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Educational Programs
Educational and Professional Programs
This year offered the ADF School the opportunity to renew our programs and community. Returning to an inperson festival provided physical space to reconnect with the unwavering ADF community of artists, including the school’s faculty, musicians, and students.
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In summer 2022, our educational and professional programs were focused on bringing people together, creating connection through classes, discussions, process, and performance. From dancers in the Summer Dance Intensive and Pre-Professional Dance Intensive to working artists in the Dance Professional Workshops, we collectively danced, explored, and expanded.
Mia Crider, Summer Dance Intensive Student
Summer Dance Intensives
The Summer Dance Intensive (SDI) offered a four-week-long intensive for dancers and artists ages 18 and older. This program offered 18 energizing daily classes, 60+ drop-in classes and discussions, student showings, and performances.
Daily classes included African dance forms, ballet, composition, contemporary, hip-hop, improvisation, jazz, process, and repertory, led by 14 faculty and 14 musicians. Additionally, ADF faculty, company artists, and guests led classes in our drop-in schedule, which provided vast opportunities for dancers to deeply engage and train. With community at the forethought, we included weekly collaborative classes that embraced unique teaching methods.
Classes were led by ADF Faculty Charles O. Anderson, Kimberly Bartosik, Joy Davis, Ramón Flowers, Monique
Haley, Rodney Hill, Kate Jewett, Jordan Lloyd, Momar Ndiaye, Sherone Price, George Staib, Rosanna Tavarez,
Shen Wei, and Jessie Young. Performance opportunities for students included repertory classes, student works,
Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s The Running Show, and the Footprints program with Charles O. Anderson, Kimberly Bartosik, and Shen Wei. The 2022 Summer Dance Intensive had 110 enrolled students.
Pre-Professional Dance Intensive Internships
The Pre-Professional Dance Intensive (PDI) offered a two-week intensive for young artists ages 13-17. This audition-based program provided challenging dance classes that focused on community building, while cultivating individual growth and the artistic voice.
Daily classes included African dance forms, ballet, composition, dance film, hip-hop, modern, and repertory. These classes were designed to develop artistry, offer new approaches to training, and instill confidence. This year, dancers harnessed their own ingenuity and created individual dance films. Additional program opportunities included master classes, reflective discussions, student-led activities, social events, and the ADF season performances. These dancers were mentored by a group of dorm counselors that created a welcoming and supportive environment. Classes were led by ADF Faculty Michelle Gibson, Rodney Hill, Momar Ndiaye, and Matt Pardo and featured live musical accompaniment. Dancers collaboratively created alongside their faculty in their repertory classes and performed new works for the ADF community. The 2022 Pre-Professional Dance Intensive had 42 enrolled students. ADF offered 22 internships in various areas of arts administration and performance production during the 2022 season. The internship program is designed to give participants hands-on experience in arts administration or performance production where they serve as an integral part of ADF.
Interns had the opportunity to take dance classes and attend performances. Administrative interns participated in weekly seminars on relevant arts topics including mindfulness in the workplace, how to make the most of internships, careers in the arts, and the technical side of theater. Production interns worked on the crew at Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater, Page Auditorium, and the von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center.
The Dance Professional Workshops (DPW) offered two week-long workshops for working artists and educators. Workshops included DPW for Creative Process with Jennine Willett and DPW for Educators with Gerri Houlihan. These workshops provided the opportunity for new collaboration, artistic renewal, and making connections.
Workshop curriculum was tailored to address the needs and professional development of the participants. These workshops featured DPW-exclusive sessions and the freedom to engage in other ADF offerings and performances.
DPW for Creative Process emphasized a generous and experimental environment, where participants worked both independently and collaboratively. Participants were encouraged to adapt and apply Jennine’s creative tools in ways that support their own artistic practices. DPW for Educators replenished pedagogical capacities through a curriculum that offered space for educators to examine teaching methods while moving. Participants engaged in daily movement classes with Gerri, in-depth sessions with guest faculty, and participant-led discussions. The 2022 Dance Professional Workshops had 33 enrolled students. The Duke Dance Program MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis (MFAEIP)’s inaugural Alumni Hothouse, presented in collaboration with ADF, was held summer 2022. Duke MFA hosted a variety of hothouses and events that invited ADF students and artists into their imaginative and experimental laboratory. In collaborative exchange, Duke graduate and alumni dance artists participated in morning movement classes at ADF.
