September 5, 2008

Dance Downtown - No matter what your dance style of choice or level of expertise, Dance Downtown provides a fun and free Friday evening from May through September. Friday nights in Downtown LA will never be the same! WHERE: Music Center Plaza WHEN: 6:30pm - 10:00pm ADMISSION: FREE First come, first served. DJ/LIVE MUSIC from 7:15pm to 10:00pm BEGINNER DANCE LESSON at 6:30PM Dance floor provided. Dancers of all levels are encouraged to attend. JULY 11 Bollywood/Bhangra featuring DJ Sandeep Kumar JULY 25 Samba featuring Brasilidade AUGUST 8 Zydeco featuring TLou and his Superhot Zydeco Band AUGUST 22 Cha Cha & Salsa SEPTEMBER 5 Argentine Tango - a special evening at BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert Hall SEPTEMBER 19 Disco

September 5, 2008

WHAT: Dance Downtown WHERE: BP Hall at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012 WHEN: Friday, September 5 - 6:30pm to 10pm (Argentine Tango) ADMISSION: FREE Live music by Ensamble de Tango del Cafe Buenos Aires. Dance partners provided! Drama and romance invade Dance Downtown with this special evening of Argentine Tango dancing in BP Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall. Learn this expressive dance style with half-hour lessons at 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30pm. Live music by Ensamble de Cafe del Buenos Aires. No experience or dance partners needed. Park at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Garage 2nd & Grand ($8 Cash Only). Take escalators up and enter on the main lobby on the street level. UPCOMING EVENTS: Disco (September 19) – Back on the Music Center Plaza - (Our Last Dance Downtown of the Year - night extended until 10:30pm) Information is subject to change. In case of rain, events will be cancelled. The Music Center is located in downtown Los Angeles on Grand Avenue between Second and Temple Streets. Parking is available in the Music Center garage for $8 (on weekends). For public transportation (MTA bus/Metro Red Line), call 1-800-Commute or visit www.mta.net. For more information please call: 213-972-3660, or visit www.musiccenter.org

September 5, 2008

Catch Me Bird & Baker Tarpaga present “SANS DETOUR” This split bill features the vanguard husband and wife teams of: Catch Me Bird, a daring duet company that fuses highly physical dance theater and aerial choreography, and Baker and Tarpaga Dance Project, LA's premiere African Contemporary Dance Theater company, who combine their passion and politics with highly theatrical movement for a visceral narrative, blending real life events with West African dance and post-modern dance theater. Border and boundary crossing appears in their multi-ethnic, intimate relationships, further highlighted by their charged partnering movement and aesthetics. VOWS IN MID-AIR For the first time in Ford Amphitheatre history Catch Me Bird dancers will perform aerial movement from the Ford’s proscenium towers. Catch Me Bird will utilize the architecture and unique setting at the FORD to create a site-specific aerial spectacle, highlighting the performers at the apex of the two towers. Audience participation will also be artfully woven into the event. The performance culminates in a possible marriage proposal and wedding ceremony on the main stage under the stars – see www.catchmebird.com, for the vows in midair link. On-site, stacked parking costs $5 per vehicle for evening shows and $1 per vehicle for morning family shows. For evening shows only, FREE non-stacked parking serviced by a FREE shuttle to the Ford, for evening amphitheatre performances only, is available at the Universal City Metro Station lot at Lankershim Blvd. and Campo de Cahuenga. The shuttle, which cycles every 15-20 minutes, stops in the "kiss and ride" area.

September 5, 2008

An evening of dance featuring artists from around the country meeting for two nights only in Los Angeles. Featuring work by Intersection Dance Project (Los Angeles), Double Vision (Oakland), Penny Hutchinson (Seattle), Dena Bermann (Chicago), Earthwalk Dance Company (Los Angeles), Jennifer Bondy (New York) and Alexandria Alyj (Los Angeles).

September 7, 2008

he Bad Arm - Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer - written and performed by me, directed by Impro Theatre's Dan O'Connor - will be presented in a NEW UPDATED version during Thursdays and Sundays in August & September. p.s. not suitable for children

September 8, 2008

curated by Meg Wolfe with performances by Melina Bielefelt, Won-sun Choi, Sarah Leddy, Rosie Trump, Hannah Schwadron, and more TBA! With low-tech, do-it-yourself spirit in an easygoing setting, Anatomy Riot is an ongoing (almost) monthly dance/performance series, curated by choreographer Meg Wolfe & guest curators. AR started in October 2005; since that time, over 200 artists have performed at Anatomy Riot. AR encourages creative exploration and provides a platform for local artists to share what's new and what's in the works; you, dear audience, are spared from the high ticket prices and seat-squirming formality of a more traditional theater setting, while seeing a diversity of works by up-and-coming & seasoned artists. new dances, right before your very eyes. -- 8:00pm @ The OPEN Space 209 S. Garey Street, 2nd floor LA, CA 90012 - downtown, 3 blocks east of Alameda at 2nd Street $10 suggested donation at the door, no reservations.

