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• Open Level Modern  –10 Hairy Legs (Jared McAboy) Location: Callahan

Class begins with dynamic floor sequences that warm up the body’s core, using the floor as a tool to explore connectivity throughout the entire body. The floor sequences build on one another, bringing the mover to standing phrases across the floor. Once on two feet the class establishes the body’s connection with dynamic shifts in and out of the ground, culminating in a final phrase that builds upon the body’s exploration of different initiations with supple and expressive virtuosity.

• Int. Modern –10 Hairy Legs (Alexander Oliveri)   Location: Callahan

Class begins with dynamic floor sequences that warm up the body’s core, using the floor as a tool to explore connectivity throughout the entire body. The floor sequences build on one another, bringing the mover to standing phrases across the floor. Once on two feet the class establishes the body’s connection with dynamic shifts in and out of the ground, culminating in a final phrase that builds upon the body’s exploration of different initiations with supple and expressive virtuosity.

• Instant Dance Making  – Denise Purvis  Location: Sands

At some point in their career, every dancer is likely to be asked to make a dance quickly – in two weeks, one week, three days.  How does one create a visually textured and physically satisfying dance in such a short time? In this workshop, we will work together to choreograph a successful dance in an hour and a half. Utilizing compositional tools, we will make a phrase, then manipulate that single phrase to make a 3-5-minute dance. Come ready to create! Open Level

• Adv. Modern – 10 Hairy Legs (Artistic Director Randy James)  Location: Callahan

Class begins with dynamic floor sequences that warm up the body’s core, using the floor as a tool to explore connectivity throughout the entire body. The floor sequences build on one another, bringing the mover to standing phrases across the floor. Once on two feet the class establishes the body’s connection with dynamic shifts in and out of the ground, culminating in a final phrase that builds upon the body’s exploration of different initiations with supple and expressive virtuosity.

• Site-Specific Improv – Daniel Gwirtzman  Location: A-48
  

In this workshop, geared toward any lover of movement regardless of level or experience, Daniel introduces techniques and strategies designed to expand one’s improvisational comfort and palette through site-specific work. Working in a variety of locations, outside of the studio, the class will be guided to explore, problem-solve, create, take risks, observe, share feedback, and move freely, without any preference for genre. Note: class will occur regardless of weather. Sneakers suggested.

• Musical Theatre – Matt Steffens  Location: George

This class would be open to all levels and would explore the contemporary world of Musical Theater. As Broadway continues to expand to include such styles as jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, tap, indian, it is important to emphasize how to incorporate the rich history of musical theater with the changing landscape that even offers immersive spectacles for audiences to see. Starting with a warmup that includes many exercises taken from Anne Bogart and Tina Landau’s VIEWPOINTS approach to theater, students would begin to be in touch with their inner self as well as those around them. That would then be followed by a ballet based warmup including isolations, and an across the floor sequence full of jumps and turns.

Finally, the back half of class will be spent learning a combination from a Broadway show incorporating the different styles and culminating with the class performing for each other. Students will be challenged to use their technique to tell a story, while connecting with the audience…ALL THE WHILE having FUN!

• Artist Talk  Location: A-48

• 10 Hairy Legs – Performance  Location: Callahan
  

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• Pilates For Dance – Michelle Pritchard  Location: Sands

This class will take dancers through a vigorous Pilates-based workout designed to strengthen skills dancers need. We will address skills such as balance, core stability, extensions, turnout, and breathing in this class. Participants do not need to have Pilates experience but should bring a mat and be prepared to sweat!

• Contemporary Jazz – Matt Steffens  Location: Medaille

This class would be open to all levels and would draw on contemporary, jazz and modern techniques to challenge the body to move in new ways. A Cunningham based warmup would challenge the student to not only be in touch with their body, but also begin to explore what it means to dance a warmup and start to connect to the soul through the warmup.

Having worked with modern choreographers such as Angelin Prejlocaj, Steven Hoggett, and Crystal Pite, the attention to detail in the choreography would be of the utmost importance. How a certain body part might move based on an emotion? What if it was just a finger? Or toe? Or knee socket? Questions like these would not only inform the choreography, but create a story as a through line to the work. A combination would be taught allowing the students to apply their technique but have free reign to improvise at certain moments to allow artistic freedom. 

• Ballet Class – Kerry Ring  Location: George

This class welcomes dancers of all levels to participate in the full arc of an intermediate ballet technique class. Barre work will prepare dancers to fully utilize the traditional structure of adagio, pirouettes, and various allegros to practice a range of dynamics. This ballet class will provide an opportunity for dancers to make connections to the basic elements that define inspired dancing in any style.

