Dance

PLAY PRODUCTION: ACTING WORK WORKSHOP

Dewayne Nelson | Actor on Stage, Film & TV This advanced acting course focuses on “live theatrical performances.” Through rigorous rehearsals, students will learn how to work with a director as an ensemble member in a production. In addition, students will perform two plays for a live audience. This ten-week course is best utilized for students who have taken acting 1 and 2. The class requirement would include one contemporary monologue for the first-class auditions.

COURSE CODE: ACT3 Sec. 01: 10 Thursdays, 7-9pm. Begins Apr. 7 | $260

STAND UP COMEDY WRITING AND PERFORMANCE

Joshua Filipowski | Comedy Instructor Have you ever thought about trying stand-up comedy? Or do you want to take your stand-up and comedy writing to the next level? This workshop will help you find your inner comedic voice, whittle down to find the funny, or punch up what already is. Students will also be given several opportunities outside of class to perform.

COURSE CODE: IMPR Sec. 01: 6 Mondays, 5:30-7pm. Begins Apr. 4 | $160 No class Apr. 18

EXPLORING VOICEOVERS WORKSHOP

Nancy Halpin | Voice Talent & V.O. Producer Have you been told you have a great speaking voice? Have you wondered how to monetize it working in voice-over, but don’t know how to begin? Join us to learn essential strategies for pursuing the craft of voice-over. You’ll get candid, insider tips on working as a VO actor. We’ll discuss VO acting techniques, making great VO demos, setting up your home studio, and marketing strategies. You’ll have an opportunity to perform a commercial and get professional feedback in a nurturing, fun, no-pressure environment. You’ll leave the workshop with an action-oriented game plan!

COURSE CODE: OICE Sec. 01: Saturday, 2-4 pm. Apr. 30 | $50

DANCE

BALLET WITH RONNIE

Ronnie Thomas | Dancer This class teaches students to transform oneself as a layered response of frequency to music and fine tune proper form through movement while practicing awareness of clean lines that are produced from first and fifth positions front, back, and side to side. This Class will consist of Barre work, Center work, and Stretching while communicating the technical biomechanics of Classical Ballet, Artistry, and Musicality in detail. Please wear comfortable dance clothing and ballet slippers. Street shoes are not acceptable.

COURSE CODE: BALE Sec. 01: 8 Mondays, 5:30-7pm. Begins Apr. 4 | $185 No class Apr. 18 & May 30

MYSTIQUE-OLOGY: HIP-HOP CLASS

Ronnie Thomas | Dancer This class presents a stylistic class baseline of contemporary hip hop. With the infused principles of Voguing, Polyrhythmics, and theatre. This unique constellation of artistic forces aligns itself to create new and original dance dialogues. Mystique-ology is a play on words that spawns from the MIDT company name and model. The parsing of Mystique is the unknown aspects of you, yourself in body, and its usage through movement. It involves honing the skill of transforming and shapeshifting as a layered response of frequency to music.

COURSE CODE: HHOP Sec. 01: 8 Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm. Begins Apr. 4 | $170 No class Apr. 18 & May 30

DANCES FOR A ROMANTIC OCCASION

Jim Spellman | Dancer This beginning class provides the foundation of moving to music in partnership. We will learn basic dance components, timings, rhythms, key foot patterns, and essential leading and following techniques. Dances taught will include Foxtrot, Waltz, Merengue, Cha Cha, Swing, and American Tango.

COURSE CODE: DABA Sec. 01: 2 Fridays, 6-8pm. Mar. 4 & Mar. 11 | $110

ADULT TAP DANCE LESSONS

Jai Underhill | Tap Dancer Everyone can tap dance, all you need are tap shoes, a floor, and some tap steps and rhythms to practice and play with.

COURSE CODE: TAPS Sec. 01: 8 Saturdays, 10am-11am. Begins Apr. 9 | $185

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