SPRING SESSION II 2013 Monday, APRIL 29- Saturday, JUNE 9 THREE MORE WEEKS of classes!
SUMMER PROGRAM INFORMATION is now available. In addition to week long dance camps for children ages 6 - 12, we also have Summer Programs for serious dancers looking for rigorous technical training and performance experience! Read more below. Forms are available at the Dance Workshop
Dance for Parkinson's Classes continue through mid-June Click on the link for more information!
Need to buy a leotard? Beginning Monday, May 6, we begin selling PTDW leotards!
Year-at-a-Glance Click on Important Dates to see the upcoming year's schedule for classes and events!
Would you like to speak with a live person? OFFICE HOURS Beginning January 7 and on.... Mondays 3:00pm - 8:00pm Tuesdays 8:00am - 9:30am & 3:00pm - 8:30pm Wednesdays 9:30am - 11:00am & 3:00pm - 8:30pm Thursdays 8:00am - 9:30am & 3:00pm - 9:00pm Fridays 9:30am - 11:00am & 3:45pm - 6:30pm Saturdays 8:45am - 1:00pm
New to us? Take a short virtual tour of the Dance Workshop Just click on the link..
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Spring II classes began on Monday, April 29... There's three weeks left to classes, so it's an excellent time to stop in, take a class, and try out some options before summer begins!
We're also taking registration for our summer week long dance camps. The weekly class schedule won't be out until May 22, but for those of you looking for weekly programs, for children, that cover the length of the school day, we've got that information now!
Our Summer Dance Camps and Intensives feature both faculty and guest teachers with training and experience in their various fields. The Moving Words Dance Camp, combines both dance activities and writing poems and songs for a total physical and academic enrichment program that's exciting and fun! Taught by Cindy Robinson and Pamela Trokanski, both holding current California teaching credentials, this is a week that not only promises experiences in dance, but an opportunity for your child to strengthen and build on what they've learned in the last school year. For children who sometimes "forget" learned concepts during the summer, it's a camp that delivers an educational experience without feeling like school! The morning is full of movement and writing activities and the afternoon has movement games and student performances of their morning's work.
Our other Dance Camps are more specifically focused on a "multilingual" experience in dance. Students ages 6 - 12 get classes in Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, African, Contemporary, and Dance for Musical Theatre. The morning is full of different dance classes, and after lunch (kids bring their own) the afternoon is full of movement games, work with props, and learning about the history of dance through our library of Dance Videos, in the air conditioned studios.
This summer we hold our first official Ballet and Contemporary Intensives. While we've had ballet camps in the past, this year marks our first Intensive with both faculty and guest teachers, technical and repertory training as well as performance at the Summer Repertory Concert held August 3 and 4th. This year's guest teachers may include Laurel Tennant, from the Boston Ballet, returning to teach again. Heather's Level 2, 3,and 4's will remember Ms. Laurel from her visit to us in February.
Dancers ages 9 - adult may qualify for participation, depending on their previous training. If the interested dancer is currently studying with us, they should be finishing a Level 2 or higher, this year. If you are a dancer who is new to us, we will place you after your audition class.
The mornings will focus on training in the dancer's chosen technical area, as well as classes in floor barre, and strength and flexibility. The afternoon will offer training in diverse technical forms, including ballet /contemporary (depending on the dancer's morning focus, their afternoons will provide an opportunity for them to train in the other form,) jazz, African, and non- traditional partnering work.
Our next placement / audition class will take place on the weekend of June 22-23, for those of you who would like to finish the school year before you think about summer. For more information, please click on the link to Summer Classes.
SUMMER's coming... in 3 weeks! The daily schedule of classes will be out on May 22. Our summer schedule traditionally offers special class offerings, different from the rest of the year. Classes such as Composition Class (learn how to choreograph your own dance) Floor Barre (a no- nonsense work out class that focuses specifically on articulating and strengthening outward rotation and core alignment) and Partnering (both traditional and non-traditional) are part of our schedule.
We're now selling PTDW leotards at the Dance Workshop. Just in time for summer, the camisole style is just right for the warm temperatures! Childrens sizes are $23 and Adult sizes are $25, including sales tax!
Further updates will come in the next week! Now that we're past the Annual Student Concert (and what a wonderful job everyone did!) we're getting ready for the best summer yet!
Dance for Parkinson's will run April 2 for ten weeks. For those of you who aren't aware of this great program, the Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre, in affiliation with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and in partnership with the Robert & Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis, offers weekly dance classes to people with Parkinson’s Disease and their caregivers. Click on the link that started this paragraph for more information, including how to register. That page also includes a short essay by Dorothy Ross, a class participant, on the importance of overcoming inertia!
What hasn't changed? Our philosophy on dance! If you need some excellent reasons for including dance as a part of a healthy, active lifestyle, (with incredibly beneficial side effects such as building neural plasticity, creative thinking skills, mental & physical flexibility, and improved self confidence in public presentation,) read on! What does a 4 year old, a senior citizen, a teen who wants a professional career in dance, a person living with Parkinson's Disease, a parent, and a twenty or thirty something who spends too much time at a desk, or in a research lab, have in common? One of the answers is definitely DANCE. To read more about this, click on the link "Why Dance"
Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop... Shaping the Future... One dance class at a time!

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