Dance Arts Collaborative - Summer 2009 Schedule

Mondays:
- 4:30pm - 5:15pm Rhythm & Movement I (ages 3-4)
- 5:15pm - 6:00pm Rhythm & Movement II (ages 4-5)
- 6:00pm - 6:45pm Pre-Ballet (ages 5-6)
Tuesdays:
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm Beginner Ballet
- 5:30pm - 6:30pm Advanced Beginner Ballet
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm Ballet I
- 8:00pm - 9:00pm Teen / Adult Ballet
Wednesdays:
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm Beginner Jazz
- 5:30pm - 6:30pm Advanced Beginner Jazz
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm Jazz I / II
- 8:00pm - 9:00pm Teen / Adult Jazz
Thursdays:
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm Beginner Tap
- 5:30pm - 6:30pm Tap I / II
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm Advanced Tap
- 7:30pm - 8:30pm Pre-Teen Hip-Hop
- 8:30pm - 9:30pm Teen / Adult Hip-Hop

Faculty:

Reina Faith (Ballet & Jazz)

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 is currently 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 is the Artistic Director of the non-profit dance and theatre company Artists in Rhythm, along with her husband Chris.

Rochelle Haynes (Tap)

Rochelle Haynes, a Dallas Texas native, has been dancing since the age of three. She received her BFA in modern dance from the University of the Arts. Rochelle became a principal dancer of Tap Team Two in 1997, traveling the US teaching the history of tap. She has shared the stage with tap greats Germaine Ingram and Nicole Hockenberry to name a few. In her 10th year of teaching, she is honored to now be on the faculty at the University of the Arts and a tap guest artist in residence at Moravian College. Ms. Haynes is happy to be in her second year as choreographer for the Garden State Dance Festival.

Faith Sherman (Tap)

Faith Sherman is an Equity performer who was in the original cast of Nunsense at the Society Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia. She is a founding member of Storybook Musical Theatre and conducts their Page to Stage workshops for young children. She has been the choreographer for Germantown Academy for over ten years. She has studied and danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet and has taught ballet, theatre dance and tap for various schools in the Philadelphia area.