Dance Arts Collaborative - Contemporary Dance Intensive

Students must be intermediate to advanced students. Ballet II level and up must be on pointe.

Dress Code: Any color leotard, pink convertible tights, pink ballet slippers for class, black jazz shoes, foot undies for Modern.

Five Week Program: $1,300
Three Week Program: $850

Payment Plan for Five Weeks:

May 29 - 1/3 due
June 29 - 1/3 due
July 1 - 1/3 due

Payment Plan for Three Weeks:

May 29 - 1/2 due
June 29 - 1/2 due

Faculty:

Christine Taylor

Christine holds a BFA from Florida State University and has been a member of Jeanne Ruddy Dance Company in Philadelphia since its inception in 1999, performing the choreography of Jeanne Ruddy, Ann Reinking, Marl Dendy, Robert Battle and Jane Comfort. She is also the rehearsal mistress for the company. Along with performing and directing Christine has taught at Tallahassee Community College, Drexel University Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center and The Performance Garage.

Tara Lynn Madsen

Tara has earned her MFA in Performance and Choreography from Smith College where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and the Gretchen K Moran Scholorship. Since moving to Philadelphia she has performed professionally for the touring company Tania Issac Dance for three years. The company performed nationally at venues such as Bates Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, Aaron Davis Hall-Harlem Stage, and the Suzanne Roberts Theatre in Philadelphia. Tara is an adjunct faculty at DeSales University and her work Breaking Ground was commissioned by DeSales in 2007 as well as Bucknell University where she served as Guest Artist in February 2009.

Alicia Sehn

Alicia is a graduate of Muhlenburg College where she earned a BFA in both Dance and Psychology. During her years at Muhlenburg, Alicia studied with noted dancers and choreographers Garth Fagan, Charles Anderson, and Jacques d'Amboise, and performed in the American College Dance Festival. Her regional performing credits include A Chorus Line and Annie Get Your Gun, and she is a member of Artists in Rhythm. Alicia has performed in the INFLUX Concert Series and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in a number of pieces by choreographer Tara Madsen. She is currently the choreographer for Central Bucks East Annual Spring Musicals.

Molly Farrell

Molly Farrell began her training and is currently back as a principal dancer with Repertory Dance Theatre in Lehigh Valley as well as a Principal Dancer of our own Artists In Rhythm. She has performed many works, such as Balanchine's Stars and Stripes at Regional Dance America Festivals. Molly continued her training and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Performance from University of Cinncinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, where she had the honor of dancing the principal role in Giselle during her Senior year. Post graduation Molly went on to dance for the Dayton Ballet, Kentucky Ballet Theatre and Ballet Theatre Maryland. Molly is also on faculty at the Allen Program, The Allentown Academy of the Arts, as well as Repertory Dance Theatre.

Reina Faith

Reina received her early dance training from Irene Fokine where she was a jazz scholarship recipient and a member of Ms. Fokine's company. Her background was furthered with concentrated study in Boston at Emerson College where she was a member of the contemporary dance company Off-Balance and Moving West. She then moved to New York City where she was a graduate from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is an Equity performer whose many credits include the Off-Broadway production and national tour of The Secret Garden, as well as regional, dance and television work. She has been on faculty at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Summer 2000, where she also choreographed the main stage production of Kiss Me Kate. Her contemporary piece "A Cello Romp" (created for the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, MS) was performed at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival Under the Stars. Reina was the choreographer and director of the full length dance theatre piece called Fortune Cookie Fortunes based on the book by author Grace Lin for the non profit organization Families With Children From China. She was also proud to have her piece "Kindertransport" based on the Kindertransport of World War II commissioned by the Kindertransport Survivor Society and shown at their annual conference in New Jersey; it was a recipient of a Pennsylvania Humanities Grant through the Children's Cultural Center. Reina has been the Associate Director of Dance at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA where she was one of the choreographers involved in Collaboration, the premiere of a new Jazz Ballet produced by Moravian College at Foy Hall. She was a finalist in the Leo's Jazz Dance Choreography Event at the Jazz Dance World Congress in Chicago Summer 2009, and she is the Artistic Director of the non-profit dance and theatre company Artists in Rhythm, along with her husband Chris.