Answer: Not too many broadway shows have jazz or hip hop but it depends. Ballet is the fundamentals of dance, so start with that. FInd out what shows you would like to me in, and that will help you decide. Once you find that show, im sure the choreographer will help you.

2. For a ballet career, which other types of dance would be useful?

Answer: If you are going to dance for a Ballet company, you don’t need to learn any other type of dance. There are a lot of Ballet style – Checetti, British, Bolshoi, etc… You could study different styles of ballet. Ballet is completely a separate dance than Modern or Jazz. You can study Lyrical or Contemporary to help you as a dancer. But if you are going to dance for such company like ABC or ABT, then you just have to work hard on your ballet to be a really good ballerina.

3. What is the best way to learn how to dance?

Answer:  If you want to learn free then just watch videos as much as you can; otherwise you should join dance classes, because if you’ll pay for it then you definitely will try to learn it.

4. What are some exercises to prepare for the splits?

Answer: At our dance practices we lay on our backs and pull up our legs towards our faces. Then we go into second (extension). After that we pull our leg opposite second. Also, knee to the floor and knee to chest help too. We then roll into splits and hold for 20-30 seconds. *Note this is after doing the regular lunges and warming up centers, etc.

5. What is a Sadie Hawkins dance?

Answer: In the United States, the Sadie Hawkins dance (also known as a snow ball, Morp, snowball, vice-versa, turnabout, TWIRP, or a Tolo)[citation needed] is a school dance, usually occurring in high schools, in which female students invite male students. This is in opposition of normal school dance traditions, such as prom, where male students invite female students. Traditionally, the Sadie Hawkins dance occurs during the autumn in November, or in some places January or February. The Sadie Hawkins dance is one of three dances that many high schools hold, the other two dances being prom and homecoming. Some schools simply hold regular dances in which certain songs are “snowball” or “Sadie Hawkins” songs in which girls choose whom to dance with.

The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li’l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins. November 15 was Sadie Hawkins day, when the unmarried women of Dogpatch got to chase the bachelors and marry the ones they caught. In America this caught on quickly and evolved into a dance where the women got to invite a man of their choice.

Usually, female and male partners choose to wear the same or extremely similar clothes in order to match. At a Sadie Hawkins dance, couples are easily distinguishable because of their matching clothes.

6. Which ethnic group popularized salsa dancing in New York in the 1980s?

Answer: I wouldn’t put it on any ethnic group. New York had gone through at least three mambo crazes picked up from its Cuban and Puerto Rican population over the previous three decades. Repackaging it as “salsa” was the idea of Fania Records. The change in advertising helped bring on a new wave of popularity, but the people of Cuban and Puerto Rican heritage had been dancing it all along. It was the rest of the population who were more influenced by the new advertising hook.

7. What happens if you dont warm up your muscles before you stretch?  Also, what can i do to warm them up first, be specific.
Answer: Great question! Stretching cold can definitely cause injury. You don’t need a lot of warm up before stretching, but some is advisable.
As a ballet dancer real running or jogging isn’t a good option to warming up before stretching. Pointing your feet and “prancing” is a better option. You just need to get your heart rate up for about 3 minutes before you stretch. Anything more than that and you start taking energy away from your class. I usually walk to class. I live in NYC so that makes it easy. You could just dance around gently for a few minutes. Check out the first minute of this Finis Jhung video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbOOgKbj4… You can do something like that for about 3 minutes and you will be all set to stretch. That is just an excerpt of his center floor warm up.
Source(s):
Academy trained ballet dancer

8. Any tips for a toe touch?
Answer: Start by stretching and making sure your flexible enough. i sit with me feet on the wall all the way to the side separate for about

one song so three minutes and it helps so your hips do not hurt. don’t “wind UP” your prep or other words swings your forearm past your

elbow. really sit into your jump so that your hips are not in the same place as an X jump. reach your finger tips toward your toes but be

careful not to hunch your back to much. it should look like your sitting on the floor with your feet apart and your fingers touching your toes.