September 12, 2008

The MixMatch Dance Festival is an annual performance that brings together diverse dance styles by choreographers across the country into an evening of amazing movement for the price of a movie. Hart Pulse Dance Company presents: The 2nd annual MixMatch Dance Festival! Purchase tickets @ www.HartPulseDance.com Congratulations to our 2008 Choreographers: Amanda Hart Alexandria Yalj Eric Lorico/John Medina DanceParadigm Holly Fletcher Kelly Gill Kenneth Walker Dance Project Leilani Roth Lindsey Glick Marie Hoffman XDrop Hip Hop Society's "Stamina Squad"

September 13, 2008

Blackbird Dance Academy Presents: ALL THAT DANCE COMPETITION Saturday, September 13, 2008 Reseda Performing Arts Auditorium Open Dance Competition & Hip Hop Dance Competition 17 & Under Category 18 & Over Category in each competition! $2500 in Cash Prizes & Awards! Celebrity Judges! Application Deadlines: Early: July 17, 2008 Late: August 7, 2008 Apply NOW! www.2008AllThatDance.com For more information: E-mail us: info@2008allthatdance.com Call us: 818.727.7323

September 13, 2008

Juan Talavera and FLAMENCO BRAVO! scorch the Joslyn Center Theatre Stage, 73-750 Catalina Way, Palm Desert, Ca. 92260, on Saturday, September 13, (7:00 PM), and Sunday, September 14, (2:00 PM). Talavera's famed Flamenco Dance Company features: Dancers: Briseyda Zarate, Juan Talavera, Vanessa Acosta, Angelica Vasquez, Nanci Gallardo, and the Flamenco Bravo Dance Ensemble. Flamenco Guitarists Gabriel Osuna, Marco Antonio Torres, Flamenco Singer Vicente Griego, and Percussionist Gerardo Morales round out the fiery Flamenco Performance.

September 13, 2008

Lee & Wang Dance present "Gale Winds & Turiya" "Gale Winds & Turiya" will have its Los Angeles premiere at Rosalie & Alva's Performance Gallery as part of Lee & Wang Dance's fall national tour which includes performances in San Francisco and New York. The piece follows the journey of women struggling to reconcile contradictory dialogue within, perceived limitations of one's desires, and abandonment of composure to indulge in fantasy. As the lines between waking and sleeping and reality and fantasy begin to blur, emotional landscapes collide in a collage of dreamscapes and memories. Performers include Elaine Wang and Lenora Lee (Artistic Directors), dancers Mina Nishimura and Marina Fukushima, taiko artist Kenny Endo, and flautist/taiko artist Kaoru Watanabe. (www.LeeWangDance.org)

September 13, 2008

The 9th Annual LADI - Executive Producer Howard Ibach along with Co-producers Jamie Nichols and Richard Kuller and lighting designer Eileen Cooley will present works by choreographers: Genevieve Carson, Marie de la Palme & Motion Tribe, Kim Eung Hwa & Kim Eung Hwa Korean Dance Group, Malathi Iyengar & Rangoli Dance Company, Linda Lack, Christopher Liu & RhetOracle Dance Company, Kim Maselli & Pacific Festival Ballet and Jose Reynoso with JiaWu. www.ladanceinvitational.org

September 15, 2008

Get down with JUICE (Justice by Uniting in Creative Energy) as they host a special edition of their weekly hip hop arts program at the Ford. Two hour workshop.

