We welcome you to participate in ODC Community Showcase - a performance workshop series for all levels! Formerly known as Global Dance Passport, this is a workshop series that culminates in student performances. Performances this Spring will be in Studio B.
ODC School Presents: ODC Community Showcase
Featuring:
Fusion Belly Dance with Jill Parker
Contemporary with Erin Yen
Contemporary Heels with James Jared
Senior Tap with Lauren Mayer
Contemporary Ballet with KJ Dahlaw
TropiCali Dancehall with Aimee Rose
From Ideating to Performing w/ Daiane Lopes da Silva
Ballroom with Jeff Chandler & Alise Halbert
House Dance w/ Release Technique w/ Nicole Klaymoon
Contemporary Fusion Belly Dance with Kami Liddle
ODC School presents the Community Showcase Workshops:
Fusion Belly Dance with Jill Parker
March 23 - June 1, 2024
Jill Parker and Maite Gasco will teach an ethereal choreography created by the members of Little Egypt Dance Company, inspired by a collaboration with musician Jef Stott, of the Bay Area.
Enjoy learning choreography with an emphasis on hard work, focus, and camaraderie. This is a great opportunity to take your dance to the next level, while building closer bonds within your dance community. This choreography embodies a dream-like quality with dramatic isolations.
If you plan to perform, participation in all 3 performances is required. You do not need to perform to take this workshop, however. The workshop is open to non-performers. Feel free to try the first class, then decide if you’ll perform. Decisions will have to be made quickly because the costumes have to be ordered and staging will need to be set.
Costumes will be affordable and elegant.
If you’ve never taken a student performance workshop with Jill and Maite before, you’re in for an experience! Jill masterfully provides the support and expertise that it takes to whip a mixed-level student group into their best performance capabilities for the stage. It’s a process you’ll enjoy!!
Contemporary with Erin Yen
March 26 - June 4, 2024
This is a contemporary and contemporary floor work dance performance workshop for all levels. Dancers will focus on movement dynamics and rhythm, formation changes, and full use of space. This workshop aims to indulge in dancing up a sweat and find joy in performance with all participating dancers.
Contemporary Heels with James Jared
March 26 - June 4, 2024
In this workshop, we’ll work to find in ourselves a sense of elegance, sensuality, and freedom while dancing in a stiletto. Over the course of 10 classes, you’ll develop your contemporary heels technique as we improve balance, dynamics, strength, specificity, and confidence, all while creating a unique performance to share with the community. By focusing on one piece of choreography during the workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to refine movements over an extended period with time to digest and polish execution without the pressure of getting it perfect right away. Additionally, each week will bring the chance to practice specific skills through warmups, technique exercises, and trick breakdowns consistently, which we can then pull from and use in the piece in order to showcase the accomplishments and growth that you make along the way. All gender expressions welcome, heels (unfortunately) not provided.
Senior Tap with Lauren Mayer
April 4 - June 6, 2024
We will turn one of our class combinations into a performance piece, focusing on refining the choreography and adding performance elements (staging, body alignment, using arms, etc.)
Contemporary Ballet with KJ Dahlaw
April 6 - June 8, 2024
This workshop will conduct choreographic research exploring ballet, the performance of gender, and unruliness as path to aliveness. Through this 10-week session, we will explore states of movement, learn choreography, and play with our embodiment of the form of ballet.
TropiCali Dancehall with Aimee Rose
Wednesdays April 10 - May 29, 2024
Dancehall is a style of dance that originated in the parties of Jamaica. In this workshop we will be learning 3-4 routines that will be set to fun, sexy, and sassy Dancehall and Reggae tunes. We will train our Dancehall technique, steps, groove, freestyle and performance quality. In this workshop expect to have a lot of fun while enjoying and training the art of dance and music from Jamaica.
From Ideating to Performing w/ Daiane Lopes da Silva
Sundays April 28 - May 26, 2024
Tuesdays April 30 - June 4, 2024
With the guidance of Daiane Lopes da Silva, participants will explore various strategies to create a contemporary dance piece in a fun and collaborative environment. This is an opportunity for dancers to not only learn set material but also engage creatively from ideation to performance.
Through brainstorming, improvisation, deconstruction of set material, and choice making, we will build a piece from scratch and perform it at Studio B with lighting, costumes and a great audience.
Ballroom with Jeff Chandler & Alise Halbert
May 6, 2024 - June 3, 2024
Partner dancing is a fun way to connect with others and dance our cares away. This performance workshop will feature dances we will work on in our ongoing drop-in classes throughout Spring 2024: Samba, Waltz, Foxtrot, and Cha Cha. The workshop will cater to all students from beginner to advanced, so that each dancer has an opportunity to perform choreography suited to their level.
House Dance with Release Technique with Nicole Klaymoon
April 5 - June 7
This class is rooted in dance as a healing practice in celebration of community and reverence for the raw energy of house dance, music, and culture. The class begins with house grooves and foundational footwork, isolations, and Hatha Yoga Āsanas. Dancers are then offered inventive concepts to expand their capacity for storytelling, theatrical expression, and self-discovery, through movement improvisation. Klaymoon’s dynamic choreography draws from various dance lineages including house, modern/release technique, freestyle hip hop, and waacking. The intensive will give participants the opportunity to be a part of a dance-making process that is collaborative, playful, and narrative-based. The culminating performance at the ODC Theater will offer dancers the opportunity to be highlighted, encouraged, and supported as they deepen their performance quality in the context of community. All levels welcome; shoes optional.
All ticket sales are final. Performances, dancers, and guest artists subject to change.