May 19, 2012
On May 19th and 20th, HDDT will be collaborating with Guinness World Record Ethiopian Acrobatic Pole Dancers and world-renown Korean dance company, Kim Eung Hwa Korean Dance Company to present a public art performance on three stories of scaffolding that weaves their cultural stories of expulsion. With the support of the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles and Little Ethiopia Cultural and Resource Center, HDDT is looking forward to performing at 4pm and 7pm on each day. Performances will take place on the vacant lot at 3400 W. Third St., Los Angeles, CA 90020.May 19, 2012
Global Motion is a world dance performance company that expresses the concept of humanity in the form of global citizenship. The company is composed of SMC students who learn, rehearse and perform world dance styles. It provides students a platform to experience and learn about other cultures through world dance while working with choreographers who are professionals and experts in the field of world dance. This season, Global Motion will present Olakino (Hawaiian for Health). Dance Styles: Afro Cuban, Ballet, Belly Dance, Flamenco, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Mexican Folklórico, Jazz, Lyrical Hip Hop, Samba/Cha Cha, Swing, Texas Two-Step, West African. Faculty and Guest Artists: Laura Canellias, Keali'i Ceballos, Jennifer Jesswein, Angela Jordan, Charlotte Richards. Guest Artists: Kati Hernandez, Jessica Nedjat-Haiem. Student Choreographers: Henry Marquis, Libby Marquis, Yessenia Muñoz, Victoria Tapscott, Lindsay White.May 19, 2012
A deeper voice. A flight through the air. I sing for the mystery… Join us for this special 2-day engagement presenting original song by Michelle Bloom with choreography by Hilary Thomas joined by cellist Liz Elliot, pianist Aubrey Scarbrough and Lineage Dance. Michelle weaves lyrical mesmerizing music with beautiful poetry. Her music aspires to remind us of the capacity we each have to be more awake and present in the world. Hilary’s new choreography seeks to mirror the poetry –with a deeper understanding of the message below the surface. Experience the synergy of the musicians and dancers live onstage!May 20, 2012
“Spellbinding...It’s nice to see a bit of rock-star oomph being injected into the world of contemporary dance.” Irish Independent The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series Leading Los Angeles choreographer Oguri collaborates with Dublin-based choreographers Morleigh Steinberg and Liz Roche in this acclaimed international co-production featuring a beautifully haunting musical score by U2 guitarist The Edge and Paul Chavez of Feltlike. Cold Dream Colour is a precise and hypnotic dance theater work, inspired by the rich and ethereal work of the late Irish artist Louis le Brocquy, described as “the foremost Irish painter of the 20th century” by the Irish Times. The distinctive guitar techniques of The Edge set an urgent yet subtly textured tone for the work, which merges a gestural movement style that hints at a poetic narrative with an intensely seductive movement vocabulary delivered with mesmerizing concentration and kinetic dexterity. The powerful dance is concerned less with animating figures and physical shapes in le Brocquy’s mysterious paintings than with finding the energies and meanings in them. DIRECT URL: http://www.redcat.org/event/arcane-collectiveMay 20, 2012
New Dance Works by choreographers Liz Hoefner Adamis and Rebekah Davidson, New Music by composer Yorgos Adamis. The hour-long show features lighting design by Kuo-Lung Kai and Video Collaboration with Ally Voye and performances by Liz Hoefner Adamis, Yorgos Adamis, Maud Comboul, Rebekah Davidson, Leily Sanchez, Sarri Sanchez,Amythyst Fritzler, Brian Sholes, Steve Rosa, Diana Gonzales, Edgar Rodriguez, and Cristina LobueMay 20, 2012
On May 19th and 20th, HDDT will be collaborating with Guinness World Record Ethiopian Acrobatic Pole Dancers and world-renown Korean dance company, Kim Eung Hwa Korean Dance Company to present a public art performance on three stories of scaffolding that weaves their cultural stories of expulsion. With the support of the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles and Little Ethiopia Cultural and Resource Center, HDDT is looking forward to performing at 4pm and 7pm on each day. Performances will take place on the vacant lot at 3400 W. Third St., Los Angeles, CA 90020.May 26, 2012
May 26, 2012 Saturday 2pm & 8pm Two Shows! Carpenter Performing Arts Center @ CSULB 6200 Atherton, Long Beach, CA WHY WE DANCE A fresh, new dance festival spanning genres and cultural boundaries~ ChoreoLive - Contemporary Ballet Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company - Folklorico Happy Dance Ensemble - Chinese Dance Insight Jazz Ensemble from UCI - Young Professionals Los Angeles Movement Arts - Modern MOPA Dance - Emerging Artist Spectr & T.S.O.U Dance Arts - Urban Dance Presented by the TuTu Foundation, Produced by Mandarin Orange Performing ArtsMay 26, 2012
May 26, 2012 Saturday 2pm & 8pm Two Shows! Carpenter Performing Arts Center @ CSULB 6200 Atherton, Long Beach, CA WHY WE DANCE A fresh, new dance festival spanning genres and cultural boundaries~ ChoreoLive - Contemporary Ballet Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company - Folklorico Happy Dance Ensemble - Chinese Dance Insight Jazz Ensemble from UCI - Young Professionals Los Angeles Movement Arts - Modern MOPA Dance - Emerging Artist Spectr & T.S.O.U Dance Arts - Urban Dance Presented by the TuTu Foundation, Produced by Mandarin Orange Performing ArtsMay 31, 2012
BODYTRAFFIC will present two world premieres in the Gotham Dance Festival at the Joyce Theater. This event is a preview of works by Barak Marshall & Richard Siegal before touring to New York.June 7, 2012
Presented by Dance Theatre Collective of Southern California in association with Temecula Presents Avocado Dance Theatre is a community-based modern dance company created and collaboratively supported by Dance Theatre Collective of Southern California and Temecula Presents. In their premiere performance at their “home” theatre, Avocado Dance Theatre will present an eclectic and unique evening of dance performed by local dancers. The evening will include diverse, thought-provoking, entertaining and dynamic works by choreographers Tennille Lambert, Alexandra Thomsen-Wolfe, Aaron Shaw, and Lori Craig Torok (artistic director). Dance Theatre Collective of Southern California is a publicly supported non-profit corporation that works to create, unite, support and enrich community through an ongoing exchange among professional artists, students, performers, and audiences. More information about the company is found at www.avocadodancetheatre.com PERFORMANCES: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 8:00pm Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 8:00pm VENUE: Old Town Temecula Community Theater TICKETS: $15 Regular, all sectionsJune 9, 2012
Nancy Evans Dance Theatre, under the Artistic Direction of Nancy Evans Doede, will present its third spring season with a Gala performance on Friday, June 1, and performances with invited guests on Saturday, June 2, Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9. The concerts will be held at the newly opened Porticoes Theatre at 2033 E. Washington Blvd., in Pasadena. Three premieres will be on the program from NEDT, and guest artists include Lineage Dance, Jessamyn Lawrence, Frit and Frat Fuller's LA based KIN Dance Company, and Robert Salas' Movement Theatre CoLab. Please visit our website for detailed information at www.nancyevansdancetheatre.com. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/244252. Reservations can be made at nancyevansdancetheatre@gmail.com.June 24, 2012
Indian dance, music, & visual design by Rangoli Dancers. A dance concert featuring new choreographed Bharatanatyam dances by Malathi Iyengar, Mallari showcases solos, duets, and group dances performed to new and traditional music. The jewel of the evening is a music and dance tribute to the universal mother goddess ‘Kamakshi’ and the south Indian art, culture, & heritage. The music for ‘Kamakshi Swarajathi’ is a composition of the legendary composer Shyama Shastri (1762 – 1827). The performance includes work by Iyengar’s disciples who have continued to advance after their solo dance debut. Established in 1985, The Rangoli Foundation celebrated a great milestone of 25 years of creativity and artistic excellence in 2010. In recognition, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department have honored Rangoli Foundation with a Certificate and Resolution. Malathi Iyengar’s choreographic work ‘Shivaya’ won the Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Dance administered by the Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles. Choreography – Malathi Iyengar Lighting Design – Eileen CooleyJune 25, 2012
Original, ambitiously off beat performances by a lively mix of experimental Los Angeles performing artists are sure to inspire L.A.'s most adventurous audiences when REDCAT unveils the latest edition of its interdisciplinary series of new works and works-in-progress. Previously, Studio has featured such artists as Kathy Carbone and Vinny Golia, Sheetal Gandhi, Nataki Garrett, Los Angeles Electric 8, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Emily Mast, Miwa Matreyek, Hana van der Kolk, Peres Owino, Poor Dog Group, Waewdao Sirisook, and Roxanne Steinberg and Steve Lockwood. Funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Date(s) & Time(s): Sunday, June 24 | 8:30 pm Monday, June 25 | 8:30 pm Location: 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Phone: 213 237-2800 Website: www.redcat.org +++ DIRECT URL: http://www.redcat.org/event/studio-summer-2012-0July 8, 2012
July 28, 2012
Showing of 4 new works. Saturday, July 28, 2012 8pmDance Technique by Sara Wookey (June 3-July 29)
This class begins on the floor, moves up to standing and into dynamic movement patterns that move across the floor in an ongoing manner. It is a highly physical class that encourages anatomical awareness, stimulates neuromuscular activity and engages a use of space, time and rhythm. The class concludes with a movement phrase that brings together patterns practiced in class and that supports kinaesthetic learning. It is accessible to trained and non-trained dancers and is informed by several sources: Bartenieff Fundamentals, Body Weather Laboratory and post-modern dance techniques.CONTEMPORARY MODERN TECHNIQUE CLASS WITH RANDE´ DORN
A classic format with a contemporary approach to fall and recovery built on the use of spirals, gravity, momentum and floor work. Randé Dorn is the LA based choreographer of the Dorn Dance Company. More info can be found at: www.dorndancecompany.comIntro to Flamenco Dance "Sevillanas" the social folk dance of Andalucia!
Intro to Flamenco Dance: SEVILLANAS Saturdays starting May 12 3:30-4:30pm Hello Students, Upon popular request, I will be teaching an introduction to flamenco dance class beginning this Saturday May 12. We will be learning "Sevillanas" which is a very popular Spanish folk dance originating in Sevilla that is danced in couples throughout Southern Spain's parties and festivals.Everyone is welcomed, no flamenco dance experience necessary! Class to be held at: Born to Play 2621 Pico Blvd - Unit K Santa Monica, CA 90405 Price $20 (cash only please) I will need 6 students to kick off the class. Please rsvp your interest at: briseyda@briseydazarateflamenco.com or 323.719.1613Nickerson-Rossi Dance company class
An athletic release technique fostered by gravity allowing the dancer to experience various levels of space and momentum. We, as a class, will be challenged by expansion of movement that incorporates precision, fluidity and form, subtlety and bigness, that engages the dancers spacial intention. Step out of your comfort zone and DANCE!Backhausdance \"Pay-What-You-Can\" Open Company Class
ADVANCED/PROFESSIONAL MODERN WITH JENNIFER BACKHAUS Thursdays, 9:00am to 10:30am The Wooden Floor | 1810 N. Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706 | www.thewoodenfloor.org ADVANCED/PROFESSIONAL BALLET WITH KIM OLMOS Fridays, 9:00am to 10:30am Chapman University Partridge Center for Dance | 190 North Cypress Street, Orange CA 92866 | www.chapman.edu/dance How much you ask? Back by popular demand, \"PAY WHAT YOU CAN.\" We want to create an amazing room full of people who want to move! Class will be taught at an advanced/professional level. We recommend that interested dancers be at least 15 years of age and dancing at an advanced and career-seeking level. Save some time. Download and fill out this form and bring it with you to your first class: http://www.backhausdance.org/storage/forms/BD_Liability_Waiver.pdfBeMoved
BeMoved is a dance fitness experience for adults of all ages and skill levels, including those who have never danced before. BeMoved inspires participants to embrace dance and fitness as a lifelong path to health, joy and fulfillment. BeMoved lifts our emotional spirits, keeps us socially connected while enhancing our mental and physical fitness — all while having fun! BeMoved’s intention is to inspire, stimulate, nurture, educate, and develop a sense of community amongst people. It is carefully designed to deliver a safe, body friendly movement experience. BeMoved allows people of all movement abilities to feel a sense of challenge, joy and achievement.Intermediate Adult Ballet with Ellen Davis
One and one-half hour classical ballet class taught with a yogic approach. Careful, nurturing, attentive, professional training honoring each individual body, mind and spirit. Classes are just starting and are small and semi-private, so you get a lot of individual attention. Former owner-director of Rozann-Zimmerman Ballet Center in Los Angeles, Ellen Davis danced with the Stuttgart Ballet Company and was a Ford Foundation scholarship student at the School of American Ballet in N.Y.C. The founder of "Yoga of Ballet", Ellen has taught beginning through professional level ballet for thirty-five years in the United States and abroad. Ellen uses the teaching of dance as a way of evoking self-acceptance, beauty, balance, grace, a sense of unity and love for the process of learning. She takes a yogic approach to teaching and acknowledges and nurtures the "dancer within" all of her students, giving careful and attentive professional training regardless of age, body-type, self-limiting beliefs, or level of training. She believes that along with proper placement and technique, the awakening of expressive truth, musicality and one's innate creative intelligence are equally important in empowering dancers to use the body as a means of creative self-expression and extend the grace of dance to all of life. Tuesday 8:30-10 pm, Thursday 8-9:30 pm First class begins Tuesday, April 24 Ellen is also available for private coaching. Call Ellen at 310 962-6813 for more information. Or email at ellentd@aol.com www.ellendavis.org www.yogaofballet.comIntermediate Adult Ballet with Ellen Davis
One and one-half hour classical ballet class taught with a yogic approach. Careful, nurturing, attentive, professional training honoring each individual body, mind and spirit. Classes are just starting and are small and semi-private, so you get a lot of individual attention. Former owner-director of Rozann-Zimmerman Ballet Center in Los Angeles, Ellen Davis danced with the Stuttgart Ballet Company and was a Ford Foundation scholarship student at the School of American Ballet in N.Y.C. Ellen has taught beginning through professional level ballet for thirty-five years in the United States and abroad. Ellen uses the teaching of dance as a way of evoking self-acceptance, beauty, balance, grace, a sense of unity and love for the process of learning. She takes a yogic approach to teaching and acknowledges and nurtures the "dancer within" all of her students, giving careful and attentive professional training regardless of age, body-type, self-limiting beliefs, or level of training. She believes that along with proper placement and technique, the awakening of expressive truth, musicality and one's innate creative intelligence are equally important in empowering dancers to use the body as a means of creative self-expression and extend the grace of dance to all of life. Tuesday 8:30-10 pm, Thursday 8-9:30 pmCritical Mass Dance Co (CMDC) offers Flag Dance classes every Wed night!
CMDC often incorporates props such as wings, poi, flags, ribbons, etc into our performances. Through our community classes, we wish to share these fun dances with everyone! Flag dancing is fun, meditative and restorative for the mind, body and spirit. Not only is it mesmerizing to watch, but it is such a joy to flag dance. All levels welcome. Flags provided and also for sale. For a video of our teacher, Amy, flag dancing, go to: www.criticalmassdancecompany.org/#!education For more info on Critical Mass Dance Company, go to www.criticalmassdancecompany.orgDanza Cubana...Cuban Modern Dance presented by Arya Movement Project
Experience the spiritual and physical connection to dance using Cuban Modern Dance. This unique technique fuses modern dance( Graham, Limon), Afro-Cuban dance and Spanish dance forms to create a movement system of wholeness for people who like to dance. All levels of students are encouraged to attend. Contact Arya Movement Project at aryamovementproject@gmail.com for information about our upcoming dance and percussion research trip to Cuba in July and August 2012.Cardio Salsa
Sweat, smile and dance to the best salsa and reggaeton rhythms around. This 60 minute class uses movements from mambo, cha cha, son and more to get you in shape. Get ready to bring some more SABOR into your life!FRIDAY Dance Class
2 Part Dance Class designed for Professional Dancers (Part I – Foundation) Basis focusing on alignment, core strength, breath, and exploration of gravity. Alexandria has successfully Incorporated ideas from her own training of Limon, Horton, Cunningham, Graham, and Simonson techniques and culminated them with her own fresh energetic flavor and musicality to create exciting warm up. These “dances” promote physicality, stamina an…d agility enhancing performance quality awareness and execution. (Part II- Research) Combining improvisation and the dynamic choreography of Alexandria Yalj, this improvisational lab has been specifically developed for investigation and experimenting with time, space, effort, and shape. Offering an array of improvisational vignettes where participants are presented with playground of compositional images to play with and exercise their creative mind paired with body and soul. Alexandria Yalj -self producing performance artist with an MFA in choreography from CalArts. If she is not chasing the sun regardless of direction, she’s probably diligently coordinating the next Collective Movement. As artistic director of Collective Movement, Alexandria has had the extreme pleasure in forming a pick up dance company that embodies an organically radical approach to choreography. Her unique choreographic works haven been presented in her native New York City as well as New Hampshire, Fresno City College, Pepperdine University, Berkshire Fringe Festival and here in Los Angeles. A current company member of Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Alexandria is constantly searching for new approaches to expression and communication capacity of the body. Classes are $12 Please consider carpooling! Electric Lodge 1416 Electric Avenue Venice, CA 90291 From the Santa Monica 10 Freeway, traveling west, exit Lincoln Blvd. Go left (travel south) about 3 miles to Venice Blvd. Turn right on Venice Blvd. Then right on Abbot Kinney. Then right on California Avenue. Immediate right on Electric Avenue. The Electric Lodge is the second building on your left. Turn left into our free parking lot. Welcome to the Lodge. Alternative Transportation – Blue Bus #2 Metro # 33, 333, R3 For maps and more information please visit http://electriclodge.org/arts/lodge/map_directions.cfmJazz Dance
Class is taught by Doug Riveria, a dynamic and charismatic dancer/choreographer/educator who has been teaching in the Los Angeles area for over 25 years. This class is for the more mature student, (25 to 55 plus), who may, (or may not), have had dance in their life before. If you'd like to get a great workout, loose weight, get strong and in shape and have fun doing it, then this class is for you. Doug guides us through carefully structured Yoga based warmup stretches, first standing, then ending on a mat. (Entering students should already be at an advanced/beginner, or intermediate level of fitness, as the warmup can be quite challenging). Following that, we work on a combination and just dance! Generally, the style is lyrical jazz with sometimes a little Salsa, Boogie Woogie, Funk, or ?? in the mix...depending on the music. Doug's attitude is caring and kind, and his extensive knowledge of how to work the body in a safe manor to avoid injuries is invaluable. Classes are on Sun afternoon, (time below), and Tue. night at 8PM - 9:30 (ish!) We're a very friendly group of students, who think Doug is the best!Hart Pulse Dance Company's Master Series
Hart Pulse Dance Company's Master Series will bring together a wide range of Ballet, Jazz and Modern for a Contemporary based class. Taught by HPDC's very own choreographers, dancers and Director, Amanda Hart, this class will challenge your technique, musicality and strength with something new each week! For beginners to advanced, each class will be formatted to give every student a successful experience and something to work for.Cleary Irish Dance
Irish dance for all ages and levels. Four class trial sessions offered without further obligation or commitment. The four sessions do not need to be consecutive and no special shoes or clothing are required. Classes are ongoing and new students may start at any time. Visit www.clearyrishdance.com2nd Annual Jamalaye African Dance Festival
Master Senegalese Dancer Babacar Ndiaye will teach Djembe dance.NEW Contemporary Dance Class
This class begins on the floor, moves up to standing and into dynamic movement patterns that move across the floor in an ongoing manner. It is a highly physical class that encourages anatomical awareness, stimulates neuromuscular activity and engages a use of space, time and rhythm. The class concludes with a movement phrase that brings together patterns practiced in class and that supports kinaesthetic learning. It is accessible to trained and non-trained dancers and is informed by several sources: Bartenieff Fundamentals, Body Weather Laboratory and post-modern dance techniques.Diavolo Soar Weekend Workshop: Take Offs and Landings
Diavolo Class - Workshop Series "Soar: Take Offs and Landings" Tuesdays & Thursdays 9-1030am, February 16, 23, 28, March 1 Saturday/Sunday 3-6pm, February 25, 26 Instructors: Jones Welsh 818-618-4772 courage@joneswelsh.com Subsequent workshop series will be taught by Current and Alumni Diavolo Company Members Using bodies as propulsion systems and drag brakes, start with fundamentals of flight, spotting, and catching, then raise the elevation onto Diavolo's unique sets and structures. You fly only as high as you can imagine! For any age and ability level. Jones will lead a rigorous physical warm-up, followed by dance phrase work, partnering, acrobatics, yoga, improvisation, catching and flying, and working with Diavolo structures which are key elements in the company's signature movement style. All are invited to come, move, and learn more about how Diavolo works. Diavolo Dance Theatre is L.A.s renowned touring dance company and hosts regular company class when the dancers are rehearsing in town. This workshop series is gauged to have continual training opportunities for the L.A. community when the company is on tour. When Diavolo is in town, company class is always open for drop-in training, and as interest grows, more workshops and intensives will be held. Prices: Entire Workshop - 12 hours of instruction for $125 or 6 hour weekend only for $80. Drop-In by reservation only, contact Jones. Register Through Diavolo Here! https://diavolodance.secure.force.com/ticket Bring: Water, Movement Clothes, Knee Pads, Athletic Shoes (Hard Sole Jazz, Wrestling, or Running). Location: All classes at Diavolo Dance Theatre Space, 616 Moulton Avenue, Downtown LA, 90031, in the Brewery Arts Complex off North Main and the I-5. For more info about Diavolo or the space: call Ilona at Diavolo 323-225-4290 or visit www.diavolo.orgDiavolo Soar: Take Offs and Landings
Diavolo Class - Workshop Series "Soar: Take Offs and Landings" Tuesdays & Thursdays 9-1030am, February 16, 23, 28, March 1 Saturday/Sunday 3-6pm, February 25, 26 Instructors: Jones Welsh 818-618-4772 courage@joneswelsh.com Subsequent workshop series will be taught by Current and Alumni Diavolo Company Members Using bodies as propulsion systems and drag brakes, start with fundamentals of flight, spotting, and catching, then raise the elevation onto Diavolo's unique sets and structures. You fly only as high as you can imagine! For any age and ability level. Jones will lead a rigorous physical warm-up, followed by dance phrase work, partnering, acrobatics, yoga, improvisation, catching and flying, and working with Diavolo structures which are key elements in the company's signature movement style. All are invited to come, move, and learn more about how Diavolo works. Diavolo Dance Theatre is L.A.s renowned touring dance company and hosts regular company class when the dancers are rehearsing in town. This workshop series is gauged to have continual training opportunities for the L.A. community when the company is on tour. When Diavolo is in town, company class is always open for drop-in training, and as interest grows, more workshops and intensives will be held. Prices: Entire Workshop - 12 hours of instruction for $125 or 6 hour weekend only for $80. Drop-In by reservation only, contact Jones. Register Through Diavolo Here! https://diavolodance.secure.force.com/ticket Bring: Water, Movement Clothes, Knee Pads, Athletic Shoes (Hard Sole Jazz, Wrestling, or Running). Location: All classes at Diavolo Dance Theatre Space, 616 Moulton Avenue, Downtown LA, 90031, in the Brewery Arts Complex off North Main and the I-5. For more info about Diavolo or the space: call Ilona at Diavolo 323-225-4290 or visit www.diavolo.orgContemporary
For Intermediate to advanced dancers. Focuses on using emotion to fuel your movement, musicality, icelations, and technique. Includes choreography and confidence building exercises for free style and performance. Ages 12+Stretch & Conditioning for dancers
Strengthen and get flexible at the same time. Focusing on technique, and correct alignment needed for improving and becoming a stronger dancer! For dancers 12+I HEART FLAMENCO! : Intro Flamenco Dance for Beginners w/ Briseyda
So why would I be teaching a flamenco class for beginners on Valentines Day? Shouldn't I be on a hot date, or celebrating with my significant other? Well, truth be told, I HEART FLAMENCO, we've been seeing each other exclusively, for the last 5 years! There's nowhere else I'd rather be...If you're not in love with flamenco yet, you will be after this week! Be my Valentine this Tuesday. Join me for the kick off of my beginning classes, to be held Tuesday evenings in NOHO. This is what classes will cover: Body Posture and Positioning ("colocacion") Arm Technique ("braceo" y "floreo") Foot Work Technique ("Taconeo") Rhythmic Clapping ("Palmas") Marking Steps ("Marcajes") These are dance steps that mark the rhythm. Body Percussion Classes to be held at: Madilyn Clark Studios 10852 Burbank Boulevard North Hollywood, CA 91601 If you're interested you may contact me at briseydaflamenca@hotmail.com for further info. Besos XX, Briseyda www.briseydazarateflamenco.comThe New Cirque Studio
Learn circus arts from true professionals! Aerial silk, aerial hoop, hand-balancing and acrobatics. Classes available 7 days a week. Semi-private and private classes only Visit www.thenewcirquestudio.com and www.cirquewings.comModern Dance with John Pennington
John Pennington teaches a Contemporary/Modern dance class geared towards those with some prior dance experience. John Pennington is the Artistic Director of the Pennington Dance Group and ARC Pasadena, serves on faculty at Pomona College and Cal State Long Beach, and enjoyed a 14-year career with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as a performer and teacher. If you have any questions about these classes please e-mail john@arcpasadena.org.Flamenco Dance Classes in Santa Monica with Briseyda Zarate
Beginning Saturday Januray 28, 2012 Class to be held at: Born to Play 2621 Pico Blvd, Unit K, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Schedule & Pricing: This cycle includes 8 hours of class and will be held Saturdays Jan. 28 to Feb. 18 I will be teaching two hours, 2:30-4:30pm technique & choreography at an intermediate/advanced level. The price is $150. Attendance is by advanced registration only. To receive a link where you may pay for your classes please email at: briseydaflamenca@hotmail.com Briseyda teaches ongoing classes in Los Angeles in 4 week cycles. For info on upcoming workshops/classes or to book Briseyda Zarate to teach a workshop or master class please contact her at: briseydaflamenca@hotmail.com.CONTRA-TIEMPO Community Dance Class
Come train with the company members of CONTRA-TIEMPO! Mondays 6-7pm Casino Rueda 7-8pm Urban Latin FusionHula Halau Na Mamo 'O Panaewa
Aloha! Learn traditional and modern hula in Southern California (Glendale, CA). Students will learn through practice, discipline and respect to reflect the reverence that Hawaiians have for their people, their land and their heritage. Classes are available for: Beginners: All Ages Keiki (Kids): 8+ Kaikamahine (Young Girls)/Keiki-Kane (Young Men): 10-13 Kane (Men)/Wahine (Women): 13+ Makuahine (Gracious Ladies): 40+ Dates and times vary for each class. Call for more information! Serious inquiries only.Channeling Havana: An intro to Cuban modern dance for All Levels
This one hour, sweat inducing class will take you back to the enchanting rhythms and dances of Cuba. This unique modern dance class fuses Cuban modern, folkloric and popular dances. Get ready to move your body, sway your hips and have fun! Movers of all levels, ages and sizes are welcome. Questions about our upcoming dance and music research trip in summer 2012 will be answered after class. You may also contact Erica at Ar*ya movement via email at : Aryamovementproject@gmail.com or 917-743-0177 for more information.Bollywood.Bhangra.Beats™ Culver City
THURSDAYS: BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA BEATS: Adult, All Levels Welcome 8:00p.m.-9:00p.m. Your Neighborhood Studio, 3625 Hayden Avenue, Culver City, CA 90232, 310.876.3498 Achinta's back in Culver City at the beautiful Your Neighborhood Studio (formerly Debbie Allen's spot) for a weekly dose of her infectiously fun and sexy Indian dance class, bringing in the best Bollywood and Bhangra moves, sass, and music. Join her for this hour-long class designed to get your heart racing, hips swinging, and lips synching- all levels welcome! www.yourneighborhoodstudio.comBollywood.Bhangra.Beats™ Culver City
THURSDAYS: BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA BEATS: Adult, All Levels Welcome 8:00p.m.-9:00p.m. Your Neighborhood Studio, 3625 Hayden Avenue, Culver City, CA 90232, 310.876.3498 Achinta's back in Culver City at the beautiful Your Neighborhood Studio (formerly Debbie Allen's spot) for a weekly dose of her infectiously fun and sexy Indian dance class, bringing in the best Bollywood and Bhangra moves, sass, and music. Join her for this hour-long class designed to get your heart racing, hips swinging, and lips synching- all levels welcome! www.yourneighborhoodstudio.comBollywood.Bhangra.Beats™ Pasadena
SATURDAYS: BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA BEATS: Adult, All Levels Welcome 11:30am-12:30pm Dance Conservatory of Pasadena, Home of blue13 dance company, 496 S. Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena, CA 91105, 626-396-1744 A hot hour long cardio-dance workout that will get your body working while you improve grace and flexibility, tone muscles, and above all, learn a brand new way to move your body. Expect classical Indian rhythmic footwork, traditional and modern Punjabi Bhangra, and choreography to the latest Hindi film soundtracks! www.dancepasadena.comBollywood.Bhangra.Beats™ Pasadena
TUESDAYS: BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA BEATS: Adult, All Levels Welcome 6:00pm-7:00pm Dance Conservatory of Pasadena, Home of blue13 dance company, 496 S. Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena, CA 91105, 626-396-1744 A hot hour long cardio-dance workout that will get your body working while you improve grace and flexibility, tone muscles, and above all, learn a brand new way to move your body. Expect classical Indian rhythmic footwork, traditional and modern Punjabi Bhangra, and choreography to the latest Hindi film soundtracks! www.dancepasadena.com2 Part Dance Class designed for Professional Dancers
Part I – Foundation) Basis focusing on alignment, core strength, breath, and exploration of gravity. Alexandria has successfully Incorporated ideas from her own training of Limon, Horton, Cunningham, Graham, and Simonson techniques and culminated them with her own fresh energetic flavor and musicality to create exciting warm up. These “dances” promote physicality, stamina an…d agility enhancing performance quality awareness and execution. (Part II- Research) Combining improvisation and the dynamic choreography of Alexandria Yalj, this improvisational lab has been specifically developed for investigation and experimenting with time, space, effort, and shape. Offering an array of improvisational vignettes where participants are presented with playground of compositional images to play with and exercise their creative mind paired with body and soul. Alexandria Yalj -self producing performance artist with an MFA in choreography from CalArts. If she is not chasing the sun regardless of direction, she’s probably diligently coordinating the next Collective Movement. As artistic director of Collective Movement, Alexandria has had the extreme pleasure in forming a pick up dance company that embodies an organically radical approach to choreography. Her unique choreographic works haven been presented in her native New York City as well as New Hampshire, Fresno City College, Pepperdine University, Berkshire Fringe Festival and here in Los Angeles. A current company member of Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Alexandria is constantly searching for new approaches to expression and communication capacity of the body. Classes are $12 Please consider carpooling! Electric Lodge 1416 Electric Avenue Venice, CA 90291 From the Santa Monica 10 Freeway, traveling west, exit Lincoln Blvd. Go left (travel south) about 3 miles to Venice Blvd. Turn right on Venice Blvd. Then right on Abbot Kinney. Then right on California Avenue. Immediate right on Electric Avenue. The Electric Lodge is the second building on your left. Turn left into our free parking lot. Welcome to the Lodge. Alternative Transportation – Blue Bus #2 Metro # 33, 333, R3 For maps and more information please visit http://electriclodge.org/arts/lodge/map_directions.cfmBeMoved
