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
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