September 19, 2008

Creative transformation and kinesthetic eros emerge in L.A.'s annual SOMA Fest EmBodyment Performances... 10 Artists from across the U.S. merge dance, movement and theater fostered by Somatic Experiencing in performances with extreme Presence, Liquid Strength, and Articulation. "Real Body Awareness... These performers are a breed apart", Lewis Segal, L.A. Times Frid 9/19 - Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404 Sat 9/20 - Continuum Studio, 1629 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404 Sun 9/21 - Continuum Studio, 1629 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404 Performances by: Emilie Conrad (Continuum Movement), Lionel Popkin (Skinner Releasing) Christie Svane (Emodied Awareness) Teri Carter (Body-Mind Centering, Continuum & Contact Improvisation) Craig Ng (Chi Kung Theater) Camille Maureen (Moving Theater) Jamie McHugh (Somatic Expression) Gillian McGinty (Feldenkrais & Improvisation) Kirk Andrews (Psychology of Improvisation) Stefanie Cohen (Contact Improv & Authentic Movement) For workshop info Sept 16-21 see WWW.SOMAFEST.ORG

September 19, 2008

Bohemian Nights a new dance concert by Puerto Rican choreographer Dorcas Román and her DRDT Company will be presented on September 19 and 20, 2008 at 8:00 pm at the Martha B. Knoebel dance theatre at CSULB. Through the use of contemporary dance and theatre Bohemian Nights explores different types of relationships that are developed in a night of bohemia. Set in a smoky bar of a forgotten old town; friends, lovers, enemies and strangers meet to explore their fantasies, fears dreams and conditions. Bohemian Nights is supported in part by CSULB Department of Dance.

September 19, 2008

Praised for their "sense of shared purpose and soaring physicality" (San Diego Union-Tribune), Backhausdance brings to the Ford Amphitheatre their hopeful signature work, Sitting on January and the Lester Horton award-winning Shift. Premiere work titled The Woeful Maladies of Ennui Manor will feature dancers gamboling in nature while performing on a grass covered stage. With live music by the Robin Cox Ensemble, The Woeful Maladies of Ennui Manor is set to an original score by Alan Terricciano. For tickets please visit: http://www.fordamphitheater.org/en/events/080919_2030.asp or call 323-461-3673

Introduction To Two-Step

This beautiful, romantic dance is so dreamy as it floats across the floor -- Everything you could want in a dance when you're in the arms of someone you care about. Nightclub Two-Step is a beautiful and elegant dance for any special romantic occasion, and can even be used for weddings. This workshop is part of a day of workshops in Nightclub, Hustle, and Swing sponsored by Bea Hive Dance Studio.

Introduction To Hustle

This workshop will teach the basic patterns in Hustle - one of the most fun, No, not the line dance from Saturday Night Fever! This type of Hustle is a partner dance, fast, furious and very exciting! Typically done to up-temp "disco" type music, this flashy dance generates tons of energy and captures the attention of everyone on the dance floor. This workshop is part of a day of dance workshops in Hustle, Swing, Nightclub sponsored by Bea Hive Dance Studio

West Coast Swing: Level 1

Learn West Coast Swing, California's State Dance, from the ground up. No experience needed, no partner required (but it's always fun to bring a friend!) New 6-week series begins Sunday, Sept. 7th

Musical theater dance

Contemporary-based class drawing on a variety of movement styles and music from theatrical and musical theater productions.

Beginner's Contemporary Modern/Jazz Class

A fabulous beginners class taught by- Lester Horton Award winning,dancer, teacher & producer of CELEBRATE DANCE -Jamie Nichols. A fun class for those who want to learn the basics OR just back at it! A wonderful hybrid blend, musicality and power. 818.790.7924 www.caldancearts.com d location: California DanceArts 4490 Cornishon Ave. #6 La Canada, CA 91011 instructor: Jamie Nichols

Dance and Creative Movement for Educators

For educators and parents interested in utilizing creative movement and dance as a tool for teaching. Learn to develop your students' artistic perception, create movement experiences that enhance early childhood and academic lessons, and learn how to incorporate creative movement to enhance literacy, math, science, social studies, and art. Provides instruction in building lessons based on the state standards for arts education. Dance 860 - Section #2922. For information: www.lavc.edu/dance 818-947-2908.

Dance classes at LA Valley College

LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE OFFERS A FULL RANGE OF DAY AND EVENING DANCE CLASSES, INCLUDING BALLET, JAZZ, TAP, MODERN, YOGA, SOCIAL, AND CHEERLEADING. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION ON OUR EXCEPTION PROGRAM, INCLUDING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS. WWW.LAVC.EDU/DANCE, OR CALL 818-947-2908.