BeMoved is a dance fitness experience for adults of all ages and skill levels, including those who have never danced before. BeMoved inspires participants to embrace dance and fitness as a lifelong path to health, joy and fulfillment. BeMoved lifts our emotional spirits, keeps us socially connected while enhancing our mental and physical fitness — all while having fun! BeMoved’s intention is to inspire, stimulate, nurture, educate, and develop a sense of community amongst people. It is carefully designed to deliver a safe, body friendly movement experience. BeMoved allows people of all movement abilities to feel a sense of challenge, joy and achievement.JAZZ DANCE -BEGINNING
This is a fun introduction to various styles of Jazz Dance from contemporary lyrical to hip hop. Since this is a twice weekly (Mondays and Wednesdays) 8-week community college course, the classes are progressive and you will see a huge improvement in your flexibility, strength, coordination and confidence. I use upbeat cool music from rap to world jazz fusion. The course is listed under "Jazz Dance - DA437" and "DA468" in the L.A. City College schedule of classes which can be found at: http://www.lacitycollege.edu/services/admissions/apply-enroll.html The best part is the price - only $36 for 16 two-hour classes! Really! DA 437 Section #2151 and #2011 DA468 Section #2153 & #2012 days: Monday, Wednesday time: 10:30am - 12:30pm price: $36 for the entire course. location: L.A. City College, 855 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90029Contra-Tiempo Community Class
Come train with the CONTRA-TIEMPO company members! Casino Rueda and Urban Latin Fusion Mondays at 6 and 7pmRitmo de Cuba: an intro to Cuban modern Dance
This fun, yet challenging class explores Cuban modern and popular dance. This rich movement style fuses Afro-Cuban, Modern and popular (mambo, cha-cha-cha) dances. All levels of dancer will experience a new way to move and connect with their creative force. Teens interested in the arts may pay what they can afford for this community dance event. Information about our upcoming movement research trip to Cuba will also be available. Log on to www.ericabowen.com to view footage of our past trip and community events artists created as a result of our research.OPEN MODERN/JAZZ CLASS FOR ADULTS
Beth Iguchi teaches an OPEN MODERN/JAZZ CLASS FOR ADULTS in DOWNTOWN LA Saturdays 11:30am-1pm at The Colburn School's Gallery Studio Validated partking at The Five Star Parking Lot at 350 E. 2nd Street Ms. Iguchi teaches Luigi-based Contemporary Jazz that explores the frontiers of jazz and modern.A taste of Cuba: Part 3 Intro to Cuban Modern Dance
Join this special community dance event sponsored by mimoda studio and ar*ya movement project. This fun and challenging class will get you moving to the rhythms and unique dances of Cuba. Get ready to explore a rich dance style integrating Afro-Cuban, modern and flamenco movements. No dance experience necessary. After class, Erica Bowen , will be available to answer questions about our upcoming movement research trip to Cuba. Email Aryamovementproject@gmail.com for details about our upcoming trip and other community dance events.A Taste of Cuba: Part 2 Intro to Cuban Modern Dance
An all level movement class focusing on the unique Cuban modern dance style fusing Afro-Cuban, modern and flamenco dance. Teens interested in the arts encouraged to attend(no one will be turned away). Information about our upcoming research trip to Cuba will also be available. For more details contact Erica at aryamovementproject@gmail.com. This dance workshop is sponsored by Mimoda Studios.A Taste of Cuba: Intro to Cuban Modern Dance
Join a soul satisfying exploration of a unique dance form fusing Afro-Cuban, Spanish and modern dance forms. This one hour long workshop transports you to the island of Cuba and focuses on introducing you to Cuban modern dance technique rarely experienced outside of the island. The class focuses on rhythm, movement exploration and flexibility. All levels of dancers encouraged to attend. Following the workshop, information will be available about our upcoming movement research trip to Cuba on January 1- 15,2012. Email Erica Bowen at aryamovementproject@gmail.com for more information.Modern Dance Technique, release muscles and open joints
This class focuses on energy efficiency of the body in movement, how to leverage weight through the architecture of the bones and how to relax muscles and open joints in order to direct weight in space. The warm up will consist of floor movement exercises that open joints and leverage weight from the floor, move into and out of the floor, as well as utilize stillness and slowness to help awaken finer muscular control and release surface muscular effort to increase efficiency. Theses concepts are then applied to bigger movements across the floor and increased momentum into and out of the floor.Contemporary
This class incorporate elements of both classical ballet and modern dance. Suzie takes technique and use of pointework from classical ballet, although it permits a greater range of movement that may not adhere to the strict body lines set forth by schools of ballet technique. Trained in a wide variety of technique ranging from Pilates, surfing, Checcetti, Royal Academy and 'Schmultz", Suzie offer a blend of movement in this contemporary class specific to itselfPILATES
Taught by Suzie Poetsche - Rosalie & Alva Artistic Director! Pilates group mat classes work on strengthening our core working on alignment, stretching and proper body mechanics to apply to our everyday lives. Extra work is provided with exercise balls and thera-bands. Immediately following this class is a contemporary class. The Pilates class is an excellent way to create that core connection & warm up needed for dance. We invite you to take advantage of this excellent opportunity and take both classes that will definitely compliment each other.JAZZ - Intermediate/Advanced
This class starts with an extensive full body warm up and stretch going across the floor focusing on technique and traveling combinations. The class will close with a jazz or lyrical routine. You will be challenged to your full potential while moving at a moderate to fast pace.Beginning Ballet - Teen/Adult
This class focuses on advancing the student from beginning positions and steps into intermediate work. Technical growth, musicality and artistry will be taught through simple dance combinations. A Pilates class is taught prior to this ballet class lending an excellent opportunity to take two classes in row that compliment each other.PILATES - Teen/Adult
This class is taught by one of our ballet instructors who is also a certified Pilates instructor. Pilates group mat classes work on strengthening our core working on alignment, stretching and proper body mechanics to apply to our everyday lives. Extra work is provided with exercise balls and thera-bands. This class is just before a beginning ballet class and is an excellent core connection warm up for the ballet class that follows it, taught by the same instructor.Gymnastics/Acro - 8-11 years old
This class will focus on fundamental gymnastics & acrobatic skills as well as dance combinations that incorporate the student's skills. Children will learn basic ideas of rhythm, dance, balance, flexibility and strength along with gymnastics specific skills on Vault, Bars, Beam, and Floor Exercise. Every class has a fun warm up and a fun finish!Gymnastics/Acro 5-7 Years Old
This class will focus on fundamental gymnastics and acrobatic skills. Children will learn basic ideas of rhythm, dance, balance, flexibility and strength along with gymnastics specific skills on Vault, Bars, Beam, and Floor Exercise. Every class has a fun warm up and a fun finish.Gymnastics & Creative Movement 4-5 years
This class is designed for preschool aged children. It is a teacher directed class, but parents can be close by for this "weaning" period. Each class has a fun lesson plan that helps children develop & enhance general motor development and rhythm through gymnastics skills and equipment, dance, music, songs, and even percussive instruments.Advanced Contemporary
A challenging technique class with roots in release, various bodywork, life. We focus on placement, freeing of limbs, flow of energy and learning to fully inhabit movement. Sometimes we improv, sometimes we rock and roll, sometimes our bodies take us for a ride, sometimes we fly...JAMIE NICHOLS Contemporary Modern/Jazz
A passionate and technically articulate teacher critically acclaimed for the emotional intensity and eloquence of her dancing and winner of 6 Lester Horton Dance Awards and the Lester Horton Furthering the Visibility of Dance Award. For 23 years Artistic Director of Fast Feet, a contemporary dance company, teaches dance and movement professionally in Los Angeles, choreographed and danced for film and video. Jamie’s classes are a hybrid of her own innovative movement vocabulary. Beginning with a thorough warm-up focusing on the upper body, the back, core and all the ingredients needed to fully engage the body and prepare for the dance she creates. The class is an opportunity for the dancer to learn movement phrases that blend musicality, passion, and Nichols’ powerful technique threaded seamlessly into a very special experience. She brings to class an infectious drive that inspires any level or age of dancer to want to move. Jamie is an active member of the professional dance community and she has served as an adjudicator of arts awards and grants, on the Board of The Jazz Dance LA Foundation, The Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles, Co-Producer of The Los Angeles Dance Invitational, Co-Produced Bethune Theatredanse’s Frost & Fire, modern dance icon Marion Scott’s Spirit Dances 10 at Highways, Executive Producer of The 16th Annual Lester Horton Dance Awards and is Executive Producer of the successful annual Celebrate Dance Festival the award wining dance festival at the Alex Theatre. She currently teaches movement for actors at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.http://www.celebratedance.orgJAMIE NICHOLS Contemporary Modern/Jazz
A passionate and technically articulate teacher critically acclaimed for the emotional intensity and eloquence of her dancing and winner of 6 Lester Horton Dance Awards and the Lester Horton Furthering the Visibility of Dance Award. For 23 years Artistic Director of Fast Feet, a contemporary dance company, teaches dance and movement professionally in Los Angeles, choreographed and danced for film and video. Jamie’s classes are a hybrid of her own innovative movement vocabulary. Beginning with a thorough warm-up focusing on the upper body, the back, core and all the ingredients needed to fully engage the body and prepare for the dance she creates. The class is an opportunity for the dancer to learn movement phrases that blend musicality, passion, and Nichols’ powerful technique threaded seamlessly into a very special experience. She brings to class an infectious drive that inspires any level or age of dancer to want to move. Jamie is an active member of the professional dance community and she has served as an adjudicator of arts awards and grants, on the Board of The Jazz Dance LA Foundation, The Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles, Co-Producer of The Los Angeles Dance Invitational, Co-Produced Bethune Theatredanse’s Frost & Fire, modern dance icon Marion Scott’s Spirit Dances 10 at Highways, Executive Producer of The 16th Annual Lester Horton Dance Awards and is Executive Producer of the successful annual Celebrate Dance Festival the award wining dance festival at the Alex Theatre. She currently teaches movement for actors at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.http://www.celebratedance.orgJAMIE NICHOLS Contemporary Modern/Jazz
A passionate and technically articulate teacher critically acclaimed for the emotional intensity and eloquence of her dancing and winner of 6 Lester Horton Dance Awards and the Lester Horton Furthering the Visibility of Dance Award. For 23 years Artistic Director of Fast Feet, a contemporary dance company, teaches dance and movement professionally in Los Angeles, choreographed and danced for film and video. Jamie’s classes are a hybrid of her own innovative movement vocabulary. Beginning with a thorough warm-up focusing on the upper body, the back, core and all the ingredients needed to fully engage the body and prepare for the dance she creates. The class is an opportunity for the dancer to learn movement phrases that blend musicality, passion, and Nichols’ powerful technique threaded seamlessly into a very special experience. She brings to class an infectious drive that inspires any level or age of dancer to want to move. Jamie is an active member of the professional dance community and she has served as an adjudicator of arts awards and grants, on the Board of The Jazz Dance LA Foundation, The Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles, Co-Producer of The Los Angeles Dance Invitational, Co-Produced Bethune Theatredanse’s Frost & Fire, modern dance icon Marion Scott’s Spirit Dances 10 at Highways, Executive Producer of The 16th Annual Lester Horton Dance Awards and is Executive Producer of the successful annual Celebrate Dance Festival the award wining dance festival at the Alex Theatre. She currently teaches movement for actors at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.http://www.celebratedance.org http://www.Live Arts Los Angeles 4210 Panamint Street (at Eagle Rock Blvd) Los Angeles, California 90065 323-739-0804 - liveartsla.com Schedule Monday – Wednesday 6:00pm - 7:30pm Inter/Adv Contemporary/Modern Jazz Tuesday - Thursday 9:00am – 10:00am Open Level Contemporary/Modern Jazz Saturday 8:30am -10:00am Open Level Contemporary/Modern Jazz Cash or check - made to Jamie NicholsCardio Disco Jam
Strut your stuff to the disco beat in this fun, low impact dance exercise fitness class. The beat is hot and you will burn some calories as you burn up the floor like a night at Studio 54! Bell bottoms and disco balls are optional.Zumba
A fun aerobic exercise program that combines latin and international music with dance. 9:30am on Tues and Thurs with Raul Arauz 10:00am on Sunday with Rob VinsonLineage Performing Arts Center Master Class Series
Sunday mornings from 10:00am-noon. Oct 2: Contemporary Ballet with Elizabeth Terschuur Oct 9: Broadway Theatre with Melinda Sullivan Oct 16: Funky Yoga with Eva Wieland Oct 23: Contemporary Ballet with Elizabeth Terschuur Oct 30: Hip Hop with Angie VaughnPetite Feet Ballet and Kreative Kids Classes for Kids Ages 3-6
Petite Feet Ballet - 3:30pm: This pre-ballet class incorporates original and familiar songs, imaginative games and dance stories in order to introduce children to age appropriate ballet vocabulary and movement exploration. The emphasis of this class is to provide a fun, creative and safe environment where students begin to become familiar with a dance class experience, as well as to promote self esteem and a joy of moving. Kreative Kids - 4:30pm: Baby steps will be taken towards a strong foundation of movement and musicality. Emphasis will be on structure and repetition at the beginning of class while slowly developing towards more free form movement at the end. Technique will be taught with a focus on openness and creativity in movement. Props such as scarves and drumsticks will be introduced to illustrate form of motion and to amplify rhythm. Liz Vacco recently moved to LA from New York City, where she worked as a ballet and early childhood educator, as well as a performer and choreographer, for the past nine years. She taught through New York City Ballet’s Education Program and at various dance studios and public schools throughout the city. She has always been a dancer who acts and an actor who dances, and she draws from both these worlds in her teaching and performance. More information about Liz's classes can be found at www.petitefeetdance.com.Petite Feet Ballet Classes for 2-3 year olds
This 45 minute pre-ballet class incorporates original and familiar songs, imaginative games and dance stories in order to introduce children to age appropriate ballet vocabulary and movement exploration. The emphasis of this class is to provide a fun, creative and safe environment where students begin to become familiar with a dance class experience, as well as to promote self esteem and a joy of moving. Students dance alongside their parent or caregiver, so it is a shared experience. Classes at 10am and 11 am. Liz Vacco recently moved to LA from New York City, where she worked as a ballet and early childhood educator, as well as a performer and choreographer, for the past nine years. She taught through New York City Ballet’s Education Program and at various dance studios and public schools throughout the city. She has always been a dancer who acts and an actor who dances, and she draws from both these worlds in her teaching and performance. More information about Liz's classes can be found at www.petitefeetdance.com. “I have had an opportunity to watch Liz teach ballet in person and she has a way of making all the beginning introductions to ballet developmentally fun and comfortable for children. Liz knows how to integrate story telling, dance and music in a very accessible and engaging way for all children.” -Marsha Greenberg, LCSWModern Technique with Nancy Evans Doede
Ongoing modern class on Saturday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Class is intermediate to advanced level, and is based on Hanya Holm movement principles. Nancy studied with Hanya Holm and infuses the class with the teachings of this modern dance pioneer.New Int/Adv Modern Dance Class at Los Angeles Valley College
Dance Studies 801 (2 units) is an intermediate/advanced level modern dance class that offers in depth instruction and practice in the fundamentals of modern dance technique. Course includes technique, theory, historical context, improvisation, and instruction in the elements of space, time, and energy (composition). This course fulfills Humanities and Art G.E. requirements. The main goal of this class is to get us dancing and creating, as well as thinking and talking about dance. We will begin the technique classes with an in-depth exploration of floor work, discovering new ways of relating to the floor both as a vehicle for our support and release, and as a point of departure. We will also explore exercises based in yoga and Pilates that will focus on core and upper body strengthening in order to give us more power in our movements, height in our jumps, and strength in our balance. Standing work will utilize principles of Release Technique, Limon technique, ballet and the Alexander Technique to find a new release of the neck and spine, allowing for more length and freedom in all the joints, with a focus on more integrated movement. Moving across the floor and into phrase work, we will focus on extending the limbs, reaching through space, moving big, taking off and dancing with power; again engaging with the floor to increase our range. Alternately, we may focus on more subtle, detailed movements; finding the power in moving small. The second half of the two-hour class will focus on building lengthy and complicated phrases of material that will then be used in compositional assignments. Students will take the material taught in class, and explore different ways of engaging with and manipulating that material in space, time or with different energies (sometimes all three). Classes will also include some improvisational exercises geared toward movement invention, exploring range, and dancing as a group. We will examine performance quality, with a focus on identifying our own personal habits and expanding our ability to express and fulfill specific movement vocabularies. There will be several readings throughout the semester that support the moving and creating we are doing in class. In-class discussions we will consider ways in which movement makes meaning/s and what those multiple meanings can be. We will examine the ways in which we experience and interpret those meanings, and will work to increase our ability to articulate those experiences and interpretations as well as to apply critical feedback to our own work. Enrollment is by add card only (audition required). Class meets M/W 1:00 - 3:00 plus 2 hours TBA. Please attend the first class meeting on Monday, August 29, at 1:00 pm in the Dance Studio, LAVC North Gym. For more information contact caseboev@lavc.edu.Ballet with Tatiana Berenova from the Bolshoi
Tatiana Berenova, a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi ballet of Russia, is teaching at Lula Washington Dance Theatre's Summer Intensive through Aug. 5. The class is open to all levels. It focuses on the work Carmen, which Tatiana will perform with students at the intensive's culminating concert Aug. 7 at 5 pm at the Lula Washington Dance Theatre Studio. Tatiana was Prima Ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet Theatre and the Moscow Renaissance Ballet. She was also guest principal dancer with The Mariinski Theatre, Moscow Imperial Ballet and many others Russian and American Ballet theatres and companies. She is an expert at Vaganova ballet technique. She was a Gold Medalist at the Third International Ballet Competition in Luxembourg; and she has coached many prize winning ballet and contemporary dancers.Samba Class
Wonderful warm atmosphere. Charismatic teacher. Relaxed casual and great workout. There may also be a class on Sat or Sun, not sure. They have Zumba too.New Flamenco Dance Beginners Workshop Begins August 5!
So I Just finished teaching the first ever "Falling in love for the first time" Flamenco Dance Workshop... "What now?" you ask. Well after this weeks class we will have one week off and continue with classes in August beginning August 6 and continuing on Saturdays through August 27. I will continue to cover beginning techniques and share more with you on how flamenco dance works...the "palmas" (clapping), the "cante" (singing) the "toque" (guitar) and you the dancer, "El BAILE!"... As with all of my classes/workshops, you must pre-register. There's been a huge interest so I know the class will fill up fast! If you're interested please feel free to contact me at my email: briseydaflamenca@hotmail.com. I will promptly get back to you with all the details and answer any questions you may have. Gracias, BriseydaAerial Conditioning
The latest trend in aerobic workout, Aerial Conditioning and Hammock Aero-Fitness shall work up stagnant muscles while developing core strength and balance. You will be given pull ups, straddles, climbs, hip keys and other key elements to aerial arts on combination apparatus such as tissu, hammock, trapeze and hoop ...while suspended on air. This is a 1-hour class.Beginning Jazz Dance Technique with Phyllis Eckler
Learn beginning moves in jazz and hip hop so that you can dance with confidence. No experience necessary - this is a beginning level that will offer you a good technical workout, stretches, and strength, turns, floorwork and jumps, all in a friendly supportive atmosphere. If you sign up for both eight week sections you will be eligible to perform in the final dance show in December! This eight-week course at L.A. City College is called Jazz Dance Technique - DA437 and is on Mon. & Wed. 10:35a.m.-12:40p.m. Section #2150 runs August Aug.29-Oct. 19 (16 classes) Section #2151 runs October 24- Dec. 18 (16 classes) Students may sign up for BOTH sections. CONTACT: ecklerp@lacitycollege.edu for more infoLos Angeles International Ballet Intensive
Offering an intensive 3 week program of Classical & Contemporary Ballet with specific instruction at Int. to Adv. level Turns, Jumps, Pointe, Variations, Pas de duex and supplementary training in Conditioning and MPT (Placement Technique) designed to correct problem technical areas and prevent injury. Also offering Modern Dance classes and Dance Essentials for picking up choreography faster, improvisation, musicality and improving performance skills. One of the only programs that includes an Aerial Ballet Workshop featuring silk work. Participating students will be exposed to a repertoire of original choreography by Erin Holt, the Artistic Director of California Contemporary Ballet. Learn new works by guest choreographers and prepare classics to be performed at the end of the intensive. An additional Choreography Workshop for dancers is offered for those who wish to create their own choreography. Fellow students attending from as far as New Zealand. July 5-23 Limited space availableWine & Tango
Learn to dance Tango to the sensuous rhythm and intoxicating melodies of old and new Tango music. This class is for complete beginners and those who want to learn to Tango to fun music in a friendly and easy-going class. In this one hour master class we will cover the most fundamental elements of tango and how to use them to improvise to traditional and modern tango music. Come alone or bring a partner, either way join us for an exiting evening of dance!Flamenco Dance with Briseyda Zarate
Learn and grow in your mastery of Flamenco Dance with Briseyda Zarate. Classes for all levels--intro, beginners, advanced and professionals. All classes focus on Flamenco rhythm, styling, arm and foot-work technique and are accompanied by a flamenco guitarist. Workshop/Class sizes are small for individualized attention (max 8). Private one-on-one instruction also available. SUMMER SCHEDULE OF CLASSES: Monday: 7:30-8:30 Advanced Beginner/Intermediate 8:30-9:30 Advanced/Professional Tuesday: 7:30-8:30 Advanced Beginner/Intermediate Flamenco Thursday: 7:30-8:30 Advanced Beginner/Intermediate 8:30-9:30 Advanced/Professional CLASS LOCATIONS: Monday & Tuesday Classes Held At: Eagle Rock Dance Center, 5054 1/2 Eagle Rock Blvd., LA CA 90041 (entrance in back) Thursday Classses Held At: Gypsy Camp Ethnic Arts Center 3265 Motor Avenue, LA Ca 90034 (entrance in back) If interested please contact: Briseyda Zarate at briseydaflamenca@hotmail.comSilk & Soul: Dances of Uzbekistan
The artful and sensuous expressions of the Uzbek dancer summon catharsis, awaken feminine archetypes and enliven the spirit. This 2,000 year-old classic/theatrical dance tradition of the Silk Road has traded influences with India, China, Persia and Arabia and its aesthetic elements can be traced all the way from Japan to Eastern Europe. Carolyn’s beginning/intermediate class will help students experience AUTHENTIC embodiment of style as opposed to IMITATION of technique. Each lesson will include a standardized warm-up followed by instruction in foundational technique: hands, arms, head, posture, footwork, turns, movement quality and musicality. Dance combinations and basic choreography will blend technique with performance skills—the “soul” of Uzbek dance. Traditional and contemporary Central Asian vocal and instrumental pieces will accompany elegant, rhythmic and poetic movement vocabulary. More info www.gulistandance.comGymnastics & Creative Movement Ages 2-3
Parents are encouraged to assist their child if needed. The class focuses on motor development while learning gymnastics, rhythm and dance skills. Music, games, gymnastics equipment and musical instruments are used to help develop each child's movement potential. The lesson plans are creative and fun! Dress code: Fancy, Shinny & Frilly or anything they feel like wearing that day. We want to make it a 100% positive experience for the toddler.Hip-Hop
IntermediateContemporary
IntermediateModern
Open/Adult DivisionSummer Dance Intensive 2011-The Tyler Project, Inc.
Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced levels of Modern dance, (Graham, Horton, Dunham), Classical Ballet, Contemporary Jazz, Lyrical, Repertory, Hip Hop and Cultural Dance. Students also take part in drumming classes, choreography and Educational Seminar. All classes accompanied by live piano and percussion. Adults and children ages 11 and over are welcome and encouraged.Modern Technique with Nancy Evans Doede
Join our ongoing modern dance technique class on Saturdays from 10:30-noon at Lineage Performing Arts Center located at 89 S. Fair Oaks Avenue in Old Pasadena! The class is flexible for all levels, and is based on the techniques of Hanya Holm and Doris Humphrey, and is taught by Nancy Evans Doede, artistic director of Nancy Evans Dance Theatre. Cost of class is $12 single, or 6 for $60 and can be purchased at the studio or online at www.lineagedance.org.Find Your Inner Isadora ~ adult beginning ballet & creative movement
Join us for a fun hour of ballet combined with experiential anatomy, pilates and fun free form movement. Sweat and enjoy your body and learn about movement while listening to great music. No dance experience necessary. Taught by choreographer/dancer: Holly Rothschild Email Holly@strangeandelegant.com for info & schedule updates.SoCal-Zouk: Brazilian Zouk Classes in Los Angeles!
It is finally time to introduce Brazilian Zouk to LA! This dance originated in Brazil and is now spreading like wildfire around the globe. Brazilian Zouk is a modern way of dancing Lambada, and it is danced to the music of the French Caribbean islands, Zouk. So now, let us give LA the opportunity feel the heat of this dance... It is passionate, it is sensual, and it is fun! For more information, visit: www.socalzouk.comAfrican-Cuban Salsa Rueda Style
Learn basic rueda plus Traditional West African choreography (never seen before) incorporated into the rueda style.Zouk-Lambada
Zouk-Lambada – is a fusion of the Brazillian Lambada steps that have evolved to be more flowy and have alot of head movements and smooth hip movement, Zouk- comes from the Caribbeans and is the music danced to in Zouk Lambada! The dance Is a partner dance and involves a lot of connection with the partner . This dance has taken over in Europe , Brazil, and Asia ! there are many congresses across the world here are some of them : www.bergcongress.com,(in Brasil) http://www.dansabrasil.com/ (in Spain) londondancecongress.com/ (London) Now this dance is here in the US and is getting to be in high demad, Zouk has been featured in San Fransisco Salsa Bachata /Congress and in L.A , D.C and NY FREE DANCE PRACTICE AFTER CLASS !!! COME GET YOUR ZOUK ON ! www.lazouk.comGWC Professional Invitational Master Dance Class Series
Int/Adv Ballet TechniqueGWC Professional Invitational Master Dance Class Series
Int/Adv Jazz TechniqueGWC Professional Dance Invitational Master Class Series-Intuitive Technique
"Ituitive Technique" Intuitive Technique was developed by Anandha Ray to teach dancers an intuitive mastery of pure technique, this class is based on developing the body's pure, kinesiologically correct technique. It incorporates highly directed improvisational content to unlock the physical blocks to absolute and intuitive technical mastery. A non-stop, highly athletic technique class, it provides the opportunity for each student to experience pure technique in motion through guided movement instructions that expose and re-program blocks to pure technique in the performance arena. It can be attended by all levels but is best suited for intermediate/advanced students.Master Dance Class with Andrew Vaca of Jazzworks - Long Beach
Andrew Vaca will be teaching an int/adv jazz class.Master Dance Class with Anandha Ray of Moving Arts Dance
Anandha will be teaching a class on Intuitive Technique. Intuitive Technique was developed by Anandha Ray to teach dancers an intuitive mastery of pure technique, this class is based on developing the body's pure, kinesiologically correct technique. It incorporates highly directed improvisational content to unlock the physical blocks to absolute and intuitive technical mastery. A non-stop, highly athletic technique class, it provides the opportunity for each student to experience pure technique in motion through guided movement instructions that expose and re-program blocks to pure technique in the performance arena. It can be attended by all levels but is best suited for intermediate/advanced students.Master Dance Class with Kenneth Walker of the Kenneth Walker Dance Project
Kenneth Walker, of the Kenneth Walker Dance Project from Los Angeles, CA will be teaching an int/adv level ballet technique class.Flamenco-Yoga Stretch and "New Beginnings Technique"
This unique class begins with a Yoga inspired stretch, getting the body warm and ready to learn basic flamenco techniques including body and arm positioning and alignment, movement patterns and footwork. The techniques taught focus on breathing,alignment, balance and ambidexterity and help flamenco dancers at all levels train or re-train there bodies to move from an internal and effortless place.March Contemporary/Modern Dance Classes with John Pennington at ARC Pasadena
Saturdays in March. 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Geared towards those with prior dance experience. $10 per class. No pre-registration necessary. John Pennington is the Artistic Director of the Pennington Dance Group and ARC Pasadena, serves on faculty at Pomona College and Cal State Long Beach, and enjoyed a 14-year career with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as a performer and teacher. If you have any questions about these classes please e-mail john@arcpasadena.org. For More Information Please Visit: www.arcpasadena.org ARC Pasadena: 1158 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, California 91106February Contemporary/Modern Dance Classes with John Pennington at ARC Pasadena
Saturdays in February. 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Geared towards those with prior dance experience. $10 per class. No pre-registration necessary. John Pennington is the Artistic Director of the Pennington Dance Group and ARC Pasadena, serves on faculty at Pomona College and Cal State Long Beach, and enjoyed a 14-year career with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as a performer and teacher. If you have any questions about these classes please e-mail john@arcpasadena.org. For More Information Please Visit: www.arcpasadena.org ARC Pasadena: 1158 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, California 91106Roux Body Movement at LALA
Do you like dancing and want to improve your dance technique in any dance genre? Come and get your dance on and put the FUN and the PLAY back into your dancing. This class is all about movement and draws from numerous styles -- rumba, cha-cha, hip-hop, African, jazz, and more. We will work on pausing, gesturing, ticking, and E X T E N S I O N S as they relate to dancing.Contemporary Jazz at LALA
Instructor Jessica Emmons will lead, COMTEMPORARY JAZZ, a class that offers adults of all levels the opportunity to explore and grow in the style of contemporary jazz. Jessica focuses on individual creativity, basic to intermediate technique training, and musicality in this fun and inspirational dance class. Starting with a full body stretch, strengthening and technique exercises will build and reinforce a strong core, flexibility, correct alignment, and coordination. Next, progressions across-the-floor will get the everybody moving, while focusing on technique and range of motion. Lastly, a combination will be taught where you will learn an exploratory phase, while faced with the challenge of retaining movement and building muscle memory. This will also give each student an opportunity to engage their individual artistic expression, while continuing to focus on technique, and playing with level changes ... including floorwork!Professional ballet class for intermediate and advanced levels !!
