Informational Guide
Summer DanceLab 2 0 2 2 Location: Univ of MD, Dance Dept Studios The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center University of Maryland, College Park, Md 20742-1625
www.ngcfddt.org
Dissonance Dance Theatre Shawn Short, Founder/Director
Mon Jun 20th, 2022 - Sat Jul 16th, 2022
Table of Content Mission, Vision, Goal - Pg. 1 Program - Pg. 2 History Facilities Schedule and Curriculum Dancer Division & Level - Pg. 4 Lower Division Level A Happy year seven, welcome to Summer DanceLab 2022. Summer DanceLab is PG County’s only pre-professional dance program connected to a nationally-recognized dance company. Summer DanceLab is an annual dance training and exposure program, that aids youth with aspirations for careers in dance performance and/or its support sectors. Students have departed Summer DanceLab with pre-professional dance training experience, referrals for college and entry-level positions in our professional contemporary ballet company Dissonance Dance Theatre. We are proud of our accomplishments and invite you to become a part of our growing success at becoming a leading dance organization in the Washington, DC area. Yours in Dance, Shawn Short, MFA
Upper Division Level B College Referral & Job Training Opportunities - Pg. 6 Trainee/Apprentice Auditions College/Secondary School Recommendations Tuition And Fees - Pg. 6 Lodging/Housing Options - Pg. 7 Faculty Bios - Pg. 8
*Dissonance Dance Theatre is the professional company of Ngoma (N-Go-Mah) Center for Dance. Ngoma is the parent organization. Ngoma Center for Dance (N-Go-mah) is a 501(c)3 arts organization whose mission is to provide a conduit between multicultural dance artists, and their enthusiasts, across generations and social classes, with a deeper understanding of the art of dance through intense community integration, inspirational performance, competitive training, and artist development.
Why Do We Do This?
Where Do We See This Going?
Mission: To provide pre-professional dance training that informs and encourages, the pursuit of a post secondary education, healthy living, mentorship, self and life skill mastery.
Vision: Summer DanceLab becomes a mainstay in summer dance programming for Washington, DC area families, particularly in Prince George’s County.
What’s The Point? Goal: To empower a generation of young artists to be the change agents of their community.
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Participation in a summer intensive program is an important investment in a young artist’s future. Starting in 2007, Dissonance Dance Theatre has been providing quality arts programming to aspiring and professional dancers. Ngoma Center for Dance in 2012, continued and enhanced DDT’s capacity to serve communities at large.
Audition & Registration Process
Now in its seventh year of operation! Summer DanceLab now provides an opportunity for aspiring - 7 year olds through young adult - dancers to train in a pre-professional dance environment: training eight hours a day, from one to four weeks of dance study during the summer. Students will be completely immersed in dance and will obtain invaluable dance training that enriches and complements their previous dance education.
Yes, correct. Ngoma understands that the DMV area’s arts sector has been hit hard by the COVID pandemic.
World Class Facilities Come experience the Clarice! Since opening in 2001, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center has become a cultural force in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, known for adventuresome programming in dance, theatre, music and interdisciplinary art. Six performance spaces, four dance studios, a performing arts library, rehearsal halls and meeting rooms make the Clarice a state of the art facility! Schedule and Curriculum Named “One of the 11 small-but-mighty dance companies outside of LA and NYC” by Dance Spirit Magazine, Dissonance Dance Theatre staff and dancers, along with local and national guest teachers conduct five classes daily. Students attend classes Monday through Friday. Weekday classes are scheduled between the hours of 8:30am and 5:10pm. The core curriculum includes ballet, modern/contemporary, and jazz dance techniques with masterclasses in hip-hop, African and acting. The summer will finish with studio performances, and observation classes showcasing the talent, artistry, and development of our participants. Additionally, advance students will have the opportunity to audition for trainee and apprenticeship positions with Dissonance Dance Theatre.
No Entry Audition Requirements for 2022
This year, we wish to assist students that have been out of class and are returning to dance. PARENT NOTE: The program is for students eager to progress in dance. This is not an activity or babysitting, for the summer. Students who are not coordinated will be removed during the placement audition, with a percentage of tuition refunded. Students will be placed in two levels: A & B An audition will commence on the first day of the program, to finalize student placement.
Schedule is subject to change. The 2020 summer class schedule will be emailed to enrolled students in april.
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Professional and Spacious studios,
waiting areas, and locker rooms await young dancers. In the studios, dancers are cultivated through solid dance technique, enlightening masterclasses and thought-provoking wrap sessions around professional dance endeavors.
