Thinking, Making, Doing Together

Dancers are no longer tools for a choreographer to work on—they are valuable collaborators who contribute meaningfully to the creative process. How do we learn to work together to create as dancers and makers? The world-renowned Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the School of Dance of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts lead an intensive, weeklong workshop designed to empower dancers and choreographers to work collaboratively to create meaningful art. Drawing from the Company’s and the School of Dance’s expertise, each day will provide intensive opportunities to move and make together. Pre-professional and professional dancers and choreographers passionate to expand their skills will find this intensive an invigorating challenge to the traditional approach to creating dance.

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Using the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s repertory and methods as the springboard, our work together will develop our individual expressivity in order to create a dynamic community of cooperative artists. Participants will have a daily experience of technique classes, Company phrasework, collaborative methods for generating movement, and evening events to further the exchange of ideas among faculty and participants.

Leah Cox is the Education Director for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She developed the foundation for the company’s education programs, which include educational licensing, resource materials for educational use, and pedagogical models for teaching the Company’s style and methods. Ms. Cox restages the company's works and develops the company's summer workshops. In addition, she oversees and is the primary faculty member for the company’s partnership with Bard College. She conducts master classes nationwide for all abilities, non-mover to professional. From 2001-2009, she was a full-time member of the company, participating in the development of numerous new works and the reconstruction of many repertory works. She choreographs her own work on a regular basis.

La Michael Leonard, Jr. graduated from the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. He joined the Martha Graham Dance Company and danced lead roles touring nationally and internationally. He most recently danced with the Buglisi Dance Theatre. Mr. Leonard joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2007.

Trish Casey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has been a member of its faculty since 1989. She earned her master’s degree from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts and danced with the companies of Pauline Koner, Don Redlich and Marcia Plevin. She has taught at universities, conservatories, companies and dance organizations in the United States and Australia. Ms. Casey has directed creativity-based workshops for dance educators, choreographers and professional dancers in New Mexico, Texas and North Carolina. The dance film, “Surrendering in a Champion’s World”, choreographed and co-directed by Ms. Casey, received an award at the RiverRun International Film Festival in 2003 and was an entry in the 2004 Santa Fe Film Festival. She was the 2005 recipient of the UNC Board of Governors’ Award for Teaching Excellence. She is currently Interim Assistant Dean of Contemporary Dance at UNCSA.

Brenda Daniels is serving as Interim Dean for the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She also holds the School’s Betsy Friday Distinguished Professorship in Contemporary Dance, and has been on the faculty at UNCSA since 1995. Ms. Daniels was on the faculty of the American Dance Festival from 2002 - 2011, and taught at the Merce Cunningham Studio for ten years. She was artistic director of her own company, Brenda Daniels Dance Company, from 1985 - 1995. The company presented annual seasons in New York City, and toured in the United States and Europe. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and commissions from Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, St. Mark’s Church, and theaters throughout Germany and the Netherlands. She holds a BFA in Dance from Purchase College and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/American Dance Festival.

UNCSA Summer 2012 – Deadlines and Cancellation Policy

Deadlines

Online Registration opens                   January 9

Deadline for International Students      April 1

Priority Registration deadline*              April 25

Payment in full due                               May 1

* Priority Registration guarantees your place in your chosen program. Registrations received after April 25, 2012 are accepted on a case-by-case basis as residence hall space allows.

Space in each program is limited. Registrations received after a program has filled will be placed on a waiting list pending withdrawals.

Cancellation terms

$300 non-refundable deposit due at registration – check or credit card (to pay by credit card call 336.770.1432)

Student withdrawal by May 1: refund of one-half of total paid, less non-refundable deposit

Student withdrawal after May 1: no refunds

In the event a program is cancelled by UNCSA, payments will be refunded in full

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