Class wi l l be taught by professional bal let dancer, Raydel Caceres. It wi l l focus on dancing with the power of classical movement and the joy of expressing yoursel f through rhythm and dance.Jazz Fusion Intermediate level
Jazz Fusion (African American Vernacular, Latin dance, Matt Mattox Technique ideals, contemporary, and lyrical elements). Get your heart pumping, strengthen your technique, challenge your performance skills, and have fun. Get ready to be in and out of the floor.Backhausdance Open Company Class
Come take class with Jennifer Backhaus and the Backhausdancers! Modern technique Monday and Wednesday and contemporary ballet with KIm Olmos on Fridays. Now until the end of January at Chapman University.... Its back by popular demand!! Come dance with us... we want to create an amazing room full of people who want to move!Modern Technique with Nancy Evans Doede
1 1/2 hour modern dance technique class based on the principles of Hanya Holm. Class focuses on musicality, spatial awareness, body alignment and breath. Principles of suspension, swing, rhythmic dynamics, spiral and spinning are explored as well as counter-balance and floorwork. This is an ongoing Intermediate/Advanced level class.Flamenco & Spanish Classical Dance Classes
Flamenco classes for all ages & levels. Classes taught by an award-winning dancer, instructor & choreographer from Andalucia, Spain. Mon. 6:00-7:00pm. Beg. Children's Flamenco Tues. 6:45-7:45pm. Adult Adv. Flamenco Thurs. 6:40-7:30pm. Pre-Teen & Teen Flamenco Thurs. 7:30-8:30pm. Beg. Adult Flamenco Sat. 11:30am-12:30pm. Castanet technique & Spanish Classical Dance Sat. 12:30-1:30pm. Flamenco Buleria Choreography Level II Sat. 1:30-2:30pm. Flamenco Technique Sun. 12:30-1:30pm. Flamenco Buleria Level I Sun. 1:30-2:30pm. Adult Flamenco I/II Private & Semi-private classes available. Contact information: www.InternationalArtsAcademy.com www.LaSoleFlamenco.com (626) 274-9943Modern with Nancy Doede Evans
Explore floor work, gain flexibility and strengthen the entire body while learning to express yourself through lyrical melodies.Kids Creative Movement (Ages 5-7)
Self-expression, movement exploration and dance technique development.Kids Dance with Me (Ages 3-4)
Toddlers explore self-expression, movement and dance techniques with their favorite grown up.Lineage Modern
Lineage Dance Company class featuring Modern warm up and company choreography.Kids Broadway Dance (Ages 5-7)
The fun and flair of Broadway with fundamentals in jazz, ballet and modern.Kids Creative Dance (Ages 3-4)
Self-expression, movement exploration and dance technique development.Hip Hop
Explore intense rhythm through upbeat movement to enhance fitness, coordination and timing. (open level)Hip Hop
Explore intense rhythm through upbeat movement to enhance fitness, coordination and timing. (open level)Middle School Hip Hop
Explore intense rhythm through upbeat movement to enhance fitness, coordination and timing. (open level)Kids Hip Hop
Come one come all to Frit & Frat's attitude, rhythm & vibe of Hip Hop.Broadway
The fun and flair of Broadway with fundamentals in jazz, ballet and modern. (open level)Contemp-Hop
Dynamic mix of smooth, fluid movement energized by the attack of Hip Hop. (open level)Hip Hop
Explore intense rhythm through upbeat movement to enhance fitness, coordination and timing. (open level)Beginning Jazz
Full of fun, energetic and unique movement that consists of funky footwork, leaps and a pinch of your own style to make your heart pump. (open level)Pilates
Mat classes to strengthen the entire body through intense core work.Modern (Ages 7-10 years)
Move with freedom and ease while learning modern dance technique. Explore floor work, gain flexibility and strengthen the entire body. (open level)Dancing with Parkinson's
Classes specifically designed for those with Parkinson's Disease. Family members and care-givers are encouraged to participate!Modern Lyrical
Explore floor work, gain flexibility and strengthen the entire body while learning to express yourself through lyrical melodies. (open level)African Burn
High-energy, high impact class with live drumming. East and West African movement to get your heart pumping and your body jumping! (open level)Adult Contemporary
Amanda Hart (Hart Pulse Dance Company) will begin teaching an open level Adult Contemporary class starting 1/4/2011 at California Dance Arts (CA Contemporary Ballet), Tuesday morning 8:30 - 10 and Tuesday Evenings 7 -8:30. A combination of Ballet, Modern and Jazz danced to varied styles of great music in a super fun atmosphere!Adult Contemporary
Amanda Hart (Hart Pulse Dance Company) will begin teaching an open level Adult Contemporary class starting 1/4/2011 at California Dance Arts (CA Contemporary Ballet), Tuesday morning 8:30 - 10 and Tuesday Evenings 7 -8:30. A combination of Ballet, Modern and Jazz danced to varied styles of great music in a super fun atmosphere!Indian/Bollywood Dance
The last decades have brought exciting innovations to the world of Indian dance as dancers trained in classical dance enrich and combine their training with contemporary movement. Sometimes spiritual, sometimes Bollywood-like, contemporary Indian dance is an eclectic, catchy, and deeply rooted fusion dance form. In this workshop, we experience contemporary approaches to Indian dance. The class will begin with a warm-up based in Indian classical dance and yoga, focusing on positions, rhythms, hand gestures, eye movements, and emotional content. Historically practiced in the temples of India, classical dance is sculpturesque, spiritual, precise and rhythmically complex. We will then explore Bollywood and other Indian fusion dances. This class will then draw on Indian classical, folk, Bollywood, and contemporary movement to create short dance sequences. These sequences will grow into lively choreographies that allow the students to experience the exciting world of contemporary Indian dance.Sunday In The Studio
This class is designed to "break-down" technique - getting down to the how - which requires a focused mind and patience. The class offers an early morning gentle warm up that concentrates on strengthening, stretching and alignment, then progresses into modern dance movement phrases.Modern Dance
An "old school" type of modern class in the spirit of Duncan, Graham, Nikolais, Cunningham, and Lewitsky, which includes a thorough warm-up, floor work and learning a monthly choreographic combination, then a relaxing cool down.Contemporary
A comprehensive class featuring floor work, stretch, conditioning, and fun and challenging across the floor work. Taught by Judy Pisarro-Grant, resident Choreographer of La Danserie (www.ladanserie.org), the class draws on Judy's foundation training in Graham but builds and layers other contemporary styles to create a unique class experience. Intermediate-advanced, teen-adult. For more information email jpgladanserie@yahoo.com or call 818-341-0530Dancing the Spiral
Dancing the Spiral (DTS) is a healing movement class for the mind, body and spirit. The new class series starts Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 and runs for 5 weeks. DTS is a dance method that combines energy healing with sacred/ecstatic dance. Please ask about Critical Mass Dance Company and our performance classes. To register for the class or for questions, contact Sophia@spiritascending.com. Additional information available at www.spiritascending/workshops.htmLIneage Performing Arts Center Master Class Series
10/31 Classical Indian with Sangita Shresthova 11/7 Contemporary with Terri Best 11/14 Lyrical Contemporary with Jamie Nichols 11/21 Lyrical Jazz with Denise LeitnerChildren's Ballet / Tap combo
A 45 min. class introducing children ages 3-5 to the benefits of basic ballet and tap techniques.Pilates Stretch Classes in Korea Town - Wilshire and Ardmore
A combo of Pilates and Stretches ideal for dancers of all levels, beginning to advanced. Held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1:00 - 2:00 at JOA Wellness Center: 3550 Wilshire Blvd. #124. Los Angeles, CA 90010. Drop in rate $15, Class Cards available for discounted rates!The Rhythm Lounge
The Rhythm Lounge is a sensual, fun, and rigorous, movement class which blends Afro-Brazilian, Release, Yoga, and Play with Trip Hop and Lounge musics from around the world. A joyful, brilliant, and uplifting way to jump-start your weekend. All levels. Master instructor Tom Crocker has taught and performed around the world with the Maurice Bejart company and Bluepalm. Visit Bluepalm on Facebook.dancexchange
A weekly class featuring a rotating roster of modern/contemporary dance teachers including Alesia Young, Lillian Barbeito (counter technique), Holly Rothschild, Andrew Cowan, Tina Berkett and Melanie King. email Holly at holly@stringtheoryproductions.com for updated schedule information.Contemporary Technique with Andrew Cowan
Adv. - Int. - Professional Modern Dance Class with Andrew Cowan Most recently of Shen Wei Dance Arts Andrew’s class will deal with qualitative and spatial concepts of Movement Every Sunday Night 5:00pm – 6:30pm $15/class Questions? cowan.andrew@gmail.com Sunday Nights 5:00pm – 6:30pmAfrican Burn
High-energy, high impact class with live drumming. East and West African movement to get your heart pumping and your body jumping.Dance-Theatre
Dance theatre is the fusion of dance and theater elements and techniques combined to create a new vocabulary and vehicle for story telling. Elements such as effort, use of space and energy while the body is in movement, combined with theatrical elements such as story, character and sometimes voice are used and explored during the classStretch / Tone - Dance Workout
Cardio warm up, strength and sculpting using dance based warmup followed deep stretch for lengthening muscles.Int/ Adv Lyrical Contemporary
Style based choreography and improv technique class in Lyrical and Contemporary.Int/Adv. Jazz
Technical Jazz class and combination, center work, across the floor and combination.Int/Adv. Ballet
Ballet technique, core strengthening and training.Teen Hip Hop
Choreography and Hip Hop Isolations.Choreography Pot Luck
Anything from Salsa, Character, Jazz to Hip Hop,Int/Adv. East Coast Contemporary Technique
Strong technical class with East Cost Contemporary Choreography.Int/Adv. Jazz Funk
Very stylized choreography class for technically trained teen and adult dancers.Int/Adv Lyrical with Kobi Rozenfeld
Choreography and Style class for technically trained dancers. Work with Kobi Rozenfeld choreographer for Beyonce 2009 World Tour and tons more.Morning Intermediate Ballet
Wednesday morning Intermediate Ballet for adults, taught by former principal dancer for Hong Kong Ballet, Kimula Ballet (Tokyo), Nakajima Ballet (Tokyo), and Central Ballet of China Hesen Weiren, M.F.A., National Beijing Dance Academy; trained as instructor in Vaganova method. These classes are accompanied by Michael Roberts. Parking in Colburn School lot #1 off of Lower Grand Avenue is free for students.The campus is also convenient to many bus lines and the Civic Center stop off the Metro Red Line.5 Contemporary/Modern Classes
For 5 Saturdays in October, John Pennington will teach a Contemporary/Modern dance class from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Each of these 5 classes, geared towards those with prior dance experience, will be available for $10. Work-study scholarships for the entire series are also available. For more information on scholarships contact Alison Noll at alison@arcpasadena.org. John Pennington is the Artistic Director of the PDG and ARC Pasadena, serves on faculty at Pomona College and Cal State Long Beach, and enjoyed a 14-year career with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as a performer and teacher. Please e-mail john@arcpasadena.org if you are interested in attending any or all of these classes. Saturday, October 2nd Saturday, October 9th Saturday, October 16th Saturday, October 23rd Saturday, October 30thIntroduction to Flamenco Dance for Beginners
Enjoy learning the rhythmic heart-felt art form of Flamenco with one of LA's Best! New classes forming now for Beginners, no experience necessary. Classes also offered for Advanced Beginners, Intermediate and advanced dancers.. Some classes accompanied by live flamenco guitar! FOR FURTHER INFO PLEASE CONTACT: Briseyda Zarate 323.719.1613 www.briseydazarteflamenco.com briseydaflamenca@hotmail.comFLAMENCO Dance Classes in Eagle Rock---Alll levels & Children's classes!
Enjoy learning this dynamic and heart-felt art form from one of LA's best! On-going classes for all levels..including children's classes! Most classes accompanied by live flamenco guitar... LOCATION: Eagle Rock | Eagle Rock Dance Center, 5054 1/2, Eagle Rock Blvd., LA Ca. 90041 SCHEDULE: Mondays 7:30-8:30 pm | Advanced Beginners/ Intermediate Flamenco 8:30-9:30 pm | Advanced Choreography Workshop Saturdays 12-1pm | Children's Flamenco ages 7-12 1:00-2:00pm | Introduction to Flamenco for Beginners PRICING: Monthly -- $75 plus $10 first time registration fee. (4 one hour classes, once a week) 8 Classes -- $125 ($10 registration fee waived) Single Class --- $25 (cash only) Please rsvp prior to attending your first class via email: briseydaflamenca@hotmail.com FOR FURTHER INFO CONTACT: Briseyda Zarate 323.719.1613 www.briseydazarateflamenco.comFLAMENCO Dance Classes in West LA! | New Intro to Flamenco for Beginners forming now.
Enjoy learning this dynamic and heart-felt art form from one of LA's best! New classes forming now for Beginners, no experience necessary!...Intermediate and Advanced level classes also forming. Most classes accompanied by live flamenco guitar! LOCATION: West Los Angeles | Gypsy Camp Ethnic Arts Center, 3265 Motor Ave, LA Ca. 90034 SCHEDULE: 6:00-7:00 pm | Introduction to Flamenco 7:30-8:30 pm | Advanced Beginners/Intermediate 8:30-9:30 pm | Advanced Choreography Workshop PRICING: Monthly -- $90 plus $10 first time registration fee. (4 one hour classes, once a week) 8 Classes -- $150 ($10 registration fee waived) Single Class --- $25 (cash only) Please rsvp prior to attending your first class via email: briseydaflamenca@hotmail.com FOR FURTHER INFO CONTACT: Briseyda Zarate 323.719.1613 www.briseydazarateflamenco.comFlamenco For Children & Beginners!
Enjoy learning this fun, rhythmic and dynamic art form with award winning dancer, teacher and choreographer Briseyda Zarate...New classes are forming now for children ages 7-12...No experience necessary!Modern / Contemporary
This class is for intermediate to advanced dancers. Warm up will be designed to strengthen and awaken the body. Organizing and aligning, creating a strong center using principles of Yoga, Pilates, dance conditioning, and ballet. Softening and articulating for suppleness using release technique, classic modern dance, and exercises to sequence and segment the spine. The second half of class, we will dance from the inside out, and the outside in, working on simple gestures to complex, technically challenging, stylized movement phrases. We will explore dance on all planes of the body and invert movement phrasesto develop strength and versatility.Master Class at Lineage Performing Arts Center
L i n e a g e D a n c e p r e s e n t s : Fall Master Class Series Don’t miss this opportunity to take class with some of the best teachers around! Every Sunday this Fall 9/19 Jazz with Beth Iguchi 9/26 Modern with Janice Blunt 10/3 Jazz with Karen Klein 10/10 Cooperative Opposition (modern based) with Gina Buntz 10/17 Jazz with Deborah Brockus 10/24 Cultural Fusion with Joey Dowdy 10/31 Classical Indian with Sangita Shresthova 11/7 Contemporary with Terri Best 11/14 Lyrical Contemporary with Jamie Nichols 11/21 Lyrical Jazz with Denise Leitner Classes are held on Sundays from 10 am - 12 pm - $20 per class or purchase 5 and get 1 free - Intermediate and Advanced Dancers only - Must be at least 12 years old to participateTAProbics- the cardio tap dance workout clsss
Get fit the tap dance way- great class for all levels. This class will have you burning a ton of calories while you are focused on the dance and having fun. www.tapaholictapclasses.com Saturdays at 11am Mondays at 7pmDUNDU I SAMATO WEST AFRICAN DANCE WORKOUT
Come dance, sweat and workout your body with Nikkanni McLennan, a talented and inspirational traditional West African dance specialist who has studied and trained under masters from the African diaspora. NO experience necessary to move your body to the pulsating rhythms of African drums...Let the music move and groove you...All ages and dance communities welcome…w/ LIVE drumming from some of the HOTTEST djembe and dundun drummers in town!!! See ya' on the dance floor!!! LULA WASHINGTON'S DANCE THEATRE THURDAYS 7PM-8PM $13 per class AND donations also accepted (424) 222-1918 nikkanni@gmail.comInt/Adv Horton-based Modern at The Dance Collaborative with Laura Laser
The intermediate/advanced modern class will continue to utilize Horton based dance technique emphasizing a whole body approach including; flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness to allow freedom of expression. This class will explore how to create clearly defined shapes, as well as how a dancer can move through these shapes with energy and use of space. The class will consist of a full body warm-up, center, and across the floor combinations to teach the students the importance of contraction/release and rise/fall. Not only will dancers gain technical strength and develop/hone musicality, but they will also be encouraged to express themselves through the movement. Laura was previously the rehearsal director for Winifred R. Harris' Between Lines Dance Co. for 6 years.Beg/Int Limón-based Modern at The Dance Collaborative taught by James Keene
This class will focus on the basic principles of alignment, center strengthening, balance, and flexibility. The center warm-up will be a starting point for the development of these ideas using contractions, swing, balance, and fall/rebound. Basic progressions across the floor will also incorporate these principles as well as encourage more freedom of movement. The center combinations will involve use of the breath and use of the body to create weight and movement. James Keene, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory, and founder of the Earthwalk Dance Company, teaches this class. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comInt/Adv Limón-based Modern at The Dance Collaborative taught by James Keene
This class will focus on increasing bodily strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance in a more challenging way. Progressions across the floor will use natural kinesthetic movement created by cyclical falling and recovery. Off-center balance work and the use of fall and rebound will be encouraged. The center combinations will continue to use the breath as well as the body to resist gravity and suspend movement. James Keene, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory, and founder of the Earthwalk Dance Company, teaches this class. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comAdvance Contemporary Classes
Seda Aybay's contemporary class is focused on quick weight shift, use of momentum, alignment, and strengthening through fusing the control release technique with Horton vocabulary. The class begins with a center warm up designed from a classical approach to dance through various exercises, to bring the fundamentals back to body. After an extensive floor stretch, it continues with series of off-centered turns and jumps across the floor. Applying all the class materials, a short combination is tauhgt at the end, emphasizing performance qualities.Contemporary
This class is designed for pre-professional ballet dancers who are interested in cross training with modern dance. Exercises are derived from pioneers such as Martha Graham, Paul Taylor and Jose Limon. There is also exploration of Countertechnique and Improvisation skills. Emphasis is placed on healthy alignment, sequential movement through space, accessing weight and floorwork.danceXchange
a weekly contemporary class led by a stellar list of teaching artists Contact: holly@stringtheoryproductions.com or alesiayolo@gmail.com for more info & schedule updates.Absolute Beginner Tap Dance- Broadway-style
Learn to tap dance from the very beginning. Other levels also availableOpen Teen/Adult Modern Technique
Tawny Chapman teaches an open advanced modern/contemporary class every Wednesday at Impact Dance Center in Los Alamitos. Teen and adult dancers with a strong technical foundation are welcome to attend class. With a focus on movement efficiency, connecting of steps, expansive moving, floor work, musicality and artistic choices, students will engage in a series of technical exercises and combinations while also exploring movement through improvisation and choreography-based activities.X-Factor Dance Project (a Regina Klenjoski Dance Company youth program)
X-Factor is a multidimensional group made up of dancers 8 years old and up with training in jazz, modern, or ballet at an intermediate/advanced level. Students are challenged with a blend of jazz influenced contemporary choreography and mentored on technical and performance skills through stage experience at various events. X-Factor is directed by Raelle Dorfan, a veteran RKDC teacher and professional performer. You must audition for this class prior to enrolling. Auditions are open to all students registered in any other RKDC modern, ballet, hip-hop, or jazz class at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. Auditions will take place Tuesday, September 21 from 5:20-6:20pm at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center - Studio 2 - 3330 Civic Center Drive Torrance, CA 90503 Price for this class (10 sessions): Torrance Resident- $110; Non-resident - $130 Classes are Tuesday Sept 21- Nov 23 - 5:20-6:20pm - Ages 8yrs + For more information and to sign up for the audition email anna@rkdc.orgX-Sight Hip Hop
Dance with X-Sight Hip Hop (a Regina Klenjoski Dance Company youth program at The Torrance Cultural Arts Center) X-Sight is a youth hip hop group made up of dancers 8 years old and up with training in jazz and hip-hop. Dancers are challenged with a combination of hip-hop and jazz influenced movement and will have the opportunity to learn choreographic and performance skills through regular rehearsal and stage experience at various events. You must audition for this class prior to enrolling. Auditions are open to all students registered in any other RKDC modern, ballet, hip-hop, or jazz class at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. Auditions will take place Tuesday, September 21 from 5:30-6:30pm Torrance Cultural Arts Center - Studio 2 - 3330 Civic Center Drive Torrance, CA 90503 Price for this class (10 sessions): Torrance Resident- $110; Non-resident - $130 Classes are Tuesday Sept 21- Nov 23 - 5:20-6:20pm - Ages 8yrs + For more information and to sign up for the audition email anna@rkdc.orgScruffin Rock
Scruffin Rock with Julie (formerly Rock Toddler) A rockin’ music and movement class for ages 9 months to 3 years and their parents and/or caregivers. Thursdays @ 10:45 – 11:30 am OR Fridays @ 10:30 – 11:15 am Drop-in only on 8/19, 8/20 & 8/26, 8/27 $14 per class 13-week Fall Session: 9/9 thru 12/17 (no class 10/21, 10/22 & 11/25, 11/26) $156 for the session $14 drop-in (space permitting)World Citizen Toddler
World Citizen Toddler with Sarah Immerse your baby or toddler in the sounds, music and rhythms from around the world. Tuesdays @ 10:45 – 11:30 am 10-week Fall Session: 9/28 – 12/7 (no class 11/23) $120 for the session $14 drop-in (space permitting)Beg/Int Horton-based Modern at The Dance Collaborative with Laura Laser
Horton-based dance technique emphasizes a whole body approach including; flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness to allow freedom of expression. This class will introduce students to the basics of modern dance, including techniques mainly from Horton but also from Graham and Limon. Students will learn the importance of contraction and release, how to move through space and develop musicality. The class will consist of full body warm-up, center, and across the floor combinations. This class will not only give a great technical foundation, but will also encourage dancers to dance from the inside out, expressing themselves and telling a story through their movement. Laura was previously the rehearsal director for Winifred R. Harris' Between Lines Dance Co. for 6 years.Economic Dance Relief
2 Part Dance Class designed for Professional Dancers (Part I - Foundation) Basis focusing on alignment, core strength, breath, and exploration of gravity. Alexandria has successfully Incorporated ideas from her own training of Limon, Horton, Cunningham, Graham, and Simonson techniques and culminated them with her own fresh energetic flavor and musicality to create exciting warm up. These "dances" promote physicality, stamina and agility enhancing performance quality awareness and execution. (Part II- Research) Combining improvisation and the dynamic choreography of Alexandria Yalj, this improvisational lab has been specifically developed for investigation and experimenting with time, space, effort, and shape. Offering an array of improvisational vignettes where participants are presented with playground of compositional images to play with and exercise their creative mind paired with body and soul. $10 suggested donation Alexandria Yalj -self producing performance artist with an MFA in choreography from CalArts. If she is not chasing the sun regardless of direction, she's probably diligently coordinating the next Collective Movement. As artistic director of Collective Movement, Alexandria has had the extreme pleasure in forming a pick up dance company that embodies an organically radical approach to choreography. Her unique choreographic works haven been presented in her native New York City as well as New Hamp shire, Fresno City College, Pepperdine University, Berkshire Fringe Festival and here in Los Angeles. A current company member of Rosanna Gamson World Wide and Stephan Koplowitz's international site specific touring company TaskForce, Alexandria is constantly searching for new approaches to expression and communication capacity of the body.Day Long Intensive Butoh Workshop with Katsura Kan
We are pleased and honored to welcome Katsura Kan back to Los Angeles to teach and perform. Kan is a native of Kyoto, Japan, and is a Master Butoh artist from the ranks of Japan's first generation of Butoh. He is a celebrated solo artist, collaborative performer and choreographer. His uniqueness as a performer and a teacher lies in his utilization of Butoh as a gateway to the exploration of dance and performing arts from other cultures. He consistently challenges himself, his collaborators and his students to extend themselves beyond what is known or assumed in dance and art. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to study closely with a performer/choreographer whose experience, vision and insight have an ongoing impact upon the development of contemporary dance. We will explore the relationship between body, psyche and dance through sensoral imagery and practices unique to Kan's approach to movement. For active dancers, performers and choreographers the techniques and information presented provide a rich resource for re-shaping our approach to movement and movement vocabulary. The workshop is appropriate for performers with basic movement experience to professional dancers and choreographers.Contemporary Movement - Free Class Promotion!
Contemporary Movement – Bring a Friend Promotion! Inspire the artist within! A class designed to translate abstraction into motion. After a yoga/pilates warm up, you will use elements of jazz, ballet and modern to practice musicality and center. By the end of class, a short piece of original choreography is learned to tie it all together. Come take your shoes off and dance with Jasmine! For the next month bring a friend who is new to the class and your class is FREE! Share the experience of a different type of dance class; focused on creativity and self-expression- Jasmine will inspire the artist in you!Afro Fusion
Afro Fusion Jolieba teaches an exciting contemporary class deriving African and Latin based movement styles, such as Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Salsa and West African dance. Come dance to the hypnotic poly-rhythms, get rooted AND uplifted! Thursdays 5:30 – 6:25 pm Starts 7/29 with a FREE class! Dance with Jolieba! Help us welcome back a former Heartbeat House instructor and amazing dancer, Jolieba Jackson! Along with teaching, Jolieba is a working actress, model, dancer and singer/songwriter. You can see her in national ad campaigns and music videos, and now you can see her here in these incredible new classes sharing her unique style and passion for life!Contemporary
Ballet, Jazz and Modern fusionNew Contemporary classes offered at new studio on Wilshire!