9. What are the different methods of ballet?
Answer:
There are many different kinds of ballet methods, each distinct and very different. First of all, you have Russian ballet, which, as you mentioned, includes the Vaganova method, among other more obscure and very similar methods. Next, there is the Italian Cecchetti method, founded by Enrico Cecchetti. There is the École Française, a French method. There is the Royal method, which is an English method. A very obscure method of Danish ballet is called the Bournonville school, which is very closely tied to the École Française. Lastly, there is the very famous Balanchine method, which is American. Each is different and varying, which is what makes watching different companies so entertaining and interesting.

VAGANOVA METHOD
Agrippina Vaganova, the founder of the Vaganova school and method, studied at the Imperial School of Russia (now the Soviet Ballet), and went on to meld her Russian studies with French and Italian influence. The method focuses on the strength and placement of the back and arms, as well as flexibility and endurance. The Vaganova method is often seen as the parent of the modern pas de deux, because Agrippina Vaganova very much stressed the pas de deux in her teachings.

CECCHETTI METHOD
The Cecchetti Method, founded by Enrico Cecchetti in the mid 19th century, uses a strict and classical training method for its students for core muscle strength and ability. It is widely used in Italy, Europe, and Australia. It is very rigid in training method and has very particular plans for the dancers’ education. Cecchetti’s breakthrough philosophy of having the dancer imagine the entire body as a cohesive unit rather than the arms, the legs, the torso, the head, etc. as different pieces, changed the face of modern ballet.

ÉCOLE FRANCAISE
The French Ballet School is unique in that in places less emphasis on strict technique and more on fluidity and elegance. The École Française is very old, but was really defined by Rudolf Nureyev. The name soon changed to the Nureyev School of Ballet. This method has a great emphasis on elegance and fluidity, but also very quick steps and petite allegro, so fast, in fact, that it appears one large, flowing movement, similar to a bourré accross the floor: many miniscule and fast steps flowing together to make an illusion of gliding across the stage.

THE ROYAL BALLET
The Royal Ballet is the foundation for all Ballet Methods, as it is the first known method ever to be founded. Therefore, over the many years of its existance, it has taken on the influence of the many other methods that have succeeded it. The Royal Ballet is unique, however, in that it is a perfect balance between rigorous technique and training and fluidity and elegance. Also, it stresses balance and symmetry in its choreography.

THE BOURNONVILLE SCHOOL
Founded bye August Bournonville, this is essentially the French ballet with Russian-Vaganova influence. Before the 20th century, it was considered the purest form of the French Ballet. However, as more and more Russian influence was brought into the method, it formed a unique style of dance that is beautiful to watch. The training focuses on the very basic preparatoire arms. A distinct feature of the choreography is the many beats, which occur in almost every step, especially for men. More specifically, pirouettes are taken from developpé, much like a Vaganova foutte en tournant traditionally starts. It is also famous for its “Spanish Fourth”, with a bit of untraditional epaulment.

THE BALANCHINE METHOD
George Balanchine, the founder of this method, is commonly seen as the father of modern classical ballet. The method was originally used for the New York City Ballet, and has many strange and unconventional arm positions, and much brava and drama throughout the choreography. For example, in pique arabesque, the arm sometimes goes up past the nose to almost touch the side of the cheek, so that the arm is straight up in the air. This method urges its dancers to be flexible and extremely physically able, as the choreography is almost always very physically trying.

10. What is the best way to learn breakdancing?
Answer: Are there any breakdancing groups in your area? Or do you have any friends that breakdance? I know in my area (Michigan) a few of my friends are in breakdancing groups and they welcome newbies who are interested in learning and they do it for free, you just need to go to one of their practice sessions. If these aren’t options in you’re area, there are instructional videos you can buy or find some on youtube but it might be better to find someone with experience especially when you’re ready to try some of the harder tricks.

