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Dance Arts Collaborative
SUMMER 2009 SCHEDULE
Open Classes:
- 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.
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2005-2009
Dance Arts Collaborative, 5870 Easton Road, Plumsteadville, PA 18949
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