(Year established: 2003)
June 25-29 / July 2-6, Session A: 9 a.m.–12
p.m., Session B: 1–4 p.m.
Session C: July 9 - 20,: 9 a.m.–12 p.m
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For on line application instructions and form, click here.
Once you are notified of your acceptance into the Summer Stages Dance Workshop, please
click here to download the required forms to complete the registration process.
Held in tandem with the main workshop, Summer Stages 2 provides advanced beginner and
intermediate-level students with the opportunity to strengthen their technical skills and expand their
knowledge of contemporary dance.
Over the course of a two-week period, students attend classes
in ballet, modern dance, jazz and musical
theater dance, hip hop, and composition.
Students also participate in the creation
of a new work choreographed by a member
of the program’s
staff that will be presented informally
at the end of the workshop. Students
will also have the opportunity to attend
informal studio presentations by the
main Workshop resident artists and faculty.
Applicants must schedule and attend an audition prior to enrollment. Auditions
will be held on the following Sundays: February 5, March
18, April 29 and June 3 at 4pm in
the dance studio at Concord Academy. Applicants
are enrolled on a first-come, first-serve basis so students are strongly encouraged
to audition early as enrollment is limited.
Daily
Schedule
Faculty Bios
Marissa Palley studied with Richard Colton and Amy Spencer at Concord Academy and graduated with honors in English and Dance from Barnard College. Now a NYC-based dancer, Marissa has danced with choreographers David Parker, Sara Rudner, Anneke Hansen and Stephan Koplowitz in New York and Boston. Regional musical theater credits include James and the Giant Peach (Goodspeed), Singin’ in the Rain, Mame, and Beauty and the Beast. This past year Marissa completed the Mark Morris Dance for PD® Dance Teacher program and now enjoys volunteering as an assistant for the Dance for PD® classes. Marissa is looking forward to another exciting and inspiring summer of dance at Summer Stages Dance!
Kelley Donovan splits her time between Boston and New York City, teaching in both cities and has performed work by Ann Carlson and Liz Lerman. She received her training in choreography from Mark Morris and Bessie Schonberg and her work has been called “vibrant, imaginative...with a rare feeling for stage space” by the New York Times. She has shown work in numerous Boston venues and at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research, The Rover and the 92nd St. Y in New York City. She currently teaches modern dance at UMass Boston, Roger Wiliams University, Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre in Cambridge and Third Life Studios in Somerville. kddcompany.wordpress.com.
Melodie
Jeffery-Cassell, currently on faculty at Walnut Hill School and Boston Ballet, received her degree inTheater Arts/Dance from Cal State University, Hayward. Her modern/ballet training in the San Francisco bay area (ODC Theater, Shawl-AndersonDance Center) led her to perform with Randee Paufve, Nina Haft, and Dandelion Dance Theater. Once relocating to NYC, Ms. Jeffery-Cassell performed with Bernier Dance, Pascal Rekeort, and YC Movement Theatre. As rehearsal director and principal performer for YC MovementTheatre, Melodie has performed in YC’s Sunlight Interior, Moonlight:Suite of Images, and the Off-Broadway production Moonlight Interior. While in NYC, Melodie was on faculty at The Brearley School, Peridance International Dance Center and the Mark Morris Dance Center. She and her husband Yo-el Cassell also co-founded The Horizon Summer Workshop Series in Tarrytown NY, which educates students in the art of dance/movementand theater.
Class Descriptions
DANCE COMPOSITION will explore a variety of methods for creating dances with an emphasis on learning how to craft a complete work from a finite amount of material. Participants will have an opportunity o create collaboratively and explore the basic elements of dance while creating their own dances.
MODERN DANCE, being limitless in its vocabulary, introduces students to an art form that explores an individual approach to movement. With a combination of classical and contemporary styles, this class explores freedom of movement through a breathing alignment and a kinesthetic response to motion, shape, and music. Students are provided the technical tools of fall and recovery, suspension, and the principals inspired by the Laban and Viewpoints such as use of time, space, levels, intention and efforts. This class introduces techniques used for structured improvisation, guided dance making, partnering, and performance elements, through which the students will seek to utilize their bodies as individual and expressive movement instruments.
JAZZ classes begin with an intense warm-up and center work designed to work on technique, core strengthening and flexibility. Students will challenged by incorporating a fusion of authentic Latin, Musical Theater, and/or Contemporary Style Jazz with jumps and turns across the floor. Dance combinations will draw from these various styles and strengthen dancers awareness of musicality, space, timing and precision.
For more information on Summer Stages 2, call 978.402.2339 or email summerstagesdance@concordacademy.org.
For directions to the Dance Studio at Concord Academy, click
here
For a dance camp for 8-12 year olds, as well as a full-day option for afternoon
general, academic, arts, and sports camps please visit: www.concordacademysummercamp.org.
