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The Karen L. Charles Threads Dance Project is excited to offer three training opportunities for youth as well as adult professional dancers. This summer’s teaching faculty will include present and former Threads company members, our esteemed Teaching Artists, and even Artistic/Executive Director Karen Charles.

CREATIVE CONNECTIONS I
July 11-15, 10-11:30 am
Ages: 5-7 yrs. | Tuition: $125

This program introduces participants to the five basic elements of movement (body, action, space, time, energy) as well as the basics of ballet and dance techniques. Participants will enhance kinesthetic awareness and begin to explore the body as a tool of self-expression. 

Participants must register and balances paid in full by June 20.

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CREATIVE CONNECTIONS II

July 11-15, 1-3:30 pm
Ages: 12-16 yrs. | Tuition: $175
Participants must register and balances paid in full by June 20th.

This program will provide participants with an expanded exploration of ballet and modern dance techniques and begin to explore how the five basic elements of dance are used to create movement motifs. Classes offered include ballet, modern, and introduction to composition skills. Participants will additionally reflect upon movement and movement creation through journaling. 

More information available at www.threadsdance.org/summer

Registration online at https://bit.ly/TDPcc

Discover dance with a week-long camp for young artists! Not sure if your dancer has a style they like best, or looking for a way to try out something new? We’ll explore a variety of dance styles and creative movements in this one-week camp. There will be an informal showing on the last day. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome. In-person only at the Zenon Dance School studios.

July 18–22, 2022
Session 1: Ages 4-6 with Philip Hommes. 9:00am-12:00pm
Session 2: Ages 7-10 with Hannah Pierce/ 12:30-3:30pm

Tuition: $195. Need-based scholarships are available for full or partial tuition.

Register online today! Registration closes one week before each camp begins.

This four-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who are interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play. Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Mondays, 9:00-9:45am | Tuition: $60.00
Four-week session: July 18, July 25, August 1, and August 8
At TU Dance Center or outdoor location TBD

Threads Dance Project will hold its first ever Advanced/Professional Summer Intensive and Audition Workshop this August at the Threads Dance Nexus. Registration is now open! 

This program provides participants with a rigorous exploration of techniques as well as the opportunity to explore and enhance the performative elements of dance via repertory class. Classes for Adv/Professional Intensive include ballet, modern, improvisation/jazz, and repertory class.

August 1-5, 2022 | 10 am – 3:30 pm
Ages 18 + | Tuition: $225 | Participants must register and balances must be paid in full by July 18th.

More information at: https://www.threadsdance.org/summer/ 

Registration online at: https://bit.ly/TDPIntensive

Join ARENA DANCES for one week of movement classes taught by guest artist Shane Larson, member of the renowned Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Participants will practice contemporary dance technique and learn a new original work as a part of this intensive. Targeted for the high-intermediate to advanced level dancer.

Instinct | August 15-20, 2022
Monday – Saturday | 10:00am-3:00pm
Class from 10:00-11:30am
Rehearsal (new work!) from 12:00-3:00pm

During class, dancers will build a bottom to top, floor to standing modular class that deepens with task-based repetition, while encoding new movement pathways through basic shapes. Students are encouraged to learn-by-doing, rather than to learn and ‘perform’, relying on muscle memory to strengthen pathways. Architectural forms of the body are created, deconstructed, and recycled within the containers of momentum and temperature, offering a full-body, far-reaching experience of movement.

After class, dancers will focus on creating—using skills as scaffolding for building material as a community. We’ll spend time talking about memory and time, graphing separate experiences together to focus and distill common patterns, shapes, and anecdotes. The final object created will be an investigation that is distinctly your own and something that can be taken into future experiences.

Shane Larson was raised in Minnesota, where he received his early training at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. He also studied at SEAD in Austria. Since living in New York City, he’s branched out to collaborate with punk musicians, film makers, improvisational music ensembles, and site-specific visual artists. He is also a multimedia video artist making collage-based work about memory. Shane joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2015.

Ages 16+
Intensive capped at 15 participants
Early Bird: $475 – register by July 15
General: $550
Registration opens May 15 and must be completed by August 1

Photo by Jim Coleman