Update: May 14
We had to cancel this year but will hopefully be back in 2022 in person for the full two week intensive. Please stay in touch and if you want to learn more about our dance B.F.A. please contact bfaaud@iu.edu. Be safe and keep dancing!
Summer Dance Intensive
Indiana University High School Summer Dance Intensive (July 6-10, 2021)
IU High School Summer Dance Virtual Intensive 2021: An African Center
NON-RESIDENTIAL, ONLINE, FIVE DAY HIGH SCHOOL DANCE INTENSIVE
For dancers 9th to 12th grade, open to all levels and styles of dance.
This IU HS Summer Dance Intensive is in response to both pandemics, racial injustice and COVID-19. As we pivot to respond to the virtual conditions of the intensive, we are centering and honoring dance cultures, styles, and forms that have historically been marginalized in for profit dance studios and college dance programs.
Summer 2021
Tuition and Fees
Tuition: $200
Important Dates
June 30th: Deadline for Final Tuition payment.
July 6th – 10th : 2021 Virtual Intensive
A FIVE DAY virtual workshop, July 6-10, 2021, that will include three 50 minute sessions per day, meeting between 10:00am to 1:50pm (a lunch break is built in) Easter Time with a virtual, culmniating showcase on the final day.
All dance courses are an immersion in African and African-American dance including West African traditional dance, Hip-Hop and other manifestations of Black dance such as Jazz, Modern, and other forms.
Questions/Contacts
Selene Carter, Director, at sbcarter@indiana.edu or call 812-856-2819.
For financial questions, please contact Cindi Severance (Financial Operations Manager) at smithcin@indiana.edu.
For the fee of $200, student dancers will receive a T-shirt, and a space in the intensive for FIVE DAYS.
The first four days of the following schedule of three 50-minute sessions per day:
I. 10am-10:50am, African Drumming and Dancing
II. 11am-11:50am, Hip Hop
(lunch break noon to 1pm)
III. 1-1:50pm, Africanist Dance Manifestations, a rotating session featuring Africanist forms taught by guest artists that include repertory, history, improvisation, dance making, performance, story-telling and other creative practices.
Day five features a two-hour rehearsal and culmination process, resulting in a live, virtual showing to share with family and friends, and that will be recorded and shared with participants.
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