Contemporary (ballet, jazz, modern fusion) classes starting at JOA Wellness Center on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays!Cardio Soul
Cardio Soul Join Jolieba in this super fun, super funky dance workout class! Don’t miss a feel-good morning workout of cardio dance and ab work to hip hop, soul and pop music! Guaranteed to keep you happy and groovin’ for the rest of your day! Wednesdays 9:00 – 9:55 am Starts 7/28 with a FREE class! Dance with Jolieba! Help us welcome back a former Heartbeat House instructor and amazing dancer, Jolieba Jackson! Along with teaching, Jolieba is a working actress, model, dancer and singer/songwriter. You can see her in national ad campaigns and music videos, and now you can see her here in these incredible new classes sharing her unique style and passion for life!Int/Adv Classic Jazz at The Dance Collaborative taught by Paul A. Brown
A blend of classic Giordano technique infused with more advanced contemporary and musical theatre style jazz dance, this class is geared toward those students who are at least intermediate level or above and already have a working knowledge of basic jazz technique. This class will be exploring what moves us to dance.Beg/Int Classic Jazz at The Dance Collaborative taught by Paul A. Brown
A blend of classic Giordano technique infused with contemporary and musical theatre style jazz dance, this class will be geared more toward the Adult beginner, but will also be well suited for those Intermediate level students looking to get back into shape and/or improve their technique. This class is taught by Paul A. Brown, a former member of Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comInt/Adv Ballet at The Dance Collaborative taught by Perry Brown
This class covers classical and neo-classical styles, while focusing on advanced ballet vocabulary and movement. The class is designed for the teen or adult student who wishes to enhance and master correct placement, body alignment, and appropriate form. This class is taught by Perry Brown, who studied at the prestigious School of American Ballet. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comBeg/Int Ballet at The Dance Collaborative taught by Perry Brown
Beg/Int Ballet covers classical and neo-classical styles, while focusing on the basics of ballet vocabulary and movement. The class is designed for the adult student who has no formal ballet training or who has studied ballet in the past and wishes to resume training. Emphasis will be placed on correct placement, body alignment, and appropriate form. This class is taught by Perry Brown, who studied at the prestigious School of American Ballet. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comAerial Hoop (LYRA) Class at the Brockus Project Studios in Downtown Los Angeles (Open Level)
Learn progressive circus aerial arts using the ring apparatus (aka Hoop, Lyra). Class will include spins, swings, contortion combinations and balancing skills. The class will also focus on the proper execution of the combinations (tricks) from a performing artists point of of view. For more details, please visit: www.rubykaren.comCircus Aerial Arts - Tissu Class in Downtown Los Angeles (Brockus Project Studios)
Learn progressive circus aerial arts using fabric apparatus (aka Tissu, Ribbon, Silk). Class will include various climbs, drops, horizontal and vertical lined combinations. The class will also focus on the proper execution of the combinations (tricks) from a performing artists point of of view. The class is 1.5 hrs. For more details, please visit: www.rubykaren.comTissu/ Silk Aerial Class (Open level)
Learn progressive circus aerial arts using fabric apparatus (aka Tissu, Ribbon, Silk). Class will include various climbs, drops, horizontal and vertical lined combinations. The class will also focus on the proper execution of the combinations (tricks) from a performing artists point of of view. Schedule and location varies depending on the day. The class is 1.5 hrs. For more details, please visit: www.rubykaren.comKids Aerial Dance Classes - Hoop and Hammock (Ages 6-12)
Great start for your kids to learn progressive cutting edge performing arts such as dance and aerial arts designed specifically for kids. The aerial apparatus will be Hoop and Hammock.Hammock Aero-Fitness
Want a different style of sweating while developing core strength? This class is catered to regular people who want to lose weight and tone their muscles. It combines ground and aerial (Hammock) combinations and teaches you to balance and suspend. The class is medium paced with non-stop exercises (except for water breaks) Class will start in September 2010. Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 12:00pm - 12:45pm Wednesdays: 6:15pm - 7:00pmHammock Aero-Fitness
Want a different style of sweating while developing core strength? This class is catered to regular people who want to lose weight and tone their muscles. It combines ground and aerial (Hammock) combinations and teaches you to balance and suspend. The class is medium paced with non-stop exercises (except for water breaks) Class will start in September 2010.Aerial Summer Intensive: July 26 - 30 Tissu - Corde Lisse - Hoop/ Lyra - Hammock
These classes are highly recommended to dancers who want to take their training to a different level. You will learn safety protocols, basic rigging and aerial combinations that will supplement your dance routines and will focus on endurance, execution as well as provide creative & artistic elements. See Workshop Schedule for details: www.rubykaren.comAerial Summer Intensive: July 26 - 30 Tissu - Corde Lisse - Hoop/ Lyra - Hammock
These classes are highly recommended to dancers who want to take their training to a different level. You will learn safety protocols, basic rigging and aerial combinations that will supplement your dance routines and will focus on endurance, execution as well as provide creative & artistic elements.Aerial Dance Fitness
Discover a workout that combines aerial apparatus, dance movements and extensive contortion based flexibility for regular (non-dancers) people. This class is fun yet challenging. The apparatus are Hoop, Hammock and Silk (Tissu). You will be given exercises that will develop your strength (yes, you don't need to cross-train at the gym, to get your pull-ups). Recommended for regular people of all ages (including those in their 60's), as the sessions are customized according to your performance. This is definitely a No-Stress class.Yoga 4 Dancers
This class uses the practice of Kundalini yoga to balance and enhance the graceful wellbeing of the dancer. It is designed to both nurture those who have undergone years of rigorous dance training within demanding environments, and empower new dancers with the courage to uncover their full potential. You will learn: * Powerful breath techniques targeted for dancers to provide you with increased physical endurance. * Yogic sets and meditations selected specifically to keep you fully present in the excellence of your movements and free from mental distractions. * Chakra practices to layer your dancing with the expansive range of your emotions, sexuality and intuition while keeping you connected you to your core power. * New ways of viewing yourself as a dancer that will make performing and dancing in a group setting more enjoyable. www.yoga4artists.comFeldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
A unique approach to movement: explore new paths of neuro-muscular coordination which will allow you to access more efficient, pain-free movement, expand movement possibilities, change habits that interfere with optimal movement, bring comfort and pleasure back into your dancing and support a safer and longer dance life.Brazilian Samba Class All levels - Pico/Fairfax
Fransini Giraldo, the creator of Sambabody workout program and DVD invites you to join her at this beautiful dance studio in the Corner of Pico and Fairfax. A method guaranteed to teach you Samba, a challenging rhythm that only the best instructors can break down. Come see for yourself. Broken down steps w/ lots of practice and a great and fun cardio workout. See more details at sambabody.comExtreme Salsa Fitness - Cali, L.A and Afrocuban Styles
Join Fransini in a fun Salsa footwork and fitness class! Get in your cardio workout as Fransini teaches and guides you through various Salsa footwork styles- from Afro-Cuban to L.A. Style to the very popular Colombian style Salsa. Wear your tennis shoes, bring a water bottle and prepare to sweat! Category: All Level Dance Workout Class Duration: 55 Minutes Attire: Workout clothes, athletic shoes more info at sambabody.comBrazilian Samba Dance
Based on her popular dance workout DVD, Samba Body, join Fransini in a fitness regimen that will not only teach you how to dance this sexy Brazilian dance but will also provide a complete body workout! Torso, legs, and especially your “bunda” (Portuguese for glutes) are strengthened and defined while simultaneously improving posture and providing excellent cardiovascular benefits. The results speak for themselves- a healthy, fit, and fabulous SAMBA BODY!Summer Programs @Lula Washington Dance Theatre
Summer Classes run July 12-August 22, for all ages and levels. There's something for everyone! Ballet, Caribbean, Choreography/Repertoire, Drumming, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Martial Arts, Modern, Pointe, Tap, Tumbling, West African, and more! Summer Camp: Age 7-13, Mon-Fri 8am-5pm Teen Intensive: Age 13-18, Mon-Fri 1pm-8pm Other Classes: Age 3-6 through Adults, Evenings & Saturdays Orientation & Placement Class: Fri July 9, 5pm-7pm Culminating Performances: August 21-22 $35 – School Registration fee $650 – All 6 weeks $150 – Per week $525 – Saturdays only $135 – Single day (8 hrs) $50/wk – Early drop off 7:30am, Late pick-up 6:30pm (for youth) $15 – Single class (non-registered) $12 – Single class (registered) Details: www.lulawashington.org/2010/05/2010-summer-dance-programs/Professional/ Advanced Ballet
The Box Dance Studio is a school for those who love dance. We are located in the city of Orange in Southern California. At the Box, we are not looking for the perfect body, or the natural talent in dancers. What we care about above all is the spirit and dedication within the dancer. Personal attention is given to all dancers at all levels. Whether you’re trying dance for the first time, or are an experienced dancer looking to move forward, the Box is the place for you. The techniques used at the Box are like few others in the world, allowing dancers to grow mentally and passionately through dance. Unlike other studios, The Box promotes continual, rapid progress, allowing dancers to achieve their goals in dance much quicker than the traditional methods. We believe there is no such thing as a “perfect” body for dance; anyone that has the desire can become great.RKDC offers new intermediate Mat Pilates class
The Southbay’s premiere contemporary dance company, Regina Klenjoski Dance Company, offers over 40 dance and exercise classes a week this summer session starting June 28th at their studios at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center in Torrance! Our newest exercise class is a Pilates level 1&2 for ages 16+. This 10 week intermediate Pilates Mat class is a strength-training program based on the popular methods of Joseph Pilates. Known for restoring balance, increasing flexibility, and maintaining good posture, this Pilates Mat class is for students with some previous Pilates training. Class meets twice a week on Tues/Thurs mornings 8:30am-9:30am, beginning Tuesday, June 29. $138 for Torrance residents / $158 for non-Torrance residents = $7 per class!!! For more info or to register for class, email anna@rkdc.org.RKDC offers Student Summer Dance Workshop for ages 9-18yrs
The Southbay’s premiere contemporary dance company, Regina Klenjoski Dance Company, offers over 40 dance and exercise classes a week this summer session starting June 28th at their studios at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center in Torrance! Their featured class this summer is the Student Summer Dance Workshop for ages 9-18yrs. Students with some previous dance experience are invited to take 5 weeks of intensive training in Pilates, dance conditioning, ballet, jazz, choreography, modern and Hip hop dance styles taught by professional artists from RKDC. Class meets MWF from 2pm-4pm beginning Monday, June 28. $255 for Torrance residents / $275 for non-Torrance residents. For more info or to register for workshop, email anna@rkdc.org.Summer Intensive Advanced Workshop
A 2-week in-depth workshop June 21st - July 2nd for dancers ages 15 & up. Intensive training with an exceptional teaching staff. A unique program, focusing on individual development in both Contemporary and Classical dance, emphasizing technique and choreography.Summer Intensive 2010
A Four-Week Program July 5th - July 30th for dancers ages 8 to 18 with a comprehensive curriculum to include daily classes in Ballet Technique, Pointe and Contemporary and weekly classes in Repertoire, Variations, African, Jazz, Hip Hop and Pilates.Latin Jam Master Class
Get ready to take your cardio to a whole new level! Get lost in the music and movement of JP's signature dance workout at this Latin Jam Master Class! A super fun, high energy dance party with infectious music, live drumming, lights and energizing refreshments - you don't want to miss it! Contact us now to save your spot, as space is limited.Rock Toddler - Summer Sessions
Rock Toddler - Summer Sessions Rock Toddler is a playful, interactive music class for parents, caregivers and children (ages 9 months- 3 years old). The curriculum takes different styles of music, including traditional, classical and pop-rock and presents them in a toddler-appropriate manner. Movement, rhythmic-play with and without instruments and participatory singing are emphasized. Most importantly, the curriculum is designed for families and friends to explore musical worlds through artistic repertoire. 10 weeks $120 + $30 materials fee (for new students) Thursdays @ 10:45 – 11:30 am June 3 – August 12 (no class 7/8) Fridays @ 10:30 – 11:15 am June 4 – August 13 (no class 7/9)Rock 'n Soul Pilates
Rock ‘n Soul Pilates – now on Thursday evenings! In response to numerous requests, we have now added Rebekkah’s popular Rock ‘n Soul Pilates class to the Thursday night line-up! Join Rebekkah in a Pilates mat class to strengthen, stretch and center you. Her awesome music mixes will help you focus and have fun! Starting Thursday, June 3rd @ 6:30 – 7:25pm Also on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays @ 11:30 – 12:25pmBeginner Burlesque with Red Snapper
From the burlesquer who brings you Sass, Class, and a Whole Lotta "Cheek," become versed in basic striptease techniques like bump and grind sexy walks, glove tease and boa play. In this 6 week series, learn a fun choreography to release your veiled vamp and showcase your inner showgirl. Free access to the costume workshop BLING BLING BLING: GLITTER, SEQUINS & RHINESTONES AND HOW TO MAKE A FABULOUS HAIR FLOWER (materials fees apply) AND FREE BOA AND GLOVES FOR EVERY STUDENTS Sundays for 6 weeks: June 13th, 20th, 27th July 11th, 18th, 25th (no class on July 4th) 11 am to 12:30 pm Costume Workshop is Sunday July 11th 12:30 to 2pm Questions? Stripteasesymposium@gmail.com 310.766.8830Bootcamp Workout
Kick your butt into shape for summer! Join personal trainer and fitness instructor, Susan Howard, in a workout class that will help you burn fat, lose weight and lean out! A fun, challenging, full body workout with cardio drills, weights, exercise bands and balls, etc. Wednesdays @ 12:30 - 1:30pm Starts May 26th with a FREE CLASS!CDT's Inter/Adv Ballet Open Company Class
Creations Dance Theatre is opening up their friday night class. Ballet level: Inter/Adv Cost: $10 Location: Penny Lane Dance Academy Address 14622 Ventura Blvd. #204 Sherman Oaks, CA (310) 995-2745 or (818) 981-1414Dance Free Day - All Styles
Creations Dance Theatre will perform the timelss classic "The Nutcracker" at The Los Angeles Theater Centers on December 4, 2010. We are looking for children and teens to perform in this professional production, make sure to bring them to "Dance Free Days" this summer!!! IT'S FREE - These classes are designed for all levels and all ages 6-8 & 8-12 & 12 - 17. Date: June 26, 2010 & July 31, 2010 Time: 3pm - 5pm Location: Penny Lane Dance Academy @ La Reina Address: 14622 Ventura Blvd. # 204 City: Sherman Oaks, CA Cost: FREE Contact: Raquel Cordova @ (310) 995-2745 www.creationsdancetheatre.com Learn Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Afro-Peruvian, and Modern!! Creations Dance Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional dance company. Our mission is to create a variety of exciting, contemporary ballet and modern works with Latin Influences, while fostering the history and technical demands of classical ballet and its importance as a foundation for dance as an art. Our goal is to enrich the community with a true dance theatre by bringing together artists from other world-dance genres. Through dance workshops, master classes, and performances, Creations Dance Theatre exposes and educates the youth about the amazing creations that dance brings...Expressions Without Words. Our dancers are very special because they’ve trained for years devoting themselves to an art that fulfills their souls and not their wallets. Creations Dance Theatre dancers selflessly give themselves to the art in hopes of reaching out to audiences of all ages and cultural backgrounds. They express themselves in the universal language of DANCE and teaching by example that there are no cultural confines in the arts. By combining different cultures, we show the strength in community and educate our youth to creatively express themselves without words and cultural or stylistic boundaries.Lineage Dance Presents: Weekend Summer Dance Intensive
Contemporary dance for Professional and Pre-Professional dancers age 16 and up. • Explore the high-energy challenge of Lineage Dance and Kin Dance repertory, featuring partnering work that blends athleticism, graceful lifts and dynamic floor work. Culminating student performance on Sunday afternoon. Friday-Saturday June 18 & 19 – 9:00am-5:30pm, Sunday June 20– 9:00am-2:00pm. Seeking Apprentice: there is one apprentice position open for the 2010-2011 season that may be filled from this workshop --must be 18 years or older for apprentice position. www.lineagedance.org (626) 399-3676Jazz Dance -Beginning
This is a fun introduction to various styles of Jazz Dance from contemporary lyrical to hip hop. Since this is a twice weekly (Mondays and Wednesdays) 8-week community college course, the classes are progressive and you will see a huge improvement in your flexibility, strength, coordination and confidence. I use upbeat cool music from rap to world jazz fusion. The best part is the price - only $26 for 16 two-hour classes! Really! DA 437 Section #2150 and #2151CIRCUIT AEROBICS
circuits are a series of planned (continuos) movements geared for muscle definition.Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance Technique
Modern dance technique class based on the principles of Hanya Holm and Nancy McKnight Hauser. This is an ongoing 1-1/2 hour class that focuses on spatial awareness, rhythmic phrasing, musicality, swings, core strengthening and alignment. Taught by Nancy Evans Doede, former student of Hanya Holm, member of the Nancy Hauser Dance Company, and currently Artistic Director of the Nancy Evans Dance Theatre.Ballet, Intermediate/Advanced/Pro
La Danserie Artistic Director Patrick Frantz teaches intermediate/advanced/pro Ballet classes at BPStudios in Downtown LA Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 4:30 pm and Saturday at 4:00 pm. For more information call 818-341-0530 or email jpgladanserie@yahoo.comBody Conditioning - now on Thursdays!
Come workout with Heather on Thursdays mornings for Body Conditioning! Enjoy a total body workout using weights, balls, mats, bosus, disks, bands and straps along with easy to follow cardio drills and Heather's super positive attitude. She is also subbing the Tuesday Body Conditioning class for Kumbi, so come workout on Tuesday and Thursday mornings with us! Body Conditioning: Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 9:30 – 10:25 amBartenieff Fundamentals "Moving From Core"
This BARTENIEFF FUNDAMENTALS class will work with the "CORE DISTAL" basic neurological pattern that connects the entire body for integrated movement. No matter what movement form you do or teach this pattern facilitates moving with ease as a whole with an awareness of all parts in relationship. We will work with basic simple BARTENIEFF exercises to strengthen a deep awareness of the core both in mobility and stability. We will apply what we are learning to various movement practices. A focus on thinking of movement as flowing kinetic chains using imagery that supports both grounding and moving into space will be used and taught. If you are a teacher or desire to teach, the approach to cueing movement taught in this class will be exciting to you. We will explore: • "Arms to Tail" and "Feet to Head" Kinetic Chains • Deep Core Support without holding or binding • "Countering" and Reciprocal Muscle Innervation • Inflow and Outflow of energy for ease • Using imagery for whole body engagement • Movement as metaphor This class is for interested movers at all levelsInt/Adv Contemporary Jazz at The Dance Collaborative with Joseph Allen Decker
Contemporary jazz intermediate/advanced will continue to explore current styles of jazz movement including popular, funk, contemporary, and lyrical. In this class you will increase your technique, coordination, and balance through more challenging intermediate/advanced level combinations. After a technical ballet, jazz, and modern based warm-up, we will explore more advanced rhythmic footwork, fast turns, and large leaps across the floor. This class will finish with a difficult and intricate center combination each week, requiring greater precision, fluidity, and grace as a dancer. Challenge yourself, while expressing your individual style and emotional interpretation, through masterful execution of jazz movement. This class is taught by Joseph Allen Decker, Founder and Artistic Director of the JADD Co., and a former member of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comBeg/Int Contemporary Jazz at The Dance Collaborative with Joseph Allen Decker
This class will explore current styles of jazz movement including popular, funk, contemporary, and lyrical. This is a perfect class for beginning or intermediate students looking to increase their understanding of the popular or contemporary jazz style. After a basic but technical ballet, jazz, and modern based warm-up, you will expand your knowledge of jazz moves with footwork, turns, and leaps across the floor. The class will finish with a different center combination each week that will allow you to express your individual style as a dancer through energetic and exciting jazz movement. This class is taught by Joseph Allen Decker, Founder and Artistic Director of the JADD Co., and a former member of The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comSambaBody - NEW class on Saturdays!
Dance to the irresistible rhythm of Samba in this fitness regimen that will not only teach anyone to dance Samba, but will also provide a complete body workout. Torso, legs and especially your “bunda” (Portuguese for “glutes”), are strengthened and defined while simultaneously improving posture and providing excellent cardiovascular benefits. Saturdays from 2:00 - 2:55pmBallet
This ballet technique class in Silver Lake covers classical and neo-classical style within a friendly, community-based atmosphere. Perry Brown studied at the prestigious School of American Ballet. and has over fifteen years of experience working as professional ballet dancer. He provides constructive corrections for each dancer to dramatically improve form, strength and artistic expression. www.studioadance.comBeg/Int Ballet at The Dance Collaborative taught by Paul A. Brown
This class will focus on the basics of ballet vocabulary and movement, and is designed for the adult student who has no formal ballet training or who has studied ballet in the past and wishes to resume training. Emphasis will be placed on correct placement, body alignment, and appropriate form. This class is taught by Paul A. Brown, a former member of Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago. For more information visit our website: www.dancecolab.comLatin Jam on Wednesdays!
Experience the fusion of seductive Latin flavors with hip hop, techno and the exotic attitude of tribal movements… Join JP in an intense cardio class that will have you dancing and sweating your way to a healthier and happier you! Now on Wednesdays too! 5:30 – 6:25 pm (starting 4/14/10) Also on Tuesdays at 6:30pm with JP and Thursdays at 8:30pm with Toni & Cherith!*New* Open Lula Washington Dance Theatre Company Class
For the first time in Lula Washington Dance Theatre's 30-year history, daily company classes are open to the public. Classes designed for intermediate to advanced modern dancers pursuing professional dance career with LWDT or a modern dance company. Instructors: Conditioning/Modern with Tamica Washington-Miller (Mon, Wed) Ballet with PG Grinton of Ballet Trockadero, Philadanco, NYCB. (Tues) Modern/Theatre/Improv with Lula Washington (Thurs) *Occasional guest teachers Please call in advance-- THIS CLASS DOES NOT MEET WHILE LWDT IS ON TOUR.Regina Klenjoski Dance Company offers new contemporar/jazz/lyrical class and beginning/intermediate breakdancing class through the City of Torrance!
Regina Klenjoski Dance Company (RKDC) offers more than 40 dance and exercise classes a week through the City of Torrance, including classes for youth such as tap/ballet/creative, tiny tots hip hop, and boys hip hop/funk as well as classes for teens and young adults such as broadway jazz, pilates, modern ballet and world beat dance. Come try our newest classes at RKDC: Contemporary/jazz/lyrical on Thursday nights from 5:30pm-6:30pm for 8-12 year olds, and on Thursday nights from 6:00-7:00pm for 13 years and older. Or come try our beginning/intermediate B-boy/B-girl Breaking class on Tuesday nights from 7:30-8:30pm! Classes take place in the beautiful and spacious dance studios at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center at 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, Ca 90503. Classes start the week of April 12, 2010 and run continuously for 9 weeks. REGISTRATION IS GOING ON NOW! So please enroll soon as classes fill up fast! YOU MUST BE REGISTERED TO TAKE CLASS; NO DROP-INS ARE PERMITTED. To see a complete guide of dance and exercise classes offered by RKDC and to register online, please visit the City of Torrance's website: https://www.tprd.torranceca.gov/RegistrationMain.sdi Please send any questions or inquiries to: anna@rkdc.org. Also, visit our website at www.rkdc.org for more information about Regina Klenjoski Dance Company and for upcoming events.Celtic Tap
A tap class for children which combines basic tap and celtic step (Riverdance inspired)Armenian and International Dances
Karavan Dance Studio offers classes which combine classical and folk genres ti introduce dancers to a world of dance consisting of international rhythms and music. Open to all ages, Karavan has a class to accomodate any dancer, professional or novice, age 3 and up. All classes begin with a simple warm up by the barre and basic centre, necessary for all style of dance, which prepares the dancer for various choreography.Barre-Obix
BarreObix (Barre + Aerobics), a new and exciting program designed to sculpt and elongate your muscles (core, butt, legs, and arms) BarreObix combines barre and floor exercises to tone and firm, while using your own body weight as resistance to burn fat. Concentration and balance will rejuvenate you body and your mind – and you will have fun doing it, guaranteed! Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 12:00pm – 1:00pm (what better way to spend lunch hour)Advanced Ballet
Too many studios offer an advance ballet class, but once you get there you realize that its not really what you had in mind. Or, many studios pride themselves on having great floors, but Karavan Dance Studio is truly unique in its accomodations, with professionally sprung floors, high ceilings, exceptional lighting and mirrors. Take a class at Karavan and you will experience both: a professional ballet class and a professional studio. Taught by the former artist of the Vienna State Opera and the recepient of the 2008 "Dancer of the Year Award" Edgar Nikolyan combines clean technique and artistic knowledge to deliver a one of a kind ballet class. Tuesdays 5:30pm - 7:00pm and Fridays 7:30pm - 9:00pmSummer Intensive Media City Ballet Burbank
2 week sessions June 7-August 13 Ballet Technique, Partnering, Variations, Pantomime, Jazz/Tap/Hip hip, Character/Folk, Acrobatics, Modern, Lyrical, Acting Skills, Music for dancers, Ballet Film presentations Registration deadline April 1, 2010 Call for more information 818/972-9692 http://www.mediacityballet.org/MCBC/MCBinstitute.htmJazz & Musical Theater
Master class in Jazz & Musical Theater taught by Amy Allen of Broadway’s touring production of Wicked. Location: GYM 104. This class is part of the Masters of Dance Series generously sponsored by the SMC Associates. For more information: Judith Douglas, 310-434-4856 or DOUGLAS_JUDITH@smc.eduHula Dance - Hula O' Hoaloha
Experience a low impact, stress reduction work-out while having fun learning Traditional Hula. Beginner, Children(5-12), Intermediate/Advanced classes offered for both Men and Women. Email: dancefrau@yahoo.com or call 323 697 1356Contemporary Dance and Pilates Mat in Sherman Oaks
11:00am-12:00pm Pilates Mat 12:00-1:00pm Contemporary Dance (int/adv level) You are encouraged to use the Pilates mat as a warm-up to find your center before you start moving and sweating in Contemporary class. Contemporary draws on modern dance techniques and sometimes uses the fusion of different genres like Jazz, Ballet or African. This class will challenge your technique, strength, flexibility and co-ordination with floorwork and standing exercises. You'll find yourself leaping in the air, falling to the floor, maybe even going upside down in traveling combinations. Pamela is a 2-time Lester Horton Award nominee for Outstanding Female Performance with over 10 yrs teaching experience. She is certified in Classical Pilates through Power Pilates, teaching clients from all walks of life on all apparatus. More info: pamela@incandescentorigin.com www.incandescentorigin.comSamba/Afro-Brazilian
Samba Saturdays 4pm INSTRUCTOR: GISELLA FERREIRA. An energizing, fun and dynamic cardio, dance work out to live drumming. Learn to dance Samba with Brazilian instructor Gisella Ferreira. Classes explore the diverse dances and rhythms of Brazil. Students will learn technique in diverse dance styles such as: Samba from Rio, Samba from Bahia, Maracatu, and Orixa dances. All levels are welcome. Come groove Brazilian style. WWW.GISELLASAMBISTA.COMBrazilian Body
Brazilian Body 10:00 am - 11:00 am Brazilian Body in the SHIMMY STUDIO INSTRUCTOR: GISELLA FERREIRA. A dynamic Brazilian, Cardio dance work out. Tone, strengthen, and enjoy the fusion of sensual and invigorating Brazilian dance styles: Samba/Afro-Brazilian, Axe, Lambada, and many more. Get fit the Brazilian way.Street Jazz
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Street Jazz ************** INSTRUCTOR: GISELLA FERREIRA. A fun & dynamic, cardio street dance workout. Learn funky, sensual groove styles of Hip-Hop techniques based in House, Funk, Salsa, Samba and all that Jazz! All levels welcome.Samba/Afro-Brazilian
Samba 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Wednesdays @ Your Neighborhood Studio 4:00pm - 5:00 pm Saturdays Live Music! @ Brasil Brasil Cultural Center ************** INSTRUCTOR: GISELLA FERREIRA. An energizing, fun and dynamic cardio, dance work out. Learn to dance Samba with Brazilian instructor Gisella Ferreira. Classes explore the diverse dances and rhythms of Brazil. Students will learn technique in diverse dance styles such as: Samba from Rio, Samba from Bahia, Maracatu, and Orixa dances. All levels are welcome. Come groove Brazilian style. WWW.GISELLASAMBISTA.COMSpring Toddler Sessions
Spring Toddler Sessions (starts the week of 3/22) Interactive music classes for parents, caregivers and children! Rock Toddler with Julie (9 mos–3 yrs) Sing, dance and move to traditional, classical and pop-rock music! - Thursdays @ 10:45–11:30 am - 3/25–5/20 (9 wks) - $108 *OR* - Fridays @ 10:30–11:15 am - 3/26–5/21 (8 wks–no class 4/9) - $96 World Citizen Toddler with Sarah (9 mos–4 yrs) Explore sounds, rhythms and languages from around the world! *FREE Promo Class on 3/23 for 1st time students ($14 drop in/make up class for winter session students) - Tuesdays @ 10:45–11:30 am - 3/30–5/31 (10 wks) - $120ADVANCED/PROFESSIONAL CLASSES
Tired of instructors just "giving class" and not "teaching"? If you are looking for a good, strong, structured class, where you will receive corrections, look no further... With over 15 years as a Professional Dancer & Teacher, I will make sure you have a great time practicing your fundamentals and advancing your technique. I am pleased to announce that I am now teaching an advanced/professional level class in conjunction with City Ballet of Los Angeles.ADV BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE BALLET
Taken ballet in high school and college, but it faded away? Danced your whole life, but been away for a while and need to jump back in? For those of you looking for a good ballet class, look no further. With over 15 years as a Professional Dancer & Teacher, I will make sure you have a great time practicing your fundamentals and advancing your technique. See website for details - www.croundballetworks.comBollywood Bhangra Beats Hermosa
BOLLYWOOD TAKES OVER THE SOUTH BAY! Bollywood Bhangra Beats at Heart & Pole is Achinta's newest and sexiest, sweat-drenched Indian dance class and workout! High-energy, flirty and FUN! All levels are welcome, Ladies Only.Bollywood Bhangra Beats WEST
BOLLYWOOD COMES TO THE WESTSIDE! Learn the art of Bollywood dancing from blue13 dance company's Achinta S. McDaniel, teacher of LA's longest-running Bollywood dance classes and director of the world famous blue13 dance company. Bollywood Bhangra Beats-West is Achinta's drama-filled, sweat-drenched Indian dance class that happens to be a great workout! Expect Bhangra, classical Indian footwork, and powerful and thrilling choreography set to the best Bollywood soundtracks. All levels are welcome, Adults and ages 16+.Bhangra Funk
What's Bhangra? You've heard it in Missy Elliot's and Jay-Z's music. Its also a dance form: North-Indian, high-energy, grounded dance, seen in tons of Bollywood movies! Achinta's electric, pulsating, SWEATY hot class at the beautiful IDA Hollywood! Raw, hip hop/jazz-funk fueled Bhangra dance class for all levels. Hip hop has had an enormous influence on the genre, and vice-versa. Expect a sick workout in this high energy, grounded, and hard-hitting Bhangra class, with an emphasis on choreography.Bollywood
BOLLYWOOD COMES TO NORTH HOLLYWOOD! Learn the beautiful art of Bollywood dancing from the industry's most respected Bollywood choreographer and instructor, Achinta S. McDaniel, teacher of LA's longest-running Bollywood dance classes and director of the world famous blue13 dance company. Expect a WHIRLWIND hour of high energy Bollywood, Bhangra, classical Indian techniques, and powerful and thrilling choreography set to the best Bollywood soundtracks. All levels welcome. Did we mention this is a GREAT WORKOUT?Diavolo Company Class
Tuesdays & Thursdays 9-10am: March 1-April 30, 2010 Instructors: Jones Welsh & Current and Alumni Diavolo Company Members L.A.’s renown touring dance company Diavolo Dance Theatre invites you and the dance community to join company class every Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 9-10am. Taught by Jones Welsh and a rotating roster of alumni and company members, this class always includes a physical warm-up, followed by dance phrase work, partnering, improvisation, acrobatics, yoga, catching and flying, or other technique elements that are key to Diavolo’s signature movement style that incorporates large set pieces. Class is for intermediate/advanced dancers. Info: Call Kristina at Diavolo 323-225-4290 Special Introductory Price $7 drop in, or $25 for 4 classes until April 1st, $9 or 4 for $30 Thereafter. Classes at Diavolo Dance Theatre Space, 616 MoultonAvenue, Downtown LA, 90031, in the Brewery Arts Complex off North Main and theI-5.LACDC: OPEN COMPANY CLASS & CHOREOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
In preparation for "MADE IN L.A.", our June 18th production at the Ford Amphitheatre, LACDC is excited to offer 8 Open Company Classes on Wednesdays from 6 - 8pm, FEB 24 - APRIL 14! The Contemporary Modern class, led by Artistic Director Kate Hutter, includes floorwork, moving phrases and improvisation scores to get the body moving followed by a workshop of choreography for her newest work, "Gods and Marionettes", to be premiered at "MADE IN L.A." Don't miss a rare opportunity to train with LACDC and workshop this new choreography with Kate and the company members! We look forward to dancing with you all soon :)LACDC Company Class & Choreography Workshop Series
In preparation for "MADE IN L.A.", our June 18th production at the Ford Amphitheatre, LACDC is excited to offer 8 Open Company Classes! The Contemporary Modern class led by Artistic Director Kate Hutter includes floorwork, moving phrases and improvisation scores to get the body moving! On June 18th, LACDC will perform an excerpt of the new work "Gods and Marionettes", developed and created collaboratively with theatre director, David Bridel and internationally-known a cappella music group Sonos. Don't miss a rare opportunity to workshop this new choreography with Kate and the company members of LACDC!8-WEEK PILATES 101 WORKSHOP
The Pilates Body will offer an 8-week Pilates Level I workshop to beginning, returning and current students (age 18 and over) who wish to explore the benefits of Pilates exercise and movement, or perhaps revisit the fundamentals and fine tune a present practice. Pilates 101 is a fun and economical way to learn Pilates matwork and apparatus exercises (the Universal Reformer and Springboards, a take on the Trapeze Table, will be used). The workshop will be limited to 5 participants to keep the sessions more personalized and efficient. Once the workshop is completed, students may transition into our regular group apparatus classes and bypass the 4 to 8 private apparatus sessions the studio normally requires. The workshop consists of • A quick history of the work, the basic biomechanical concepts, and the specific physical and psychological benefits the Pilates method provides. • An overview of the basic principles of Pilates, including proper breathing, abdominal, upper back, and head/neck placement-these are essential “mini-exercises” to help you get “deeper” into the more advanced exercises. • Master the complete Pilates Level I matwork, reformer and springboard work-outs, and how to integrate body and mind with the assistance of the apparatus. • Learn common exercise modifications to suit your body’s needs as well as discover contemporary exercise variations to further challenge your fitness practice.8-Week Pilates 101 Workshop
The Pilates Body will offer an 8-week Pilates Level I workshop to beginning, returning and current students (age 18 and over) who wish to explore the benefits of Pilates exercise and movement, or perhaps revisit the fundamentals and fine tune a present practice. Pilates 101 is a fun and economical way to learn Pilates matwork and apparatus exercises (the Universal Reformer and Springboards, a take on the Trapeze Table, will be used). The workshop will be limited to 5 participants to keep the sessions more personalized and efficient. Once the workshop is completed, students may transition into our regular group apparatus classes and bypass the 4 to 8 private apparatus sessions the studio normally requires. The workshop consists of • A quick history of the work, the basic biomechanical concepts, and the specific physical and psychological benefits the Pilates method provides. • An overview of the basic principles of Pilates, including proper breathing, abdominal, upper back, and head/neck placement-these are essential “mini-exercises” to help you get “deeper” into the more advanced exercises. • Master the complete Pilates Level I matwork, reformer and springboard work-outs, and how to integrate body and mind with the assistance of the apparatus. • Learn common exercise modifications to suit your body’s needs as well as discover contemporary exercise variations to further challenge your fitness practice.UnStripped
This is my trademark style of burlesque dance. It’s a little bit of cabaret, jazz, hip hop, sexy, fun, flirty, and a whole lotta woman. When in doubt flip that hair. You’ll always leave feeling a little bit sexier and more confident while getting a great workout. A fun and sexy dance sequence will be taught every time. All levels welcome. Wednesdays 9:30-10:30pm Fridays 8-9pmBurlesque Body
Learn all the basics of being a sexy cabaret burlesque dancer and see just how they get those amazing bodies. Using a pilates core strength training warm-up and basic burlesque moves to put together a cabaret combination to get that heartrate pumping. This is a great overall workout for beginners and all levels.Beginner Hip-hop
A beginners’ class teaching all the traditional hip hop moves with a warm up including isolations and across the floor, finishing with a pop style combination. All your top 40s music and video styles. All ages welcome. Tuesdays 8:30-9:30pm Saturdays 2:30-3:30pmJazz 101
A great jazz class for beginners! This class offers jazz in it’s most fundamental form and no experience is necessary. Class will begin with a thorough warm-up followed by learning jazz techniques such as footwork, balance, and basic body movement. The second half of class will focus on learning a fun center combination. Whether you are dancing for recreation, stress reduction, or overall health (or all of the above!), this class is perfect for you.Jazz Fusion
Jazz Fusion is an intermediate class combining a sassy fusion of jazz styles including fosse, pop, burlesque, funk, and contemporary. After a complete warm-up, we will play with a little bit of technique across the floor followed by learning a combination that incorporates jazz movement mixed with a little bit of attitude!TAP!