Professional Modern Class in Long Beach

Announcing the Continuation of A Professional Modern Dance Class in Long Beach Wednesday’s 7-8:30pm Started by Rebekah Davidson Now to be taken over by the infamous Stevan Novakovich! @ Elevation Studios 1900 E 27th St unit 101 Signal Hill, Ca 90755 562.424.2711 (P) www.elevationstudios.org $16/single class $12/students, DRC Members, & Professionals Stevan Novakovich began his life in dance as a child performer with the Yugoslavian National Folk Company followed by training at the Vaganova-based Ballet Academy in Novi Sad. In the U.S., he trained at the Ballet West Conservatory, Broadway Dance Center, and the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance. He has performed with Ballet West, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, New York City Opera, and Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre. He earned his BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah and recently received his MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from California State University, Long Beach, where he also served as a teacher and teaching assistant. Through the United States State Department and in association with the Battery Dance Company, he has served as a Cultural Ambassador to the United States teaching and performing in Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Hungary, Poland, Vietnam, Malaysia, Australia, and Germany. He has been a guest teacher at various American Universities, including NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and served as a guest teacher at the Open Look Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2004. He has taught master classes and workshops in classical and contemporary ballet, modern, and jazz dance, composition and improvisation, partnering, contact improvisation, creative movement for children, dance appreciation classes, and modern repertory with students ranging from kindergarteners to professionals. He has also taught residency programs that introduced regular and special needs students, teachers, administrators, and parents to the joy and value of dance. Mr. Novakovich’s performing career includes his work as a dancer in collaboration with today’s best-established choreographers such as Stephan Koester, Daniel Ezralow, Bill T. Jones, and Doug Varone among others. His present day focus is directed toward fully engaging himself in producing his choreographic work and in finding his own creative voice.

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES

Juan Talavera, noted Flamenco Dancer/Choreographer now has his own studio in Whittier Californa. He currently teaches Exciting, Fun, Rhythmic Flamenco Dance Classes for all levels. For complete information, please visit www.flamencobravo.com

Musical Theatre for Teens/Adults

Learn choreography to some of the most popular music from your favorite Broadway shows like Chicago, Dancin, Rent, Wicked, 42nd Street and much much more! ***Males bring your jazz shoes ***Ladies bring you character heels

Beginning Modern Classes at Glendale Community College

Dance 115 Modern/Contemporary Dance Course Section # 5436 Phyllis Eckler’s exhilarating modern dance classes promote student confidence and coordination by using basic warm-up routines to stretch, strengthen and tone the body. These movements sequences eventually build into exciting dance combinations that challenge while displaying the student’s growing technical and performance abilities. Phyllis uses contemporary world music for the sensual flowing routines that result from the longer movement combinations choreographed for the students. The supportive atmosphere of the class helps attendees to realize their fullest potential as dancers.

Workshop Class w/ Regina Klenjoski

Regina's class is a vigorous exploration of the balance between a technical foundation and the freedom of release movement. Influences from her training in Cunningham and Limon dance techniques are evident as the class develops with challenging combinations that emphasize the play between gravity and lift, abandon and control, suspension and attack. For dancers at an intermediate/advanced level.

afroCARIBE Dance Classes

The inspiration for AfroCaribe is celebrate world cultures through music, song, and dance thru the teachings of ongoing dance classes and specialty workshops with Master Artists. Ongoing dance classes are designed to teach fundamental AfroCaribbean dance techniques and complex body isolations that are derived from the influences of the African diaspora. Participants will gain cultural, historical, and social content of the dances and learn the relationship between the dance movement and music. All Levels Welcome. Live Drumming.

Ballet w/ John Charles Welch

Ballet classes with John Charles Welch. John Charles Welch, the artistic director of the Hartfel Ballet and creator of The Cradle Method, danced under the direction of Maria Lewis as a soloist at the Pacific Ballet Theatre (Vancouver, BC). Mr. Welch was an Associate Professor on the Dance Faculty of Scripps College in Claremont, CA where he developed a technique for Beginning Ballet through Level IV and taught Pedagogy and choreography. He is known for his innovative approach to the art of ballet, using non-traditional music from blue grass & country to rock and contemporary, and developing a method unparalleled by its ability to decrease and prevent common dance overuse injuries, and be successfully applied to any body type. Free and ample parking.

Flamenco! The Dance of Gypsies

Juan Talavera teaches the exciting, rhythmic, mysterious Flamenco Dance rhythms of Gypsy Spain, for all levels. For complete class information, please visit www.flamencobravo.com, or call 562-699-7595. Classes available for all levels and ages. Day and Evening Classes. Let your gypsy out! Dance Flamenco! You might end up doing movies, commercials, Opera's, or Soap Operas. Juan did! You can too! Ole!!!

