Gibney Dance Company Summer Intensive
Monday, July 17 – Friday, July 21
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuition: $375

Apply by June 15, 2017
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Gibney Dance Company’s summer intensive is geared toward dancers who are interested in engaging with the Company’s multifaceted perspectives on contemporary dance technique, creative process, and art as activism. The Intensive will focus on enhancing technical ability, challenging physical artistry, and developing contemporary partnering expertise. Additionally, a strong focus will be placed on providing dancers with the necessary tools to propel their careers as entrepreneurial citizens in our world. Sessions will be facilitated by Gibney Dance Company's Artistic Associates: Nigel Campbell, Kassandra Cruz, Devin Oshiro, and Brandon Welch along with Associate Artistic Director Amy Miller.

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The Generative Dancer - Black Radical Traditions of Practice & Thought - this workshop is designed to be a full day experience from 10 - 6pm for intermediate/advanced choreographers and performers who want to deepen their practice through participation in an immersive learning environment. 

Nationally acclaimed faculty will include Founding UBW Artistic Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, UBW Associate Artistic Directors Chanon Judson and Samantha Speis, Historian John Perpener, Composer, Pianist and Musical Dramaturg Doug Corbin, Writer and Performer Jessica Hagedorn, and Actor, Director & Writer Robbie McCauley.

Click HERE to See the Daily Schedule & Sign Up!

Community Building with UBW BOLD - This 3-day intensive from 2:00 pm to 6:30 pm requires no prior dance experience or knowledge and provides daily classes in UBW’s nationally recognized workshops (schedule subject to change):
CONDITIONING & DANCE FOR EVERYBODY - 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
ENTERING, BUILDING & EXITING COMMUNITY (EBX) - 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
STORY CIRCLE PROCESS - MINING FOR STORIES - 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Nationally acclaimed faculty will include: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Choreographer Marjani Forte and Artistic Director of Junebug Productions, Stephanie McKee.

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Register today for the 2017 Summer Intensive!
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June 26 - August 4 
at the Martha Graham School
 
marthagraham.org/intensives

Full-Time Program Auditions Saturday July 1
Martha Graham School student Carley Marholin. Photo by Brigid Pierce.

Miami Dade College
Kendall Dance Program
& Jubilation Dance Ensemble

present - Artistry In Rhythm (A.I.R.) Dance Conference 2017

Artistry in Rhythm (A.I.R.) Dance Conference is a wonderful opportunity to experience dance and learn from various instructors, choreographers, scholars, and dancers.  The Conference will host a wide variety of master dance classes in contemporary ballet & modern dance, Hip-hop, African Diaspora dance movement forms, Somatic movement forms, dance lectures, demonstrations and performances.

April 20, 21, & 22, 2017
Miami Dade College Kendall Campus         
11011 SW 104 Street
Miami, FL 33176-3393

Registration Fee:
Community: $25.00
MDCPS: $25.00
Miami Dade College Students: $25.00

Contact Information:
Michelle Grant-Murray
305-237-2638
airdanceconference@gmail.com

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A.I.R. DANCE CONFERENCE 2017

FEATURING GUESTS ARTISTS & CHOREOGRAPHERS
A.I.R. Dance 2017 Honoree:

Mr. Louinès Louinis. A dancer, choreographer, musician, folklorist, and founder and artistic director of The Louines Louinis Haitian Dance Theater. His fast-paced and rigorous class offers an opportunity for participants to study Haitian folkloric dance styles and explore the use of space, rhythm, movement and individual expressions.
Loren Davidson is a Performer, Scholar, Choreographer, Educator, Faculty at MDC Kendall. Her contemporary class supports the unique and nuanced qualities that are individual to each dancer using traditional modern dance concepts from Graham, Limon, and Taylor. Her conditioning  class provides dancers with knowledge about how to maintain a healthy and active physical body.

Jorge Luis Morejón is a Dance Educator, Dance Scholar, Movement Therapist, Performer, Choreographer,  and Faculty at MDC Kendall. In his class, you will be able to Formulate a rationale for the application of dance/movement therapy, DMT, to healthcare, facilitates a clearer understanding of its aesthetic, physiological, and psychological impact on individual and group therapies.

Bianca Robinson is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor. Her Street-Funk style class will get you moving in no time! This high energy class incorporates grooves, hits, lines and textures.

Brittany Williams is an international artist, choreographer, scholar, performer, and social activist. Her work specifically focuses African-derived movement, spirituality, and sustainability practices in relationship to Black Americas & Caribbean Maroonage and fugitivity. Brittany Williams will use her choreographic process to directly address the lack of diversity within the Arts field in Miami Florida.
 
Marisol Blanco, originally from Guanabacoa, Cuba,  is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, percussion specialist/vocalist, and the owner and director of Sikan Afro-Cuban Dance Project. Marisol emphasizes the connection between steps, history, song, percussion, body expression, philosophy, psychology, and technical knowledge in her classes.
 
A'keitha Carey, originally from the Bahamas, is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, faculty at MDC Kendall, and the creator of Carib-Funk Technique: A fusion of Afro-Caribbean, ballet, modern, and fitness principles and rooted in Africanist and Euro-American aesthetics.
 
Augusto Soledade, native of Bahia, Brazil, is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, professor, journalist, and the Founder and Artistic Director and resident choreographer for Augusto Soledade Brazzdance in Miami. Soledade's class will explore movement through traditional, folk, and contemporary Afro-Brazilian dance forms.
 
Andrea Jonusas. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, this dancer, choreographer, and teacher will instruct intermediate to advanced ballet technique emphasizing on the development of artistry, body placement, strength, memorization, and musicality.
 
Tara Chadwick is an emerging leader in the preservation and practice of indigenous lifestyle. Tara is an anthropologist, writer, educator, administrator and mentor with 30 years of demonstrated success bridging community and culture. Her classes will orient participants to the history and purpose of practicing indigenous American dance traditions and to engage in the timeless meditation of America’s ancestor warriors.
 
Andrea E. Woods Valdés is an international dancer, choreographer, professor, and writer. Woods uses dance as contemporary folklore with a creative process strongly linked to identity and representation. Her areas of interest include women in the arts, Afro-Cuban dance/music, African Diaspora history/culture and Dance for the Camera.

Monique Newton is a dancer, choreographer and teacher.She is a certified Master Teacher of Umfundalai Contemporary African dance technique and Director of Administration for the Organization of Umfundalai Teachers.Monique uses her knowledge of Umfundalai and African Diasporan dances to choreograph for amateur and professional artists and students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Joan Francisco Valdés Santos is equally an artist and a scholar. While his formal education is in sports/recreation, science and psychology, he is also a prolific writer, composer and journalist with a wide range of knowledge and experience in Cuban music, art, literature, and culture. In his class, you can learn how the intellect, motor skills and learned physicality of the dancing body relates to and is reflected in martial arts and self-defense.
 
Denzel Williams is a dancer, choreographer, instructor, and scholar. He will teach Afro Social: A style that fuses Traditional West African rhythms and movements with social dances that range from the United States all the way to Israel to bring a sense of community, and to bring an awareness to the mover that their individuality and movement quality is of high caliber and importance.
 
Barny A. Espinal is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, and rehearsal Director for Olujimi Dance Theater. Her choreographic project allows for women to be at the forefront of conversation. “ROAR” also explores woman’s journey to self-acceptance. This work begins the conversation on the struggle of and what it means to be woman.