A fun class exploring both Broadway and street-style tap. All levels welcome.Contemporary
I am a big supporter of classical technique and modern movement… but most of the present time, I just want to turn up some good music and dance around in my room. This class is for those of you who want to do the same, but might need a little help with the steps. An hour to stretch, improve your technique, and guaranteed to make you sweat. We’ll learn a new routine every week to everything from 80’s rock, to new Indie music that your younger brother hasn’t even heard yet. Emphasis on balance, core strength and a good time. All levels welcome.Stretch & Strengthen
Learn simple exercises you can do at home while watching TV to improve your core strength and overall flexibility! Experiment with fun tools such as elastic stretch bands and inflatable exercise balls.Ballet 101
This beginner ballet class focuses on teaching basic movements as well as classical ballet terms and phrases, in a welcoming and supportive environment.Latin Fusion
Move your hips to infectious Latin rhythms to fun and sexy choreography. Salsa, Merengue, Jazz, and more. No partner needed and beginners welcome.Contemporary Jazz
An intermediate class that explores modern, jazz, and anything in between. You’ll dance to a range of music – from indie rock to African drum beats to opera. Prepare to sweat and let go!Musical Theatre
“Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch… Again!” Whether “A Chorus Line” or “All That Jazz” we will shimmy and have a blast. Bring your character shoes, jazz sneaks, and/or heels and Let’s Dance!Video Vixens
Learn choreography from some of the best dance music videos of all time. A high energy warm-up will lead into choreography from a different music video each week, including Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, and classics like Janet Jackson, Madonna, Fat Boy Slim and Britney Spears. An exciting class everyone will love! All levels welcome.Rock & Roll Ballet
Love ballet but don’t love dancing to classical music? Then this is the class for you! This traditional-style, open-level ballet class uses anything but traditional music. Come do your plies and jetes to pop, rock, indie, and whatever other kind of music you like! Students are welcome and encouraged to bring their own music or musical suggestions. Thursdays 8:30-10pm Sundays 11am-12:30pmGIRLESQUE BURLESQUE
A little hint of burlesque, a cup of attitude and a splash of diva and you've got "Girlesque Burlesque!!! Feel sexy! Lose weight! Learn fun choreography! Dance with Props! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! GREAT FOR BEGINNERS! FRIENDLY & NON-COMPETATIVE ENVIRONMENT! AFFORDABLE CLASSES! *****Ladies don't forget to bring your HEELS!!!!!!!!!!! Call for more info (818)980-4635 or Check us out on the web at http://www.dkdancefactory.com DK DANCE FACTORY 5505 LAUREL CANYON BLVD VALLEY VILLAGE, CA 91607 (818)980-4635 WWW.DKDANCEFACTORY.COMBALLET, HIP HOP, BROADWAY DANCE, JAZZ, TAP, BURLESQUE CLASSES
DK Dance Factory offers a variety of dance classes for adults, teens and kids. -Classes in Ballet, Jazz, Burlesque, Tap, Broadway, Jazz Funk, Belly Dance & Salsa -Rehearsal/Rental Space -Choreography Work -Private Lessons -Seasonal Dance CampsContemporary Class in Hollywood
This class for intermediate to advanced dancers. Warm up will be designed to strengthen and awaken the body. Organizing and aligning, creating a strong center using principles of dance, yoga, pilates, dance conditioning, and ballet. Softening and articulating for suppleness using release technique and exercises to sequence and segment the spine. The second half of class, we will dance from the inside out, and the outside in, working on simple gestures to complex movement phrases.Contemporary Master Class/Audition led by Andre Tyson, former Principal Ailey Dancer
Master Class/Audtion Opportunity The School at Jacob's Pillow Contemporary Program Saturday, February 6 Registration 3:30pm Audition Class 4:30-6:30pm For more information visit www.jacobspillow.org or call 413.243.9919Manipuri Dance - a classical dance style from Northeast India
Classes for both children and adults taught by world renowned master- artiste Dr. Sohini Ray.FUNdamentals of West African Dance w/ Anna B. Scott, Ph.D.
FUNdamentals is a joyful exploration of space, time and gravity through the liberating polyrhythms of the fantastic dance tradition of the old Bamana Empire (Senegal, The Gambia, parts of Mali). For dancers of all skill levels who seek to support their desire for movement with an understanding of (e)motion. Mon 7 - 8:30 PM; Tue 4 - 5 PM (children) Studio Moon, 1327 1/2 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 $15/$12 drop-in Wed 8 - 9:30 PM Creative Seeds, 5443 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90019, $15 drop-in $60 monthly class book http://www.vitavibrare.com for more information and online registration, or contact: anna@vitavibrare.com; 310-736-6560Adult Jazz Class With Roberta Ricks
This is a beginner/intermediate jazz class for adults. Roberta, the instructor, has been dancing for over 30 years. Originally from New York, she is a graduate from the High School of Performing Arts (the Fame School) where she graduated with honors in dance. She also studied at the Harkness School of Ballet in New York and trained with such dance notables as Joe Tremaine, Michael Peters, Lester Wilson and Arthur Mitchell (The Dance Theatre of Harlem).Adult Jazz Class With Roberta Ricks
This is a beginner/intermediate level jazz class. Roberta, the instructor, has been dancing for over 30 years. Originally from New York, she is a graduate from the High School of Performing Arts (the Fame School) where she graduated with honors in dance. She also studied at the Harkness School of Ballet and with such dance notables as Joe Tremaine, Michael Peters, Lester Wilson and Arthur Mitchell.Beginner Burlesque class - 2nd session added!
Learn glove removal, boa play, striptease techniques and a basic choreography to put it all together in this six week class.Hula Dance-Halau Hula O' Hoaloha
Experience a low impact, stress reduction work-out while having fun learning Traditional Hula. Beginner, Children(5-12), Intermediate/Advanced classes offered for both Men and Women. Email: dancefrau@yahoo.com or call 323 697 1356. Beginners start at 9:15 Intermediate/Advanced start at 10:00amKEITH JOHNSON MODERN DANCE INTENSIVE: Jan 11- 15, 2010
Keith Johnson is originally from Tempe, Arizona and was a competitive gymnast through college before making the switch to dance. He received his MFA in dance from the University of Utah where he received the Dee R. Winterton Award for Excellence. He has danced professionally with Ririe/Woodbury, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Creach/Koester and Doug Varone and Dancers. Keith is an Associate Professor at Cal State University Long Beach and is the Artistic Director of Keith Johnson/Dancers formed in 1998. In 2008, Keith was awarded a Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Choreography (Long Form) for his work Girl Falling Towards The Sky. He continues to freelance as a teacher and choreographer throughout the world. Class will have an emphasis on the alignment of the skeletal structure and the freedom this allows for expansive and dynamic movement. Emphasis is placed on the movement and articulation of the torso and how material is threaded through the center of the body to the extremities. There is a lot of repetition of material and re-enforcement of conceptual ideas with a focus on breath, dynamics, and athleticism. The skeletal structure is not separated from the muscularity of the movement but both work together to generate the ability to ride momentum and falling as a means of traveling. Both center combinations and across the floor work will involve highly athletic material. Be prepared to move. Information: keepkijo@gmail.comBeginner Burlesque
STARTING JAN 31st BEGINNER BURLESQUE WITH RED SNAPPER From the burlesquer who brings you Class, Sass, and a whole lotta ass, become versed in basic striptease techniques like bump and grind sexy walks, glove tease and boa play. In this 6 week series, learn a fun choreography to release your veiled vamp and showcase your inner showgirl. Free gloves and boa to every student. Sundays, Jan 31st to March 7th, 11 am to 12:30 pm $95 if you register by Jan 1st, $110 after Jan 1st at Evolution Dance 4200 Lankershim Blvd. (between Caheunga and Riverside), in North Hollywood Questions? Contact Penny Starr Jr. at Augusta @ itsachick (dot) com 818.404.9459 Striptease Symposium www.itsachick.com About Striptease Symposium Striptease Symposium’s mission is to celebrate the feminine form by developing creativity, confidence and positive self-image through the highest quality burlesque instruction. Award-winning burlesque dancers Jewel of Denial and Penny Starr, Jr. offer performance, instruction and private events featuring dance and choreography, glamorous hair and make-up techniques, costume design and construction, character design and so much more! Allow them to unleash your inner showgirl. www.itsachick.com About Red Snapper Known for “sass, class and a whole lotta ass!” Red Snapper has studied burlesque with Bump and Grind 101, Academy of Burlesque, New York School of Burlesque, Striptease Symposium, Princess Farhana, burlesque legends Wild Cherry and April March…the list goes on. She is a regular performer at Monday Night Tease, Victory Variety Hour and Peepshow Menagerie, and has taught pole and chair dancing with Aphrodite Strip-N-Pole in West Hollywood, as well as coached a number of actresses in the art of striptease, has choreographed for Theater Unleashed, and even held a tassel twirling clinic for men. www.SnapperBurlesque.comFan Dance Classes
STARTING JAN 10th FAN DANCE CLASS WITH PRINCESS FARHANA Los Angeles legend and international belly dance and burlesquer Princess Farhana will be teaching a 3 week fan dance intensive. Learn various fan techniques, 'conceal and reveal' striptease techniques and a fan choreography. Bring your own fans, or purchase fans in class. Sundays, Jan 10th, 17th, and 24th from 1 to 2:30 pm $65 if you register by Jan 1st, $80 if you register after Jan 1st, $25 drop-in rate at Dance Garden, 3407 Glendale Blvd. (at Revere), in Atwater Village About Striptease Symposium Striptease Symposium’s mission is to celebrate the feminine form by developing creativity, confidence and positive self-image through the highest quality burlesque instruction. Award-winning burlesque dancers Jewel of Denial and Penny Starr, Jr. offer performance, instruction and private events featuring dance and choreography, glamorous hair and make-up techniques, costume design and construction, character design and so much more! Allow them to unleash your inner showgirl. www.itsachick.com About Princess Farhana Internationally acclaimed dance star Princess Farhana has performed, taught and written about belly dance and burlesque for eighteen years. She has appeared in Egypt, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Mexico and Canada, all over The United Kingdom and across the USA. As a belly dancer, she was voted “ Favorite Oriental Dancer Of The Year 2006 and 2008” by Zaghareet Magazine, and has been seen in many Arabic television shows. As a burlesque artist, for twelve years, she was a featured soloist in America’s premiere burlesque troupe, The Velvet Hammer, and starred in two documentary films on the troupe as well as in Arts And Entertainment Channel’s ‘”This Is Burlesque”. She has been a competition judge at the USA’s legendary international burlesque competition, The Miss Exotic World Pageant, and has been a returning workshop teacher at Tease-O-Rama. From 2006-2008 she was the featured dancer in comedian Margaret Cho’s touring burlesque and variety show, The Sensuous Woman.Beginner Burlesque Class, Holiday Open House & Burlesque Bazaar
Taught by award-winning burlesque dancers JEWEL OF DENIAL and PENNY STARR, JR., LA’s only on-going burlesque classes, STRIPTEASE SYMPOSIUM, is having a HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AND BURLESQUE BAZAAR, Sunday Dec 13th from 1 to 3pm. The event kicks off with a FREE BEGINNER BURLESQUE CLASS taught by Striptease Symposium’s newest instructor, RED SNAPPER. Miss Snapper will be teaching DOWN AND DIRTY: FLOOR WORK FOR BURLESQUE. Learn how to demonstrate sensuality for the audience in a safe environment with slow, sultry floor techniques. Become comfortable in your own skin. Put these skills on their feet and use them to mesmerize an audience. Spend time enjoying our BURLESQUE BAZAAR with accessories including handmade pasties, hair flowers, corsets, ‘doll’ hats, fans, ‘spicy’ undergarments while sipping free mimosas. Then enjoy performances from the PAST GRADUATES of the Striptease Symposium solo classes: BEBE FIREFLY, HOLLY ROCK-IT, PANAMA RED, IONA VIBRATOR, LUCILLE HIGHBALL, JESSABELLE THUNDER, COSTA BRAVA and HONEY IMA HOME. Enter the RAFFLE to win a FREE 6 WEEK BEGINNER SERIES with Red Snapper (starts Jan 31st) or a FREE 3 WEEK FAN DANCE INTENSIVE with Princess Farhana (starts Jan 10th). If you do not win, you can sign up for classes for an extra 15% discount. Other raffle prizes include: NAUGHTY TANK TOP AND PANTY SET, “TOPLESS” NECKLACE (courtesy of Peep Show Boutique) BOOM BOOM: HOT BURLESQUE MOVES FOR COOL CHICK instructional DVD and CUSTOM MADE PASTIES (courtesy of It’s A Chick Production) NAUGHTY HOUSEWIFE APRON (courtesy of SnapperBurlesque.com) VELVET GLOVES (courtesy of Pink Fouffy and BDW Designs) SHIIMER DUST AND ‘TOY’ PACKAGE (courtesy of Temptations Parties) RHINESTONE HAIR FLOWER (courtesy of Firefly Flowers) This event is open to all curious kittens, closet showgirls, students, housewives, princesses, designers, artists, seasoned burlesquers, sideshow freaks, rockabilly babes, strippers, boy-lesques—anyone interested in the art of the striptease. The event will be Sunday, Dec 13th from 1 to 3pm at Ography Dance (6767 Sunset Blvd. At Highland). Free underground parking available. Suggested donation to this event is $5. Raffle tickets are also $5. Questions? Contact Penny Starr, Jr at Augusta@itsachick.com ABOUT OUR SPONSORS PEEP SHOW BOUTIQUE was developed in the summer of 2006. The CONCEPT: Uncensored Creative Workshop. We explore a wide range of mediums and believe that expression should not be limited. Our boutique carries the largest selection of QUALITY Products with Explicit Content and Blatant Disregard. We're a toy store for adults, especially the sick and twisted. We've got something for everyone! Now in it’s 12th year, IT’S A CHICK PRODUCTION, LLC combines femme and fun in a myriad of media and live events, including fiction films, instructional videos and documentaires, vaudeville and burlesque shows, and events for both private and corporate parties. Prior projects have included AGENT 15 (starring Paget Brewster), THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE (documentary), the PRINCESS FARHANA line of instruction dance videos, VICTORY VARIETY HOUR burlesque show and STRIPTEASE SYMPOSIUM burlesque classes and workshops. ABOUT STRIPTEASE SYMPOSIUM Striptease Symposium’s mission is to celebrate the feminine form by developing creativity, confidence and positive self-image through the highest quality burlesque instruction. The award-winning Jewel of Denial and Penny Starr, Jr. offer performance, instruction and private events featuring dance and choreography, glamorous hair and make-up techniques, costume design and construction, character design and so much more! Allow them to unleash your inner showgirl. ABOUT OUR INSTRUCTORS “A Delightful Sexpot” LA WEEKLY. Granddaughter of Philadelphia burlesque legend Penny Starr Sr, PENNY STARR, JR. is “the Pe-Tite Barnum of Burlesque”: director of the documentary THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE and the Princess Farhana line of dance videos, First Runner-Up Miss Exotic World 2004, co-founder of Striptease Symposium burlesque classes and producer of both Victory Variety Hour and Club Schmutzig in Los Angeles. Holding (half) the title of Miss Exotic World Best Duo 2008, JEWEL OF DENIAL began her burlesque career when she entered the sparkling world of the Velvet Hammer Burlesque, LA's pioneering neo-burlesque troupe. Jewel has graced stages in Las Vegas, Hollywood, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Washington D.C., London, and Amsterdam. With years of movement training, Jewel brings not just the bump-and-grind, but lindy hop, swing, jive, hip-hop, capoeria, power yoga, even breakdancing! Known for “sass, class and look at that ass!” RED SNAPPER has studied burlesque with Bump and Grind 101, Academy of Burlesque, New York School of Burlesque, Striptease Symposium, Princess Farhana, burlesque legends Wild Cherry and April March…the list goes on. She is a regular performer at Monday Night Tease, Victory Variety Hour and Peepshow Menagerie, and has taught pole and chair dancing with Aphrodite Strip-N-Pole in West Hollywood, as well as coached a number of actresses in the art of striptease, has choreographed for Theater Unleashed, and even held a tassel twirling clinic for men. STRIPTEASE SYMPOSIUM WWW.ITSACHICK.COMKids Aerial Dance
Great start for your kids to learn progressive cutting edge performing arts such as dance and aerial arts designed specifically for kids. Aerial apparatus will be Hoop and Hammock.Breakdance class
Breakin as known as Breakdancing class starts on Dec. 4th. It will be a weekly class. Instructor will focus on foundation of Breakin' movements to intermediate power movements. it is a great place to start learning Breakin' and expand your creativity.Kids Aerial Dance
Great start for your kids to learn progressive cutting edge performing arts such as dance and aerial arts designed specifically for kids. The aerial apparatus used in class are Hoop and Hammock. Enroll Online and pay by check or credit cardFloor Bar
FLOOR BAR/ BALLET Elongation of the body while using the floor for resistance. While on the floor you will explore all the various positions in Ballet you would at the bar. It is intense movement on the floor, you can feel more of your body as you move through the positions, then after you go across the floor. *Yoga mat requiredModern (Graham and Horton)
MODERN Learn how to express an exploration of your body as it moves through space and understanding of how the body created shape in space with music. Different styles such as Horton, Graham, and more techniques are introduced to achieve students’ personal style.House dance class
HOUSE DANCE Do you love House music? Do you love to go out and dance at House clubs? This class welcomes all levels, introducing basic steps to intermediate movements. House dance contains various footworks and groovy vibe. Instructor will teach foundation movements and combination in this classBellydance class
No Bellydance experience needed; some kind of dance knowledge is helpful. This class focuses on basic traditional "cabaret" Bellydance and floorwork technique . Learn fluid, sensual movements and tone your core muscles with this breathtaking dance! Combinations will be taught to learn the musicality of the movements.Shake It Off! weekly burlesque classes
STRIPTEASE SYMPOSIUM, LA’s on-going burlesque classes featuring all parts of the burlesque experience—choreography, costumes, make-up and character design—brings a new concept to the fitness world in the form of a weekly burlesque class through December 8th. Bump, grind, unwind, and leave your inhibitions behind! Instructor and award-winning burlesque dancer JEWEL OF DENIAL fuses traditional burlesque moves and striptease principles with yoga, belly dance, and jazz for a real workout, all set to a throwback soundtrack. Whether you're looking for a fun, girl-fueled way to stay in shape, or getting ready to grace the stage, this class works at all levels. About Jewel of Denial Holding the title of Miss Exotic World Best Duo 2008 (along with Kat Bardot), JEWEL OF DENIAL began her burlesque career when she entered the sparkling world of the Velvet Hammer Burlesque, LA's pioneering neo-burlesque troupe. Recently she was featured at the LA Weekly Theater Awards Show. Jewel has graced stages in 4 countries, 6 states, and 17 cities; including Las Vegas, Hollywood, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Washington D.C., London, and Amsterdam. Her years of movement training include ballroom at Arthur Murray to jazz and dance fitness at L.A. Dance Arts Academy, as well as painstakingly researching retro dances such as apache, lindy hop, swing, and jive; other interests include hip-hop, capoeria, power yoga, even breakdancing! Jewel has taught a number of different dance disciplines including striptease at the on-going belly dance meets burlesque event, Stiletto, and is co-founder of Striptease Symposium. About Striptease Symposium Striptease Symposium’s mission is to celebrate the feminine form by developing creativity, confidence, positive self image through the highest quality burlesque instruction. The award-winning Jewel of Denial and Penny Starr, Jr. offer performance, instruction and private events featuring dance and choreography, glamorous hair and make-up techniques, costume design and construction, character design and so much more! Allow them to unleash your inner showgirl. Striptease Symposium www.itsachick.comKids' and Adults' Capoeira classes
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art developed as a form of self-defense by the slaves in Brazil during the 17th century, capoeira is an art which combines self-defense, dance, and music. Through the practice of capoeira, students increase their flexibility, coordination, strength, balance, and self-confidence. Adult classes are M-Th 8:30-9:30am, MW 7-8pm and 8-9:15 pm, and Sat 11-1pm. Kids classes are MWF 4-5pm, W 3:30-4pm, S 10-11am. Check http://www.capoeirabesouro.com for further info.Yoga Booty Ballet
Yoga Booty Ballet is an upbeat hybrid of invigorating, funky cardio dance; the grace, beauty and poise of ballet; and the power, strength and balance of yoga. Signature booty moves combined to shake, lift, and enhance your body. Work your body, engage your mind and lighten your spirit! Come get inspired with Kristen, our newest teacher at Heartbeat House! Kristen's love for rhythm and dance led her to fall madly in love with Yoga Booty Ballet, which she believes is an ideal fitness medium because of its uplifting and fun nature. With music guiding the YBB experience, Kristen enjoys creating the unique and evocative playlists that help to ignite the intentions of her students. Every Monday from 8:30 – 9:30 pm FREE class – 11/2 ONLYEconomic Dance Releif
Under the artistic direction Yasha Michealson and MiMoDa resident choreographer Alexandria Yalj, there is now an advanced repertory dance class designed for professional dancers. Part I - Foundation Basis focusing on alignment, core strength, breathe, and exploration of gravity. Alexandria has succesfull incorperated ideas from her own training of Limon, Horton, Cunningham, Graham, and Simonson techniques and culminated them with her own fresh energetic flavor and musicality to create exciting warm up. These "dances" promote physicality, stamina and agility enhancing performance quality awareness and execution. Part II- Research Combining improvization and the dynamic choreography of Alexandria Yalj, this improvisational lab has been specifically developed for investigation and experimenting with time, space, effort, and shape. Offering an array of improvisational vigne ttes where participants are presented with playground of compositional images to play with and exercise their creative mind paired with body and soul. Alexandria Yalj -self producing performance artist with an MFA in choreography from CalArts. If she is not chasing the sun regardless of direction, she's probably diligently coordinating Los Angeles's, Dance Camera West Film Festival. As artistic director of Collective Movement, Alexandria has had the extreme pleasure in forming a pick up dance company that embodies an organically radical approach to choreography. Her unique choreographic works haven been presented in her native New York City as well as New Hamp shire, Fresno City College, Pepperdine University, Berkshire Fringe Festival and here in Los Angeles. A current company member of Rosanna Gamson World Wide and Stephan Koplowitz's international site specific touring company TaskForce. Alexandria is constantly searching for new approaches to expression and communication capacity of the body. This class is generously offered MiMoDa Studio Theatre, whose mission is to provide a platform to facilitate artists in using non-standard dance and movement styles in order to take dance beyond traditional applications and common trends. Here, classical ballet is offered as a discipline providing a strong foundation in technique rather than as a dance language to be used as an end result. This mission's aim is to raise Los Angeles' reputation within the dance world to that of a place for innovation and the creation of exciting new works. Housed in the renovated site formerly known as The Dancers' Studio, this space brings a new creative spirit to t he arts of dance, acting, theatrical mime, and an original improvisational movement method called Mimoda. This hub of artistic activity will offer a space for physical theatre artists to teach and learn, explore and create, perform and share. COME DISCOVER THE PLEASURE OF DANCE !Zouk-Lambada
Zouk-Lambada Also referred to as Lambazouk, Zouk-Lambada and sometimes simply Zouk, This dance started in Brazil as a fresh new approach to the old Lambada dance of the 80’s . Dancers found a new expression to the sexy steps of Lambada with the sensual and unique Zouk music that comes from the Caribbeans , Cape Verde and even Angola ! Zouk, which means party in creole can be either very slow or fast paced. Its sensual, upbeat and carefree qualities flow smoothly and flawlessly with the Lambada steps that involve sexy hip and head movements . The music and the dance are almost magnetic and often sweep both the dancers and spectators to another world …. Zouk Lambada came all the way from Bahia, Brazil and and is now filling dance-floors across the world! Now this dance is here is the U.S ! Come join me in introducing L.A to Zouk-Lambada days: Thursday time: 8:00pm - 9:15pm price: $10/per Class location: new location Dance in motion 22776 Ventura Blvd Woodland Hills, CA 91364 instructor: Shani MayerTraditional Hawaiian Dance Classes/Kaiolani Hula Studio
This class concentrates on the fundamentals of hula basics, movement, posture, chanting, and body strengthening. Basic Hawaiian Vocabulary will also be introduced in this class.Zouk-Lambada
Also referred to as Lambazouk, Zouk-Lambada and sometimes simply Zouk, This dance started in Brazil as a fresh new approach to the old Lambada dance of the 80’s . Dancers found a new expression to the sexy steps of Lambada with the sensual and unique Zouk music that comes from the Caribbeans , Cape Verde and even Angola ! Zouk, which means party in creole can be either very slow or fast paced. Its sensual, upbeat and carefree qualities flow smoothly and flawlessly with the Lambada steps that involve sexy hip and head movements . The music and the dance are almost magnetic and often sweep both the dancers and spectators to another world …. Zouk Lambada came all the way from Bahia, Brazil and and is now filling dance-floors across the world! Now this dance is here is the U.S ! Come join me in introducing L.A to Zouk-LambadaSalsa: Beginning & Beyond: Levels 1 & 2
DanceChatter.Com Presents Salsa Classes every Wednesday Night 8:30 pm - Salsa: Beginning & Beyond: Levels 1 & 2 Learn the rhythms of this feisty dance, learn the basic patterns, and learn how to add patterns and increase your dance repertoire! Each class incorporates shines footwork along with partner patterns and the technique to make it all work! $48 for 6-Week Series; $43 for 6-Week Series if paid in advance, or $10 per single classCountry 2-Step: Levels 1 & 2
DanceChatter.Com Presents Country 2-Step Every Tuesday New 6-Week Series Begins Tuesday, October 6th 9:00 pm - Beginning & Beyond Country 2-Step Country 2-Step is Fast, Easy and Yee-Haw Fun! Hats and/or boots are optional but fun is mandatory! This class mixes basics with more advanced patterns and the technique to make it all work! $48 for 6-Week Series, $10 per single class $43 for 6-Week Series if paid in advance $38 for 6-Week Series for Moose Lodge Members if paid in advance Other discounts available for mutliple series Register via PayPal, send payment to trish@dancechatter.com Burbank Moose Lodge, 1901 W. Burbank Blvd., Burbank 91506 All ages welcome – Friendly atmosphere – Plenty of street parkingWest Coast Swing: Beyond The Basics / Level 2
DanceChatter.Com Presents West Coast Swing Classes Every Tuesday New 6-Week Series Starts Tuesday, October 6th 8:00 pm - West Coast Swing: Beyond The Basics / Level 2 Already know your basic West Coast Swing patterns? This class is the next step. Learn more advanced patterns and the styling and technique that make them work. $48 for 6-week series; $43 if paid in advance; $10 per single class $38 for 6-week series for Moose Lodge members if paid in advanceWest Coast Swing: Begininng / Level 1
DanceChatter.Com Presents West Coast Swing Classes Every Tuesday! New 6-Week Series Starts Tuesday, October 6th 7:30 pm - Beginning WCS (Level 1) This is an easy 30-Minute Class. No experience needed, no partner required You’ve seen it on “Dancing With The Stars” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” now learn this fun and creative dance for yourself! And, did you know?? West Coast Swing is California’s State Dance! Only $30 for the 6-Week Series or $5 per single class $25 for the 6-Week Series for Moose Lodge Members if paid in advance Burbank Moose Lodge, 1901 W. Burbank Blvd., Burbank 91506 All ages welcome – Friendly atmosphere – Plenty of street parkingZumba!!