• Musical Theatre Tap – Jody Deloria  Location: Sands

Are you a tap dancer who can do many of the steps but have little idea what the names are them? You are not alone. Grab your tap shoes and join me for a tap class grounded in Broadway tap vocabulary.  Learn the names of and perform fundamental musical theatre tap steps. The class will consist of a tap technique warm-up, across the floor progressions and will culminate in a musical theatre tap combination.

• "West Side Story" REP – Stephanie Fittro  Location: Callahan

In this workshop we will explore the "mambo"-spanish-  influence and contrasting rhythms in parts of West Side Story like Dance at the GYM (where both the Sharks and the Jets do their own versions of mambo) as well as parts of Prologue and America.

• Max Your Extension–  Callan-Harris PT  Location: George

Join the Physical Therapists from Callan-Harris Physical Therapy for an interactive, movement-based session to learn how to safely increase your flexibility and use that flexibility in classwork and performance to improve your extensions. We’ll go over common weaknesses and biomechanical errors that prevent dancers from using their full flexibility potential and teach you ways to address them. Gain muscle length, strength and control to achieve your highest heights in extensions!

• Contemporary/Modern – Julia Burrer  Location: Medaille

We will start by arriving into the room, into our bodies, into our breath. Through guided yoga and Pilates sequences, we will expand outward—gaining in warmth, strength, accessibility, and awareness. Utilizing structured phrases, we will explore muscularly energized movement, as well as, find ease and clarity in articulating through clear pathways. Students will be asked to bring their experiences to the work, to make performative choices from the beginning of class, and to remain present in their embodiment of the material at hand. Class will culminate with a hefty-sized phrase, harnessing momentum to propel us through space.

• Hip Hop – Prince Diaby  Location: Callahan

A fusion of hip hop and African dance combines to be Afro-Pop.  The combination will give dancers who are interested in both African and the hip hop culture to mix the two flavors and get the best of both worlds. Song: “Push back” Neyo

• Int/Adv. Contemporary Ballet – Cristina Gustaitis  Location: George

• Int. Jazz/Jack Cole – Dougie Robbins  Location: Medaille

Series of intermediate to advanced Jazz class focusing on the warm up and technique of Jack Cole.

Class 1 entails a warm up, across the floor, and a segment of repertoire from the Jack Cole cannon. Specifically: “Not Since Nineveh” from Kismet. Day one class also includes a very brief discussion about Jack Cole, and how he gave birth to a new form of dance. The selection from Kismet challenges the students’ relationship with the floor, ability to see and apply stylistic nuance, and musicality.

• Bounce/House Hip Hop – Hettie Barnhill  Location: Callahan
• Limon Technique – Daniel Fetecua  Location: George

This master class focus in the principals of the Limon/Humphrey technique, breath, weight, fall and recovery, suspension, succession and isolation in a dynamic class that  also explores how these physical themes, physical efforts combine with musicality and lyricism demonstrated a physical expression of the human spirit. 

• Dancing in Shakespeare – Stephanie Fittro Location: Medaille

We will start with basic folkloric steps used in theatre- jig, shuffle, country two step, and the ballroom form of waltz.  From there we will trace backward in time to when dances were only briefly partnered, but not necessarily whirling in the circle known as the "grande ronde" and then introduce Quadrille (a four or eight person form appearing in cotillion culture).

• Int. Jazz/Jack Cole – Dougie Robbins  Location: Callahan

Series of intermediate to advanced Jazz class focusing on the warm up and technique of Jack Cole.

Class 2 / 3 would keep the warm up and move to my choreography, providing the students to improve and apply this technique to a current jazz piece. Giving them an opportunity to see how the origin of jazz technique is still relevant to jazz today. If my company were selected to perform as well, they would be able to see the influence of these techniques applied to a finished product onstage.

• Int/Adv. Modern  – Jenny Showalter  Location: George

Class offerings will guide students through  high-­‐energy phrase work  that investigates disparate qualities of stillness and explosion, full-­‐bodied vigorous movement and gestural subtleties. Based in contemporary release technique,  a broad range of movement sequences and qualities will challenge students both technically and artistically, with a strong focus on clarity of initiation and movement intention.

• Informal Student Showcase  Location: Callahan

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• Adv. Jazz Repertory – Dougie Robbins  Location: Medaille
• Limon Technique  – Daniel Fetecua  Location: George

This master class focus in the principals of the Limon/Humphrey technique, breath, weight, fall and recovery, suspension, succession and isolation in a dynamic class that  also explores how these physical themes, physical efforts combine with musicality and lyricism demonstrated a physical expression of the human spirit. 

• Lyrical Flow – Amy Ling  Location: Sands 

Start your Super Soul Sunday getting in touch with the body and mind and soul!  Come flow and sweat it out in what hopes to be a feel great lyrical class!