Studio Dimensions Dance Studio 1 56.5 feet x 33 feet Choreography Studio Beginner Students 47 feet x 29 feet Theatre Rehearsal Studio 39 feet x 26 feet Mulitz-Gudelsky Rehearsal Studio 22.33 feet x 27.5 feet Preinkert Studio 50 feet x 30 feet
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Level A
Summer DanceLab - Lower Division
Description: Ages: Seven to 12 years old. None to minimal experience needed This level is designed to enhance and expand the student’s knowledge, technical proficiency and performance quality in classical ballet, modern, jazz, African, and hip hop. Students will gain an understanding of the basic principles, vocabulary, poses & positions of above styles; introducing centerwork, adage/adagio, allegro basics.
Daily Schedule Afro - Modern 8:30am - 10:00am Jazz 10:10am - 11:40am Lunch 11:45am - 12:45pm
Focus and Emphasis
Ballet 12:50pm - 1:50pm
* Learn proper body alignment along with flexibility, strength, posture, balance, expression and movement quality.
Stretch/Conditioning 2:00pm - 3:30pm
* Learn and execute all components of a class.
Choreography/Rep 3:40pm - 5:15pm
* Understand a working knowledge of fundamental Classical Ballet history and vocabulary.
*Classes are subject to change.
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Summer DanceLab - Upper Division Description: Ages: 12-24 years old. Three years of pre-professional experience required This level is designed to enhance and expand the student’s knowledge, technical proficiency and performance quality in classical ballet, modern, jazz, African, and hip hop. To continue to develop the student in the rigors of above styles, through advance beginning/intermediate skills including the use of demi pointe, pirouettes (intro), batterie, and grand allegro steps.
Level B Daily Schedule Modern 8:30am - 10:00am Ballet 10:10am - 11:40am Stretch 11:45am - 12:45pm Focus and Emphasis * Continue the learning and usage of proper body alignment along with flexibility, strength, posture, balance, expression and movement quality. * Facilitate learned skills throughout all components of class. * Students will begin to utilize their working knowledge of dance fundamental.
Lunch 12:50pm - 1:50pm Jazz 2:00pm - 3:30pm Choreography/Rep 3:40pm - 5:10pm *Classes are subject to change.
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We Believe in Progress College Recommendations & Job Training College/Secondary Recommendations We all need assistance in getting to where we want in life. Dance is no exception. As an added bonus to participating in our program, students needing written recommendations to performing arts programs may request one written by our Director Shawn Short. Students must attend four weeks of the intensive, for staff to better understand and evaluate student’s talent. Trainee/Apprentice Audition During our Summer program, we offer a trainee/apprentice audition for prepared dancers interested in our year-long program dancing along Dissonance Dance Theatre. The Trainee /Apprentice program nurtures and develops dancers, 18 - 25-years-old, interested in contemporary and classical ballet forms of dance. Since its humble beginnings, trainee dancers have received scholarships to nationally-ranked schools, college dance programs and dance company apprenticeships.
Tuition and Fees Tuition only (no boarding) Students are dropped off and picked up To assist families during these COVID times, we are providing discounts for our four and two-week programs. * $800 for Four Weeks ($800 discount) * $1,000 for Two Weeks ($200 discount) Refunds will still utilize our below-mentioned policy. Payment Due by June 1, 2022, with a $200 deposit due at sign up. Additional Fees Late Fees $50 – $100 $220.00—Parking Pass—Four Weeks (Passes cost $55.00/Week) Before and After Care Included All tuition monies are due June 1, 2022
Dancers receive contemporary ballet technique classes four days a week. In addition, these emerging dancers work with Dissonance Dance Theatre dancers: gaining valuable work experience and the chance to work with guest choreographers and artists during DDT’s theatrical season. Selected trainees have the opportunity to perform at community engagements, artistic events and Dissonance Dance Theatre productions. Trainees are provided scholarships for Ngoma Center for Dance drop-in classes and workshops. Trainee program annual tuition is $6,300 Apprentice program is a non-paid dance position with Dissonance Dance Theatre. Summer DanceLab 2022 6 Body + Technique + Mind & Spirit = Success
Lodging/Housing Options
Summer DanceLab 2022
No Boarding Options This Year at UMD
Dates: Mon June 20th, 2022 - Sat July 16th, 2022
Other housing options include AirBnb, Homestay.com, and College Park Marriott Hotel.
Dates to Remember Upon Registration $200 Deposit is Due June 1, 2022 Final Tuition Payment Due Summer DanceLab Tuition Refunds
Location: Univ. of MD, Dance Dept Studios 3800, The Clarice Perf Arts Center College Park, MD 20742-1625 Main Faculty: Shawn Short, BFA, MFA Anthony Spivey BFA Kareem B. Goodwin DDT’s Summer DanceLab is a program of Ngoma Center for Dance a D.C. 501 (c) 3 arts non-profit.