Can't get enough of Zumba? We've just added another Zumba class with Corinne on Mondays at 5:30pm. Come enjoy a fun calorie-burning calorie class to all your favorite Latin and Pop music! Another great version of this popular dance workout class using proven interval cardio training for maximum fitness results! Zumba with Corinne Mondays & Wednesdays 5:30 - 6:30 pmBeginning Flamenco Dance
Beginning Flamenco will focus on learning how to articulate and coordinate the feet and the hands while mastering the rhythm. Class for children on Monday and Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30 and Teen Adults Monday and Wednesday from 7:00-8:00.Ballroom for Kids, age 5 to 12
It's never to early to learn the grace and power of social dancing. Class will focus on Latin Ballroom, American and International Ballroom. You don't need a partner to show up!Ladies Styling For Latin Dance
This class will focus not only on building flexibility and strength, but also on mastering the technique to execute Turns and Shines in order to look great on the dance floor.Kids Aerial Dance
CHECK OUT OUR NEW KIDS CLASS - Great start for your kids to learn progressive cutting edge performing arts such as dance and aerial arts designed specifically for kids. The aerial apparatus will be Hoop and Hammock. Every Thursdays 5-6 pm Cost: $52/ 4 class card; $96/8 class card plus registration fee of $25.00Aerial Dance Fitness©
This class is geared towards persons (12 years and older) who are totally new to the aerial arts field or with no training at all. A novelty by itself, Aerial Dance Fitness© incorporates dance and fitness elements, both on ground and on aerial levels using Silk/Tissu/ Fabric, Hoop/Lyra, Hammock & Trapeze apparatus. Do not underestimate the power of dance movements as it works out your artistry and grace, while also gearing towards posture, flexibility and strength. This class has been proven to be a great & effective weight loss program as well as a body sculpting, muscle forming exercise program.Aerial Dance Fitness©
This class is geared towards persons (12 years and older) who are totally new in the aerial arts field or with no training at all. A novelty by itself, Aerial Dance Fitness© incorporates dance and fitness elements, both on ground and on aerial levels using Silk/Tissu/ Fabric, Hoop/Lyra, Hammock & Trapeze apparatus. Do not underestimate the power of dance movements as it works out your artistry and grace, while also gearing towards posture, flexibility and strength. This class has been proven to be a great & effective weight loss program as well as a body sculpting, muscle forming exercise program.BODYTRAFFIC Company Class
Professional and advanced level dancers are invited to participate in BODYTRAFFIC Company Class during residency with choreographer Alex Ketley. Warm-up will consist of progressive ballet and/or Countertechnique and will last between 60-80 minutes. To confirm class times, locations and content, please email co-director Lillian Barbeito at: BODYTRAFFIC@gmail.comBallet - all levels
Beginning ballet to professional http://www.melbamorrisballet.com/X-Sight Hip hop group for young teens
X-Sight is a collaborative hip hop group made up of dancers with training in jazz and hip hop at an intermediate level. Dancers are challenged with a combination of hip hop and jazz influenced movement and will have the opportunity to learn choreographic and performance skills through regular rehearsal and stage experience at various events. Class is taught by Vanja Katrinov Davidson, a regular RKDC teacher who teaches more than 10 classes a week with us. X-Sight meets Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30pm, beginning September 22, 2009. Prerequisite: You must audition for this class prior to enrolling. Prior to this audition you must be enrolled in Hip Hop/Jazz 2221.402. Auditions will take place Tuesday, September 22, 5:30-6:30pm at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center in Studio 1. For more information and to sign up for the audition email anna@rkdc.org.X-factor dance project for young teens
X-Factor is a multidimensional group made up of dancers with training in jazz, modern, or ballet at an intermediate/advanced level. Performers are challenged with a blend of jazz influenced contemporary choreography and mentored on technical and performance skills through stage experience at various events. The group is directed by Raelle Dorfan, an ex-RKDC company member and long time teacher with the Regina Klenjoski Dance Company. X-factor meets Tuesdays from 5:25-6:25pm, beginning on September 22, 2009. Must be at least 8yrs old to join. Prerequisite: You must audition for this class prior to enrolling. Prior to the audition you must be enrolled in an RKDC dance class; dancers ages 8-12 can register for any RKDC modern/ballet/jazz class; Dancers ages 13+ must register for Modern Ballet 2275.403. Auditions will take place Tuesday, September 22 at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. Ages 8-12 audition at 5:25-6:25pm in Studio 2; ages 13+ audition at 4:20 -5:20pm in Studio 2. For more information, and to sign up for the audition email raelle@rkdc.org.New Bollywood Aerobics class- FREE 9/3/09
This amazing class is non-stop aerobic workout to energizing Bollywood music using muscles you never knew existed! Learn the basics of Bollywood dancing as you tone, strengthen, and build stamina. With an added spiritual technique, the class will help you release stress and leave you feeling happy and uplifted. Easy moves, and great music- discover your inner Bollywood star!Flamenco for Youth Ages 8 +
A NEW beginners course for children. Flamenco Dance Course for Youth Ages 8 + 10 weeks / Fridays 3:30 - 4:30 / Sept. 11-Nov. 13, 2009 Pacific Studio for Dance 1123 Pacific Ave., Glendale, CA 91202 $150.00 + $10.00 registration fee (enroll by Sept. 7 and waive registration fee!) Contact: Marcellina de Luna at lamarcellina@yahoo.comManipuri Dance Visions starting new sessions in Fall'09
Manipuri Dance Visions is starting new sessions in beginning and advanced level classes in Manipuri dance - a classical dance form from Northeastern India. Call (626)796 4784 or visit www.manipuridancevisions.com for information on schedule and prices.The Rhythm Lounge
The Rhythm Lounge is a sensuous and energetic movement cocktail that blends Afro-Brasilian, Release, Yoga, and Play. The Rhythm Lounge is a fun, rigorous, and inspiring one-hour dance workout based on sensual World, Lounge, and Trip Hop grooves. Each refreshingly smart session is conceived for movement lovers of all levels and includes stretching, centering, high intensity crossings, and cool down - no two classes are identical, the only constant is the rhythm... The Rhythm Lounge is led by Tom Crocker, a brilliant dancer who brings humor, energy, and a rich professional dance background to every session. Tom danced around the world with leading French choreographer Maurice Bejart (www.bejart.ch) before co-founding the arts education company Bluepalm (www.bluepalminfo.org) with Jackie Planeix. The Rhythm Lounge is an opportunity to revel in the primordial joy of dance to reconnect with your passion for movement.Contact Improv & Somatic Movement
A workshop merging Contact Improvisation and the movement forms of Continuum, Body-Mind Centering and Tai Chi principles. The workshop begins with a Somatic preparation including Continuum's breath/sounding/movement, Body-Mind Centering's experiential anatomy & Tai Chi principles. We’ll then slide into the practice of surfacing from our self discovery to locate ourselves in space, sharing movement discovery in relation to space, gravity, and others. We all desire the freedom to connect deeply within ourselves, as well as in clear relationship with others and our surroundings. Contact Improvisation skills help us maneuver in omni-directional space, alone and with partners. Touch calls our attention into the now; we become aware of what is and explore how we participate. This practice allows us to strengthen our body-mind, for refined articulation and to find new depths of connecting consciously which nurtures our capacity to thrive on the dance floor and in the world.Mimoda Jazzo
8 PM Fireball technique 8:30 PM Dance Jazzo improvisational playground Drop-ins welcome Mimoda Jazzo is a new simple pleasure that blends entertainment with a dance workout. Mimoda Jazzo is a session of guided improvisation that uses the principles of Mimoda non-structural dance technique. Mimoda's fundamental Fireball technique provides tools to link dance, dynamic meditation and healing movement. esthetic-ecstatic@dance...explore the pleasure of movement...Balkaniada&Klezmer music mix...come and leave when you want...Dance in the city mix...Tango in Jerusalem music mix...listen to music with your body...Better than Yoga...Cessation of the fireball music mix...Meditation in movement...dynamic meditation...Burn calories...lose weight...Stretch & release...fall in love with yourself...meet people...show off...dance beautifully...feel 10 years younger...look younger...have fun...Discover the pleasure of dance! Contact: www.mimodastudio.com, info@mimodastudio.comCompany class in Riverside
Southern California Dance Company will be holding company class on Sunday mornings in Riverside, place and exact time tba. Style is Limon/Horton, level intermediate/advanced. Free to SCDco members, discounted rate to the public. SCDco will be holding auditions in late August for dancers age 16 and up. Some performance pay, eventual rehearsal stipend. Showcase, festival and full evening performances planned. More info- email info@southernca,Josie Walsh Contemporary Ballet
Josie Walsh, formerly of the Joffrey Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre and currently Director/Choreographer of MYOKYO teaches ballet with a contemporary flare. Josie has a holistic approach to ballet technique rooted in deep understanding of proper body alignment. Her method of teaching creates a strong and powerful center, learning to initiate movement from the core. Sculpting, refining and ultimately finding freedom within the classical discipline is the journey...Josie's classes are fun, creative and challenging, set to alternative music.Eco Movement, Somatic Dance Movement
Eco Movement – Somatic Embodiment Workshop with Teri Carter When: August 14-16, 2009 Cost: $375(early)/$425, Where: Continuum Studio’s ‘Liberating the Arts’, 1629 18th St, Santa Monica CA Embodied Presence - How can we remain present with our internal physical world and our surroundings simultaneously? As dancers and performers, it’s vital to sustain our inner world connection, while inter-relating with our environment and the audience. Teri Carter, international Somatic Movement Dance Artist, leads this one time workshop. As ‘bio-ecosystems’ in our own right, we’ll develop our capacity to release the co-creative impulses living in our cells, muscles, bones and body systems while inter-relating with elements in our environment. We’ll learn to shift our kinesthetic experience to an outer world play and performance, through solo work and group witnessing. Teri is authorized in Continuum Movement, Body-Mind Centering, Tai chi, and she is a long time Contact Improvisation Teacher with a BFA and MA in Dance. She produces L.A.’s SOMA Fest Oct 6-11 www.somafest.orgSanta Monica College Synapse Audition - Dance 55A and Dance 55C - Fall 09
Works by Guest & Faculty Artists: Meri Bender - Modern Jeff Crum & Youn Hee Choi - Dance on Camera Sean Greene - Modern Angela Jordan - Jazz Rachel Lopez - on-site Modern Dance Jackie Lopez - Hip Hop Auditions Jae Lee - Modern Auditioning dancers who can perform a variety of contemporary styles and choreographers who can express their ideas in new and creative ways Choreographers Tuesday, September 8 • 12:15 • Gym 104 Show 1 - 3 minute excerpt of dance Dancers Thursday, September 10 • 12:15 • Gym 104 Be warmed up, wear black dance attire Performances Performances at the Broad Stage, SMC Madison Performing Arts Center November 6 - 7:30 pm, November 7 - 7:30 pm and additional presentations in alternative spaces Dancers & Choreographers must enroll in Dance 55A (T,TH 12:30 - 4:50) and Dance 55C (TBA) gold_linda@smc.edu or 310-434-4590 for more info.Fall Semester 09 - Advanced Choreography 62/63
August 31-December 22, 2009 douglas_judith@smc.edu for more informationFall Semester 09 - Intermediate Modern 43/44
Taught by former Bella Lewitsky soloist. September 1 - December 22, 2009Fall Semester 09 - Advanced Modern 45/46 - Horton Technique
Taught by former Alvin Ailey Dancer. Class runs September 1-December 22, 2009Modern/Contemporary Dance - Open Level
Beginning Monday, AUGUST 10, 2009 and continuing on Mondays 9:30-11:00 a.m. Explore, exchange, exhale with former member of the Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company, Karen Safrit. This is a new class forming on the Westside of Los Angeles. Together, we will explore unique patterns of movement while gaining technical strength, core strength and performance confidence.INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ADULT BALLET AT CDA
California Dance Academy is excited to offer Adult Ballet classes taught by Brett Weidlich. Brett graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia with a master’s degree in choreography and a Ballet Master diploma, and has been challenging and inspiring students across the Los Angeles area for years. Based on the Vaganova technique & principals, Brett’s class focuses on developing core body strength, increasing coordination, spatial awareness and overall physical synchronization, all tied to a correct understanding of music. This is an ideal class for professionals and amateurs alike. The supportive environment at California Dance Academy ensures that students of all technical levels can express their love of dance while growing in artistry. 818.341.0525 www.CaliforniaDanceAcademy.comINTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ADULT BALLET AT CDA
California Dance Academy is excited to offer Adult Ballet classes taught by Brett Weidlich. Brett graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia with a master’s degree in choreography and a Ballet Master diploma, and has been challenging and inspiring students across the Los Angeles area for years. Based on the Vaganova technique & principals, Brett’s class focuses on developing core body strength, increasing coordination, spatial awareness and overall physical synchronization, all tied to a correct understanding of music. This is an ideal class for professionals and amateurs alike. The supportive environment at California Dance Academy ensures that students of all technical levels can express their love of dance while growing in artistry. 818.341.0525 www.CaliforniaDanceAcademy.comAbsolute Beginners Tango Class in Mar Vista
This class is easy, fun and at the same time comprehensive. in each individual class you'll learn one or two basic concepts of Tango, so pretty soon you'll be able to take your first few daring steps during a real Tango event. People of all backgrounds have been taking this class successfully. The flexible class format (you can drop in without the need to sign up ahead of time) is offered with the busy fellow in mind and for those who just want to try it out before committing for several weeks. $ 10 per class; Check out the newly emerging community and the fun projects with and through Tango: on Facebook - search for Global Tango Mar Vista online at www.TangoMarVista.orgINTERMEDIATE LEVEL MODERN DANCE COURSE
Intermediate level modern dance classes that increase the student's technical ability and expressive range are offered at Glendale College beginning on Sept. 1. Contemporary movements sequences are used to warm up the body and eventually build into exciting dance combinations that challenge while displaying the student’s growing technical and performance abilities. Phyllis Eckler uses contemporary world music for the sensual flowing routines that result from the longer movement combinations. The supportive atmosphere of the class helps attendees to realize their fullest potential as dancers. CLASSES FILL FAST SO REGISTER EARLY for MODERN DANCE II (DA116) AT: http://www.glendale.edu/AR/application.htmlBeginning Dance for teens!
Summer Academy BEGINNING TO INTERMEDIATE (9yr.old-teens) Ballet Flamenco Belly dance Jazz Pilates~stretch Modern Open Class-Musical theatre Mon. through Fri. 12pm-4pm You can start at any time! Attend by week or session! 1st session, 5 week course: June 15th~July 17th 2nd session, 5week course: July 20th~Aug. 21st 310.384.4921 www.pacificartsballet.comINT/ADVANCED ADULT BALLET AT CDA
California Dance Academy is excited to offer Adult Ballet classes taught by Brett Weidlich. Brett graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia with a master’s degree in choreography and a Ballet Master diploma, and has been challenging and inspiring students across the Los Angeles area for years. Based on the Vaganova technique & principals, Brett’s class focuses on developing core body strength, increasing coordination, spatial awareness and overall physical synchronization, all tied to a correct understanding of music. This is an ideal class for professionals and amateurs alike. The supportive environment at California Dance Academy ensures that students of all technical levels can express their love of dance while growing in artistry.INT/ADVANCED ADULT BALLET AT CDA
California Dance Academy is excited to offer Adult Ballet classes taught by Brett Weidlich. Brett graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia with a master’s degree in choreography and a Ballet Master diploma, and has been challenging and inspiring students across the Los Angeles area for years. Based on the Vaganova technique & principals, Brett’s class focuses on developing core body strength, increasing coordination, spatial awareness and overall physical synchronization, all tied to a correct understanding of music. This is an ideal class for professionals and amateurs alike. The supportive environment at California Dance Academy ensures that students of all technical levels can express their love of dance while growing in artistry.FREE dance class with Regina Klenjoski Dance Company on Sunday, August 9th, 2009!
The Regina Klenjoski Dance Company, a leading Southbay contemporary dance company known for their high quality performances and their excellence in arts education, are opening their studio doors to give a FREE advanced modern dance class! As part of their annual In Studio open house at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center where RKDC has been the artist in resident since 1999, RKDC is offering this free class from 1:00pm - 2:30pm, led by RKDC professional company members. Students are welcome to stay afterward to enjoy short sample classes, a raffle, and special performances by RKDC summer dance students, the X-Factor Dance Project, and RKDC’s professional dance company. This once-a-year-event is a fantastic opportunity for the public to meet the Artistic Director, dancers and teachers of RKDC in an intimate and up-close setting, and to experience RKDC’s unique brand of dance first hand at their home studios. Class is from 1:00pm - 2:30pm on Sunday, August 9th, 2009 in Studio two at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center, located at 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503. For more info email anna@rkdc.orgTango 101 - 5 week course
This 5 week intro series to Tango will allow you to immerse yourself into the first basic principles and cultural history of this dance form. You'll slowly but surely feel more and more competent and inspired and see this dance as a worthwhile way to spend your evenings. Taught by Mitra Martin and Stefan Fabry of Tango Mar Vista. 5 weeks, Wednesdays www.tangomarvista.org July 15th till August 12thBeginning Modern Classes at Glendale Community College w/ Phyllis Eckler
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. Register at: http://www.glendale.edu/AR/application.html days: Tuesday, Thursday time: 8:30am - 10:00am price: Only $30 for a 32 class series beginning Aug.31 location: Glendale College instructor: Phyllis Eckler (323)654-6843Beginning Hip Hop Dance Course w/ Phyllis Eckler
This is a twice weekly eight week course starting on Mon. Aug.31. It will introduce beginning moves and technique for hip hop and breaking. in a progressive series of classes. Because it takes place at Los Angeles City College the cost for the entire 16 class course is only $20! The course is listed under "Jazz Dance - DA437" in the L.A. City College schedule of classes which can be found at: http://www.lacitycollege.edu/services/admissions/apply-enroll.html Enrollment will end when class is full so register soon!Ashtanga Power Yoga w/ Kenwa
Balanced blend of building core strength, cultivating body alignment and increasing flexibility. Breath work is highlighted as a vital component of awakening and integrating the thoughts and feelings with the body. You’ll work hard, sweat a lot, and laugh. Discover abilities you didn’t know you had and a new sense of self.Dance Theatre of Harlem
Master Class with Dance Theatre of Harlem founder, Arthur Mitchell For intermediate/advanced and professional level dancers, Ages 16-adult MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE Please call 818-609-7137 Questions: email opernoir2@yahoo.com Free parking in Lula Washington Dance Theatre parking lot. Sponsored by Opera NoirTango Drop in Class
For absolute beginners and beginners; ideal to learn the first basic elements of Argentine Tango great as a refresher for those with some experience, Learn about steps, the culture, music and history of this dance. Check us out at www.tangomarvista.orgTango Technique Drills Class
All levels class - exercises adjusted to your level; techniques are being practiced in depth every class is progressiveDANCEbank with Arianne Hoffmann
Scores of scores: come improvise! The class will, after a loosening warm-up, move into structured improvisations. We will play with a various scores while conceiving of them as metaphors for socio-political issues. In that sense, we will be theorizing (in) space by the means of our bodies moving. But let’s not get too heady here. We will move in relationship to each other, and find out more about how we can structure improvising. This class is open to anyone willing to move and explore. No specific dance training is required, but an awareness of your body is hoped for. and in July: special guest workshop with Ralf Jaroschinski Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12th, 11am-2pm $17 single class, $30 both days. Arianne Hoffmann is a German born choreographer, who just advanced to candidacy in the M.F.A. program at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where she has had the pleasure to study with Simone Forti, Susan Foster, and Victoria Marks. She creates scored improvisations that function as socio-political metaphors and are based on the physical body as a means and focus of expression. Her work has been shown around Los Angeles, most recently at Highways Performance Space, the Unknown Theater, and at Anatomy Riot. She has performed in and produced events with the performance art group Rent-a-friend and at TanzTangente in Berlin/Germany. As a performer, she recently worked with Rachael Lincoln, Krenly Guzman, and Kristen Smiarowski. She is the producer of AN EARFUL OF DANCE, a series of podcast conversations on dance, partially funded by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), and co-producer of Anatomy Riot. She has received the Forti Family Scholarship for Artistic Achievement twice.FLAMENCO with Briseyda Zarate
Briseyda teaches on-going 6 week Flamenco dance workshops. Classes focus on flamenco technique, including, "taconeo" (footwork), "braceo" (arm/body work) and "compas" (rhythm/musicality). Short combinations and longer choreographies are taught depending on the level. Students are exposed to Flamenco dance as an art-form in conjunction with "cante" (song), "toque" (guitar) and "palmas" (hand percussion). SCHEDULE: Monday's 7-8 pm Beginning/Intermediate Technique 8-9 pm Advanced Technique & Choreography Eagle Rock Dance Center 5054 1/2 Eagle Rock Blvd. LA CA 90041 For Further Info Contact: Briseyda Zarate 323.719.1613 www.briseydazarateflamenco.com briesydaflamenca@hotmail.comSalsa at the V-Lounge, Santa Monica
Class is from 8:30 to 9:30 on Wednesdays, and is combined Beginner and Intermediate. This means that the class starts out with how to step, and then progesses through the hour to a complete pattern at the end. So you get to start out with ease, but you can go sit down if it ever gets to be too much! Women especially are needed, to keep the numbers even. After class, the DJ spins salsa all night. Come try it out. V-Lounge 2020 Wilshire Santa Monica, 90403 (cross street 20th) (across from Sizzler) Contact: Laura: 323-851-8474 Laura@SalsaDivaProd.com V-Lounge: 310-829-1933 www.vloungela.comAfro-Cuban Dance Class
Katy Hernandez teaches a great class with live drumming and guest drumming and song class!! by Lazaro Galaraga. She offers an intense warm up and a good range of different Afro-Cuban styles-orisha, rhumba, gaga. She also teaches a beginner's class at Lula Washington's on Tuesday nights that I can't make it to because of work.KEITH JOHNSON MODERN DANCE INTENSIVE
KEITH JOHNSON MODERN DANCE INTENSIVE: June 22nd-July 3rd Join us for an amazing 2 week workshop with Artistic Director: Keith Johnson, former dancer of Doug Varone and Dancers, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Creach/Koester. Monday-Friday 10am-12pm Location: Cal State Long Beach Dance Center, Studio 3 Cost: $200 for 2 weeks or $25 for single class Deadline for payment is Monday, June 8th. Make checks payable to Keith Johnson and send to Layne McGhee 1230 S. Barrington Ave #4 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Questions: L4McGhee@yahoo.com or call 209-602-3216Afro-Brazilian dance class
Afro-Brazilian dance class: includes orixa dance movement, elements of Silvestre Technique, samba, samba reggae and samba afro. Energizing and uplifting. Taught by Viver Brasil Artistic Director, Linda Yudin We dance barefoot!Afro-Brazilian dance class
Orixa dance movement and technique and contemporary Afro-Brazilian dance taught by Luiz Badaró, Co-director of Viver Brasil. Stamina building warm-up, live music, friendly atmosphere. Badaró also has guest teachers from Brazil, the Bay Area and LA. Tuesdays at DAA since 2002!Dancehall Reggae (18yrs+)
Every Thursday 7:30pm-8:30pm @ Lula Washington Dance Theatre 3773 CRENSHAW BLVD LA, CA 90016. INFO: 323.251.9975 Adult Class focus is Fun!!! Fun!!! Fun!!!! While toning up, slimming down, leaning foundation and new dance moves, PLUS learning different ways to WHINE. Current Special per class: $14 per class, $13 with College ID (Offer end May 15th, 2009) Book of 6: $13 Book of 8: $12Aerial Ballet
Learn specific positions and graceful motions while working with silk scarves and hoops as you dance 10-20 feet in the air like "Cirque de Sole". You will be "aerial" your very first lesson. Classes for beginners Wed. 5:00-6:00 and advanced Wed. 6:00-7:00Contemporary Class with method
the return method+class saturdays 2:00pm - 4:00pm a sustained and intense yoga based warm-up focusing on building strength and proper alignment coupled with a fast-paced and challenging company class utilizing the fundamentals of method technique and teaching phrase material ripped from the latest method repertoire. all levels welcome!!! INDIVIDUAL CLASSES $15 5 CLASS CARD $70 10 CLASS CARD $125 Please bring kneepads to class as there is floor work and appropriate protective gear is required!!!! all classes held at the beautiful new brochus project studios downtown brewery arts complex 618-b moulton avenue, los angeles, ca 90031Hip Hop classes for Children & Adults w/ Daiana Koren
Learn the hottest dance moves to the the most popular music around! Classes for Children of all ages! Classes for Adults! Classes for beginners!YOGA - ALL LEVELS
Learn practical yoga techniques to help you become a better dancer. Each week classes focus on yoga poses for injury prevention, flexibility and strength. Information on nutrition for athletes and dancers is also available for participants.YOGA - ALL LEVELS
Increase flexibility, gain strength and learn how to prevent injury with yoga techniques taught in this weekly class. No experience necessary. Nutrition information for active lifestyles will be shared in class.Low Cost Ballet program w/ Melba Morris
Melba Morris Ballet Studio in conjunction with Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, is pleased to be able to continue offering it’s low cost ballet program on Wednesdays and Fridays, now enabling it to serve the Echo Park / Silverlake area as well. Ms Morris, a former professional dancer from NYC , has been teaching for over 20 years. Fees are only $6.00 per class for this program, payable monthly. Please note that the studio offers pre-ballet (5 –8yrs) through advanced pointe and variations on its regular schedule of classes the other days of the week. Location: Melba Morris Ballet Studio 1625 Glendale Blvd (south of Glendale (2) offramp, between Effie and Berkeley) Los Angeles, CA 90026 Low cost program: Wednesdays and Fridays Beginners: 5:15pm-6:15pm (8yrs and up) Adv. Beginner—Intermediate: 6:30pm-8PM) Contact: Melba Morris at 213-484-1116 melbamorrisballet@juno.com www.melbamorrisballet.comGST Vitruvian Classes!
