Dance Arts Collaborative - Musical Theatre Intensive

Dance Arts Collaborative

MUSICAL THEATRE INTENSIVE
June 28 - July 2, 2010

Group A: Ages 7 to 10
Group B: Ages 11 and up
Each group will be learning excerpts from a musical with a performance on Friday

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:30 - 10:30 Group A: Dance Group B: Acting	9:30 - 10:30 Group B: Dance Group A: Acting	9:30 - 10:30 Group A: Dance Group B: Acting	9:30 - 10:30 Group B: Dance Group A: Acting	Rehearsal
10:30 - 11:30 Group B: Dance Group A: Acting	10:30 - 11:30 Group A: Dance Group B: Acting	10:30 - 11:30 Group B: Dance Group A: Acting	10:30 - 11:30 Group A: Dance Group B: Acting	Rehearsal
Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 Group A: Audition Class Group B: Singing	12:00 - 1:00 Group A: Singing Group B: Audition Class	12:00 - 1:00 Group A: Audition Class Group B: Singing	12:00 - 1:00 Group A: Singing Group B: Audition Class	Rehearsal
1:00 - 2:00 Group B: Audition Class Group A: Singing	1:00 - 2:00 Group B: Singing Group A: Audition Class	1:00 - 2:00 Group B: Audition Class Group A: Singing	1:00 - 2:00 Rehearsal	Showtime

Casting will be at the discretion of the instructor.
Each student will have his or her moment to shine!

Tuition: $300

Instructors:

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.

Maggie Anderson

Maggie Anderson received her MFA (Musical Theatre) from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, her BFA from Elon University (Musical Theatre Major, Dance Minor) and high school diploma from North Carolina School of the Arts. Maggie is a proud member of Actor's Equity and has performed in NYC and regional theatres across the country as well as television and film. Favorites include: Walnut Street Theatre, where she will be seen again this Fall 2008 in State Fair. Fulton Opera House, Galveston Grand Opera House, North Shore Music Theatre, Trump Plaza Atlantic City, Gateway Playhouse, and most recently the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago for Surflight Theatre in Suflight, NJ. She has taught for schools and companies across the country. She was the Artistic Director of the Broadway Dance Studio in Queens, NY and also on staff teaching the professional program at Manhattan Motion in NYC. She has been a guest teacher at Spritioso Ballet as well as being on faculty at Toni's Studio of Dance in Levittown where she teaches upper level ballet and jazz. Maggie is also a founding member of Artists In Rhythm.

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.