delivering dynamic performance! Rudiments, steps, philosophy, and approach will be addressed in a comprehensive and inspirational manner!
