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Strengthening Exercises

Let’s Here It for The Boys with Steve Sirico

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.

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Ballet

Pointe with Dolly Kelepecz

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.

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Jazz

Broadway Jazz with Ashley Andrews

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.

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Jazz

Tips and Tricks to Keep You Fresh with Nancy O'Meara

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.

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Tap

Haydn Go Seek with Tony Coppola

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.

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Choreographing a Reduced Risk of Dance Injuries with Dr Jeff Russell

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.

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How to Navigate Your Way Through the Good, Bad and Ugly with Robert Landau

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.

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Tap

Secrets of Tap Dance! with Jason Kalish

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!

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Jazz

Jazz Progressions All Levels with Steve Sirico

Getting your students to move and to understand spatial awareness can be challenging at times. This class will feature progressions that use change of direction and crossovers and is a great way to help students understand it’s not all about them.

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Contemporary

Contemporary- Creating Mood & Thematic Concept with Jess Stafford

The concept of a piece will dictate the mood, style, movement quality and dynamics of the choreography. Using composition tools and movement phrases, we will look at how we can layer and add texture within a piece by combining these elements, as well as juxtaposing them to create interesting, rich, detailed content.

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Ballet

Ballet Class Turning 101 with Sophie Silnicki

Combinations designed on learning how to go from beginner to advanced. Turning techniques to improve students understanding of their center in order to advance into more difficult turning sequences.

Master Class Video Series

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Ballet

Port De Bras and Performance with LaToya Roberson

This class will focus on exercises that help develop the arms and the back which is needed for beautiful port de bras. Along with strengthening, artistry is needed, so exercise ideas will be given to help dancers perform and “act” using their port de bras

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