Dance Institute

Summer Classes


Summer Classes 2013

Dance Institute offers classes throughout the summer for ages 3 through adult. Dates for 2013 are listed below. Registration required.*

PRE-PROFESSIONAL LEVELS (ages 7-high school/college) Dance Institute’s 4-week Pre-Professional Summer Intensive for Advanced and Intermediate students combines the classical and jazz curriculum with a concentration of classes in Modern, and additional classes in ballroom, character, and hip-hop.  The 2-week Pre-Professional Summer Intensive for Beginner and Advanced-Beginner students offers daily Ballet classes with alternating Modern and Jazz classes. An optional Summer Afternoon Arts Camp is available for these students, supplementing and enhancing their Summer Intensive morning dance training with visual and theatre arts classes. Summer study provides the pre-professional student with an important opportunity to focus on rigorous daily training, allowing them to make great strides in building strength, progressing technically, and growing artistically.

Pre-Professional 2013 Summer Intensive For Intermediate and Advanced
(ages 11 and up) June 17 - July 12
Morning and afternoon classes in Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Jazz, 
   Classical Repertoire, Ballroom/Character, and Hip-Hop
-  Afternoon Tap classes

Pre-Professional 2013 Summer Intensive for Beginners
(ages 7 and up) June 24 - July 5
-  Morning classes in Ballet, Modern, and Jazz
-  Additional classes available in Tap and Afternoon Arts Camp (Visual Art and Theatre)

INTRODUCTORY CLASSES (ages 3-7) Dance Institute offers a series of Saturday morning introductory dance classes for children ages 3-7.

Introductory Level 2013 Summer Classes
Saturday mornings  June 1 - 29 (1 Five Week Session)
-  Storybook Dance (ages 3-4)
-  Pre-Ballet (ages 5-7)
-  Pre-Tap (ages 5-7)

ADULT/TEEN RECREATIONAL CLASSES Non-credit evening dance and conditioning classes are scheduled throughout the summer for adult and teen students. 

Adult/Teen 2013 Summer Evening Non-credit Classes (2 Five Week Sessions)
Session 1 Monday May 20 – Monday June 24
Session 2 Monday July 8 – Thursday August 8
-  Ballet, Modern, Hip-Hop, Tap and Pilates-based Mat Exercise

Summer schedules are continuing to be posted and updated. For those not yet posted, the dates are listed above.

*GENERAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Children ages 3-7
No Placement Class required. Call or email Dance Institute to Pre-Register.

Pre-Professional Students ages 8 and older
A Placement Class is required for students ages 8 and older who have had previous training and are not currently enrolled in Dance Institute. Call or email Dance Institute to Pre-Register for Placement Classes.

Adult/Teen Evening Non-credit Students
No Placement Class required. Pre-Registration requested. Call or email Dance Institute to Pre-Register.

Additional Placement and Pre-Registration/Registration Information

 



SUMMER 2013
NEWS
Placement Classes
are
- February 2 at 9:30 am
- March 2 at 9:30 am
- April 21 at 2:00 pm (Beg)
   and 3:00 pm (Int/Adv)
   or by appointment. 

The Placement Fee is
$20.00 with Pre-Registration
and $30.00 without
Pre-Registration.

A Placement Class is required for students ages 8 and older who have had previous training and are not currently enrolled in Dance Institute. Call or email Dance Institute to Pre-Register for Placement Classes.

Housing on campus is available. Please contact the office for detailed information.

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Phone: 330-972-7111
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