Come try a new technique that will get you moving in a totally different way! GST provides a fun, rhythmic, and intense workout that is great for dancers and movers of all levels. Check out www.gstbody.com or email us at gst@gstbody.com for more information.Begining Tap Monday 7pm-8pm, Intermediate Tap Monday 8pm-9pm
Come take back to back Tap classes with our incredible hoofer Kenya Williams!! In the Begining Tap class you will learn basic steps and simple combinations. In the Intermediate Tap class you will learn more complex steps and some great rhythm combinations!! Hope to see you there!!Los Angeles Contact Improv Jam
Beginner's class takes place once a month at the weekly Los Angeles Contact Improvisation Dance Jam. Check the website for dates. www.contactimprovla.comBeggining and Intermediate Folklorico Dance Classes near USC
GRUPO FOLKLORICO CRISTAL DE LOS ANGELES will now be offering classes to NEW STUDENTS!! PLEASE COME JOIN US FOR OUR “OPEN HOUSE” on SATURDAY, MARCH 21st @ 11:00AM. GFC is offering two new folklorico level classes [beginning and intermediate]. All those willing to learn are welcome. We will be determining whether you will be placed in our beginning or intermediate class. Please bring your shoes, if you have them. NO WORRIES IF YOU DO NOT OWN FOLKLORICO SHOES. ** Classes start in APRIL ** BEGINNING CLASS - SATURDAYS 11a-12:30p INTERMEDIATE CLASS - MONDAYS 7p-8:30pm Accepting ages 7 & up! JUST $25/MONTH (ASK ABOUT OUR GROUP DISCOUNTS) Maestra Crystal Calvillo 1187 w. 39th st. Los Angeles, Ca 90037 (323)445-2940 LOOK FOR POSTED BANNER OUTSIDE HOUSE (studio is in the back)Westside Hip Hop Dance classes-Intro & Beginning level
Learn the basics of Hip Hop Dance, get your groove on and have a great, fun and energetic workout too. Teens & Adults: Intro-Beginning level Tuesdays: 8:00-9:00pm 2901 Ocean Park Blvd. #103 Santa Monica, CA 90405 ------------------------------------ Saturdays: 10:15-11:15am Crossroads School-Boxenbaum Arts Building 1734 21st Street Santa Monica, CA 90404 --------------------------------------------------------------- Thursdays: 8:00-9:00pm Dance Studio No. #1 2037 Granville Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. 90025The Bollywood Bhangra Workout
THE BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA WORKOUT AT UCLA: All Levels Welcome Bollywood Bhangra Workout with Achinta S. McDaniel at UCLA's John Wooden Center, Part of the FitWell Program. A one hour fun-filled, sweat-drenched sexy dance workout focusing on basics of Bollywood and Bhangra technique and beginner choreography. For Men and Women of All Levels! UCLA students, staff, alumni.Bollywood-Tech™
THURSDAYS: BOLLYWOOD-TECH: MIXED LEVEL: Adult, All Levels 7:00pm-8:00pm International Dance Academy, 6755 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd Fl., Hollywood, CA 90028, (323) 463-8865 Take class with the industry's most respected Bollywood choreographer and instructor, Achinta S. McDaniel. Bollywood-Tech is a killer weekly class that emphasizes technique, detail, and choreography in blue13's signature style. Expect Bhangra, classical Indian rhythmic footwork, a touch of hip hop, jazz, and contemporary techniques all pulled together and fueled by the music, drama and power of Bollywood. $13 Single, Packages Available www.idahollywood.comBollywood.Bhangra.Beats™ Intermediate-Advance
SUNDAYS: BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA BEATS: Adult, Intermediate/Advanced 11:30am-12:30pm Swerve, 8250 W. 3rd St., 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90048, (323) 782-0741 Expect a challenging one hour cardio-dance workout designed to improve your coordination and flexibility, building on your dance skills to take you to the next level, with an emphasis on technique and choreography. This lesson includes Indian rhythmic footwork derived from classical Kathak, Punjabi style Bhangra, and choreography to the latest Hindi film soundtracks! $16 Single Class, Package Rates Available www.swervestudio.comBollywood.Bhangra.Beats™
SATURDAYS: BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA BEATS: Adult, Beginner/Intermediate 1:30pm-2:30pm Swerve, 8250 W. 3rd St., 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90048, (323) 782-0741 A hot hour long cardio-dance workout that will get your body working while you improve grace and flexibility, tone muscles, and above all, learn a brand new way to move your body. Expect classical Indian rhythmic footwork, traditional and modern Punjabi Bhangra, and choreography to the latest Hindi film soundtracks! $16 Single Class, Package Rates Available www.swervestudio.comMASTER CLASS WITH WINIFRED HARRIS
Join us for the reopening of the New LATC. Noted modern dance choreographer, Winifred Harris teaches an exciting master class for dance enthusiasts and professional dancers. Please call (310)930-5183 if interested in auditioning for Winifred R. Harris' Between Lines Dance Company. Performances are paid and will take place in Guatemala, Switzerland and Scotland.Classical Ballet & Spanish Dance Classes
Young Children's Program: TWINKLE TWOS A 30 minute class for two year olds intended to introduce them to the basic structure and etiquette of a dance class through games and structured play. Sat. 10:45 am TIP TOE TOTS A 45 minute class for three year olds expanding on the simple lessons learned in Twinkle Twos with greater emphasis placed on following directions, musicality and the group dynamic. Sat. 10 am PRE-BALLET A 45 minute class for four year olds; this class prepares the child for entrance into Primary, the first level of the PAB Academy. Basic ballet vocabulary and movements are introduced with greater focus on following directions, memory, and spacial awareness. Sat. 11:30 am PRIMARY The first level of the Academy Program, Primary is a 1 hour ballet class for children five years and older. Students are introduced to the structure of a ballet class and will learn the discipline and etiquette that is necessary to progress through subsequent levels. Class meets once a week. Fri. 3:45 CLASSICAL SPANISH DANCE A two hour class for children nine years and older. Some prior dance experience is necessary. Class meets once a week. Sat. 2:30-4:30Adult beg. Flamenco technique class w/ Anaite'
A basic technique class for adults. Focus on Footwork, Arms and castanets.Mat Pilates
Mat pilates on 5mm ball. An ab buster class. Emphasis on abs. and stretching. Tues.@ 7pm & Sat. @ 8:15amBallet and Stretch Classes for Children and Adults
We offer ballet and stretch-fitness classes for all ages and levels. Children and adults, beginners thru professional. Taught in the tradition of Russian Classical Ballet. Learn to dance, refine you technique, get in shape and have a great time! The studio is conveniently located in the heart of LA. We have sprung marley floors and free parking behind the building. Private lessons are available. Visit the website or call for more information and class schedule.method+class
A sustained and intense yoga based warm-up focusing on building strength and proper alingment coupled with a fast-paced and challenging company class utilizing the fundamentals of method technique and teaching phrase material ripped from the latest method repertoire. all levels welcome!!! Please bring kneepads to class as there is floor work and appropriate protective gear is required!!!! The METHOD Technique METHOD synthesizes athleticism with subtly nuanced sensuality creating a unique language for motion and momentum. The class trains dancers to have liberated, fearless and articulate bodies, so they can engage extreme physicalities. METHOD makes liberal use of the floor as a launch pad for explorations of flight, a landing pad, and a duet partner; playing with gravity, both overcoming it and succumbing to it, as well as using the weight of the upper body and the propulsion of the legs to carve the space and exist in the off-center environment. Requirements A willingness to work hard building strength and engaging in risk-taking, virtuosic athleticism, and rigorous physical work. The warm-up involves accessing breath, yoga poses, and lots of core work (back extensions, abdominal exercises), focusing on proper mechanical alignment for accessing muscular power and attack.FREE DANCE DAY!
March 1st 9:00am - 8:00pm You're invited to "FRIT AND FRAT'S STUDIO 57" "DANCE MARATHON!" at Le Studio Dance Bring family and friends and enjoy a full day of FREE dance classes! From hip-hop, jazz, ballet, contemporary, modern and more!... So come and find your inner dancer...for FREE!! Hope to see you there! More details to follow! Le Studio Dance 57 Palmetto Dr , Pasadena CA 91105 626.792.4616Adult Ballet w/ Helene Williamson (w/ Live Music!)
Le Studio Dance offers Adult Ballet Classes accompanied by a Pianist! Our students can enjoy an hour and a half class with live music for only $16. Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to experience classical ballet taught by Helene Williamson and Leigh Purtill with live music! Having a pianist can make a difference! When: Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday 9:00-10:30am Monday/ Wednesday 6:30-7:30pm Friday 6:30-8:00am Saturday 10:00-11:30am Where: Le Studio Dance 57 Palmetto Dr, Pasadena CA 91105 626.792.4616 www.LeStudioDance.comNew SALSA Class with CONTRA-TIEMPO
CONTRA-TIEMPO's ex- Urban Latin Fusion class at IDA is now the company's new SALSA class Tuesday Nights at International Dance Academy IDA- 6755 Hollywood Blvd. 2nd Fl, Hollywood, CA 90028 TEL: 323-463-8865 6-7:15 pm $13 a classSalsa with CONTRA-TIEMPO
CONTRA-TIEMPO's Cesar Garfiaz & Jennie Gonzalez - teaching every TUESDAY at 7:30pm Beginner/Intermediate SALSA/footwork and partnering - no partner necessary Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in N. Hollywood 6514 Lankershim Blvd - North Hollywood, CA 91606 (818) 985-3193Contemporary Ballet Workshops
Come discover the unique dance training of The Hartfel Ballet, The Cradle Method. 2-Hour Workshop type classes are held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays at The Box Dance Studio, our home. Classes are for pre-professional and professional dancers ages 18+. Wear socks, bring ballet shoes, and a full or queen size blanket/comforter.contemporary class
a technique class with heavy emphasis on performance and interpretation. Set to a super eclectic mix of music the thorough ballet based warm-up focuses on developing clean body mechanics and confident technique. Choreography, pulled from hysterica dance co. repertory, challenges each student to develop precision, musicality and authentic interpretation.NEW Urban Latin Fusion class with CONTRA-TIEMPO
Brand new CONTRA-TIEMPO company technique class taught by Artistic Director, Ana Maria Alvarez CONTRA-TIEMPO COMPANY CLASS Urban Latin Dance - Salsa based fusion - no partner necessary - - International Dance Academy - - - Located on the 2nd Floor of 6755 Hollywood Blvd - - btw Highland and Cahuenga Ave. - Parking @ Hollywood/Highland 1 minute away from the Hollywood and Highland Station of the Metro Rail Red LineJacob "Kujo" Lyons' Break-Dancing Classes
Kujo's Breaking classes cover the broad spectrum of the art and science of Breaking - from toprock, drops, footwork, power, and combinations, to illustrating the compatibility of Breaking with other movement forms like Ballet, Modern, Gymnastics, and Capoeira. Sundays @ 2:30pm – Intermediate Breaking II Some experience is a MUST Sundays @ 3:30pm – Beginning Breaking I No experience necessary Kujo, artistic director of the award-winning Lux Aeterna Dance Company, has been teaching weekly classes at The Edge PAC in Hollywood for 7 years, as well as master classes worldwide - from Europe to Japan to South Africa to Colombia. He also teaches at the elite level, having trained professional b-boys at the Red Bull Beat Riders dance camp, and having given special workshop to the cast of Cirque du Soleil's 'Quidam'.Drop In Laban/Bartenieff Inspired Mov't Class
This class will be a 3 hour class based on the Bartenieff Fundamentals and the Effort/Shape/Space work of Rudolf Laban. It is for anyone interested in exploring easeful movement that is expressive and dynamic. Learn a little about Laban Movement Analysis system (LMA) in a fun upbeat way. It is taught by Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysts who run the LMA Certificate Program at Loyola Marymount University and UC Berkeley.Cairde na hÉireann Irish Dance- Classes for Children and Adults
The focus of Cairde na hÉireann is to train children and adults in the art of Irish dance for competition and performance, educate dancers on the history and culture of the Irish, and to give them the opportunity to find friends, challenges, and joy in dancing! Classes are held all over the Los Angeles area for children and adults, beginner through advanced. Cairde na hÉireann also runs a professional level performance group which rehearses weekly and performs at events around the LA area. **WINTER QUARTER 09* Classes start first week of JanuaryChoreography w/ Carla Lubow
Choreographic and compositional tools will be explored and developed through improvisation, individual as well as collaborative group projects, and performance in a supportive and creative environment! Dancers will have the opportunity to choreograph, direct, perform, and analyze/critique choreography through the development of weekly projects. Mixed levels and styles are all welcomed!!! Questions, contact carlalubow@lavc.edu or call 818 947-2909. To register go to www.lavc.edu or call 818 947-2600.Contemporary Jazz w/ Nate Hodges
Interested in taking a class that is both fun, highly aerobic, and artistic. Nate Hodges, former dancer for BARE Dance Company, Kaba Modern and Funkanometry SF, and the current Artistic Director for RhetOracle Dance Company, teaches a highly original contemporary jazz class that blends 15 years of jazz, modern, and hip hop into a style that is both organic and intricate. The class begins with a warm up focused on warming the entire body before a long stretch and a subsequent conditioning element designed to target the core and arms. The class class environment is designed to be a fun, casual space where people can challenge themselves with the elements unfamiliar to them while simultaneously capitalizing on those elements they may be more familair with. You'll leave inspired, sweating, and wanting more!Adult Ballet Class w/ Rebecca Romero
Open Ballet class geared toward adults - great movement class for strengthening placement, coordination & overall technique at an intermediate level; modern-based so class may be taken barefoot; casual setting in large airy studioTheoretical Origins of Dance/Movement Therapy: Foundations Level I
The Center for Movement Education & Research offers an introductory level course reviewing the theoretical origins of dance/movement therapy as a therapeutic modality. The course will review the history and conceptual development of the major pioneers in the field and the application of their work within various settings. Additionally the cultural, ritual, modern dance and nonverbal communication historical elements will be reviewed.SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre: Contemporary Dance Classes
Tuesdays: 7:00 pm Sundays: 6:15 pm Place: 529 E. Gutierrez, Santa Barbara CA Corner of Salsipuedes and Gutierrez GET INFO: (805) 569-0389 $10 class ABOUT Our class is a unique fusion of contemporary dance, ballet, yoga, pilates, release technique, improvisation, capoeria, floor work, upside down work, tumbling, and our own inventions. It is suited to all levels. The class focuses on providing a multi-genre, multi-dimensional experience by cultivating an awareness of collective dance consciousness stirring the spirit, awakening the soul, sparking the imagination, and fostering an atmosphere of play, safety, respect, and fun. Although there is a structure to the class it is facilitated intuitively making no two classes entirely alike. Come be challenged!Kirov Ballet Master Classes
3 classes on Tuesday December 16, 2008 - FREE Community Master Classes presented by Masterpiece Dance Theatre & Vaganova Ballet System, Ltd. Guest Instructor Ninel Kurgapkina, Kirov Ballet Company Principal Coach and first partner to Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev. Strict ballet attire only. Master Classes are available for auditing, RSVP to: 310-477-6414. CLASS LOCATION Trudl Dance Institute at the Colburn’s “Gallery Studio”, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 244 South San Pedro Street, Little Tokyo For General Information: 310-477-6414 or www.balletla.com Master Class Schedule: Tuesday 12/16/08 - Registration begins at 9:00AM Advanced/Professional Level 10:30AM-12:00PM (“Free”) Intermediate-Advanced Teens (13-18yrs.) 1:30PM-2:45PM (“Free”) Intermediate-Advanced Children (8-12yrs.) 3:00PM-4:15PM (“Free”) Reception & Demo: 12:00PM-1:15PM Suggested Donation for Reception & Demo: Adults $10- Refreshments provided, Limited seating available Parking in nearby lots and structures. Subject to changes, and other policies may apply. No photography or videotaping will be allowed without prior written consent from Masterpiece Dance Theatre. Press welcome. Presented In Collaboration With The Music Center Trudl Zipper Dance Institute at the Colburn Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, and other supporters Assistant instructor to Kurgapkina and curriculum translator, Nadya KoscuikContemporary Dance w/ Rick Heiman
Announcing contemporary/modern dance classes on Saturday mornings, 10:30-12 at International Dance Academy (IDA) in Hollywood. Classes are intermediate to advanced level, include a floor-based warm up with strengthening and conditioning exercises and flexibility work. The style is Limon/Horton based, with an emphasis on flow, musicality and moving with power. Dancers for future projects may be recruited from classes. The drop-in cost for this 1-1/2 hour class is just $13, with discount class cards available at the front desk. Private dance lessons are also available. IDA is a spacious facility with 7 studios, waiting area, drinking fountain, and $2 parking with validation at the Hollywood and Highland garage. The studio is located at: 6755 Hollywood Blvd. (2nd Floor, above Frederick's), Hollywood, CA 90028 Entrance is on Hollywood Blvd. (look for the awning), a couple of doors west of Frederick's main entrance. Studio phone # is: (323) 463-8865 Rick Heiman is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. He is modern dance director at Encore Junior and Senior High School for the Performing Arts, and choreographs for Hollywood Ballet and the pre-professional concert contemporary dance group Southern California Dance Company. For further information please email rick@rickdance.com or call (323) 377-9397 www.hollywooddancecompany.comYOGA DANCE
Creative sequencing, flow and focus, on and off the mat. This class infuses yoga postures with movements and principles drawn from Modern dance technique to cultivate a yoga practice that builds strength, flexibility and concentration in the body while also working through a full-range of motion and traveling through space.GST Vitruvian Classes!
GST™ classes teach the Movement System in 1-hour spurts of exhilarating stretching and strengthening to music. Classes give you the opportunity both to practice the GST™ Body Technique skills and get a rigorous work out. Taught on GST™’s original, spring-loaded equipment, the unique choreography takes the body through full spinal motion standing, sitting and lying on the floor. The exercises challenge balance and coordination while building long, lean, and strong flexible muscles. Please visit www.gstbody.com for more information!DYNAMIC MOVEMENT LAB
This open-level class focuses on floor and standing exercises, as well as some improvisation structures, with an emphasis on connecting breath and movement. We approach movement with an inquiring, non-judgmental mind, with the goal of unearthing new sensations of awareness and nuance in our individual physicality. Come, explore, sweat, move. Easy access from the 101 Call 818-749-6044 for details TAISHA PAGGETT's movement background and teaching is inspired by a number of influential post-modern dance choreographers and teachers whom she's worked with over the years, most recently Maria Gillespie and Cheng-Chieh Yu, as well as the practices of yoga, contact improvisation and studies on the history of somatic education. She received her yoga teaching certification in the classical ashtanga tradition through the Mount Madonna school. She's currently in the dance projects of David Rousseve, Victoria Marks and is part of the art action collective Ultra-red. She is also co-instigator of the dance journal project, itch. myspace.com/taishapaggettOpen Adult Ballet at Pasadena Dance Theatre
Intermediate level balletTheoretical Origins of Dance/Movement Therapy: Foundations Level I
This is an introductory level course reviewing the theoretical origins of dance/movement therapy as a therapeutic modality. The course will review the history and conceptual development of the major pioneers in the field and the application of their work within various settings. Additionally the cultural, ritual, modern dance and nonverbal communication historical elements will be reviewed. 2 weekends over 2 months. contact: Judy Gantz 310 477-9535 or http://www.movement-education.org/courses_alternateroute_socal.htmlEasy Yoga with Avry
Gentle yoga practice. PLEASE arrive 10 minutes early to the first class to do the paperwork. Bring your empty stomach, a smile and your own mat/blanket. Call Avry for more information (818) 720-7565 or check the website: avryyoga.comAll-levels Yoga w/ Avry Budka
Evening all-levels yoga with Avry. PLEASE arrive 10 minutes early to the first class to do the paperwork. Bring your empty stomach, a smile and your own mat/blanket. Call Avry for more information: (818) 720-7565 or check the website: avryyoga.comMagnolia Pilates Mat Class
This class is an all level one hour class that focus on breath, body mechanics and core strength. We will be using foam rollers, magic circles, bands and small balls as props to help facilitate resistance and for stability work. It is a full body work out (don't worry you will not be doing one hour of crunches!) with the emphasis on core stability as a way to stay safe and injury free. I also incorporate about 10-15 minutes of yoga postures to open the body up. There will be modifications for the more challenging exercises so that beginners are not overwhelmed, but more experienced students are always challenged. Please email me with any questions. alybababoell@hotmail.comIrish Dance
Irish Stepdancing for Adults of all levels. Beginner Reels & Jigs, Intermediate Slipjigs & Traditional Sets, Advanced Hornpipes and Heavy Jigs are taught by Maire Clerkin. Raised in London by Irish parents and registered with the Irish Dancing Commission, Dublin, Maire focuses on technique, rhythm, with traditional and modern choreography.Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced Open Adult Ballet Classes at Le Studio Dance, Pasadena
Adult Ballet is the foundation for all kinds of dance. Le Studio's world class instructors teach the discipline and exercises of Ballet with a fun and light approach. Dancers will be taught ability appropriate positions, exercises and combinations for the barre and center floor. Beautiful posture, flexibility, strength and grace are just a few of the wonderful benefits of Ballet. For more information and our complete schedule of classes including jazz, tap, yoga, and more, visit www.lestudiodance.com.Hip Hop Ritual
A Hip Hop class that mixes up styles from Old Skool to New Skool. Just $10 every Monday Night at 8:30pm. (Once a month special guest Instructor)"Economy Buster" Dance Classes
As a result of the condition of our economy, OPA is launching an "Economy Buster" Dance Campaign for our adult community dance classes. The campaign will run from October 15th, through the Week of December 15th. The classes include Contemporary Dance for Hip Hop Dancers Contemporary Ballet Modern Dance; Dancing with Musical Legends Street Hip Hop. For detailed class and teaching staff descriptions, please go to www.oneperformingarts.com (click on events) OR, Call us @ (494)470-1278Egyptian Dance Basic Course w/ Zahra
Learn the basics of Egyptian "bellydance" from master teacher, Zahra Zuhair, in this 8-week course that will take you through everything you need to know to start on your path to bellydancing! Zahra is co-director of DanceGardenLA, as well as a master teacher, performer, and choreographer who is world renowned for her knowledge, authenticity, and dedication to the art of Middle Eastern dance. Raised in "Raks el Sharki" (loosely translated - oriental dance) from a young age, Zahra is known for her musicality, flawless technique, and elegant style. She has trained and influenced many of today’s international, "bellydance" stars, and has performed and taught workshops on 5 continents, including the Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival in Cairo, Egypt.Afro-Brazilian w/ Linda Yudin
Movements describing the different Orixas work your whole body from head to toe, making you feel strong and energized! Be ready to sweat and dance with your whole body & spirit. Most people go barefoot for this class, some wear a soft dance slipper or jazz shoe. Linda Yudin, MA is an award-winning artistic director and co-founder of Viver Brasil Dance Company. Through her rigorous training and research (since 1986), she connects the Candomblé traditions of music, dance, song and myths with innovative stage presentations. Her principal Afro-Brazilian dance teachers are Mestre King, Luiz Badaró, Rosangela Silvestre and Dona Cici of the Pierre Verger Foundation. Yudin has appeared in Janet Jackson’s Escapade music video and was a consultant for the PBS series, Dancing. She has conducted dance workshops and lectured about Brazilian dance throughout the US and South Africa; and has had the pleasure of teaching Afro-Brazilian dance at the Pierre Verger Foundation in Bahia since 2006.DANCEbank- Fall/Winter 2009
DANCEbank Fall/Winter session begins! Saturdays, 11am-1:00pm class costs $12, cash is appreciated, as is exact change Sep 5, 12, 19: Cheng-Chieh Yu Sept. 26, October 3, 10: Roxanne Steinberg Oct. 17, 24, 31: Kevin Williamson November 7, 14, 21: Neil Greenberg December 5, 12: Sheetal Gandhi Classes are held at Metabolic Studio / Farmlab, 1745 North Spring Street, #4, LA, CA 90012 free and abundant street parking! directions at www.farmlab.org join the DANCEbank group on Facebook for updates or email dancebank@gmail.comLatin Cardio Class w/ Jennie Gonzalez
*NEW CLASS: CONTRA-TIEMPO's Jennie Gonzalez* teaching *every SATURDAY - 4:30pm - $15 Latin cardio class - footwork and styling - no partner necessaryEgyptian Belly Dance w/ Zahra
Egyptian Bellydance is an ancient art form that has grown into a modern global phenomenon! Our expert teachers will show you that it involves a lot more than just the belly. We have classes 6 days a week that range from our Intro to Bellydance Series to Advanced/Professional Level. Premiere instructor, Zahra is co-director of Dance Garden LA. World renowned for her knowledge, authenticity, and dedication to the art of Middle Eastern dance, she has performed and taught workshops on 5 continents, including the Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival in Cairo, Egypt.Explore Laban/Bartenieff Movement
This is a once a month drop in class for anyone interested in knowing more about the Laban and Bartenieff movement. We will seek simple movement sensation, improve our movement connections, expand our expressive range, and be part of a community that loves to MOVENEW Urban Latin Fusion class with CONTRA-TIEMPO
NEW CLASS CONTRA-TIEMPO's Ana Maria Alvarez is BACK the 1st week in NOVEMBER 2008 teaching every TUESDAY - 6:00pm - $13 CONTRA-TIEMPO COMPANY CLASS Urban Latin Dance - Salsa based fusion - no partner necessary - - International Dance Academy - - - Located on the 2nd Floor of 6755 Hollywood Blvd - - btw Highland and Cahuenga Ave. - Parking @ Hollywood/Highland 1 minute away from the Hollywood and Highland Station of the Metro Rail Red Line IDAHOLLYWOOD.COMEcstatic Ritual with Banafsheh
Ecstatic Ritual with Banafsheh Delve into peaceful flow and ecstatic movement with sema, or "deep listening", the ancient practice of Sufi masters ,a moving meditation to dissolve the illusion of separateness. Guided by Rumis poetry, our warm-up leads us to a fine-tuning: correct alignment, a fluid spine and sensing our chakras, allowing a flow of light/chi. We then engage in sema in various manifestations from high energy to deep calm: Whirling, Reverential Bowing, Zikr (chanting), Shaking and Waves. Bring SOFT SHOES or SOCKS. info@banafshehsayyad.comFREE Salsa Saturday with CONTRA-TIEMPO
REE SALSA SATURDAY... THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH!! Come join CONTRA-TIEMPO family and friends at our VERY LAST Free Salsa Saturday of the summer! If you haven't been able to go to any of the earlier ones, or if you went and are yearning for more, this is your last chance!! ALL AGES WELCOME SEPTEMBER 27TH is our LAST ONE for 2008!!! FREE – FREE – FREE OAKWOOD RECREATION CENTER IN VENICE 767 California Ave Venice CA 90291 (310) 452-7479 12 noon- 2 pm Mini performances by CONTRA-TIEMPO and hands on Salsa Workshop with the whole COMPANY! Made possible by a grant from the Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs. Beginners are welcome!Advanced/Professional Ballet w/ Glen Eddy
Glen Eddy teaches Advanced/Professional Ballet class at The Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:30-1. Gallery Studio, Little Tokyo, 244 S.San Pedro Street. Partially validated parking 350 E. Second Street. Metered street parking also available. Glen recently joined the Dance Institute as Associate Director, was Principal dancer/soloist with Nederlans Dans Theater 13 years, has worked with choreographers William Forsythe, Mats Ek, Glen Tetley, Hans Van Manen, Nacho Duato, and many others. He has taught at schools in Holland, Spain, Israel, and the United States and has been guest ballet master with many European national dance companies.Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Introduction to BalletMelba Morris Ballet Studio
Graded Ballet Classes Pre-Ballet through Advanced Pointe and VariationsContemporary Jazz w/ Carrie Smaczny
A fusion of flow based Modern and traditional Jazz technique.Beginning/Intermediate Middle Eastern Dance Class w/ Amara
In her classes, Amara stresses a strong foundational technique through combinations of choreography, improvisation, solo, and group work. Students are encouraged to create their own style and are taught to embellish their performances with props such as veil, zils (finger cymbals), cane, and sword. Besides movements, Amara also discusses the history of Middle Eastern dance, the differences between various genres, and the issues facing dancers today. Amara is one of the most versatile dancers in the U.S. as her repertory includes traditional and experimental improvisations and choreographies. She has held long-term performing engagements at several nightclubs and restaurants and is featured in several commercial videos. Amara teaches dance studio classes and is an instructor at Cal Poly, Pomona. In addition, she is Director of Ya Helewa!, Producer of EEMED and Co-producer of X-MED. She holds a degree in Music History and Literature and a certificate in Ethnomusicology (FSU) and worked towards an MA and MFA in Dance (UCLA). Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in Dance History and Theory (UCR).Laguna Dance Festival Parsons Master Class at Legion Hall
In from New York, Miguel Quionnes, principal from the Parsons Dance Co. leads a technique class and teaches samples from Parsons Dance Repertory. Planned for adult and professional dancers, this master class is a very exciting and an enriching part of the Laguna Dance Festival.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 StudioWest 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. 7thMusical theater dance w/ Rick Heiman
Contemporary-based class drawing on a variety of movement styles and music from theatrical and musical theater productions.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 w/ Stevi - Tuesdays
Announcing the Continuation of A Professional Modern Dance Class in Long Beach 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 Phone: 562.424.2711 www.elevationstudios.org 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 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.FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES w/ Juan Talavera
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.comMusical Theatre for Teens/Adults w/ Daiana Koren
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 heelsafroCARIBE Dance Classes w/ Kimberly Mullen
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 w/ Baheyya
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.comIntegrated 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 detailsTeen/Adult Modern w/ Tawny Chapman
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, 7:30-8:30pmBeginning Middle Eastern (Belly dance) w/ Sa'eeda
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 310.656.1562FOCUSfish Static Trapeze & Silks Classes
FOCUSfish now teaches a STATIC TRAPEZE & SILKS AERIAL WORKOUT + TRICKS class in Eagle Rock at XTC. Beginner Aerial Fitness at 2pm SATURDAYS w/ Donte Phillips Int/Adv Aerial Fitness at 3pm SATURDAYS w/ Donte Phillips Intermediate Aerial Fitness + Tricks at 11am SUNDAYS w/ Judith Lewis 12pm Beginner Aerial Fitness + Tricks at 12pm SUNDAYS w/ Judith Lewis XTC: 2131 Colorado Blvd. Eagle Rock Checkout www.focusfish.com or write to Kristy at info@focusfish.com with questions.Modern Class with Rae Shao-lan Blum - Mondays
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.comJazz Funk w/ Jo Ungco
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.comContemporary 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.comWest 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.comBallet 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, 5-6:30pmContemporary Modern w/ William Lu
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.orgProfessional Adult Ballet - Intermediate/Advanced w/ John Charles Welch
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, 6:30-8:30pmLatin Rhythm Cardio w/ Albertossy Espinoza
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.orgSonneBlauma Danscz Theatre: Contemporary 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, 6:30-7:30pmBackhausdance Company Class - FRIDAY
Company class, taught by Artistic Director Jennifer Backhaus, is recommended for adv. intermediate to professional level dancers. www.wcdanceacademy.comCuban Rueda Salsa with Ana Maria Alvarez
Cuban Rueda Salsa with Ana Maria Alvarez Tuesdays 6-7pm $13 at IDA HollywoodSalsa w/ Casar Garfiaz
Salsa with Casar Garfiaz Wednesdays 7-8pm $13Ballet Jazz w/ Alycia Perrin
Ballet Jazz with Alycia Perrin Wednesdays 7:30-9pm $13Ballroom and Latin with Michael and Robbie
Ballroom and Latin with Michael and Robbie Thursdays 8-9pm $13Rueda Salsa Saturdays with Michael Butler (Every 4th Sat.)
