BalletMet Columbus
Friends, fitness and fun await students of all levels in the Academy summer programs, which run June through August at both the downtown Columbus and Gahanna locations. The Academy offers camps, workshops and classes for infants through adults. Programs include partnerships with Young Chefs' Academy and Columbus Children's Theatre. The BalletMet Dance Academy ranks among the nation's top dance-training centers. It teaches more than 1,200 students at its locations in downtown Columbus and Gahanna.

For more information, call 614.224.1672 or visit balletmet.org.

Master Class Series with Lou Fancher
Tuesday, June 14 and Thursday, June 16; 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Intermediate Ballet Technique; Thursday, Contemporary Workshop. Lou Fancher is a well-known instructor, coach, and choreographer currently on the faculty at Berkeley Ballet Theater. she has been ballet mistress for Company C Contemporary Ballet, James Sewell Ballet, Minnesota Dance Theatre, and Alberta Ballet and a guest instructor for Smuin Ballet, Oakland Ballet, University of Michigan, and University of California at Davis. Her works have been commissioned by James Sewell Ballet, New York Ballet Theatre, Ballet Pacifica, and Alberta Ballet. In addition, she has participated in the Carlisle Project, a program devoted to nurturing and developing promising choreographers in classical ballet.

Instructor: Lou Fancher

Presenter: Dance Alliance of Beck Center
17801 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, OH 44107

Price: $16 for one class; $30 for both

Classical Ballet Camp
June 13-17; Monday-Friday; 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Curriculum will include 2 daily two hour technique class and a 1 hour variations class. Other subjects of study include character dance, mime in classical ballet, contemporary ballet, floor-barre, stretch and conditioning. Guest Instructor, Lou Fancher, has been ballet mistress for Company C Contemporary Ballet, James Sewell Ballet, Minnesota Dance Theater, and Alberta Ballet. She has also taught for Smuin Ballet, Oakland Ballet, and the University of Michigan. Her works have been commissioned by James Sewell Ballet, New York Ballet Theatre, Ballet Pacifica, and Alberta Ballet. She has also participated in the Carlisle Project.

Instructor: Guest Instructor: Lou Fancher

Price: $210 (includes $15 registration fee for new students)

Beck Center for the Arts
17801 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH 44107

Phone: 216-521-2540 x26
Email: mszucs@beckcenter.org
Website: www.beckcenter.org

Beck Center for the Arts Summer Session
June 13-August 1 (7 weeks)

Boys Dance, Kids-N-Dance, Preschool Dance, Preballet, Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, Tap, Rhythm Tap, Hiphop, Modern, Contemporary, Gyrokinesis, Zumbilates, Tone & Stretch

Instructor: Susan Cesa, Joan Hartshorne, Josh Landis, Anna Roberts, Lynda Sackett, Mimi Schwensen, Wannetta Scott, Devon Shriver, Melanie Szucs

Price: One class weekly, $70; Two classes weekly, $125; Three classes weekly, $175; Early Childhood classes, $65.

Dance Camp
July 11-15; Monday-Friday; 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

For students ages 8-15. Includes ballet, jazz, modern dance, hiphop, ensemble improvisation, make-up, character dance, mime, conditioning, and stories of the great ballets. Families and friends are invited to attend a demonstration on Friday at 1:15 p.m.

Instructor: Beck Dance Staff and guest artists

Price: $210 (includes $15 registration fee for new students)

Beck Center for the Arts
17801 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH 44107

Phone: 216-521-2540 x26
Email: mszucs@beckcenter.org
Website: www.beckcenter.org

Contemporary Dance Workshop

June 20 - July 1; Monday-Friday from 10am - Noon

Choreographer Demetrius Klein will be doing a two-week workshop that will culminate in a live performance. This camp will be an exercise in the collaborative dance-making process. Students will be asked to learn new dance material, develop their own work and improvise as a group. The finished work will be shown as part or Mr. Klein's July 4th site-specific concert in downtown Hamilton.