11. What is an 8 count to a dance team?
Answer: Most music is in counts of 8, so if you listen to the beat you can count to it. An 8 count for a dance team would be 8 steps or moves to the music. One set of 8. Or you could also do steps/moves on the ‘ands’. So insted of just, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc, you could go 1 and 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and 7, 8 etc or any combo! x

12. Who taught Michael Jackson how to moonwalk?
Answer: I read about this in my book, ‘Magic and the Madness’ , It says that some guy that was either a singer or in a band or something. Michael pulled him over and said “Hey will you teach me how to do that thing where it looks like your going backwards and forewards at the same time please?”
The young man was in misbelief that Michael Jackson wanted to learn his dancemove. Michael was to meet up with him twice a week for lessons. After 4 weeks, Michael still couldnt do it. He said ‘I was hopeless at moonwalking”. Then 2 weeks later was Mowtown 25: Yesterday, today , forever. No one was expecting it, but Michael popped out the move when performing Billie Jean. The crowd went wild.
The guy wo taught him said that Michael was wrong in calling in the moonwalk, what Michael does is actually called the backslide, the Moonwalk is when you backslide in a complete circle.
The gy who invented also got a litle upset when Michael started claiming the Moonawalk as his own.

13. How do you deal with your nerves when you dance on stage?
Answer: if you are a christian, pray. pray for peace. i do and it helps.

also, when you get on stage, and you cant really see the audience because of the stage lights, and you are concentrating on your dance, your nerves fly away. im always nervous when i get on stage but once the music starts and i dance, it all goes away. nothing matters but me and the stage.

and also…

HAVE FUN! just enjoy it! dont concentrate solely on the moves, if you mess up, so what? no one will know! it could be a part of the dance for all they know. so dont worry about it. just have fun.

14. What exactly is musical theater dance?
Answer: “Musical theater” dance, at least in competitions, is a lot like jazz. However, the music often comes from a Broadway show or has a definitive character or story in it that you have to portray in your dancing and expression. You usually don’t have to sing, that’s more of a “song and dance” thing. You’ll have to act, though, through your movements.

15. How does Shakira shake her hips like that?
Answer: I don’t know about the Latin part, but Shakira’s belly dance teacher is the American bellydance superstar Bozenka and she helped choreograph Hips Don’t Lie.

While Shakira is a very talented dancer, a lot of people dance even better than her after one year of bellydance classes.

Anyone can learn to shake their hips. It makes no difference what shape or nationality you are. You can shimmy any muscle in your body if you can move it, your stomach, your calf muscle, shoulders, your butt…

Stand with your feet a little less than hip width apart and your feet flat on the floor.

Alternate slowly moving the left hip upwards and then the right hip. You can do this either with your knees driving the movement or with your oblique muscles.

Once this becomes comfortable, do it in time to music. Make the movement smaller and faster until you can do a good vibration. Always stay in control, don’t just shake otherwise it just looks spastic.

16. What is lyrical dance
Answer: Lyrical looks like a mix between the styles of jazz and ballet. The big difference is that technique can completely be thrown out the window. That’s not saying you don’t still want good solid turns, etc, but in lyrical you’ll find yourself extending your arms farther than you would in ballet or jazz, and doing less technique, and just dancing. Lyrical usually has emotion attached to it.

This is a really good example of a lyrical dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVPKnNXWr9s

17. How can I improve my stamina?
Answer:
1. Every athlete should have a baseline medical screen from which to work. Overtraining, illness, and stress can all affect performance. Fatigue sets in, and injuries may result. If you are over 40 and beginning an exercise program, make sure you get that physical.

2. Frequency, intensity, and time/duration are the components of a safe, effective exercise program. Mess up any of these, and you risk injury. Experts agree on a few basics: three or more workouts a week, at a heart rate not exceeding 60 to 80 percent of your maximum heart rate, for 20 minutes or longer. Even moderate exercise works to increase stamina.

3. Don’t accelerate your training level too rapidly. You need time to build confidence and accustom your muscles to any new activity. A beginner might benefit initially from working with a trainer to find the optimum level of activity. If you run, follow the 10 percent rule: do not increase mileage by more than 10 percent per week.

