Contemporary Dance - Summer Intensive for High School
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Intensive Information
Introducing the “college experience”
The Contemporary Dance Program in the Department of Kinesiology at Indiana University invites you to experience dance in a university setting. For two weeks, the IU Contemporary Dance Program’s Summer Intensive for High School Students will immerse participants in the world of collegiate dance, from daily technique classes and rehearsals to studies in choreography and dance theory. Applicants should be dancing at an intermediate or advanced level in modern dance and ballet.
Students will live on campus and maintain a rigorous schedule of five courses a day. A culminating performance will showcase student progress and learning over the course of the program. Recreational activities will include trips to local places of interest. Participants will be chaperoned at all times.
Dates: July 9-20, 2012
Location: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Cost: (Includes tuition, housing, and meals.)
$925 Early Bird Registration by April 15, 2012
$975 after April 15, 2012
Payment: If accepted into the intensive, a payment link will be included in your acceptance email. Tuition must be fully paid for registration process to be complete. All fees must be paid by July 1, 2012.
Sample Schedule
- 9:00-10:30am - Ballet Technique
- 11:00am-12:30pm - Modern Dance Technique
- 12:30-2:00pm - Lunch Break
- 2:30-3:30pm - Jazz Dance Technique/Composition/Improvisation
- 3:30-5:30pm - Repertory
- 5:30-7:00pm - Dinner Break
- 7:00-8:00pm - Dance Theory
Application Process
Do the following:
- Submit application form or go to Online Application.
- Submit two letters of recommendation from dance teachers.
- A recent full body photo in dancewear.
Application deadline is June 1, 2012.
Please note: Applicants should be dancing at an intermediate or advanced level in modern dance and ballet.
Application can be downloaded and mailed to:
Susannah Windell
Kinesiology Department
1025 E. 7th Street, HPER 112
Bloomington, IN 47405
Application materials can be electronically submitted to: swindell@indiana.edu
~Applicants will be notified of their status only after all application materials are received. Notification will come by email only.~
Application Form/Online Application
Registration Process
Students must complete the registration process ONLY after receiving the acceptance email.
Once accepted, applicants must submit Medical Release and Health Questionnaire, and pay their tuition via IU Conferences in order to be officially registered for the intensive. A link to IU Conferences will be provided in the acceptance email.
Fees must be paid by July 1, 2012. Fees are non-refundable.
Registration Forms
Payment Information
Tuition includes food and housing for the event. If accepted into the intensive, a payment link will be included in your acceptance email. Tuition must be fully paid by July 1, 2012 for registration process to be complete. Pay fees online here.
Dance Faculty
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Jennifer Adam Bailey (Adjunct faculty, Ballet technique) began her dance training at the Rochester School of Ballet in Rochester, Michigan . She subsequently studied with the Royal Danish Ballet Company in Midland Michigan, and attended the School of American Ballet's summer program, where she was offered a full scholarship and attended the school for three years. During that time she performed in various Balanchine ballets and apprenticed with American Ballet Theater. From 1989 until 1995 Jennifer performed with the Pennsylvania Ballet and Atlanta Ballet. Upon retiring from professional dance at age 25, Jennifer taught at the School for Atlanta Ballet. She also earned a B.S. in ballet at IU where she danced many lead roles in ballets such as Serenade, Les Sylphides, and the Nutcracker. Upon graduating from Indiana University Jennifer was accepted to University of Michigan on scholarship and a teaching fellowship and earned an MFA in Modern Dance and Modern Choreography.
Selene Carter (Bill Evans technique, Improvisation, Composition) received her MFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a Chicago dance artist she received a Ruth Page Award, the city’s highest honor in dance, for her improvisational work, as well as funding from city agencies and private foundations. For five years she was co-director of Links Hall where she produced workshops in alternative dance and improvisation, creating a forum for post-modern and experimental dance in Chicago. She has taught improvisation and dance studies at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, the University of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of the Arts. She presented her research on Lester Horton at the Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference in June 2009, and in July began working towards her certification in Bill Evans’ Laban Based Modern Dance Technique.
Liz Shea (Coordinator of the Indiana University Contemporary Dance program), has worked extensively in the field of dance education and as a modern dance choreographer. Her choreography has been successfully adjudicated by the National Dance Association, the American College Dance Festival Association, and Regional Dance America. Liz has also received numerous grants and commissions to create dance works, most recently from The Indiana Arts Council and the New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program at Indiana University. Ms. Shea holds both a BS and MS from Penn State University, where she also served on the faculty. She taught/performed/presented choreography at Florida State University, Florida A&M University, The Tallahassee Ballet, and Apalachee Tapestry Magnet School for the Arts. Liz was also an Artist-in-Residence for the State of Florida, and in May of 2006, traveled to China, teaching master classes and presenting choreography in Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai, and Beijing. Most recently, Liz served as a guest teacher in modern dance at Regional Dance America’s Mid-States Festival and for the American College Dance Festival East Central Region.
