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Professional Training Program

Course Descriptions

Please thoughtfully select your preference of morning courses for the duration of your time at the Festival. This mix of technique and somatic offerings will not change/rotate throughout.

Afternoon Intensives each last one week, allowing for a generous and deep look into a specific form, practice, repertory or pedagogy. Please select a single intensive for each week you intend to dance at the Festival.

Your course selections, application video & resume, and class capacity will determine your overall Festival schedule.

Below are descriptions of the 2023 courses. 2024 courses and faculty will be announced November 15.

Morning Classes

First Period – 9am-10:30am

Countertechnique 4

Samuel Melecio-Zambrano

Dance Your Embodied Truth

Kimani Fowlin

Postmodern Moves 3

Jenna Riegel

Hip Hop

Duane Lee Holland Jr.

Feldenkrais Method

Antonio Ramos

Open-Level Ballet

Martha Tornay

Second Period – 11am-12:30pm

Countertechnique 5

Samuel Melecio-Zambrano

Afro Fusion

Kimani Fowlin

Post-Modern Things 4

Jenna Riegel

Jazz Fusion

Duane Lee Holland Jr.

Alexander Technique

Alice MacDonald

Ballet 4/5

Martha Tornay

Compositional Improvisation

Antonio Ramos

One-week afternoon intensives

2-4:30pm

Choose one-week intensives from four different tracks –  Repertory, Pedagogy & Social Practice, Making Work, and Canon.

Stick with one track for the entire three weeks or mix and match.

Repertory

Canon

Pedagogy & Social Practice

Making Work

Process Lab Accelerator

Week 1 |Abby Zbikowski

Dunham Technique

Week 1 | Heather Beal

Socially Conscious Choreography

Week 1 | Joya Powell

Making Dances

Week 1 | Cynthia Oliver

Street and Club Styles Rep

Week 2 | Shakia Barron

Limón Technique

Week 2 | Eric Parra

Dancing Around Race

Week 2 | Gerald Casel

Un/Doing Creative Lab

Week 2 | Gesel Mason

Contemporary Rep

Week 3 | Junichi Fukuda

Horton Technique

Week 3 | Kevin Iega Jeff

Liberatory Dance Education Workshop

Nyama McCarthy-Brown

Composition

Xan Burley and Alex Springer

Afternoon Restorative Yoga

4:45-5:45pm

All students are invited to opt into this restorative class, Monday-Thursday.

Yoga