2023 Opening Day – July 10, 2023
Coming Soon
2022 Opening Day – July 11, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Registration and Vendors
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Master Class – Billy & Mishka
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Light snacks provided
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm Class with AIR Faith Jensen-Ismay
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
2022 Class Schedule: Tuesday – Saturday
July 12 | July 13 | July 14 | July 15 | July 16 |
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8:30-9:00am Room: Argyros | Warm-ups | Warm-ups | Warm-ups | Warm-ups | N/A |
9:15-10:30am Room: Stage | Modern/Contemp Faith | Modern/Contemp Faith | Modern/Contemp Faith | Modern/Contemp Faith | YOGA Master Class |
9:15-10:30am Room: Salmon | Hip Hop Zach | Hip Hop Zach | Progressions Jessica & Amanda | Contemporary Jessica & Amanda | YOGA Master Class |
10:45am-12:00pm Room: Stage | Composition Faith | Composition Faith | Repertory Faith | Repertory Faith | Brunch Video Montage Reflection |
10:45am-12:00pm Room: Salmon | Contemporary Zach | Contemporary Zach | Combos-to-Go Jessica & Amanda | Jazz/Funk Jessica & Amanda | Brunch Video Montage Reflection |
10:45am-12:00pm Room: Argyros | Cross Training Kendall | Injury Prevention Kendall | Brunch Video Montage Reflection |
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12:00-1:30pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | N/A |
1:30-2:45pm Room: Stage | Ballet Oscar | Ballet Oscar | Salsa John | Afro/Caribbean Erin | |
1:30-2:45pm Room: Salmon | Taprican Bruce | Tap Bruce | Yoga Jen | Yoga Jen | |
1:30-2:45pm Room: Argyros | Lesson Design Sarah | Dance Elements Sarah | Dance Team Prep Sarah | Team Competition Sarah | |
3:00-4:15pm Room: Stage | Waltz John | Swing John | Jazz | Jazz | |
3:00-4:15pm Room: Salmon | Musical Theater Oscar | Musical Theater Oscar | Tap | Tap | |
3:00-4:15pm Room: Argyros | |||||
4:30-5:00pm Room: Argyros | Social/Emotional | Single Day/ Sub Lesson Plans | D & M 2023 Planning w/Carrie W | ||
| Game Night Sandhu Hall | Free Night | AIR Concert (Memorial Hall) | Banquet |
2022 Class Descriptions
Modern / Contemporary / Composition / Repertory – Faith Jensen-Ismay
Classes will contain a modern/contemporary warmup, center and across-the-floor technique and choreography. Classes will provide a variety of styles and difficulty levels to meet the needs of various dance programs. Instructor will share current repertory pieces and composition techniques.
Contemporary / Hip Hop – Zachary Groenewold
Contemporary: 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: 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.
Contemporary / Combos-to-Go / Progressions – Jessica Wolf & Amanda Cathey
Contemporary: 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: 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.
Progressions: This class is focused on complete body control, alignment, strength, & flexibility. Class will incorporate across-the-floors which will start out with beginning movement and layer on for more advanced skills. We will be learning to break down and layer jumps across the floor, specifically leaps, grand fouettés, etc. Breaking down and layering turns, specifically, Attitude, Arabesque, Pirouettes, Piqué Turns, etc.
Jazz Funk: A commercialized form of hip-hop dance that freely borrows from many different styles of large dance production. A combination of hip hop and jazz techniques for a fun and exciting class.
Cross-Training / Injury Prevention for Dancers – Kendall Baab
Cross–Training: This class is focused on types of cross-training specifically for dancers, breaking down what it is and why it is important.
Injury Prevention: This class will be focused on proper warm-up techniques, safe-stretching for dancers, as well as programming and periodization.
Afro Caribbean – Erin Landry
This class will cover a variety of dance movements that are of the African Diaspora. Afro Caribbean and Latin dance movements will also be explored. In each session, the students will learn a choreographed dance. The class will begin with a warm-up and moving progressions across the floor.
Jazz
Class begins with a dynamic warmup to build strength and access joint mobility. Through across the floor and center combinations, emphasis is placed upon rhythmic variance, quick changes of direction and weight shifts, style, performance, and a connection to the music.
Swing / Salsa / Waltz – John Delapena
Swing: Take home the elements and fundamentals in leading and following in East Coast Single time swing.
Salsa: An introduction to latin hip action as it pertains to Salsa basic foot patterns.
Waltz: A better understanding of frame and smooth footwork using Waltz elements and fundamentals.
Ballet / Musical Theater – Oscar Gonzalez
Ballet: This course will demonstrate how fundamental ballet techniques can reinforce training concepts that align with skills necessary for all forms of dance, as well as physical education. Teachers taking this course will learn to: introduce basic concepts of ballet, develop an interest in the artistry and athleticism of ballet, and introduce academic language appropriate for the study of ballet. Teachers will learn to encourage in their students: a self-awareness necessary for classical posture and weight placement, coordination and control necessary to achieve whole body movements and sustain positions in ballet, the ability to achieve elevation, an understanding of spatial awareness, and how to create dynamic values in their performance.
Musical Theater: A fun energetic class learning choreography, staging, formations, male/female options. I will be teaching my own original choreography to 2-3 different musicals. Musicals are still TBD, but I will give variation in dance styles for each piece. They will all be fun, energetic, and filled with style. I will be incorporating level options so that it can be used for every level. (beg/int/adv) Be ready to have fun and dance your hearts out.
Tap / Taprican – Bruce Goolsby
Tap: Basic to advanced tap techniques will be taught in this class.
Taprican: A combination of tap and African technique to be taught.
Lesson Design / Dance Elements / Dance Team Prep / Dance Competition – Sara Eichler
Lesson Design: Instructor will take class through lesson design centered around project based learning. You’ll have access to ready to use material to take back to your beginning – advanced dance classes.
Dance Elements: Class will take participants through the dance elements and how to teach students to manipulate them for choreography purposes. Participants will be introduced to dance critique and reflection to use with their students.
Dance Team Prep: Class will focus on prepping dancers for team related movement and activities. Focus on team bonding, team performance as well as techniques for teaching tricks required for many teams. Class will address preparing dancers for college dance teams.
Dance Competition: An introduction to dance competition teams. Discuss competition circuits for dance teams, as well as choreography and logistics for competitions.
Yoga – Jen Shetland
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.
