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New York City

Summer Dance Intensive

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June 22 – 28 2009

This intensive is open to all dancers, choreographers, actors, directors, and movement lovers of every kind!

Immerse Yourself in Movement!

     
 

 

 

 

The schedule for the week will be as folows:

Monday

10-11:30 Modern Dance Technique

11:30-1   Choreography:

Inspiration to Create Outside the Box

1-2 Lunch Break

2-4 Performance in Action

Tuesday

10-11:30 Modern Dance Technique

11:30-1   Injury Prevention/Fitness for Dancers

1-2 Lunch Break

2-4 Performance in Action

Wednesday

10-11:30 Modern Dance Technique

11:30-1   Choreography:

Inspiration to Create Outside the Box

1-2 Lunch Break

2-4 Performance in Action

Thursday

10-11:30 Modern Dance Technique

11:30-1   Injury Prevention/Fitness for Dancers

1-2 Lunch Break

2-4 Performance in Action

Friday

10-11:30 Modern Dance Technique

11:30-1   Choreography:

 Inspiration to Create Outside the Box

1-2 Lunch Break

2-4 Performance in Action

Saturday

10-11:30 Injury Prevention/Fitness for Dancers

11:30-2 Performance in Action

Sunday

10-11:30 Modern Dance Technique

1:00-3:00 Final Showing/Reception for friends and family

 

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Modern Dance Technique:

This technique class highlights movement following the logic of the body’s innate spirals and bone rhythms. The class starts with a series of floor exercises designed to awaken the feet, spine, center and pelvis.  Standing center work focuses on proper alignment to support technical exercises that strengthen and train the body to execute healthy, organized, and clear movement. The class culminates in rhythmical, full-bodied across the floor movement combinations that incorporate the use of turns, jumps, working in and out of the floor, detailed gestures, and diverse dynamics.  Dancers gain the ability to move quickly with efficient ease, as well as move slow with a strong intent.  Additionally we work on developing expressive movement with a dramatic purpose, connecting an inner emotional state through physicality.       

Choreography:

Inspiration to Create Outside the Box

This workshop shares valuable creative movement exercises and tools that stimulate the mind and body to generate movement ideas outside ones regular tendencies and consciousness.  The artists will be in a nurturing environment where they will be guided to further discover, develop and shape their own unique movement conceptions.

Performance in Action: 

Over the course of the week Valerie Green will direct and shape a short work pulling together the week’s phrases, explorations, and choreographic studies. This workshop allows the opportunity for intensive participants to put new skills learned over the course of the week into action while working on performance quality.  This work will be performed in the intensive final showing.

Injury Prevention/Fitness for Dancers:

Taught by: Andrea Brown

Combining informational lectures with practical movement sessions this class is geared towards learning ways to dance safely. Artists discuss common dance injuries and their prevention strategies, investigate their own fitness levels and risk factors, and learn supplementary conditioning techniques to improve their dancing.
 

 

Karina Casiano, 2008 intensive student