4. Know your limitations. If you are overweight and out of shape, you will need to lose weight as you shape up. Over age 40? Don’t try to run the marathon in two hours. Asthmatic? Don’t try to run through an attack. Whatever your health problem, work with it, not against it. Stay in touch with your doctor and/or trainer.

5. If you select activities you enjoy, you will increase your chances of sticking with them long enough to get in shape and feel good. Don’t take up running if you hate it; there are other ways to get in shape.

6. For the long haul, select at least one activity you can do anywhere with a minimum of fuss. Walking is great, possible in most climates, easy on the body, adaptable, and a great way to burn off extra calories you might take in at dinner, on vacation, or when on a business trip.

7. Many people benefit by joining an organization built around their sport or reading relevant material. Maintaining this contact helps the athlete take themselves and their sport seriously. Not only does this make the sport more fun, but it helps prevent staleness and encourages maximum effort.

8. Some athletes find that keeping a performance log or other type of progress chart aids them in sticking to their training regimen. Record each workout, and keep track in case you get injured. Looking back over your training and competition log may show you where you went off track.

9. Whatever sport you choose, make sure you don’t skimp on equipment. The right running shoe can make the difference between success and failure. Choose a cross-country ski machine that slides evenly, or you may end up with muscle pulls. Don’t take up bicycle racing and forget the helmet!

10. Successful athletes plan long-term. Think safety, as in adequate fluid intake, correct clothing for your sport and climate. Acclimate yourself gradually to extreme heat. During your first hot-weather workout, cut intensity by 65 to 75 percent; over the next several days slowly build back to your previous level. Wear reflective gear if you are outdoors after dark.

11. When working out, use the principles of overload, specificity, and progression. Overload is necessary to improve stamina, but don’t overdo. Irritability and depression are often the first signs of fatigue. Specificity means you train for what you want to achieve. Progression means that you keep on improving.

12. Work from a prevention perspective. If you have an injury that does not improve, see a specialist promptly. Untreated injuries may otherwise lay you up for long periods, during which stamina and endurance slide.

13. Remember the cardinal rules for every sport: warm up, stretch, and cool down. This is especially important if you are forced to be a weekend athlete. Don’t wait until the morning of your mountain climb to begin calf-stretching exercises, or you may find all your enthusiasm for the sport going up in smoke while you cool your heels for the next month.

14. If you are into heavy training for your sport, alternate hard and easy days. Weight training, for example, should not work the same muscles on consecutive days or you will be breaking down tissue instead of building. Long runs should alternate with short. Don’t perform an arduous rock climb two days in a row. On the night before that big white-water trip, don’t max out on the rowing machine. Moderation is the word!

15. Cross-training is one of the most effective and safe ways to improve stamina and performance level, as well as a great way to avoid injury. Choose two or more activities that complement each other, such as weight training and trail running, or biking and swimming.

16. Rest, as in REST! Rest is as important for improving stamina as any workout. The results of overtraining are almost always bad, and they set you back.

18. Does over stretching damage my flexibility? I made the stupid mistake of stretching before doing any warm ups and now my legs are so sore. I’m about to take ballet classes and wanted to work on my flexibility in the mean time. So does this damage my flexibility at all? (if I hypothetically tore a tissue I mean). If yes then have I permanently damaged my full flexibility potential?

Answer: No you wouldnt have damaged your muscles in anyway you just have case of soreness.

Just be sure to warm up before you stretch jump around a bit just to get your muscles warm and ready to stretch and while stretching its absolutely ok to over stretch just dont do it to much where your in pain just to where you feel the stretch, and after you feel your done stretching jump around again for like a minute to relax those muscles. Also drink lots of water before and after you stretch that will help you increase fleibility as well as stretching atleast 1-2times a day goodluck:)
Source(s):
10 years dance experiance.

19. Tips for great turns?
Answer: You need to practice going from plie to releve a la secondes at the barre. Once you feel comfortable with that piece of the turn go to center and try them with the turn. The key to mastering fouettes is being on balance and finding your spot in plie and staying on balance as you pull up and engage through the releve.