• "I Do Contemporary Too" – Denise Purvis  Location: A-48

Often, students graduate college dance programs with strong modern dance training, yet they enter a field where many employers seek a more commercial contemporary dance style.  

This class offers an example of a Bill Evans Technique modern dance class designed to suit a contemporary dance aesthetic. Leap, turn and roll through the six patterns of total body connectivity, discover a rich effort life, and feed your secret (or perhaps not so secret) desire to dance to songs by any or all members of One Direction. Open Level

• Stomp & Step/Folk Dance – Daniel Gwirtzman  Location: Medaille

A range of folk dances from around the globe, high-energy to slow and easy, are introduced in this fun and cardiovascular class. Learn partner and group dances and enjoy the spirit of dancing together as a community!

A great way to experience the joy of moving regardless of level or ability.

• Injury Prevention –  Stevie Oakes  Location: Sands

This class is intended to unpack the pedagogy of injury prevention, bridging the mover's innate awareness in physical structure with kinesiological foundations of dance science. While the session is relevant for any 'mover,' there will be an emphasis on teaching teachers, offering insight and rationale for strengthening awareness of the body. The warm-up is designed to familiarize each participant with basic skeletal terminology in order to build dynamic alignment.

Combining an improvisational score with some unifying set material, dancers build heat and curiosity to discover the interplay between joint mobility and stability. Deepening understanding with exploration, the naming of key muscle groups and facial connections allows for consideration of alternative sources of movement beyond the bones.

After uncovering possibilities for efficiency and fuller proprioceptive awareness, quiet meditation and subsequent discussion will close the practice for synthesis, aimed at locating areas of challenge or imbalance in physical practice and targeting integration of fitness and wellness principles to support healthy growth.

• Rep and Performance – Tammy Carrasco  Location: Medaille

This class will engage students in a relaxed, creative, and fun rehearsal environment in which choreographic details and performance intention are emphasized. Carrasco's choreography explores a dynamic range of phrase work that is luscious, bounding and athletic. Students will be driven to devour space with an attention to detail.  

This class is designed for students with a variety of experience levels. Carrasco will lead students through movement that ranges from low-sprawling lunges to large, lofty jumps. There is a creative element to this class, as well. Students will be led through accessible choreography games to create movement in small group settings and ultimately integrated into the choreography taught throughout the class. The aim is for students to enjoy a creative process that integrates set material and collaborative choreographic strategies. 

• Urban Contemporary – Gierre J Godley  Location: George
• Colombian Dance – Daniel Fetecua  Location: Sands

Colombian traditional dances are a blend of three different ethnic groups: Native Colombian, African and European, mostly spanish. The country is divide in four different regions, Caribbean Coast, Pacific Coast, Andes Region and Ester Plains. In this master class participants will travel to the country meeting the different main rhythms from each region like, Cumbia, Currulao, Pasillos, Joropo, etc.

Traditional dances are spontaneous and mostly dance in pairs and as a group, this class is a fun way to learn about the country through it's dances.

• Jazz Dance: Then and Now – Paula J Peters  Location: A-13

Jazz Dance class which explores the fundamentals of Classical and Contemporary Jazz Dance technique and aesthetics. Class includes a warm-up and center floor combinations to a wide variety of historical Jazz and current Popular music. Movement combinations will focus on the shared principles of musicality, physical aesthetics, and performance qualities of jazz dance of the 20th and 21st centuries. This class is open to all levels, ages, and abilities.

• Urban Contemporary – Gierre J Godley  Location: George
• Musical Theatre Tap – Jody Deloria  Location: Sands

Are you a tap dancer who can do many of the steps but have little idea what the names are them? You are not alone. Grab your tap shoes and join me for a tap class grounded in Broadway tap vocabulary.  Learn the names of and perform fundamental musical theatre tap steps. The class will consist of a tap technique warm-up, across the floor progressions and will culminate in a musical theatre tap combination.  

• Free: Presentation  Location: A-48
• Using Dance in Peacebuilding – Mariah Steele

Based on a case-study of Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Fall and Recover – a dance performed by two professional dancers and eleven survivors of torture and asylum seekers to Ireland – this workshop reveals how dance can be used to reach peacebuilding goals such as developing empathy, trust, tolerance and personal reflection. The process of making and performing Fall and Recover was not only healing for the performers involved, but also spread awareness about torture and asylum issues in Ireland and abroad.

Through a combination of lecture, discussion and interactive movement activities, workshop participants leave with an understanding of how dance can contribute to healing trauma and to building inclusive communities. Best practices for planning one’s own dance event with social justice goals are also discussed. Open to all levels.

• Curated Concert – MAD Artists' Showcase  Location: Callahan

• Post-Show Artist Talk-Back –  Location: Callahan