Dance Essentials
Often students move one whole level by attending summer workshops. The
reason our Dancers Delight Workshop for children is successful
at developing such
improvements for our students is the daily training and exposure to a
variety of dance styles (ballet, jazz, acrobatics, folk dance, hip
hop etc..) while really honing in on basics. Yes. To learn to read you
have to really know your ABC's, but to become a dance artist you have
to know basics that are essential to all styles of dancing....I'm
talking about ( i ) the ability to learn and remember choreography,(
ii ) the
ability to improvise,( iii) use dramatic skills and emotion correctly
and ( vi ) use of rhythm and musicality.
Teaching these areas of dance study for children is pretty unique to California DanceArts. Usually the concentration is mostly on physical technique. But physical technical skills is only one aspect of artistry. The interesting thing is that when training is approached from this perspective, greater abilities of physical technical skills follow. These Dance Essentials, as we call the area of study, is very fun to learn, particularly when taught in a way that is creative. At California DanceArts we teach these Dance Essential skills in our classes year round, but we are certainly able to work on them to a much greater degree during summer workshops. I believe that students who really understand these Dance Essentials obviously become better artists with greater understanding. Not to mention that children who engage in learning these skills become more out-going, creative, self confident and develop sweeping increased abilities to communicate to an audience. No matter the student's age, your child can really gain a sense of artistry and performance skills. In a real sense , young child prodigies can be created in this manner.
Value of Learning to Choreograph
No limits with Inspiration
I'm not bragging when I mention that many of our current dancers in our professional performing company, California Contemporary Ballet, grew up attending Dancers Delight Workshop every single summer. Ryan Morrison who performed as the Prince in our Snow Queen ballet, never missed a Dancers Delight Workshop as a young dancer at our school. He still attends the summer workshops offered for advanced dancers. Jaclyn Stryker danced the role of the Enchantress in the Snow Queen this past winter and she too grew up on Dancers Delight.
Please see all the information regarding the Dancers Delight Workshop Here: http://www.caldancearts.com/pages/333/Dancers_Delight.htm
Spaces in the workshop are already filling up! There are less then 12 spaces available! (Talk about exclusive instruction!) Some of our workshops are already Full!
(The photo to the right is of an 8 year old summer student in her costume for the show at the end of the workshop. This young girl grew up to become a teacher at our school for a time and a professional ballerina.)
Contact us by calling 818-790-7924
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