We understand situations may occur. Ngoma Center for Dance provides refunds through the below policy. 100% Up till three weeks before the first day of the program 50% One week before the first day of the program 25% First three days into the program 0% – After day four
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Main Faculty Bio
* Faculty subject to change without notice.
Shawn Short, MFA Summer Director/ Ballet & Choreography Faculty Shawn is the founder, Producing Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of Dissonance Dance Theatre. In addition to his role as producing artistic director and principal choreographer of Dissonance Dance Theatre, Shawn is the founder and director of Ngoma Center for Dance (Ngoma). For Shawn, Ngoma is central to the life and development of Dissonance Dance Theatre. Just as he expects the finest dancing and most meticulous attention to detail from his dancers, he demands the highest standards for training at Ngoma. Growing up in the Washington, DC area. Shawn has studied with nationally and internationally acclaimed artists including faculty and dancers from Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Lines Ballet, Washington Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Dance Institute of Washington, Dance Alloy, Philadanco, Towson University, Baltimore and Duke Ellington School of Performing Arts. As a student of ballet pedagogy, Shawn studied with John White, Margarita De Saa and the Washington School of Ballet Director Kee Juan Han. Short is certified in Progressive Ballet Techniques. Shawn is a Pointe Magazine’s Video of the Month Editors’ Choice award recipient for his contemporary ballet work “Caught” in 2013. He is a 2016 Black Enterprise Magazine Modern Man (BEMM) 100 Men of Distinction Recipient. A 2014 Princess Grace Award (NYC) in Choreography nominee, Shawn holds a BFA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Theatre Management from Howard University and a MFA in Dance at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a focus on dance history, arts administration and somatics. He is a former professor of Classical Ballet at Catholic University of America. Shawn is a former fiscally sponsored artist through the New York Foundation for the Arts. Shawn has choreographed for The Dance Institute of Washington and The Washington Ballet School of Ballet at THEARC. His has presented his works at the Capital Fringe Festival, Greater Washington Urban League National Conference, Southeastern University, Artists’ Bloc 12X6 Series, Harke Theatre, Jack Guidone Theatre Space, Lang Theatre, Atlas Theatre Complex Lab II Theatre, THEARC Theatre, Joe’s Movement Emporium, DC Parks and Recreation, Sidney Harman Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, PBS Broadcasting, VelocityDC, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Shawn was the Resident Choreographer for the Kelsey Collie Children’s Theatre for six years. In education, Shawn has developed and implemented dance curriculum and programs for: Catholic University of America’s Musical Theatre program, Adventure Theatre-MTS, Imagination Stage Dance Division, Kelsey Collie Children’s Theatre Experience, PG County Schools, Dance Institute of Washington, Washington Ballet @THEARC. His performance credits include work with K2 Dance, Adrian Bolton Dance, El Tearto de Danza Contemporeanea El Salvador, and Bolton/Smith. He has also served as a guest artist with Dance Alloy in Pennsylvania. He has been commissioned by Catholic University of America’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music to choreograph “Mother’s Blood”(2008), VF Dance Theater for their Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts to choreograph “ Genotype Called Love” for their Terrace Theatre production of “Futurology” (2012). Summer DanceLab 2022 8 Body + Technique + Mind & Spirit = Success
Kareem B. Goodwin, Modern/Afro Jazz/Choreography
a native of Philadelphia, PA began his dance training at the Point Breeze Performing Arts Center in 1998, where he formally began his dance training under Charon Mapp, Wayne St. David, Anthony Burrell and Faye Snow. He attended The University of the Arts where he studied Jazz Dance with an emphasis in Choreography studying under instructors Molly Misgalla, Donald Lusnford, Andrew Pap, Scott Jovovich, Karen Brown and Kim Bears-Bailey. As a performing artist, he has had the pleasure of being in the presence of and working with such choreographers as Christopher L. Huggins, Louis Johnson, Ronen Koresh, Gary W. Jeter II, Zane Booker and Arthur Mitchell. He serves as guest faculty at the Rock School of Dance Education. In the summer of 2015, Kareem received the Eleone Dance Theatre “E” Award for Excellence for his contributions to Dance Education and Mentorship. He is also Resident Choreographer of Dissonance Dance Theatre.
Anthony Spivey, BFA Ballet/Modern/Stretch & Conditioning
Anthony joined Dissonance in 2017. Originally from Mississippi, Anthony began his dance training at Mississippi’s School of Arts and moved to Montgomery, AL to study on scholarship at Alabama State University. Graduating with high honors, he received his BFA in dance from ASU. Within his matriculation, he had the privilege of training with artists and choreographers such as Roger C. Jeffrey, Thang Dao, Yin Yue, and Alonzo King of Lines Ballet. Company credit includes performances with the Montgomery Ballet.
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