Catalogue Description: This course provides hands-on experience encompassing various aspects of music as it can be used in the classroom. In this course, one will have the opportunity to experience and apply music in a number of ways through Dalcroze Eurhythmics, keyboard improvisation, playing percussion instruments, and the exploration of musical elements as they relate and can interact with other disciplines.

Daily focus:
Saturday July 12:
8:30am-3: 30 pm, Sullivant Hall, Studio II, The Ohio State University
8:30am-11: 45 am: Eurhythmics, Drumming
12:45pm-3: 30 pm: mini workshop, sequencing using arts, poetry, music

Tuesday, July 15 2:00pm-6:00pm

2:00-4:00 Piano Improvisation, School of Music, Rm. 212 Hughes Hall, The Ohio State University
4:00-6:00 Department of Dance, Sullivant Hall- Studio II, The Ohio State University Preparing/presenting project ideas

Thursday, July 17 2:00-6:00pm

Department of Dance, Sullivant Hall- Studio II, The Ohio State University
2:00-4:00 Eurhythmics revisited, creative projects using music elements
4:00-6:00 Creating Rainsticks, evaluations and closure

Outcome: Discoveries of ways to fuse music and other disciplines together in the learning process and creation for performance. Using music in the teaching of other areas will serve as another way to convey and reinforce ideas.

Acquire skills and understanding of musical elements and apply them to other disciplines.

Personal discoveries, realizations and new ideas for engaging your students and yourself in the learning process.

Alongside these workshops, BalletMet’s professional company dancers will be learning 4 new works from the same choreographers to be premiered August 14, 2008. You will have the opportunity to observe rehearsals for all these works and to attend the premiere performance free of charge.

As a result of seeing you at recent auditions or having knowledge of your work, you are among a select group of young dancers being invited to participate in this project without any further audition. Depending upon the response from this initial invitation, an open audition will be held at a later date should there be that need.

A fee of $675 covers all classes and rehearsals for the full two weeks, all open rehearsals, tickets to the August 14 premiere, and any required performance costumes. Please note that you will be responsible for your own housing.
Sample Monday through Friday schedule:
9:15 – 10:45 Class
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 2:00 Rehearsals with choreographer #1 2:00 – 3:00 Lunch break and observation of company rehearsals 3:00 – 6:00 Rehearsals with choreographer #2 N.B. Choreographers will alternate every other day as to who works in the morning and whom in the afternoon.

BalletMet Columbus Dance Centre
322 Mount Vernon Avenue|
Columbus, Ohio 43215
phone: 614-229-4860 #137
fax: 614.224.3697
e-mail: dfaulk@balletmet,irg
website: www.balletmet.org
instructor: Company Ballet Master & Mistress, Company Choreographers
presenter: BalletMet Columbus
price: $675 for the two week session - $15 audition fee
deadlines: Audition May 17 or audition arrangements by May 30

Historical Dance Summer Workshop at Goucher College: June 16-22, 2008, a Project of The New York Baroque Dance Company

Join us at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland this summer for The Historical Dance Summer Workshop where dance’s rich heritage is taught through classes, lectures and informal dance presentations. Richard Powers and Alan Jones are our guest faculty, joining Catherine Turocy, Rachel List and Caroline Copeland. Classes will be offered for all dance levels, professional and amateur.
www.nybaroquedance.org

LEWISTON, Maine -- The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance training and presenting program, announces its 26th season, July 3-Aug. 9, 2008. The festival includes the renowned three-week training program for dancers 18 years and older (July 19-Aug. 9), as well as the Young Dancers Workshop, a 17-day intensive training for young pre-professional dancers ages 13-17 (July 3-19). The six-week festival features workshops and performances by more than 30 internationally recognized dance artists from around the globe.
Recognized throughout the dance world for its non-competitive environment and emphasis on experimentation, the Bates Dance Festival brings more than 340 students to the Bates College campus from across the United States and overseas to study, create and perform.

