Opening Day – Sunday, July 7, 2019
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Registration and Vendors
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Jazz Master Class with Mark Haines
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Light snacks provided
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm Modern/Contemporary Class with AIR Peter Kalivas
4:15 pm- 5:00 pm Opening Session- Meet and Greet
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Dinner in the Dorms or on you own
Class Schedule: Monday – Saturday
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8:30-9:00am Room 107 | Warm-ups | Warm-ups | Warm-ups | Warm-ups | Warm-ups | |
9:10-10:30am Room 107 | Modern/Contemp Peter Kalivas | Modern/Contemp Peter Kalivas | Modern/Contemp Peter Kalivas | Modern/Contemp Peter Kalivas | Modern/Contemp Peter Kalivas | YOGA Master Class Morgan Beckman |
9:10-10:30am Room Annex | Musical Theater Oscar Gonzalez | Musical Theater Oscar Gonzalez | Hip Hop Zach Groenewold | Hip Hop Zach Groenewold | Hip Hop Zach Groenewold | YOGA Master Class Morgan Beckman |
10:40am-12:00pm Room 107 | Repertory Peter Kalivas | Repertory Peter Kalivas | Repertory Peter Kalivas | Repertory Peter Kalivas | Repertory Peter Kalivas | Brunch Video Montage Reflection |
10:40am-12:00pm Room Annex | Hip Hop Monik Jones | Hip Hop Monik Jones | Contemporary Zach Groenewold | Contemporary Zach Groenewold | Contemporary Zach Groenewold | Brunch Video Montage Reflection |
10:40am-12:00pm Room 108 | Progressions Hank Schmidt | Progressions Hank Schmidt | Musical Theater Kenneth Green | Musical Theater Kenneth Green | Musical Theater Kenneth Green | Brunch Video Montage Reflection |
12:00-1:30pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
1:30-2:50pm Room 107 | Composition Peter Kalivas | Composition Peter Kalivas | Composition Peter Kalivas | Composition Peter Kalivas | Composition Peter Kalivas | |
1:30-2:50pm Room 104 | Tap Beg/Int Donna Flournoy | Tap Beg/Int Donna Flournoy | Ballroom John Depalma | Ballroom John Depalma | Ballroom John Depalma | |
1:30-2:50pm Room 108 | Pilates-Floor- Barre Fusion Oscar Gonzalez | Pilates-Floor- Barre Fusion Oscar Gonzalez | Ballet Carrie Woodson | Ballet Carrie Woodson | Ballet Carrie Woodson | |
1:30-2:50pm Room Annex | Contemporary Jessica Wolf | Contemporary Jessica Wolf | Combos to Go Jessica Wolf | Combos to Go Jessica Wolf | Combos to Go Jessica Wolf | |
3:00-4:20pm Room 107 | Buti Yoga Kellie Johnston | Buti Yoga Kellie Johnston | Yoga Kellie Johnston | Yoga Kellie Johnston | Yoga Kellie Johnston | |
3:00-4:20pm Room Annex | African Monik Jones | African Monik Jones | Bollywood Shayan Chalan | Bollywood Shayan Chalan | Bollywood Shayan Chalan | |
3:00-4:20pm Room 104 | Injury Prevention Robin Kish | Injury Prevention Robin Kish | Tap Int/Adv Mindy Copeland | Tap Int/Adv Mindy Copeland | Tap Int/Adv Mindy Copeland | |
3:00-4:20pm Room 108 | Modern Jennifer La Cura | Modern Jennifer La Cura | Jazz Kenneth Green | Jazz Kenneth Green | Jazz Kenneth Green | |
4:30-5:00pm Class Room | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | D&M 2020 Planning | |
| Explore Orange | Game Night Sandhu Hall | Free Night | AIR Concert (On Campus) | Banquet (Off site) |
Tuition: $495 before May 31, 2019, $550 after May 31, 2019 (In order to receive the $495 tuition fee, a $100.00 deposit is needed by May 31st.)
Housing: $470 double occupancy / $570 single occupancy
Class Descriptions
“OLD SCHOOL” Rigor Horton-Inspired Contemporary/Modern Technique – Peter Kalivas
Beginning with standing exercises to engage and develop the body center, students will then practice clearly defined, efficient movement and approaches. Strongly influenced by classic concepts found in Horton, Graham, Ballet, and Taylor, the class expands to include challenging extended phrases, then moves across the floor with jumps and stretches, and finally choreography encompassing all of the above.