20. Basics of dance.
Answer: Are you a recreational, serious novice or returning student to dance? Have you avoided the Basics of dance, which is Ballet.  This could be a costly mistake bodywise and moneywise.   There is no substitute for learning the abc’s.  Are you aware of your body positions as you dance, move, walk?  Do you know the correct alignment for the knees, do they hyperextend,  do the arches roll in or out, is the posture correct,  is the coccyx bone correctly placed, the shoulders, hips etc.  These are standard body requirement techniques basic to ALL forms of dance. The fundamentals are taught in Ballet, and in particular in *BALLET BASICS “DESIGNED for the Adult Beginner”

Former years Ballet was required before students were permitted to take jazz.  Unforturnately the current trend to taking shortcuts has taken precedence.  The recent Best Doctor issue of NY Magazine listing shows the greatest number of Physicians… is— ORTHOPEDIC doctors , more than plastic surgeons.  Dance people take heed, there are no shortcuts the body understands.

*Taught by:Rita Colby
BALLET BASICS”DESIGNED for the Adult Beginner”
212-245-3605

21. Good workout(s) for a beginning dancer?
Answer: Instead of watching youtube or listening to any exercises anyone here tells you, you should take some classes. Without corrections you can instill bad habits that are hard to break and worse than that, you could injure yourself. As a guy, you might not like this, but what you really need to do is start some beginner ballet classes. I am guessing you may be a teen so teen or teen/adult classes would do the trick. Almost every style of dance comes from ballet and without ballet training you will be weak. If you have a problem with this, remember that you don’t have to tell anyone and that you will be in class with fit girls in leotards and eventually you get to touch them when and if you do partnering. Ballet is the way to gain strength and flexibility. Form there you can branch off into modern or contemporary dance or jazz perhaps. Having ballet makes any type of dance much more possible for you. Check this guy out. Rasta Thomas trained at the Kirov in ballet dancing to MJ’s man in the mirror. He couldn’t do that without ballet. hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIwE1mEtNOs
Source(s):
Academy trained ballet dancer NYC. Concert contemporary dancer. Grad of LaGuardia Arts H .S.( the Fame school.)

22. What is Horton Technique?
Answer: Lester Horton developed his own approach to dance that incorporated diverse elements including Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American dances and modern Jazz dance. Horton’s dance technique, which is now commonly known as Horton Technique, emphasizes a whole body, anatomical approach to dance that includes flexibility, strength, coordination and body and spacial awareness to enable unrestricted, dramatic freedom of expression.

23. What is Krumpin?
Answer: Krumping (or more commonly spelt Krumpin) is a type of street dance popularized in the United States that is characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement involving the arms, head, legs, chest, and feet.[1] The root word “Krump” is a backronym for Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise.[2][3] The youths who started krumping saw the dance as a way for them to escape gang life[4] and “to release anger, aggression and frustration positively, in a non-violent way.”[3] Krumping has become a major part of hip-hop dance, even in Europe; France and the UK for example, Krump has become popular.
Source: Wikipedia

24. What is Bollywood dance?
Answer: Bollywood dancing is the foundation of every great Indian film. Songs typically comment on the action taking place in the movie, in several ways. Sometimes, a song is worked into the plot, so that a character has a reason to sing; other times, a song is an externalization of a character’s thoughts, or presages an event that has not occurred yet in the plot of the movie. In this case, the event is almost always two characters’ falling in love. “Songs are a mode of indirect expression whereby characters can articulate thoughts and desires which may be inappropriate to state directly.” [Tejaswini Ganti, Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema]
Source: http://www.bollywoodwest.com/Bolly-What.htm
 

25. What is Flamenco dance?
Answer: El baile flamenco is known for its emotional intensity, proud carriage, expressive use of the arms and rhythmic stamping of the feet. As with any dance form, many different styles of flamenco have developed.