Fitton Center for Creative Arts
101 S. Monument Ave., Hamilton, OH 45011

Phone: 513-863-8873
Fax: 513-863-8865
Email: jennifer@fittoncenter.org
Website: www.fittoncenter.org (On-line registration available)

Instructor: Demetrius Klein
Presenter: Scholarships available (sponsored by Claire Fitton)
Price: $100/members, $120/nonmembers
Deadlines: Register by June 16th ($5 off if register by June 13)

MamLuft&Co. Dance and Contemporary Dance Theater's Summer Dance Camp For Kids

Dates: Tuesday, May 31 through Friday, June 4, 2011, with open house showing on Saturday, June 5, 2011
Location: Contemporary Dance Theater, 1805 Larch Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45224
Tuition: To Be Announced (Scholarships available)

The two Cincinnati dance organizations have teamed up to create a Summer Dance Camp for Kids, including a full day of activities teaching children to move healthfully and creatively. Details to be announced soon! Scholarships available for families in need.

Join the ML&Co. mailing list for updates at http://www.mamluftcodance.com/subscribe for updates or connect with the two organizations on Facebook to learn more.

MamLuft&Co. Dance Inaugurates Summer Modern Dance Workshop/Intensive

Dates: Monday, June 6 through Friday, June 10, 2011
Location: Cincinnati Ballet Blue Ash Studios, 11444 Deerfield Road, Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45242
Tuition: To Be Announced (Limited scholarships available)

MamLuft&Co. Dance inaugurates its first Summer Modern Dance Workshop/Intensive this summer, June 6 through 10 at Cincinnati Ballet's Blue Ash Studios. The workshop/intensive is a great and affordable alternative or addition to summer programs for ages 18 through professional. (Younger students may audition for acceptance into the program.)

An intense, five-day curriculum of classes include Modern, Ballet for Modern Dancers, Pilates, Yoga, Injury Prevention, Composition, Improvisation, professional development and production workshops,--taught by MamLuft&Co. Dance company members--as well as a masterclass series featuring a different guest teacher each day. These masterclass guest teachers hold national credentials, such as having worked with Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wupertahl, Les Grands Ballet Canadians, Ralph Lemon, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and many others. An audition for the company will also take place at the week's end.

Join the ML&Co. mailing list for updates at http://www.mamluftcodance.com/subscribe for updates or connect on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/mamluftcodance.

MUCAI Academy
67 E. Dublin-Granville Road
Worthington, OH
614-432-4889
Neda Miyashiro, Director

Ballet, Jazz , Hip Hop, Tap, Modern
Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®
Natya Nirvana Classical Indian Dance

Performance Opportunities
Community Service
National Dance Honor Society

Inclusive Learning Environment
Multicultural Focus
http://mucaiacademy.com

The OSU Department of Dance is excited to announce our summer dance camp for high school students 9th -12th grade for summer 2011!

Our theme is entitled “Dancing for Global Tomorrow.” Throughout the two weeks of July 24th through August 5th, students and faculty will explore many aspects of dance -- technique classes, creative practices, health and wellness seminars, video dance—the list goes on. Our mentors will stay with students in the dorms on campus and accompany them on our outings. OSU Dance Faculty members are planning two intensive weeks of fun and dance! This summer camp will be a great opportunity for high school students to "try on" OSU and our dance program.

There are no auditions, just a letter of recommendation from the student's dance teacher.

For more detailed information please go to our partner, US Performing Arts Camps website:

http://www.usperformingarts.com/ohio-dancecamp.php

or contact OSU Dept of Dance Special Project Coordinator Dori Jenks at 614 292-7977

June 19-24, 2011

Ohio University School of Dance

will be hosting the Now & Next Dance Mentoring Project, June 19-24 in Athens, OH. The project's founder, Ashley Thorndike, earned her PhD in Dance Studies at the Ohio State University and is currently an independent artist/scholar in the DC area.

She created this program to facilitate physical, artistic, and leadership
development in college dancers, adolescent girls, and dance artists. The
college dance participants study with dance artists each morning and develop
their own teaching and leadership skills by mentoring middle school girls in
afternoon dance classes and movement-based life skills activities. Middle
school girls, who participate as a half-day camp, take dance classes and
work with the college women to develop strong bodies and minds.