“PGK DANCE” Repertory – Peter Kalivas
We will learn “OCEAN”, a joyful group work that is inspired by “TAYLOR” Technique and good old fashioned classic modern dance. Slightly athletic, with attention to creating and celebrating clear technique, exuberance and the pure joy of dance.
“CHOREOGRAPHY” with a focus on using improvisation – Peter Kalivas
Compositionally we will look at a good use of Theme and variation, when to use repetition and why, representation vs. embodiment when directing dancers towards our vision. Also, research based constructive context. It’s all been done before right?, and so we must look to invention and innovative thinking to create work that feels fresh and new plus using improvisation as a way to get somewhere we haven’t been before choreographically. As a point of departure and reflection: there will be simple critical thinking exercises in each class as well including describing a dance you saw recently that you liked and tell us why or disliked and tell us why. Through deductive exercises we can discover and codify our aesthetic, preferences and priorities for our dance making. Ultimately, unapologetically knowing more about ourselves streamlines our process.
Ballet 101 and Beyond – Carrie Woodson
Looking for quick easy tools to help your students get the polished look in a dance performance? Are you providing inclusiveness for all abilities? This class will provide teachers with a new look at how to boost student technique in a short period of time with all students in mind. Learn how basic ballet barre combinations, postural cues, exercises from PBT (Progressive Ballet Technique), differentiation, and conditioning philosophies can enhance your program. In addition, petite allegro combinations and across the floor progressions will also be given. The importance of petite allegro is under estimated. University programs are requiring highly skilled dancers who can assess and execute quick footwork. Equip your students to move forward and explore their dance options. Let’s refresh your teaching tool belt and give all students equal access while enjoying the beauty and technique of ballet.
Tap Class – Donna Flournoy
Donna is passionate about teaching tap. The Class includes an energetic warm up, which focuses on strong technique and musical sounds. This class will explore basic rhythm steps while moving in space. The goal of the class is to have fun and keep smiling.
Modern Dance Technique – Jennifer La Curan
This modern dance technique class begins with concepts adapted from Bartenieff Fundamentals that focus on releasing excess tension, finding length, and stabilizing the core to produce greater movement efficiency, stability, and groundedness. This class will include a blend of floor work and strength based movements, with full-bodies choreography that encourages dancers to consume space. Participants will combine lush, grounded phrase work with jumps, turns and directional changes while focusing on performance quality and ease of motion. Dancers will be encouraged to make choices that advance their growth as an expressive performer through elements of improvisation.
Contemporary – Jessica Wolf
Teaching a class combination that is a fusion of multiple dance styles. Utilizing how to play with different musicality elements in choreography and how to implement a different use of multiple styles into one frame of movement. There will most likely be a piece of improvisation of how to tap deeper into the character driven nature within the choreography given and reaching the story-telling aspect for when giving choreography.
Combos To Go – Jessica Wolf
Providing easy combinations to be used for class building technical fundamentals. Whether it be to push students physically or mentally. How to use simple progressions to give variations for levels that may be within one same class. Combinations may vary from across the floor to also utilizing center floor.
Ballroom Dance – Intro to Partnering (Wednesday Session 1) – John Depalma
Breaking the ice and establishing more than physical connection to engage in collaboration and coordination as a team.
Introduction to Ballroom (Thursday Session 1 of 2 and Friday Session 2 of 2) – John Depalma
Ballroom dance elements, framing and connection in the most popular and practical of all the dance styles in the following order; Rumba, Waltz, Fox Trot, Tango, Swing (East Coast Single and Triple time,) Cha Cha, Salsa, and Bachata.
Buti Yoga – Kellie Johnston
Transform the BODY + SOUL with cardio-intensive bursts of tribal dance, primal movement + conditioning woven into a dynamic yoga practice. Created by Celebrity Trainer Bizzie Gold, Buti Yoga utilizes the Spiral Structure Technique to sculpt + tone the deep abdominal muscles that stabilize and strengthen the body. Instead of linear movements, Gold favors movements that challenge the body along all planes of motion.
Yoga – Kellie Johnston
This yoga practice will combine asana, breath work and dance movement to increase strength, mobility, and flexibility for dancers as well as overall wellness for the mind, body and soul.