Susannah Windell (Highschool Intensive Coordinator; Ballet technique, Modern dance technique, Pilates, Conditioning for Dancers) Susannah has served as the Pre-College Contemporary Dance Program Coordinator and adjunct faculty for the Department of Kinesiology since 2008. She graduated with distinction in 1989 from Indiana University with a B.S. in Dance and Exercise Science. Susannah has performed, taught, and choreographed professionally for nearly 20 years with companies from Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Ann Arbor, and Bloomington. In 2003 she was awarded a scholarship and teaching fellowship from the University of Michigan and in 2005 she received her MFA in Dance with an emphasis on performance and choreography. Susannah taught Jazz, Modern, and Ballet for three years as an adjunct faculty member at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California. She has been a certified personal trainer since 1989 and certified Pilates instructor since 1999. In 2007, Susannah became a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the NSCA.
Roberta Wong (Adjunct faculty, Ballet technique) trained ballet in Davis and Sacramento, CA areas with Haneke Lohse, Marguerite Phares, and Katie Heil. She attended the San Francisco Ballet and Marin Civic Ballet summer programs. She danced professionally with the Boston Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet Theatre and Dance Kaleidoscope (DK), also serving as company teacher and rehearsal director. She is the recipient of two Creative Renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and an Individual Artist Program grant from the Indiana Arts Commission for continuing study at the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance to serve as IU Dance Theater rehearsal director for "Panorama," under Sandra Kaufmann. Roberta recently completed the Limon Europe Teacher Training Workshop in Arnhem, Gelderland, holds a B.S. in Biology from Butler University and studied pilates with Elizabeth Larkham in California and Pilates on Fifth in New York.
Lauren Weber Frederick (Adjunct faculty, Modern dance technique) teaches at the Windfall Dancers, Inc. studio, where she is also the director of the Windfall Youth Dance Company. In 2009, Lauren performed with Diavolo Dance Theatre, a Los Angeles based company in the Diavolo Project: Nebraska. Lauren's choreography has been presented at the Omaha Dance Festival, voted Omaha’s Best Dance Show as well as locally in the annual IU Contemporary Dance department’s Hammer and Nail Concert and in Cardinal Stages productions of The Grapes of Wrath and Romeo and Juliet. Currently, Lauren performs and choreographs for the Windfall Dancers, Inc. adult dance company. A graduate of Indiana University, she received degrees in both Dance and Theatre.
Guest Faculty: David Hochoy
Now celebrating his 18th season with the company, Dance Kaleidoscope's Artistic Director is truly an international ambassador. David Hochoy was born in Trinidad, West Indies. After receiving a B. Sc. at McGill University in Montreal where he began studying for a career as a doctor, he continued his graduate work in theatre with an M.A. in directing from Penn State. It was there where at age 20, David took his first dance class and discovered his true love of dance.
After studying in New York at the Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham schools, he danced with numerous national companies, and in 1980 was invited to join the Martha Graham Dance Company. Made a soloist in 1982 and rehearsal director in 1986, David toured the world with Graham until 1989. He has given master classes in Graham technique throughout the United States and Europe, and in 1990 was invited to Guangzhou, China where, for ten weeks, he taught the experimental troupe of the Guangdong Dance Academy.
David has been on the faculty of the Martha Graham School since 1982. In addition he has taught at the American Dance Festival (ADF) held at Duke University, as well as ADF West in Salt Lake City and ADF Seoul in Korea. In 1991 he was invited to teach and choreograph at the Vienna International Dance Festival. He has given workshops in Quebec City, Tokyo, Oslo, Dublin and Rio de Janiero.
David spent two years as a full-time faculty member at Texas Christian University. Since his appointment as Artistic Director of DK in 1991, he has choreographed First Light, Stomping Ground, Puccini People, Jammin', Scheherazade, Seasons, Carnival of the Animals, Nutcracker Dances, Girl at the Piano; Recording Sound, In Taberna, Love Songs, Connlaoi's Tale, Carmina Burana, A Piece of Ellington, Jimson Weed, Au Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, Mother Goose, America, the Beautiful, The Healing Cup, COLE!, Ceremony of Carols, An Elvis Christmas, iconoGlass, Ashland Dances, The Shakespeare Project, Play Mas', Stephen by Steven, Skin Walkers, G&S.com, Renaissance Noel, El Salon Mexico, Fascinatin' Rhythm, Food of Love, Concierto de Aranjuez, Holiday Swing, Butterfly, The Planets, The Fairy's Kiss, China Boy, Water Music, "Let There Be Light," World Christmas Kaleidoscope, Canciones, The Four Elements, Gershwin in Love, Rhapsody in Blue, Writing on the Great Wall, Sophisticated Ellington, Magical Mystery Tour, In The Moog, Afternoon of a Faun and I Never Danced for My Father for the company. He choreographed Le Creation du Monde for a collaboration with Maestro Mario Venzago and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He has also choreographed numerous productions at the Indiana Repertory Theatre including A Christmas Carol, the Civic Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Edyvean Repertory Theatre, Salome for the Arizona Opera and Miss Evers' Boys for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and for Santa Fe Stages.
Contact Information:
If you would like information about our upcoming Summer Intensive for High School, please contact Susannah Windell via email or phone.
swindell@indiana.edu (812)855-9509
