Workshops

Dance workshops are both a valuable tool for improving your technique and increasing your dance vocabulary, and a very fun way to keep in shape over the summer 'off' months. If you've reached the top level in dance at your studio or school, it is easy to get stuck in a rut of not pushing yourself farther, or getting too used to the familiar exercises. Workshops and Intensive Programs cause you to have to really work, concentrate, and also expand your interpretation of different dance forms.

I've had the opportunity of taking technique class by former Kirov teacher Marius Zirra, pointe with a former Pacific Ballet company member, jazz with Robert Guitron from BodyVox, and African with the co-founder of Rainbow Dance Theatre, among other amazing and talented instructors. The analogies and different teaching styles I was opened up through these programs have helped me immensely, and even just a week at an intensive program changes your dance for the better when you get back home, noticeably.