You can learn more about the Now & Next Dance Mentoring Project by visiting
the website at www.nownextdance.com <http://www.nownextdance.com/>

LEWISTON, Maine -- The Bates Dance Festival announces its 29th season of public events, taking place July 1 through Aug. 13 on the Bates College campus.

The six-week festival showcases contemporary performance works by Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Nicholas Leichter Dance, Zoe | Juniper and David Dorfman Dance. These acclaimed companies will offer evenings rich in storytelling, virtuosity, passion and humor.

The festival offers two intensive three-week training programs. The Young Dancers Workshop is for pre-professional dancers ages 14-18, and the Professional Training Program is for dancers, choreographers and educators 18 and up. Both programs offer a wide range of dance and movement classes including modern, ballet, jazz, Mideast fusion, repertory, improvisation and yoga as well as computer-mediated composition, the business of dance and the "teacher's toolkit."

The acclaimed faculty of master artists includes members of the companies in residence as well as Andre Tyson, former dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; contact improviser, Nancy Stark Smith; Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig; Onye Ozuzu; JoAnna Mendl Shaw; and Lisa Race, among others.

All told, the festival comprises classes, performances, panel discussions, films and lectures by more than 30 internationally recognized dance artists from across the United States and abroad.

Performance times and locations tickets details, visit the festival Web site: www.batesdancefestival.org.

And find more detailed info at our event pages: http://www.batesdancefestival.org/perform-listings.php

SUPA 2011

June 27- July 1 and August 1 - 12
All workshops are from 10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday

Festival for Choreographers
www.cprnyc.org

DD Dorvillier_ Susan Rethorst _ Jeanine Durning

Studio Upsun* in PennsylvaniA was started in 2004 as an initiative designed to provide opportunities to engage in in-depth investigations of choreographic practices. As of 2011, SUPA will expand to encompass SUPA MOVES; the same format of workshops at other locations.

This year SUPA MOVES is at CPR in Brooklyn. (The original SUPA continues at its original base at Wilson College in Chambersburg PA HYPERLINK "http://www.wilson.edu/supa"www.wilson.edu/supa).

We look for rigorous and sophisticated choreographers who are also interested in teaching and its relationship to making; choreographers invested in communicating via teaching the breadth and depth of choreographic thought and the relevance of the knowledge it engenders to other fields and subjects. We give them an entire week to work with a limited amount of students (max 14) via composition, repertory, mentoring, or any combination of practices they feel useful. It is our hope that these workshops will result in a give and take of knowledge and practice that is rigorous, personal, intense, and intensely pleasurable.

*Upsun: (noun) the period between the rising and setting of the sun.

Workshops

Week 1 June 27 – July 1
DD Dorvillier / Touch Move Talk Write: open studio practices
Touching, moving, talking, and writing are conditions which can be detected in just about any dance/choreography-related workshop one might encounter. This workshop focuses on all four very directly, in a stripped down fashion, making a practice out of practicing them for different durations, in different sequences, inventing their purposes, defining and re-defining them, describing fictional and not-so-fictional desired outcomes. The aim is to proliferate unexpected relationships between the different practices, and to bring about a revolution in assumptions about universal aesthetics, by proving that style, form, and aesthetics can be personal, non-universal, and if desired, not given, but constructed. For this week we will work with the specific properties that distinguish each practice without much attention to what might typically be its correct usage and context. We will invent dozens of personal and shared practices, rigorous, playful, joyful, meditative, productive, absurd, serious, fun...
Please bring a notebook that has room for a lot of writing and possibly drawing, and a selection of writing materials (pen, pencil, marker, etc), a stopwatch, and a photo of yourself (for you). Some days we may be moving a lot, some days not so much. Please take care of warming up/working out before or after the workshop.

