Intermediate

Contemporary Workshop

(Intermediate)

Classes are designed for beginner level students ages 10-12 who want to explore different style for contemporary genres.

Andie Gioino Contemporary Ballet meshes elements from classical ballet and lyrical dance. Its purpose is to learn how to create fluid dance movements that are expressive and graceful. The class will encourage flexibility while combining improvisation and freer movements to create a style that’s expressive and nontraditional. Students will acquire new tools to supplement their own techniques, increase their extensions, and improve the overall quality of their dance performance.	Charray Helton Contemporary Composition is best described as an explorative choreography based class. With necessary assistance and guidance, students will apply what is learned in contemporary ballet class as well as other genres to collaboratively explore different phrase work. Class will start with a guided improvisation warm-up. However, the majority of class will be focused on individual exploration within phrase work; either given by the instructor or collaboratively.	Jennifer Davis Contemporary ballet is a play on a classical ballet class and features progressive and accentuated movement both at the barre and in center. The class will help students to expand upon their ballet technique and develop a larger vocabulary for movement and quality of movement.
Psalm Roberson Contemporary Hip-Hop brings together two styles to birth a unique expressive movement. Contemporary is a style that can’t be boxed in due to its collection of methods from post and post-modern dance. Hip-Hop is a high energy style that consists of bounces, rocks, and grooves. When fusing the styles together you get a combination of soft but powerful movements.	Sarah Stokes Contemporary Acro Flow Class begins with a conditioning athletic warmup. Through center, across the floor series, and improvisation, dancers will learn basic floorwork techniques focusing on release and resistance into the floor. Combining multiple modern dance and floor techniques, dancers will investigate their relationship with gravity and practice inversions and basic acrobatic movements through phrasework.