Egyptian-Style Bellydance Classes

Learn to bellydance-- the Egyptian way! Baheyya is a professional bellydancer with years of experience in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East-- including Cairo's five-star venues. Starting August 8, 2008, these one-hour intensive classes will focus on authentic technique and master choreography-- including the latest from Cairo's dance scene. All levels welcome. Some experience helps. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows the instructor to see your body and movements. No props needed. Thursdays, 8-9 pm. Phone: 323-932-6230 e-mail: beigedance@gmail.com

Contemporary Modern/Jazz w/ Jamie Nichols

Lester Horton Award winning teacher Jamie Nichols offers her unique technique with a powerful hybrid blend of modern, contemporary and her infectious musicality. Sat, 8:30-10am www.caldancearts.com

Beginning Modern Jazz

A fabulous beginners class taught by Jamie Nichols for those who want to learn the basics OR just back at it! A wonderful hybrid blend, musicality and power. Thurs, 6:30-7:30pm 818.790.7924 www.caldancearts.com

Contemporary/Modern Jazz

Lester Horton Award winning Jamie Nichols teaches her own hybrid brand of a unique class blending the best of all genres with her own technical power and musicality. Mon & Wed, 6-7:30pm www.caldancearts.com

Integrated Movement Studies 2008-2010 Certificate Program

Integrated Movement Studies 2008-2010 Weekend Format Certificate Program in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles! Classes are held one weekend a month Friday evening through Sunday evening for 18 weekends Sept. 2008 - May 2010. Applications are now being accepted for this transformative and enlivening 560-hour professional movement training program. Join us for an incredible moving experience while you improve your movement skills, learn to be a dynamic teacher and earn the professional title of Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CLMA) and gain eligibility as a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist or Educator (RSMT & RSME) with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). Loyola Marymount University Continuing Education Credit is available. Contact Janice Meaden at jmeadenims@aol.com or call 206-849-4380. Check www.imsmovement.com for application download dates and details

Teen/Adult Modern

This hour-long contemporary dance class focuses on efficiency of movement, connecting of steps and expansive moving. Incorporating the concepts of release, momentum and fall and recovery, this class welcomes focused dancers ages 16 through adult. 714-220-9222 www.ladancecenter.com Thursday, 7:30-8:30pm

Beginning Middle Eastern (Belly dance)

Focusing on Classical Egyptian styling, this beginner/intermediate class teaches the fundamentals of Middle Eastern dance. Sa'eeda, formerly of the Aisha Ali Dance Company, has performed professionally at UCLA, University of Redlands, and taught at UC Santa Cruz. She has taught at the Tap Academy in Santa Monica for over 10 years. Thurs, 6:15-7:45pm 310.656.1562

FOCUSfish Static Trapeze & Silks Classes

FOCUSfish now teaches a STATIC TRAPEZE & SILKS AERIAL WORKOUT + TRICKS class in Eagle Rock at XTC. Sunday, 11am Intermediate Aerial Fitness + Tricks, 12pm Beginner Aerial Fitness + Tricks ... Sundays at XTC: 2131 Colorado Blvd. Eagle Rock Checkout www.focusfish.com or write to Kristy at info@focusfish.com with questions. Sun,11am-1pm

Modern Dance Class w/ Rick Heiman - SATURDAY

Rick Heiman, director of Hollywood Dance Company and Southern California Dancers and full time dance faculty at Encore High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, teaches intermediate contemporary/modern dance. Derived from Limon, Horton, and Release techniques, this class includes floor barre and conditioning for strength and flexibility. Movement combinations from Rick's ongoing RQ 21 project, set to Mozart, and more will be taught. Dancers may be recruited from this class for future productions of Hollywood Dance Company and Hollywood Ballet. For more class information email choreographerrick@yahoo.com. Parking - $2.