In its most authentic form, flamenco can be seen danced informally at gitano (Gypsy) weddings and celebrations in Spain. There is less virtuoso technique in gitano flamenco, but the music and steps are fundamentally the same. The arms are noticeably different to classical flamenco, curving around the head and body rather than extending, often with a bent elbow.

“Flamenco puro” is considered the form of performance flamenco closest to its gitano origins. In this style, the dance is always performed solo, and is improvised rather than choreographed. Some purists frown on castanets (even though they can be seen in many early 20th century photos of flamenco dancers).

The type of dance most Europeans would call “flamenco” is a commercialized style, developed as a spectacle for tourists. To add variety, group dances are included, and even solos are more likely to be choreographed. The frilly, voluminous spotted dresses are derived from a style of dress worn for the annual Feria in Seville (the original is actually too tight to dance in!).

“Classical flamenco” is the style used in modern Spanish flamenco dance companies. It is characterized by a proud, upright carriage – for the women, the back is often held in a marked back bend. Unlike gitano flamenco, there is little movement of the hips, the body is tightly held and the arms are long, like a ballet dancer. In fact many of the dancers in these companies have trained in ballet as well as flamenco.

Modern flamenco is a highly technical dance style requiring years of study. The emphasis for both male and female performers is on lightning-fast footwork performed with absolute precision. In addition, the dancer may have to dance while using props such as castanets, shawls and fans.

“Flamenco nuevo” is the new wave in flamenco, characterized by pared-down costumes (the men often dance bare-chested, and the women in plain jersey dresses). Props such as castanets, fans and shawls are rarely, if ever, used. Dances are choreographed and include influences from other dance styles.

In traditional flamenco, young people are not considered to have the emotional maturity to adequately convey the “duende” (soul) of the genre. Therefore unlike other dance forms, where dancers turn professional early to take advantage of youth and strength, many flamenco dancers do not hit their peak in their thirties and will continue to perform into their fifties and beyond.

Source: Wikipedia

26. What is Yoga?
Answer: The classical techniques of Yoga date back more than 5,000 years. In ancient times, the desire for greater personal freedom, health and long life, and heightened self-understanding gave birth to this system of physical and mental exercise which has since spread throughout the world. The word Yoga means “to join or yoke together,” and it brings the body and mind together into one harmonious experience.

The whole system of Yoga is built on three main structures: exercise, breathing, and meditation. The exercises of Yoga are designed to put pressure on the glandular systems of the body, thereby increasing its efficiency and total health. The body is looked upon as the primary instrument that enables us to work and evolve in the world, and so a Yoga student treats it with great care and respect. Breathing techniques are based on the concept that breath is the source of life in the body. The Yoga student gently increases breath control to improve the health and function of both body and mind. These two systems of exercise and breathing then prepare the body and mind for meditation, and the student finds an easy approach to a quiet mind that allows silence and healing from everyday stress. Regular daily practice of all three parts of this structure of Yoga produce a clear, bright mind and a strong, capable body.
 
Source: American Yoga Association

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Washington Heights Summer Musical Theater Dance Festival
July 19-August 1, 2010

Providing solid training to serve whatever style of dance a student pursues.

One-week programs July 19-July 25; July 26-August 1

 Two-week Program July 19-August 1

at The YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood
54 Nagle Avenue New York, NY 10040

Reach New Heights IN THE HEIGHTS!  This summer, study dance in the Heights at the Washington Heights Summer Musical Theater Dance Festival, directed by Daniel Gwirtzman and his vibrant, electric company!  This is the festival that’s just the size for you.  The summer residency of the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, the Festival, is a two-week intensive dance-training program for pre-professionals and professionals as well as dancers ages 12-18. All classes are open to the public on a drop-in basis.  No pre-registration is necessary.  Only $13/class.

THE FESTIVAL:  A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE

“The face of Broadway choreography has changed,” says Daniel Gwirtzman.  “Think of the diversity of movement styles in today’s shows, the range needed and expected of dancers.  As a DanceBreak finalist for 2010, I have observed first-hand the next generation of musical theater choreographers and the demands they are making of dancers.  As an innovator with a concert dance background, my work asks dancers to have a full set of technical, stylistic and performance skills.   This festival is about preparing the aspiring theatrical dancer for this range of choreography.”