Rueda Salsa Saturdays with Michael Butler every 4th Sat. of the month Class: 8pm Open floor: 9-12Irish Dance for Adults-8 wk Course
An 8 week course starting September 25th. $120 payable by cash or check on the first night or $18 per class. Please come early to register so we can start on time. Check out the website: www.danceartsacademy.com So please email me (Maire Clerkin) back if you want to come. maireclerkin@yahoo.co.uk For those of you who don't know me this is what I do: I teach traditional Reel, Jig, Slipjig, Single Jig, Heavy Jig, Hornpipe and Trad Sets, emphasizing technique and fun, but not competition. I juggle all different levels so you get to watch the experts and are helped at a slower pace to join in. Don't worry about spending on shoes at the outset. Tennis shoes are fine. No jeans! No heels! Loose, comfortable clothing.Urban Latin Dance Fusion w/ Ana Maria Alvarez
NEW Contra-Tiempo CLASS AT IDA! Ana Maria Alvarez will be teaching every TUES. Urban Latin Dance Fusion @ 6 pm $13 a class at International Dance Academy (IDA) in Hollywood www.idahollywood.comKlein/Mahler Stretch and Placement w/ Rebecca Alson-Milkman
a class which employs long, slow stretches in order to generate and increase kinesthetic awareness and anatomical connectionContemporary Dance w/ Rae Shao-Lan Blum
contemporary dance with Rae Shao-Lan Blum thursday nights from january - april starting january 8th 7:30-9:30 pm offered by donation location: dance arts academy 731 South La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 932-6230 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. This beginner-intermediate-advanced-enlightened level class draws on influences from modern dance forms, release, tai-chi, improvisation, and somatic movement. Questions can be sent directly to Rae at orchidmoves@earthlink.net.Afro-Brazilian w/ Luiz Badaro
Viver Brasil's Tuesday Afro-Brazilian dance class at Dance Arts Academy in its 9th year!! All levels welcomed! Co-Artistic director Luiz Badaró and invited guests teach an invigorating class: orixa dance movement including songs, samba and samba reggae movement. Every Tuesday 8:00-9:30pm Live music with Mario Pallais and guests For more information email: Linda Yudin: lkyudin@mac.com www.viverbrasil.comJazz Technique (intermediate) w/ Chris Baltes
TUESDAY NIGHT 8:30-10PM INTERMEDIATE JAZZ TECHNIQUE w/ Chris Baltes Christine Baltes is considered a master teacher, specializing in jazz dance and recognized as a leader in technique who 'teaches'. Born in Evanston, IL, Christine studied with Gus Giordano, the grandfather of American Jazz Dance. She's traveled the U.S. performing on stage, television, industrials and dinner theater before moving to California. With a teaching career that spans over 35 years, Christine holds a lifetime California Teaching Credential in dance, Pilates and Gyrokinesis® certification and faculty positions that included University of California, Irvine, Chapman University, California State University, Long Beach, Orange Coast College, Irvine Valley College, Long Beach City College, Academy for the Performing Arts High School, and more.Yin Yoga w/ Alex Arnold
YIN YOGA IS BACK! Back by popular demand. Yin Yoga has fianlly returned to Elevation Studios. With Instructor and Studio Owner Alex Arnold. THURSDAY NIGHTS 6-7PM Yin Yoga is a full hour class that will stretch and calm your body from the crazy week you've had and prepare you for the fun weekend to come.Break Dancing w/ Ricky Cole
New Break Dancing Class Elevation Studios would like to present Ricky Cole Every Tuesday 6-7pm Int/Adv Teen Break Dancing Credits: Founder/Owner of Soul Fresh Clothing, Artistic Director of Offspring, Coach Valencia High School Work: Americas Got Talent, Mad TV, Mims Like this Music Video, Nike Human Race Spec, Sacramento Kings Half Time Team SickStep, Breed, GreyScale, Chill Factor, Alumni of Pac Modern, Non Stop, Channel Island All Male questions: elevationstudios@elevationstudios.org.Hip Hop w/ Ricky Cole
New Hip Hop Class Elevation Studios would like to present Ricky Cole Starting March 3, 2009 Every Tuesday 7:30-8:30pm Int Teen Hip Hop Credits: Founder/Owner of Soul Fresh Clothing, Artistic Director of Offspring, Coach Valencia High School Work: Americas Got Talent, Mad TV, Mims Like this Music Video, Nike Human Race Spec, Sacramento Kings Half Time Team SickStep, Breed, GreyScale, Chill Factor, Alumni of Pac Modern, Non Stop, Channel Island All Male questions: elevationstudios@elevationstudios.org.Bollywood Aerobics
This amazing class is a non-stop aerobic workout to Bollywood music using muscles you never knew existed! Learn the basics of Bollywood dancing as you tone, strengthen, and build stamina. With an added spiritual technique, this class will help you release stress and leave you feeling happy and uplifted. Easy moves and great music - discover your inner Bollywood star! Every Thursday @ 5-6pmJosie Walsh Contemporary Ballet
Josie Walsh, formerly of the Joffrey Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre and currently Director/Choreographer of MYOKYO teaches ballet with a contemporary flare. Josie has a holistic approach to ballet technique rooted in deep understanding of proper body alignment. Her method of teaching creates a strong and powerful center, learning to initiate movement from the core. Sculpting, refining and ultimately finding freedom within the classical discipline is the journey...Josie's classes are fun, creative and challenging, set to alternative music.B.E. Productions Dance Company-open company class
B.E. Productions Dance Company is now offering open company class! *This open company class is offered to advanced/professional dancers with a strong emphasis on the ways in which classical techniques and simple practices of alignment can be harnessed with the potential to transform the dancer into a viscerally expressive force of nature*. *Class is based in Limon principles in a contemporary format, and is taught by André Megerdichian. WHEN: Every Monday from 7- 8:30 WHERE: Masterpiece Dance Theatre, 1365 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles 90024 COST: $10 per class or $90 ten class card For more information contact (949) 887-1134 or info@beproductions.orgSoul Motion:on the path
Ongoing 5 Rhythms/ Continuum Montage/ Soul Motion Classes in Culver City Sunday early class: 9am-11am ($15) soulmotion: on the path taught by michael molin-skelton PLENTY OF FREE PARKING; STREET PARKING OPEN ON SUNDAYS For more information email or call Jo at 310 821 1144 or email jo@movinground.com http://movinground.com/Fumbling towards ecstacy
Ongoing 5 Rhythms/ Continuum Montage/ Soul Motion Classes in Culver City at THE MASONIC LODGE IN CULVER CITY 9635 VENICE BLVD. (between cardiff & watseka) CULVER CITY, CA 90232 Sunday mid-morning class: 11:15am-2pm ($15) fumbling towards ecstacy taught by jo cobbett PLENTY OF FREE PARKING; STREET PARKING OPEN ON SUNDAYS For more information email or call Jo at 310 821 1144 or email jo@movinground.com http://movinground.com/Brockus Project Dance Company Open Company Class
Open Company Class with Brockus Project Dance Company. Class is an athletic and technical contemporary blend of modern and jazz that integrates the wisdom of pilates and gyrotonic for a health dancer. Class is taught by Deborah Brockus, artistic director of Brockus Project who has a strong reputation for developing amazing dancers by helpiing the dancers to reach their poential. Classes are Tuesday 7:30-9:30pm and Sunday 11:00-1:00. Fee is $10.00 per class. Classes are at the company studios: BPStudios, which are located just east of Downtown LA in the Brewery Arts Complex, the studio has easy freeway access from all directions and pleanty of free parking. Address is 618B Moulton Ave LA, CA 90031 For information please contact Deborah Brockus, 562-412-7429Latin Rhythm Cardio
A fusion of salsa, merengue, cumbia, samba, afro-cuban, and other Latin dances with cardio exercises to make a fun workout. Loose between 600 to 800 calories per class. See you soon!Latin Rhythm Cardio
A fusion of salsa, merengue, cumbia, samba, afro-cuban, and other Latin dances with cardio exercises to make a fun workout. Loose between 600 to 800 calories per class. See you soon!LA Times Review: Los Angeles Ballet kicks off its third season
(from LA Times Blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/los-angeles-bal.html) by Laura Bleiberg It takes commitment, nerve, and ridiculous sums of money to build a successful ballet company. And that's just the kindling. To get a real blaze going, it helps to have the high-powered dance connections of Los Angeles Ballet's co-directors, Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary. For their fledgling company's third repertory season, launched Saturday at Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, Christensen and Neary brought out their big-gun friends and family, and there was noticeably more heat onstage. Colleen's sister Patricia Neary, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, staged the George Balanchine-Sergei Prokofiev 1929 masterpiece "Prodigal Son." One of that ballet's greatest interpreters of the title part, Miami City Ballet director Edward Villella, loaned them costumes and sets (modeled on Georges Rouault's originals). Karin von Aroldingen, another former City Ballet powerhouse, was brought in to help stage "Stravinsky Violin Concerto"(1972), one of Balanchine's neoclassical gems. Finally, there was a snazzy premiere, "An American Camelot"by Jennifer Backhaus, with party costumes by Franco Martinez and hanging light shades by Tony Kudner. Read more at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/los-angeles-bal.htmlLA Times Review: Batsheva Dance Company's "Max"
(from LA Times Blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/review-bathseva.html) by Sara Wolf Speaking of his latest work for Israel's Batsheva Dance Company, "Max," Ohad Naharin has poetically referenced the universality of gesture and the essence of being -- the usual sorts of statements made about the art of dance that don't really say much of anything. In performance at UCLA's Royce Hall on Saturday evening, the piece was -- gratifyingly -- at once more particular and abstruse, relying as it did on a lexicon of physical gestures that, despite their specificity, added up to gibberish. Indeed, the capacity to communicate lay at the heart of Naharin's metaphysical inquiry, which propelled his 10-member ensemble through an endless roundelay of groupings and gropings with an urgency that underscored failure rather than achievement. The troupe has grown only more sophisticated in its movement invention over the last decade with the institution of Naharin's creative training technique, aptly named Gaga; and of the many reasons that audiences line up to see Batsheva, the most prominent remains the indulgent pleasure of watching highly intelligent, superbly articulate dancers at play in the fields of its artistic director's kinetic imagination. Though some have assessed "Max" as Naharin's quietest dance yet, the dance was neither sparse nor contemplative. Instead, dense movement phrases demanded lightning-quick shifts in direction, momentum or intention of the dancers, who, in turn, sashayed, stumbled or soared across the stage in response to erratically jerking body parts catapulting them this way and that. A shoulder roll might send one falling backward while a protruding hipbone hiccuped into a balletic rond de jambe. As if Naharin had set out to use every possible bone or joint to initiate movement, at one point it looked as if the dancers were being pulled by their belly buttons. The choreographer's hallmark humor and aggressive -- what might once have been called punk -- aesthetic were also on display, cropping up in the spectrum of sources from which he extracted and adapted gestures -- with Irish jigs, metal headbanging and hand signs. Naharin used well the relative abilities of individual dancers -- notably Yaniv Abraham and Tom Weinberger's buoyant elasticity, Guy Shomroni's nerdy awkwardness, Rachael Osborne and Caroline Boussard's intricate delicacy, Iyar Elezra's almost animalistic fluidity. But the entire troupe, which also featured Nir Benita, Matan David, Bosmat Nossan and Bobbi Smith, excelled at combining speed and grace, strength and precision in his amalgam of big, juicy moves and tiny, quirky fillips. The dance accrued meaning, or not, over a series of brief, continually shifting sections. Just as the movement vocabulary afforded the dancers little stable ground, these flickered like light and shadow moving swiftly across the surface of water. Some segments thematically united within the rhythms established in Maxim Warratt's dynamic score, with dancers embodying the peripatetic whir of pneumatic drills and high-pitched whine of chain saws in one, the evocative amorphousness of what might've been the sound of a heartbeat in utero in another. Much of the idiosyncratic movement language in "Max," however, exploited decay and collapse, whether it was a knee giving out, a pose crumbling, a gesture fading, an image coming into focus or a group aggregating only to immediately disperse. The piece ended with the company shouting out a song at the top of their lungs. That it, like several of the texts recited in Warratt's score, was in a concocted language only underscored Naharin's dystopic outlook.We Want to Know More About DRC Members!
Did you know that our new website allows our members to create and share profiles? Just log in as a member (your e-mail address is your user name, and if you forgot your password, just use the "Forgot Password" link). Once the pink box opens up on the right side of the page, click on the "edit profile" link, add the information you want to share and upload an image; then click "Allow others to view my profile!" (we will not display your email address). Your information will then be added to our online Member Directory at http://www.drc-la.org/users/. Let the Dance Community know who you are!New NEA Guidelines: Economic Stimulus and Job Recovery Arts Funds
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released grant guidelines for applying for economic stimulus and job recovery arts funds. The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act provided $50 million to support jobs in the arts through NEA grants. These recovery funds are intended "to focus on projects that preserve jobs in the arts." On the NEA Recovery webpage, the new guidelines provide application dates, eligibility criteria and potential project outlines. The deadline for applying for the direct grants is April 2, 2009, with grants being awarded as of July 1, 2009. These direct grants will be available to arts organizations as non-matching one-time grants of $25,000 or $50,000. The NEA is requiring that any applicant for the direct grants must have received an NEA grant within the last four years. Complete details on applicant eligibility and the rest of the recovery grant program are available on the NEA's Recovery website.Israeli Dance Troupe May Draw Protest
Arts, Briefly Israeli Dance Troupe May Draw Protest By DANIEL J. WAKIN; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF Published: March 4, 2009 The Brooklyn Academy of Music is bracing for protests of the Batsheva Dance Company, an Israeli troupe, this week. In recent weeks during a North American tour, Batsheva, which was to begin a run of performances on Wednesday night, has been dogged by small demonstrations and calls for a boycott over Israel's actions in Gaza. Fatima Kafele, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn Academy, said a "small group" had asked the police for a permit to demonstrate on Thursday. She said she did not know the group's identity. Batsheva and its artistic director, Ohad Naharin, are prominent in the modern dance world and are respected by many critics. Mr. Naharin, through Ms. Kafele, declined to be interviewed but issued a statement on Wednesday saying he forgives and understands "the frustration"and people who "want to fight for human rights"But he said that boycotting a dance company could not make a difference, and that such energy should be channeled "into getting moderate powers and people on both sides to talk to each other" A version of this article appeared in print on March 5, 2009, on page C2 of the New York edition.Today's Arts Tune-Up
I just attended the Arts Tune-Up sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The City of West Hollywood and in collaboration with LA Stage Alliance, Center for Cultural Innovation and Arts for LA. What an energizing event! If you haven't been to one of these events, they are great -- and they are FREE! The tune up works like this: there are numerous round tables set up, each focused on a particular topic. There are 5 sessions, each lasting for 20 minutes. You choose a table and discuss the topic with the topic leader and with your fellow table mates. When the 20 minutes are up, you move to the next topic that interests you. It's kind of like speed dating for advancing your arts business. Both organizations and individual artists can benefit from the discussions. Today's topics included Advocacy, Arts Education In-School Resources (K-12) & Working in Arts Education (K-12), Fund raising for Individual Artists, Getting Your Sh*t Together, Health Insurance for Individual Artists, Indie production and marketing for musicians and media artists, Intro to Public Art, Legal Issues for Artists & Writers, Marketing for Visual Artists, PR (for Performing Artists) and Resources in Russian. To top it off, the tune-up is a great place to network and meet potential collaborators. The tune-ups are co-sponsored by the County Arts Commission and a particular municipality, so they move around. I'm certainly going to keep my out for the next one.Remembering Theodore Kosloff, a forgotten figure in California's dance history
(from LA Times blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/-theodore-kosloff-.html by Debra Levine "When I first saw Kosloff," wrote choreographer Agnes de Mille of her first ballet teacher in her 1952 memoir "Dance to the Piper," "he was naked in feathers, leaning on a feathered spear. He had painted himself horned eyebrows in the Russian Ballet style, and his gestures were real classic pantomime, involving clenched fists and the whites of the eyeballs, a positive style which gave the camera something substantial to focus on. Here was passion and here certainly was sincerity in amounts. Every expression was performed with a force that could have carried him across the room and over the wall. I was awe-struck." Theodore Kosloff impressed not only Agnes; her uncle, movie director Cecil B. De Mille, was awe-struck as well. In his De Mille biography, Charles Higham states: "Kosloff had all the qualities De Mille admired in a man. He was fearless and superbly built -- limbs like those of a Michelangelo carving, and a flawless pair of shoulders. His noble profile and aristocratic bearing were almost overpowering." In 1917, De Mille cast the former Ballets Russes dancer as the Aztec leader Guatemoc in "The Woman God Forgot." A string of Paramount silent pictures and a lifelong friendship evolved between the two men. Kosloff brought to Los Angeles unimpeachable Russian ballet credentials. When he is remembered, however, it is primarily by film buffs and not by dance fans. He strove to establish classical ballet here over four decades. But while Balanchine and his patron Lincoln Kirstein were building ballet institutions in New York, Kosloff's efforts in L.A. left no permanent mark. Read about Kosloff's double artistic career in Los Angeles in the LA Times Arts & Books section.LA Times Blog: Dance at the Music Center gets $20 million from philanthropist Kaufman
(from LA Times Blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/glorya-kaufman.html#more by Diane Haithman In one of the largest such gifts ever to the Music Center or any of its resident companies, Los Angeles philanthropist Glorya Kaufman (left in photo) is donating $20 million to the Dance at the Music Center program. The donation, to be announced today, surpasses all but a handful of contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Center Theatre Group or the Los Angeles Master Chorale. "It's a record -- and, as far as we know, the largest gift to support dance ever in America," Music Center President Stephen D. Rountree said in an interview. Kaufman can also count among her major gifts to dance $18 million to UCLA to fund the renovation of its historic dance building and $6 million to the New York-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, as well as $3.5 million to the Juilliard School in New York to fund the Glorya Kaufman Dance Studio. She is the widow of Donald Bruce Kaufman, founder with Eli Broad of the home construction and financing firm Kaufman & Broad, now KB Homes. "We have a terrible economy, and what happens first is that all the arts disappear," Kaufman told The Times. "And to me, dance is one of the most important that there is." (More at LA Times Blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/glorya-kaufman.html#moreA YouTube Must See
If you haven't already checked out this video from the Antwerp train station, it's great! It brought a bright moment to the mostly monotonous day I was having. Couldn't help but think "!@#$! I wish I thought of that!"ARTIST HEALTH INSURANCE RESOURCE CENTER - New Fund
The AHIRC artist Health Insurance Center's mission is to get every artist insurance coverage. Created by The Actors Fund with a grant from the NEA and substained by grants from the Commonwealth Fund & Leveraging Investments, the AHIRC website is a free, unbiased, information resource and its only interest is to promote healthy artists with access to health care. For more info - visit ahirc.org.Welcome to the DRC Blog!
The Dance Talk blog is the newest feature on the DRC website. Dance Talk is a place to spread news, share experiences, ask questions, and more. All current members of the Dance Resource Center can submit articles for the blog, and the community can join in the conversations by submitting comments. Posting an article is easy. 1. Log in as a member (your e-mail address is your user name, and if you forgot your password, just use the "Forgot Password" link to get a new one). 2. Once the pink box opens up on the right side of the page, click on the "submit blog article" link. 3. Fill in the "title" field and put the article text in the "body" field, then click "submit." (Your article will need DRC approval before it appears on the site, but approval usually happens within 24 hours.) Posting a comment is even easier. 1. Just fill out the three form fields below an article and hit "submit"! The Dance Talk blog is NOT the place to promote an upcoming show or class -- please use our events calendar, class and workshop listings, and Dance News and e-blast services for promotion. We do, however, welcome reviews and class recommendations. We're excited about this new channel for interacting with our members and the broader dance community!LA Times Review: Dance by Neil Greenberg at REDCAT
(from LA Times Blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/04/dance-by-neil-greenberg-at-redcat.html#more by Victoria Looseleaf Harps, flowers and bent wrists: What could be more stereotypically gay? Or queer, to put it in 21st century jargon. The go-to guy on this subject -- at least in the dance world -- is Neil Greenberg, whose Dance by Neil Greenberg troupe served up two works exploring that hot topic on Wednesday at REDCAT (and continuing tonight and Friday). Greenberg’s "Quartet With Three Gay Men," from 2006, and his "Really Queer Dance With Harps," a 50-minute opus that premiered last year in New York, were filled with gender-bending images, a flamboyant movement vocabulary and delicious harp music by the gifted Zeena Parkins. The 11-minute curtain raiser was set to a remix of RuPaul’s '90s hit "Supermodel," with Parkins’ careening harp arpeggios (also on tape) thrown in for sensual measure. Featuring Greenberg, a recent transplant from New York, and Luke Miller, Antonio Ramos and Colin Stilwell, the work deployed the foursome moving about in their own worlds, their sweeping, swanning arms and thrashing bare feet easily transitioning into neo-disco stylings at RuPaul’s behest to "work it." Carving out space in pants and shiny print shirts, these dudes kept to themselves until succumbing to collective catwalk sashaying. Think Mister Rogers meets "Zoolander" with frenetic head-shaking, whirling and twirling. Read more at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/04/dance-by-neil-greenberg-at-redcat.html#moreFrom Culture Monster
Billboard ballet: Clear Channel donates ad time for public art project. Check out the full article here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/04/billboard-ballet-clear-channel-donates-ad-time-for-public-art-project.htmlJoin us for the 18th Annual Lester Horton Awards!
The Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles will be awarding this year's Horton Awards at "The Horton Effect" Dance for Change on Sunday, May 31, 2009. Come celebrate our vibrant southern California dance community and honor our 2008 Horton Award winners. We will present 12 Outstanding Achievement Awards and 4 Special Awards, recognizing Lifetime Achievement, Excellence in Teaching, Visibility of Dance, and Service to the Field Awards. "The Horton Effect" Dance for Change Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Edgemar Center for the Arts 2437 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90405 $15.00 DRC Members $20.00 Non-Members Seating is limited. Purchase your tickets now! www.brownpapertickets.comSpecial Awardees for Excellence in Teaching
The Dance Resource Center announced the Special Awardees for Excellence in Teaching: Luis Badaro and Linda Yudin, Co-Artistic Directors, Viver Brasil Dance Company! Celebrate these outstanding teachers and 15 other Horton Award recipients at our 18th Annual Lester Horton Awards. Sunday, May 31, 2009, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Edgemar Center for the Arts, 2437 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405 $15.00 DRC Members, $20.00 Non-Members Seating is limited. Purchase your tickets now! www.brownpapertickets.com LUIZ BADARO, Co-Artistic Director, Viver Brasil Dance Company Luiz Badaró is the critically acclaimed co-artistic director and co-founder of Viver Brasil Dance Company. He is a master dancer, choreographer and percussionist born in Salvador, Bahia and has been choreographing and performing for over thirty years in Brazil, Europe, Africa and the United States. He has received numerous choreographic awards both in Bahia and throughout Brazil and was a first place winner in the dance competition in the National Student Games. He was nominated for a Lester Horton Dance Award for costume design in 2000 and his company was the winner of a Horton Award for best company performance in the non-western dance category in 2000. In 2003, he was nominated for two Lester Horton Awards for costume design and music for dance. He teaches Afro-Brazilian dance at Dance Arts Academy in Los Angeles, is a percussionist for dance classes at Santa Monica College and a guest choreographer for the SMC World Dance Company. Badaró's exalted choreography is inspired by both the traditional and contemporary worlds of Afro-Brazilian culture. Badaró has been a guest artist at the Brazil Africa Connection Festival at Florida A & M University, Florida International University and at the Black College Dance Exchange at FAMU, at the annual Katherine Dunham Institute in East St. Louis at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and North Carolina A & T. Badaró has also taught and choreographed at Moorpark and Occidental Colleges in the greater LA area, at UCLA, Riverside Community College, and UC-Riverside. His Bahian company, Bahia Axe Bahia, of twenty years toured throughout Brazil and with the Paris based Circus Archaos throughout Europe from 1990-1993. Badaró was invited to create new choreography for the, Ballet Folclorico do Brasil in 1994 and later became an artist in residence with the Hollywood based Cheremoya Escola de Samba from 1996-1999. LINDA YUDIN, Co-Artistic Director, Viver Brasil Dance Company Linda Yudin (award winning Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Viver Brasil Dance Company) has devoted nearly two decades to studying, researching, performing and teaching Afro-Brazilian dance both locally and internationally. Through her rigorous training and research, she connects the Candomblé traditions of music, dance, song and myths with innovative stage presentations for Viver Brasil. Ms. Yudin has lectured, taught, published and performed Brazilian dance in the United States, Brazil and South Africa. She recently received her second Durfee Foundation Artist Resource Completion Grant and has successfully secured funding for the company from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the Amgen Foundation, Heineken USA, Epson USA, Varig Brazilian Airlines and private donors. Ms. Yudin received her MA in Dance Ethnology from UCLA in 1988. Her research interests include the performance of Afro-Brazilian dance on stage, Candomblé ceremony, and Bahian carnival as educational tools to understand Brazil and its rich cultural traditions through its racial, social and political history. Ms. Yudin's article, "Divine Innovation: Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Dance in Salvador, Bahia" was published in a Fall of 2006 book on Latin American and Caribbean dance. Ms. Yudin currently is a dance faculty member at Santa Monica College where she teaches Afro-Brazilian dance and was awarded a faculty fellowship for the Fall Semester of 2003. Her principal Afro-Brazilian dance teachers are Raimundo B. dos Santos a.k.a. Mestre King, Luiz Badaró, and Rosangela Silvestre who she continues to train with at the Escola de Dança in Salvador, Bahia along with Dona Cici of the Pierre Verger Foundation. She also studied modern dance with Irene Feigenheimer in the 1980's and trained in the Horton technique with Don Martin in Los Angeles. Ms. Yudin was a guest artist/scholar in residence with Luiz Badaró at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, at North Carolina A & T and Riverside Community College (2002) and at Florida A & M University's Africa Brazil Connection Festival. They also taught at Florida International University's InterCultural Dance and Music Institute in 2002. Ms. Yudin taught at UCLA in 1994-95 and continues to guest lecture at Stanford University. She was a keynote speaker at the University of Cape Town, South Africa's first international dance conference, "Confluences" and was also a consultant for the public television series, "DANCING." Ms. Yudin had the pleasure of dancing in Janet Jackson's ESCAPADE music video, and with the Afro-Brazilian parading group, Muzenza in Bahia's carnival, with Lula and AfroBrazil, as well as with Viver Brasil. She is a consultant for the Hollywood Bowl World Music Festival, served on the Board of Directors of the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles from 1999-2001 and consulted for the Los Angeles County Arts Initiative Project in 2002. We hope you will join us for this special two-hour celebration where the Los Angeles lovers and doers of dance can network, celebrate their accomplishments, party down and collectively look forward to another productive year of dance-making in the Greater Los Angeles area! Purchase tickets! www.brownpapertickets.com
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