Contemporary Modern Class with Rae Shao-lan Blum

Floor work fosters our connection to gravity and we bring that rootedness to various levels of space- playing within the intricacies of wildness and precision, fluidity and form, subtlety and bigness. Phrase work challenges us to engage mid-line support, coordination, musicality, spatial intention and balance. We will focus on buoyancy and articulation of joints to allow for more fluidly, greater expressive range, efficiency and ease in our dancing. The style of the class draws on influences from modern dance forms, release, tai-chi, improvisation, and somatic movement. Mon, 7:30-9:30pm 310-306-7069 www.katnapdance.com

Jazz Funk

This class is an open jazz-funk based class, including a wide range of styles. It involves strengthening basic jazz technique, while focusing in jazz-funk, rock, alternative, commercial, West/East African, and pop. This is a high impact & eclectic class open to students eager to increase their dance vocabulary. Sat. 1-2pm 626-792-4616 www.lestudiodance.com

Contemporary Class w/ Joe Ungco - THURSDAY

Joe Ungco is offering two new classes at Le Studio Dance in Pasadena. This class, a fusion of modern, jazz, and ballet, emphasizes artistry and musicality, while it challenges the dancer to move in new, unconventional ways. Joe's style is often both fluid and stilted, organic and sensuous yet technical. He blends an innovative vocabulary of movement with emotion and focus on performance. Designed for intermediate students, previous experience with jazz and/or modern dance is helpful. www.lestudiodance.com

West LA Salsa Class

NEW SATURDAY CLASS WEST LA SALSA CLASS with ANA MARIA & CESAR. Following the Salsa class the event features Paris style clubbing with blend of World Beats (Salsa, Reggae-Dancehall, hip- hop/R&B, Soukouss, EuroDance, Soca, Zouk and more! OPEN BAR ALL NIGHT! AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT FREE SALSA SATURDAYS!!!

Salsa, Contra-Tiempo Style!

Ana Maria Alvarez, the artistic director of CONTRA-TIEMPO - LA's top Urban Latin Dance Theater Company - teaches Salsa and Cuban style Rueda at this underground Salsa hotspot! 9pm mixed level Class (beginners are welcome!) 21+ ID required, LIVE music by Sono Lux and DJ Saoco. Tues, 9-10pm 323.960.9234 www.kingkinghollywood.com

Basic Ballet with Steven Woodruff

Ballet for all of us! You just want to feel good, have fun and dance well. RIGHT? THEN... you need to attend STEVEN WOODRUFF’S BASIC BALLET CLASS (Vitamins for the dancer & Non-dancer alike!) Steven Woodruff is a multiple Lester Horton Dance Award nominee and Recipient for Set Design for Jamie Nichols co. Fast Feet. Mon & Wed 9-10am www.caldancearts.com

Ballet with Tekla Kostek

Tekla Kostek, a graduate of The National Ballet School, a company member of the Boston Ballet, LA Chamber Ballet, who is currently performing with the contemporary Ledges and Bones, has been likened by Emma Manning, Dance Europe, to Paris Opera Ballet star Sylvie Gillem, "for her superhuman extension, exceptional control and neo-classical attack." As an instructor she is known for creative, in depth methods strengthening classical ballet technique. 323.292.5852 www.lulawashington.com Mon & Wed, 5-6:30pm

Contemporary Modern in Long Beach - SATURDAY

This class focuses on the use of the floor as a partner and tool to achieve ease and fluidity in movement. This is a intermediate/advanced open class. The class starts with a series of floor works. Please, wear pants that cover your knees or bring extra pants if you prefer to wear shorts after the floor works. The class is taught by William Lu, company member of Backhausdance, incorporates release, Backhaus, and ballet techniques. (562) 424-2711 www.elevationstudios.org

Professional Adult Ballet - Intermediate/Advanced

Learn a new approach to ballet training with The Hartfel Ballet and Artistic Director John Charles. Class is taught by the director himself using his own technique called The Cradle Method, a revolutionary approach developed to help heal and prevent dance injuries while increasing dance ability and artistic expression through ballet.This is a perfect ballet class for the prima ballerina, male dancer, or contemporary dancer. 714-925-9806 www.hartfel.org Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm

Latin Rhythm Cardio

Get FIT with sizzling Latin Dance moves. Latin Rhythm Cardio fuses salsa, merengue, mambo, samba and tango dance styles with a cardio workout that help you burn calories while having fun! 323.221.0779 ext 205 www.fpdacademy.org

SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre: Contemporary Dance Classes

Our company class is a unique blend of modern dance, ballet, pilates, yoga, release technique, improvisation, capoeria, upside down work, tumbling, and our own inventions! Our students indicate our classes are challenging and A LOT OF FUN! INFO: (805) 569-0389 Sun & Tues, 6:30-7:30pm

Backhausdance Company Class - FRIDAY

Company class, taught by Artistic Director Jennifer Backhaus, is recommended for adv. intermediate to professional level dancers. www.wcdanceacademy.com

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