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Summer Session 2002 Directory

CALIFORNIA Connecticut MASSACHUSETTS NEW JERSEY New york Oregon WASHINGTON

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California

Destiny Arts Center: June 17th - August 7th, 2002, in Oakland, California. Destiny Arts Center offers HipHop Dance and other movement arts in a violence-prevention context. Our summer program offers afternoon classes in HipHop and Martial Arts for ages 7-18, Dance Intensives in Breakdance, Fusion, and other forms for teens, and a summer arts day camp for ages 7-12 that will blend dance, martial arts, games, arts & crafts, outdoor adventures, and more! All classes are taught by working professional artists, assisted by advanced youth instructors. For more information, please contact:

Destiny Arts Center
5688 San Pablo Ave
Oakland, CA 94619
www.destinyarts.org
info@destinyarts.org
(510)597-1619
(510)597-1620 Fax

Vaganova Ballet Academy Conference / Demonstration and 5th International Vaganova-Prix Competition: June 18-27, 2002, in St. Petersburg, RUSSIA. Features: the Conference/Demonstration (in Classical Dance, Character, History Dance & Variations) is to be conducted by the Academy's most distinguished professors with demonstrations by students in all grades; Special events of the "Vaganova-Prix" Competition, and Gala Concerts' Special ballet classes for Conference participants' Special workshops & events at the International Vaganova Method Society; Kirov Ballet & White Nights Art Festival, and much more.

TO RESERVE A SPOT AT THE VAGANOVA BALLET ACADEMY CONFERENCE / DEMONSTRATION and/or to receive a detailed brochure - please contact us at:

St. Petersburg Travel, Inc.
Attn: Anna Grudzinski, US Vaganova Ballet Academy Representative
21382 Sleepy Glen Lane
Trabuco Canyon, CA 92679
Phone: 949-459-9770
Fax: 949-459-9730
e-mail: stpbtravel@earthlink.net or www.trips2russia.com

Connecticut

Center for Creative Youth: June 23rd - July 27th, 2002, in Middletown, Connecticut. The Center for Creative Youth is a pre-college residential program for 200 artistically talented high school students providing advanced classes in creative writing, dance, music, theater, musical theater, technical theater, film making, photography, and visual arts on the campus of Wesleyan University using the Center for the Arts facilities for classes, performances, and gallery exhibitions. All classes are taught by working professional artists who are assisted by college students also looking to further their training by working as mentors and residential advisors. For more information, please contact:

Center for Creative Youth
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
www.crec.org/ccy
ccy@wesleyan.edu
(860) 685-3307
(860) 685-3311 Fax

MASSACHUSETTS

Summer Stages Dance is a three-week intensive summer workshop and retreat, where committed young dancers and choreographers come together with accomplished faculty drawn from the country's leading dance companies to create and present new work. The program was founded in 1996 by Amy Spencer and Richard Colton and takes place in a new, state-of-the-art facility at Concord Academy, an independent secondary school where the arts are a central part of the curriculum. At the center of the program's philosophy is the commitment to providing a complete artistic experience for each dancer: personal participation in the creative process. At Summer Stages Dance each member of the workshop community - faculty, dancers, and choreography fellows - enjoys the experience of creating new work. Technique and performance are important parts of the workshop, but they are place in a supporting role to the act of creation. Each week of the workshop ends with a public performance and audience discussion by a resident faculty artist, and the work of the student choreographers and workshop dancers is showcased in a closing-night event. For more information visit our website at www.summerstagesdance.org

Concord Academy
166 Main Street
Concord, MA 01742
www.summerstagesdance.org
(978) 402-2339

New Jersey

American Repertory Ballet's Princeton Ballet School's Summer Intensive June 23 - July 26, 2002. Princeton Ballet School and American Repertory Ballet are proud to offer the Summer Intensive, a program of serious study in a warm and companionable atmosphere. An exceptional faculty, let by Artistic Director Graham Lustig, provides caring and careful instruction conductive to technical and artistic progress. For more information contact pbsandart@aol.com or visit their website www.arballet.org

New York

Summer Residency with the Joyce Trisler Danscompany under the Direction of
Regina Larkin and Carmen De Lavallade will be held July 8-19 at Adelphi University Olmsted Theatre in Garden City NY. 25 miles outside of New York City, this Workshop held M-F, 9-4 p.m. includes Strength, length and alignment series followed by a two hour Lester Horton based technique class. Afternoons include Trisler repertory, improvisation and choreography studies culminating in a workshop performance held on the July 19. Academic credits and campus living at $25 are available. Adelphi and Danscompany realize student study
expense therefore the workshop fee is $500. For details or on line application check our web site at www.danscompany.com or contact Adelphi Performing Arts at (516) 877-4930.

Oregon

School of Oregon Ballet Theatre - INT/ADV Ballet, Modern & Flamenco Technique & Repertory Three special sessions focusing on the development of technique in the forms of ballet, modern & flamenco, as well as the creation of new works in each of the forms. We will be creating & generating repertory for the future formation of a resident student ensemble. Guest Flamenco Instructor Jose Molina will be returning for the entire month of instruction. Additional guest instructors yet to be announced. Seminar classes in dance history, anatomy and nutrition will be included. Enrolment limited to 20 students. For more information contact (503) 227-6890 or visit their website at www.obt.org

Washington

Summer Dance Lab - 2001 Celebrating it's 31th yr. of dedicated instruction by outstanding professionals; for intermediate & advanced students 10 yrs. old and up. 2-wk. program: June 23 - July 6 / 3-wk. program: July 7 - July 27 / 5-wk. program: June 23 - July 27. disciplines in ballet technique, pointe, modern, jazz, American theatre, character, adagio, repertory & variations. for 5-wk. students: choreographic workshops. Western Ballet Theatre, a professional company, will be in attendance at SDL the last 2 weeks of the program. The company will use some students in the corps/during public performance at whitman college. Company will also give workshops in costuming/make-up, etc. Contact: Cindy at gaycr@whitman.edu

Summer Dance at Western Washington University Western's dance program offers a six week summer intensive with guest artists Kathy Casey and Sylvain LaFortune, who have danced in works from some of the most fascinating choreographers of our times: Lar Lubovitch (USA), Jyri Killian (Belgium), Nacho Duato (Spain), and Susan Marshall (USA). In addition to Modern, Ballet, and Repertory, classes are also offered in Partnering, History and Creative Movement for Educators. A formal concert of master works and an informal concert of student works will take place the last 2 weeks of the session. Contact: Western Washington University at (360) 650-3129 or visit website www.wwu.edu/~dance