The Festival provides a rigorous and holistic program to develop and strengthen contemporary dance and musical theater dance skills, while creating relationships with the Company and special guest artists. The Festival is geared toward students of all levels and technical abilities, from those that are passionate about a career in dance and who wish to train at an intensive level with professional teaching artists and performers, to the absolute beginner with an interest in dance and musical theater.

The Festival is an intimate program that values a low student to teacher ratio so that the emphasis of the festival is on individual growth and attention.  Another primary difference that sets the Festival apart is the inclusion of composition classes.  Enrolled students, in addition to developing their skills and techniques and learning repertory from the Company, will have the opportunity to work as a choreographer does, developing dances.

The festival emphasizes strong personal investment in each student’s dancing; we coach each dancer to reveal his or her individuality and we are focused on helping our students cultivate their performance qualities.  The festival will provide solid, intelligent technique to serve whatever style of dance a student decides to pursue; in today’s companies, and on Broadway, versatility is key.  Our philosophy is to prepare the dancer for this diversity of dance styles.

THE SCHEDULE and CURRICULUM

The festival operates Monday-Sunday, with Saturday off from all classes.  All classes are open to the public on a drop-in basis.  No pre-registration is necessary.  Only $13/class. 

9:00-9:30     Morning Meeting

9:30-11:00         Technique Class—open to the public

11:15-12:30   Repertory Class—open to the public

12:30-1:30         Lunch

1:30-3:00     Repertory Class—open to the public

3:00-4:30     Composition Class—open to the public

4:45-6:00     Master Class—open to the public—visit Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company on Facebook to see the specific schedule of guest teachers; Please note on some days, the master class and composition class times will be switched.

HOW TO APPLY FOR THE ONE OR TWO WEEK PROGRAM:

1. Fill out an application, which can be downloaded by accessing our website, www.GwirtzmanDance.org.
2. Mail the completed application, with a check to:

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New York, NY  10033

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New York, NY 10012
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30 Years of Looks That Will Not Quit

When started in 1980 as a clothing line for dancers attracted the usual suspects, people who aren’t dancers but have a radar for clothes that will be just as chic in 20 years as much as the day they buy them: European women, Vogue magazine, Hollywood stylists and celebrities.

In 1980, yarn spinners tell them it’s unheard of.  West coast dancers-turned-fashion designers David Lee and Tricia Kaye invent a new kind of comfortable using the lightest yarn they can find.  The line of the body-loving looks becomes its own genre that doesn’t look or feel like anything else out there.

In 1983, the designers leave the Bay Area and move the clothing line, kd dids, to New York.  They commit to producing their line exculsively in the United States and set up their own factory in the Bronx.

This year, the shoulder-baring top that went platinum when it appeared in Vogue turns 30.  kd dids and kd dance celebrate their 30th anniversary with a new release of the “03″, the third design first created in 1980 that remains the best-selling top for the past 30 years, in organic cotton and vegetable cashmere.

             kd dance’s BLOW-OUT sale at their store
    Monday, July 19th – Monday, August 16th  

Betterfly.com is a new and free website that matches people with the teachers, trainers and instructors that can help them learn, look and feel better in over 1000 ways, from Accordion to Zumba.

There are many websites that will tell you the best dance studio, hair salon or language school to go to, but don’t tell you which instructor, stylist or tutor you should use once you’re there. 

Betterfly is perfect for the dance community. Dance teachers, whether self-employed or working with dance studios, can post class descriptions and schedules on their personal page where students can then find them and even book lessons directly through the site. Dance students can search for teachers that offer lessons in everything from Hip-Hop to Ballet, and even customize their search by price range, skill level, location as well as by types of classes. With over 1000 different ways to learn, look and feel better, Betterfly is truly for everyone.

ICONic (definition) Relating to or characteristic of somebody or something admired as an icon.

