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UK Summer Dance Intensive
June 11-22, 2012
Fine Arts Building, UK Campus
The summer dance intensive is offered for experienced high school and college dance students ages 14 and up. Led by Coordinator of the Dance Minor at UK, faculty member Susie Thiel and other dance artists, the program develops the abilities of experienced dancers who are serious about the field and eager to enhance their skills. Our goal is to help the dancer grow creatively through college-level contemporary modern dance, ballet, body-conditioning, improvisation and choreography classes. During the program participants will collaborate and create their own dance works in the movement labs. A performance of the choreographic work will be presented at the conclusion of the program to family, friends, students and the University community.
Enrollment in the Summer Dance Intensive is limited to 25 students who demonstrate the required skills, four years of consistent ballet training and at least two years of either jazz, lyrical or modern dance class. Students in this program should be well versed in dance terminology and should be proficient in moving in and out of the floor, turns and leaps.
FACULTY
For complete bios, please see the Faculty Page.
- Susie Thiel is a choreographer, performer, teacher and holistic health counselor. She is currently dance coordinator and lecturer of dance at the University of Kentucky.
- Ayako Hasebe is originally from Saitama, Japan. She is a classical ballet dancer and instructor, Lexington Ballet.
- Nancy Jones
Professor Jones is Chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Kentucky
SUMMER INTENSIVE PROGRAM
BALLET: Follows a traditional format, but develops the individual voice of movement. Concentration is placed on quality of movement, refining lines and finding new ways for the dancer to move through space.
CONTEMPORARY MODERN: Embraces the creative side of modern dance fused with contemporary. Teaches vocabularies from a range of styles including Graham, Limón, Cunningham and Hawkins techniques, Bartenieff Fundamentals and postmodern strategies of contemporary dance technique in exercises and movement phrases.
BODY CONDITIONING: Introduces students to fitness practices focusing on strength, stamina and flexibility. Emphasis is placed on anatomical analysis, individual anomalies, conditioning principles, injury prevention. Special attention given to nutrition, health and wellness.
IMPROVISATION: Explores new ways to move. Movement based improvisation techniques and structures provides a framework for creative physical and self-expression.
MOVEMENT LAB: Teaches new approaches to choreography focusing on space, time and energy. Expands on themes through movement studies, discussions and videos. The students use the labs to also create their own works.
For more information contact:
University of Kentucky Department of Theatre
114 Fine Arts Building
Lexington, Kentucky 40506
(859) 257-3297 |
