EVENING DANCE CLASSES
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BALLET DANCE INTENSIVE
Adam Holms, ABT Certified Instructor will head this dance intensive for Level 2, 2A and 3 students (ages 7-11), along with Nikole LaChioma. All instructors involved in this program hold at least a BFA in Dance and are involved in the education and continued professional advancement of dance in the arts. (Placement Auditions Required)
SESSION ONE
June 27 - July 1 (Monday - Friday)
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
SESSION TWO
July 11-15 (Monday - Friday)
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
SESSION THREE
July 18-22 (Monday - Friday)
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
SESSION FOUR
July 25-29 (Monday - Friday)
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Note: All four session may be taken alone or combined in any manner.
***Early Morning Drop Off and/or Late Pick Up
are available at an additional weekly fee.
Informal Performance each Friday at 3 pm.
DAILY SCHEDULE
10:00 - 11:15 am Ballet
11:15 - 12:00 pm Lunch
12:00 - 12:45 pm Dance History, Dance Lab, Improvisation
12:45 - 1:00 pm Break
1:00 -2:00 pm Modern or Jazz
2:00 - 3:30 pm Choreography & Rehearsal
Early Morning Drop Off 8:45 am $100/wk
Late Pick UP 3:30-5:30 pm $100/wk
Early and Late DO & PU: $175/wk
These fees are per session/per dancer.
6 Student minimum to 16 Student maximum
Cost: $300 for One Session/per student
$575 for Two Sessions/per student
$850 for Three Sessions/per student
$1100 for Four Sessions/per student
Registration Fee: $25 per student
DANCE WORKSHOP
Nikole LaChioma, holds a B.F.A. Cum Laude in Ballet from Marymount Manhattan College.
She currently is the Company Director of In Motion, Artistic Director of PACC and has her own contemporary dance company, The Parker Project. Adam Holms, holds a M.A. in Ballet Pedagogy from NYU and is certified by ABT in all levels of their training syllabus.
Katherine Hozier holds a B.F.A. in Ballet and is a member of the Jennifer Muller Company.
(Placement Auditions Required. This workshop for dance students in Levels 3A, 4 and 5)
SESSION ONE
June 27- July 1(Monday - Friday)
SESSION TWO
July 11-15 (Monday - Friday)
SESSION THREE
July 18-22 (Monday - Friday)
SESSION FOUR
July 25-29 (Monday - Friday)
HOURS
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Informal Performance each Friday @ 4:30 pm
DAILY SCHEDULE
9:00-10:30 am Modern
10:30-11:45 am Choreography
11:45-12:45 pm Lunch
12:45-2:15 pm Ballet
2:15-2:30 pm Break
2:30-3:30 pm Pointe/Anatomy/Composition Dance History
3:30-3:45 pm Break
3:45-5:00 pm Choreography
Ballet will include warm up, technique, pirouettes, allegro, pre-pointe or pointe and virtuosity.
6 Student minimum to 16 Student maximum
Cost: $450 for One Session/per student
$875 for Two Sessions/per student
$1300 for Three Sessions/per student
$1700 for Four Sessions/per student
Registration Fee: $25 per student
SUMMER 2011 CHOREOGRAPHY LAB
JUNE 27TH, JULY 11TH, 18TH, 25TH from 4:00-6:00pm
(Supplemented by 4 studio sessions of dancers' choice and time preference)
INFORMAL CHOREOGRAPHY PRESENTATION
JULY 25TH
6:30pm
CHOREOGRAPHY LAB INSTRUCTOR:
NIKOLE LACHIOMA
Nikole LaChioma is a Cum Laude graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with
a B.F.A. in Ballet Performance. She is Artistic Director of The Parker Project
and the Performing Arts Center of Connecticut. Her work has been seen at
the NY International Dance Festival, BCEFA/DRA Solstice in Times Square,
SUNY Purchase, City Center, CT Meets NY, Dance New Amsterdam, CT Dancers
For Good, The Slipper Room and other dance venues in NYC and the tri-state
area. Most recently her work has been seen with Balasole Dance Company in
New York City at the Ailey City Center.
MISSION AND PURPOSE
The purpose of this choreography lab is to provide a safe and structured environment for students to create and share new work.
Over the course of the workshop the students will be meeting with the instructor
4 times (June 27th, July 11th, 18th, and 25th, 4:00-6:00pm) and then rehearsing
and utilizing individual studio time (without instructor) 4 times, for a
total of 8 opportunities to develop their ideas. Throughout these 8 sessions
the students will be encouraged to create new material that enables them
to think about dance and choreography differently. Each individual session
is intended to lend new perspectives about the construction of dance.
The workshop will use different exercises and studies to discover innovative
ways to generate movement and ideas. We will also discuss outside influences,
concepts, and methods and their effects on composition and creation of movement.
The lab will conclude with an informal performance on Monday, July 25th
@ 6:30pm at PACC.
CHOREOGRAPHY LAB SYLLABUS
STAGECRAFT AND PRODUCTION
- writing proposals
- using the light board
- properly writing sound/light/stage cues
COMPOSITION
- choreographic tools
- incorporating outside influences and
ideas
- importance of music/sound choice
STUDIES
- repetition
- pedestrian movements/surroundings
- quality and dynamics
- isolating body parts
- improvisation
EDUCATION
- influential choreographers
- history of dance composition
- important moments in dance history that
shaped choreography and dance
(i.e. Judson Church Movement, "no
manifesto", idea of performance art,
cultural dance, etc.)
PERFORMANCE
- Monday, July 25th 2011 at 6:30 pm
- The Warehouse, 18 Lindeman Drive,
Trumbull
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
BALLET
The object of these classes is to provide an understanding of body placement, the use of the skeleton, the influence of gravity through the body in a turned out position and the use of energy from the floor throughout the body. The barre is used to build strength and coordination. Center work introduces a relationship to direction and movement, along with an understanding of different movement qualities, such as fluidity in adage, suspension and sharpness in turns and “Balon” in big and small jumps.
CHOREOGRAPHY/DANCE COMPOSTITION
The art of creating dances! You will learn what the path is from the idea or inception to the actual creation of movement. The composition of a dance takes many creative and interesting directions – you will explore the many ways to choreograph.
MODERN
This class is about energy. How do we find it? How do we discover new sources of energy in our bodies by unlocking our technical capabilities and exploring new movement possibilities? The technical exercise focus on movement that increase the dancer’s understanding of placement, momentum and agility, as well as training the dancer to find new anatomical and theatrical sources from which to move. Class combinations consist of phrase material that involves focus on details, dropping in and out of the floor and fast changes of directions and levels.
JAZZ
A powerful, technical and dramatic style of jazz, strongly based in ballet and modern techniques. Class focuses on strength, placement and musicality, while refining quality and connection of movement, and improving performance ability.
ANATOMY
This lecture and demonstration will give the dancers a fundamental knowledge of their muscular and skeletal system. Discussion on how to prevent injury, how to treat injury and a basic understanding of how and why our body works and reacts the way it does.
DANCE HISTORY
Students will learn about the founders of dance and the companies, choreographers and dancers past and present who make up the world of dance.
FACULTY
Adam Holms, M..A. Ballet and Education
Nikole LaChioma, B.F.A. Ballet Modern
Katherine Hozier, B.F.A. Ballet Modern
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