Jazz Master Class – Mark Haines
The class will be a fast-paced Jazz class with an emphasis on weight change, direction and facing change, with exciting and challenging across-the-floor combinations.
Tap Dance – Mindy Copeland
Intermediate and Advanced Technique in Tap Dance. Each class will consist of warm ups, technique exercises and a short combination at an int/adv level. On each day, a new style of music will be explored such as jazz/swing, latin and pop.
West African Class – Monik Jones
This course is an introduction a cross section of West African culture taught though dance and drumming. The course explores the connection between West African dancing and drumming as a social and cultural expression, focusing on universal elements such as music, singing, storytelling, community, and environment. All classes are aerobic in nature.
Hip Hop Class – Monik Jones
This beginning-level course presents a blend of hip hop and commercial dance styles. The course introduces traditional hip hop; b-boying and b-girling; video-style hip hop; and free styling. Students practice and perform combinations and dances to contemporary hip hop, rhythm and blues, and pop music. Focus is on developing individual skill, musicality, and artistic expression, and on using accents and musical phrasing to demonstrate originality, unity, and clarity of intent in choreography. Students will learn basic dance and hip-hop specific vocabulary and learn the history and influences of hip-hop culture through video, lectures, and assignments. No previous experience
Vinyasa Yoga Class – Morgan Beckman
An all-levels vinyasa yoga class focusing on linking conscious breath with mindful movement and flow. Through the use of creative sequencing and transitions, we’ll explore the power of breath and body awareness while building muscle strength and flexibility and developing calmness in the body and mind.
Pilates-Floor Barre Fusion – Oscar Gonzalez
This class is focused on complete body control, alignment, strength, flexibility and proper rotation for turn-out. Class is done on the floor, for less impact on the joints. Isolations of specific muscles while still maintaining perfect body alignment. This floor barre will integrate pilates based core exercises and different methods of floor barre, exercises done on the floor, slight elevation and exercises with use of a chair. Bring a yoga mat/beach towel (yoga block if you have one and if not and extra beach towel to create a slight elvation off of the ground) ***PERFECT CLASS FOR THE DANCER RECOVERING FROM AN INJURY.
Musical Theater – Oscar Gonzalez
A fun energetic class for those that want to be triple-threats in the entertainment industry. I will be teaching my own original choreography to ‘Too Darn Hot’ from the iconic Broadway show Kiss me Kate on Monday and my own choreography to a ‘Moulin Rouge’ medley on Tuesday, it will be spicy and fierce. (For those taking both days I will review the ‘Too Darn Hot’ piece at the end of class on Tuesday)
Injury Prevention – Robin Kish
High legs and healthy hips. By working with anatomy, rather than against it, you can help yourself and your students achieve higher leg extensions safely. Explore the dangers of quick fixes and cheating in relation to the bigger picture of hip health. Flexibility an asset and a liability. We know that dancers need to be flexible, but is there such a thing as being toto flexible? the answer is “yes”! Discover how to maximize flexibility in a healthy way without compromising joint stability.
Bollywood – Shayan Chalan
The teachers will dabble in the origin of Bollywood, as a culture and as a dance form. As Bollywood is an amalgamation of various folk and classical dance forms originated in India, the teachers will be exposed to a handful of these styles and their techniques. We will be addressing questions such as: What is Bollywood? Where does it come from and what does it entail?
The teachers will be exposed to Bollywood music and the birth of “Classic Bollywood” dance movements. We will discuss how Indian culture has molded Bollywood and how Bollywood stars have impacted the evolution of Bollywood. The teachers will begin learning a Bollywood piece, incorporating the ideas and movements discussed.
On the final day, the teachers will learn the distinguishing factor that separates Bollywood from any other dance form. We will workshop this SURPRISE factor and finally incorporate it into their performances of the Bollywood piece!
Contemporary – Zachary Groenewold
Instruction of a variety of movement combinations in the contemporary dance genre with emphasis placed on rhythmic variance, quick changes of direction and weight shifts, style, performance, and a connection to the music. Technically, this class combines elements of jazz, modern, and ballet.
Hip-Hop – Zachary Groenewold
Instruction of Hip Hop movement combinations. Will focus on varying styles of choreography within the urban/commercial styles of Hip Hop dance. Combinations will place emphasis on groove and dynamic musicality.