Highlighting the festival's 26th season will be residencies and performances by the acclaimed New York-based troupe Keigwin+Company, contemporary African dance makers Gregory Maqoma and Nora Chipaumire, emerging talents Zoe Scofield & Juniper Shuey, Nugent+Matteson Dance, and Christopher Williams among others. Noted dance scholar Joan Frosch will present her award-winning film, "Movement (R)evolution" and lead "Inside Dance," an audience enrichment program held in conjunction with the main stage concert series.

The Three-Week Professional Training Program offers 28 daily classes including modern, jazz, ballet, contemporary African, Odissi, contact improvisation, repertory, creative process, rhythm studies, dance theory, business of the arts. The festival's extensive roster of artists includes popular and frequently requested veteran teachers Victoria Marks, Colleen Thomas, Gabriel Masson, JoAnna Mendl Shaw, Chris Aiken, and Cathy Young among others.

The Young Dancers Workshop, a structured, non-competitive program designed for pre-professional dance students, features intensive study with a gifted faculty that includes modern teachers Heidi Henderson and Nicole Wolcott; veteran ballet instructors Shonach Mirk-Robles and Martha Tornay; Simonson teacher Teresa Perez; gifted hip-hop artist Jennifer Archibald; contemporary Caribbean choreographer Tania Isaac; improvisation teacher Karl Rogers; and acclaimed dance maker Larry Keigwin who will offer repertory.

Known for its' emphasis on the integral relationship between dance and music, the festival features a roster of acclaimed musicians who accompany classes and present an annual concert. This summer accompanists Tigger Benford, Rajesh Bhandari, Glen Fittin, Peter Jones, Carl Landa, Jesse Manno, John Clark Steifel, and Shamou will be in residence enlivening the environment.

Week 2: July 14 - 19
Susan Rethorst / The Choreographic Mind
Rethorst teaches from the point of view that making is an endless quest with ever-shifting ground. Encouraging an attitude of fueling work with one's questions, not regarding plans or themes as pre-requisites, she regards teaching as a conversational mode: exercises are proposals in action.
Rethorst's own interests have to do with the nature of movement and its communication, how they operate as phenomena; this fuels both her aesthetic and methods. Initially presenting composition from this point of view, exercises propose ways of perceiving and proceeding that engage these ideas. At the same time, Rethorst is interested in creating a situation in which each student can locate her/his aesthetic and goals in the larger picture of dance's many mini cultures. We will endeavor to develop the ability to recognize and access states necessary to making work: intuition, perception, cognition, interiority, emotional distance, spontaneity, pleasure, will, reflection, humor. We will take these ideas and issues into an in-depth conversation in both practice and theory.

Week 3: July 21 - 26
John Jasperse/ Micro/Macro
Each day will be divided roughly in half. The first half of the day, 'Micro', will examine specific processes, which I have used in my own work. These include the cultivation of bodily states through the use of imagery & partner work and structuring physical problems, which in turn affect our bodily state. Limitation will be examined as an integral part of composition. The second half of the day, 'Macro', will build on the experiences of the morning. Through critique of projects, which we are each currently working on, we will seek to develop work which exhibits a personal and evocative language, contemporary cultural/social relevance, intelligence (in its various forms), and guts. All participants should come with a project at any stage in development, either as a solo form or with a group. Willingness to act as performers in our colleagues' work is a part of this process.

Week 4: July 28 – August 2
Jeanine Durning/ Making Dances: Approaches and Queries
Making dances for me is a necessary ongoing attempt to reinterpret and discover my internal world; questions and observations of human endeavor reconfigured into theatrical, dramatic structures. Built on a foundation of process and curiosity, a sort of Socratic method of establishing given axioms and then questioning them, the workshop will aim to locate individual creative priorities and interests; to come closer to a distinct personal voice. HOW? WHAT? WHY? daily generating and re-considering material through improvising, questioning, problem-solving, analyzing, intuiting; sometimes rigorous imposition. cultivating and combining unfettered, intuitive choices with an analytical directorial eye. directly relating "unseen" imagination to visible movement and structure locating and reinforcing the inherent structures in what we do in relation to metaphor, personal history and perception, rhythm (time), placement (space), behavior (emotion) and communication.

Festival for Choreographers
www.wilson.edu/supa