master classes & community workshops

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Community Workshop (Shepherdstown, WV)
VTDance offers a variety of community engagement activities and workshops that center around specific themes/ideas based on the performance projects in the current, past, or future repertoire.

Composition This class offers tools for creating and generating movement through improvisation and movement structures. The Critical Response Process is used as a method to discuss and receive feedback about choreographic work. Formats used include collaborative, interdisciplinary, and/or site-specific.



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Contemporary Workshop (Shepherdstown, WV)










Contemporary/Modern
This class is focused on finding freedom in movement while expanding physical, expressive, and technical ranges. The movement is release-based, athletic, organic, and challenges the vertical axis. Components of the class include improvisation, contact, partnering, traveling passages, and moments of supported, uncontrolled movement.

Modazz
This is a class where modern dance and jazz dance collide and reside. Participants explore concert/modern jazz and Broadway styles. The emphasis is on technique, strengthening the body, and enhancing expressive qualities to support the full movement experience.

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Ready-Set-Move!! (Bands of America Summer Symposium)























Ready—Set—Move!!! for Band Directors and their students
This is an active participation program that will aide in designing a stretch program that will be best for your marching band. The workshops will also include simple and basic movement (dance) technique that will progress into moving across the floor with a variety of locomotor and phrase building movements.

Rhythmic Analysis
This class is designed especially to increase dancers’ knowledge of basic music rhythms, structure, and possible applications to movement. Standard components of the class include improvisational structures, rhythm dictation, rhythm sight-reading, basic rhythmic compositions, singing, and physical rhythm composition studies.

Self-Sustaining Lab This is an introduction to skill sets and tools of aural, musical (rhythmic), physical, sculptural and improvisation for the purpose of stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration and bringing to the forefront self-sustaining and sufficiency in performance. This laboratory workshop brings artists from various disciplines to a common playground to question, explore, and create. The Critical Response Process is used as a method to discuss and receive feedback about choreographic work.


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Table Talk (Shepherdstown, WV)











































Table Talk Community Building In this workshop, participants bring to the table ‘hot topics’ that encourage verbal dialogue and then explore into physical dialogue. This is a way to listen to others, speak your truth, and discuss topics facing the community through movement.

Word!!!!
An exploration in text and movement This choreographic workshop focuses on the relationship between words and physical language by exploring various structures and games. A variety of text can be used as the springboard for explorations. The Critical Response Process is use as a method to discuss and receive feedback about choreographic work.