Based out of New Jersey and the ICON Dance Complex, the ICONic dance crew has quickly become one of the nations hottest dance crews. ICONic made its mark by becoming one of the top 9 crews in the country to appear on Season 1 of MTV’s Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew. After appearing on the show ICONic now performs across the country at clubs, fashion shows, benefits, industrial shows, large corporate events and more. ICONic has recently performed a tribute to Kenny Ortega at the Astaire Awards in NYC. ICONic’s other credits include Special Guests on MTV’s TRL(Total Request Live), The Tyra Banks Show, Sobe Life Water “Thrillicious” Campaign, Food & Wine Magazine’s 20th Anniversary, Unite In Fashion and the House of Roses Charity Event. ICONic has also performed live with Lil Mama at Madison Square Garden on the America’s Best Dance Crew Live Tour.

Under the direction of professional choreographer and dancer GEO Hubela, ICONic’s members possess great talent and versatility. Collectively ICONic’s members have worked with such artists as Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, P!nk, Jessica Simpson, Jay Z, Mariah Carey, Duffy, The Black Eyed Peas, NSYNC, Daddy Yankee and Brook Hogan. They have been in movies such as High School Musical 3, Step Up, Music and Lyrics, and The Wedding Singer. ICONic’s unique style and image combined with their clean sharp moves, and powerful performance quality have the ability to draw in their audience and leave them wanting more!

http://www.icondancecomplex.com/

Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn is a professional dance company that marries rigorous classical and modern technique with African-American soul and spirit. Under the direction of Jamel Gaines, the company has been hailed by reviewers in the United States and Europe for its “richness of dance tone” and “contagious vitality. The repertoire addresses socio-cultural issues through an artistically potent mixture of theater, song, movement and poetry, and the performers imbue each work with a deep spiritual resonance.

 The company has collaborated with such artists as Michael Jackson, Malik Yoba, Max Roach, Savion Glover, and Jennifer Holiday. They have performed in major venues and festivals including The United Nations, Acapulco Black Film Festival, BAM Dance Africa, 651 Arts, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Jacob’s Pillow and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Our artists have performed on Broadway in shows like The Lion King and FELA!,  Maafa, MTV Live with Britney Spears, Fosse and Donald Byrd’s Harlem Nutcracker.  The company has had the opportunity to tour nationally and internationally and “…was unveiled as one of the best performances of this edition of the festival,” in Spoleto, Italy – (Italian Press).

http://www.creativeoutletdance.org/

The BAX Dance Company, with artistic director Pooja Narang, performs fun and colorful mixes of popular high energy Bollywood dances. The company has worked with Slumdog Millionaire choreographer Longinus Fernandes and performed at the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards in addition to being showcased at the American Museum of Natural History, they have also made several film and television appearances, including, The Accidental Husband and on CBS’s “Early Show.”

http://www.bollywoodaxion.com

Since 2007 co‐artistic directors Corey Baker and Leyland Simmons have led an outstanding collection of dance and music artists in noted performance venues suchas the City Center Studio Showcase, The Nu\’92Dance Festival at Riverside Theater, E‐Moves 9 Showcase at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, The African Burial Ground Dedication Ceremony, Smoke Lillies Jade Arts Initiative, The Joyce Soho A.W.A.R.D. Show!, Battery Parks Downtown Dance Festival, The Garden State Festival, The Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Festival, City Parks East River Park Dance Series in NYC, and the 2009 International Ballet Festival of Miami.

Ballet Noir is a recipient of the 2008 Harlem Stage ‘Fund for New Work’ Grant Sponsored by Mayor Bloomberg and has been featured in Dance Magazine’s 2008 October issue along with Lois Greenfield’s 2010 Breaking Bounds Calendar. Ballet Noir’s mission is to feature artists of diverse disciplines and cultural traditions in works that reflect the kaleidoscope of expression in a 21st century America. By integrating a broad scope of musical, literary, theatrical, technological and visual artistic expression, we seek to create a relevant social experience for our audience through performing arts.

http://www.balletnoir.org/