Week 2: August 1- 5
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: August 8 - 12

Jeanine Durning / What we do when we do the thing we do before we know what we are doing:
Using the body as a means through which to engage malleable, undetermined interests as they arise and responsiveness as it applies: this physical, sensorial and perceptual
practice is supported by the accumulated awareness of one’s experience (memory, desire, feeling, imagination) while moving, observing and/or directing others. We will
hone recognition of patterns, thoughts, actions and materials as they emerge, and locate and reinforce the inherent structures in what we do, imagine and feel. We will support
these structures coming to form through fluidly developed strategies and tools for further immersion and then distance. These strategies include moving, writing, drawing, scoring, directing, watching, showing, sharing, listening, and discussing. Throughout the process, we’ll generate then reconsider, translate then reinterpret: action, image and content as they relate to personal interest, history and perception, and in turn, as these relate to extant themes, structures and events. In the midst of these strategies, we will hopefully embrace that at the core of the creative act is the interest and inspiration in what cannot be predetermined, and a willingness to think/move/imagine in unanticipated directions.

Faculty

DD Dorvillier is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. For over 20 years she has created and produced works in New York City as well as presenting them in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Most recent projects feature some interesting collaborations: The Blanket Dance with dancer/choreographers Jefta Van Dinther (SE/NL) and Frédéric Gies (FR/DE) and Pièce Sans Paroles with dancer/choreographer Anne Juren (AU/FR), and theater director Annie Dorsen (US), as well as RMW(A) & RMW with long-time collaborator, dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson (US). She was recently seen in No Change or “fredom is a psycho-kinetic skill” , a reprise of her 2005 work at Danspace Project, as well in Anne Collod’s Parades & Changes, replays a re-enactment of Anna Halprin’s 1965 work. Dorvillier has maintained on-going adventures with dancer/choreographers Jennifer Monson, Elizabeth Ward, and Heather Kravas, composer Zeena Parkins, and lighting designer Thomas Dunn. She has done important work with artists such as: Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, and Jonathan Bepler among others. She was a NYFA Choreography Fellow (2000), a Movement Research Artist in Residence (’95/’96 & ‘06/’07), received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Dressed for Floating (Danspace Project, 2002) and for Parades & Changes, replays (as a performer), and was a 2007 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007). In 2008, along with Trajal Harrell, she was artistic mentor of the DanceWeb Europe scholarship program, hosted by Vienna's ImPulstanz.

Originally from upstate NY, Jeanine Durning has been based in NYC since the late 80’s and has lived in Brooklyn for more than a decade. She has been creating both solo and group performance on a project basis with a core group of collaborators since 1998. Central to Durning's choreographic practice in the last few years are the overlapping ideas of memory, biography and documentary, within and through the frame of live performance. Her works, out of a kennel, into a home (2005) and Ex-Memory: waywewere (2009) further these ideas. She has received grants and awards for her choreography from various foundations including the Alpert Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has received numerous commissions from independent performers, repertory companies and universities, to create original work. As a performer, Jeanine has worked with many choreographers, including Deborah Hay (2006, 2008/09), Susan Rethorst (2005, 2007, 2008), Chris Yon (2006/07), and David Dorfman (1993-2002), to name a few. She is currently working with Deborah Hay on The Motion Bank Project, conceived by William Forsythe. Jeanine's work as a facilitator of movement and creative practices has been an integral part of her ongoing inquiry of the body, performance and daily life. Within the past two years, she has been guest teacher at SNDO (Amsterdam), SODA (Berlin), and adjunct faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, Dance. Jeanine recently received a Masters in Choreography from Amsterdam School of the Arts (AmCh). Durning’s current research focuses on fundamental questions of how body/movement, thought/imagination and language/speech interact and intersect which has recently manifested as a solo performance project called inging.

SUSAN RETHORST has steadily created dances in New York City since 1975. Since 1995, Rethorst has been dividing her time between NYC and Europe, where she has developed post-graduate courses for Dansens Hus in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Firkin Crane in Cork, Ireland. She has, in collaboration with three others, inaugurated a Masters in Choreography for the Amsterdam School of the Arts. Rethorst's work has been presented both nationally and internationally and she has been the recipient of many grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Creative Artist's Public Service Program, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Rethorst was among the first to receive a BESSIE Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1985 and in 2010, was the recipient of the prestigious Alpert Award.

General Information & Registration

Workshop Fees:
One week: $ 350
Discount!! sign up for two or more weeks and save -
Two weeks: $ 670
Three weeks: $ 990

To register or for any other information, contact Susan Rethorst at s.rethorst@gmail.com

CPR is located at 361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211.