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.

Three Week Program: $950

Payment Plan:

1/2 due with registration or signing of competition contract
1/2 due May 15

Faculty:

Modern (Guest Artists) and others TBA

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.

Rebecca Cupples - Guest Artist

Rebecca Cupples began her training at the Philadelphia Civic Ballet where she studied and performed until attending the University of the Arts where she received her BFA in dance. Miss Cupples has studied with Andrew Pap, Barbara Sandonato, Carol Sklarroff, Roni Koresh, Milton Myers, Faye Snow, and Pat Thomas. She continues to further her dance education and experience attending class and workshops frequently. Rebecca has performed and staged her own work on both the east and west coasts and collaborated with other artists in television, film, and stage. She currently teaches in and around the Philadelphia area and sets her own works with her Low Budget Dance Projects. Miss Cupples performed a modern dance piece in Tap Team Two's "Emotions" show in March 2010 and her own work, "Untitled 2," (a work in progress) in the Etc. Performance series in April 2010.

Ryan Tuerk - Ballet

Ryan started dancing at age seventeen. Originally a gymnast, Ryan discovered his love of dance by searching new ways to move and express himself. In 2005 Ryan graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a BFA in jazz dance. While in college, he had the pleasure of working with such companies as Koresh, Philanco and Pennsylvania Ballet. Ryan was a soloist in the 2005 Philadelphia "Live Arts" Fringe Festival, dancing in a piece titled "Patio Plastico" directed by Brian Sanders (of Momix). He has also performed with Carnival and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. While living in Florida, he co-founded (with hip-hop mogul Pablo Malco) a pre-professional hip-hop company called "Imputz." Currently, Ryan dances as a principal dancer for "Spiritoso Ballet." Teaching and choreography are his passion; his free time is spent coming up with new and innovative movement combining fundamentals of jazz with the "Vagonava" Ballet Syllabus, and exploring texture, rhythm, and multi-directional flow of energy.

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 O'Reilley

Molly is the principal dancer for Repertory Dance Theatre, Lehigh Valley and Principal Dancer for Artists in Rhythm. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Performance from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. She is a former dancer for the Dayton Ballet, Kentucky Ballet Theater, and Ballet Theatre of Maryland. Molly is on faculty at Lehigh Valley Performing Arts School, RDT and Dance Arts Collaborative.

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.