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oi$nlry untiltebruany 1 $4.99 ilililll Sf notes N EW S INCUBATING DANCEMAKERS for young dancersto train in Seattle,and thereare many Thereare aiTpleopporlunities programs. However,one local nonpro{it,SeattleTheatreGroup (STG), offering organizations has madethe bold moveof expandingits educationalofieringsto includeinstructionin choLaunchedin 2o0Bby sTG managerLiz Young. reographytor aspiringteen dancemakers. young last fallwith an all-starcast of instructorsled reopened Lab Choreographers STGs Neal. Amy O by localchoreographer ..1 Lab as an opportunityfor youngdancersto furthertheir saw the youngChoreograpners growth as artists,learningwhai goes into creatingtheir own work and havinga personal voice,"says Young. selectedou,ulo,'"u, 20 "investigators," Duringthe eight-weekprogram,approximately afternoonto bfoaden Saturday hours every for three Center Dance gathered Velocity at tion, learnedchoreoPadicipants classes. master weekly in their skills hone theirknowledgeand then experimented quality musiiality' and movement improvisation, graphictools,such as choreograbest-known of Seattles Some studies. movement shorl with them by developing phersand danceeducatorsjornedO'Nealin teachingin the lab, includingPacificNorthwest Mark freelancechoreographer BalletSchoolfacultymemberSoniaDawkins,international Africa, south from visiting Maqoma, Gregory Dancetheater, Haimand KT Niehoffof Lingo was lhe lab'sfeaturedguestadist. to take at leastone centralidea awayfrom iheir experiencein O,Nealwants participants thing I want to get throughto thesekids is that thereis no the lab. "Themosi important right or wrong way to make a dance.Duringthe program, they are exposedto irany differentways of tninkingabout it. Hopetully, they willfind what they per sonallyconnectwith and stad from tnere.Then,it's all about makingup their own rules."For more: org http:i/slgpresents, -Les/le Holleran withYoung Amy0'Neal Lab Choreographers students NDAFocuseson DanceTeachers The 2010 National Dance Association {NDA} Pedagogy conference, "The Learning Circle: Dance Pedagogy Leads our Practice," iakes place January 15*18 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. In addition to presentations and classes, interactive workshops witl give insight into the teaching techniques of Brenda Mccutcheon, Bill Evans and Dr. Fran Cleland. The Pan American Dance lrstitute and Danza Sin Fronteras {Dance without Borders) will per{orm during the weekend. While technique classes for students will be offered, this conlerence is all about teachers. According to Debra Knapp, one of the conference's directors and director of dance parat NMSU, the event offers something that the annual conventions held by NDAs Recreation Education' ent organization, the American Alliance for Health, Physical and Dance, cannot. ',We spread ourselves a little thinner at those big conventions"' she says. ,,Thisconference just really focuses in on dance teachers." For more: www.aahperd.org/nda *Rachel Zar 14 January2010 www.dance-teacher.com' tYoungA.RTS Educates and Reevaluates ar'a'a-.-..'--: ::rJormSeventeenI flock ing,visualand 'e'='. .:... . : : < ior t o M i a mfio 'v a - . - : - : 3 masterc asses.a:-,"^-..-,=s exnlbtionsand?'.a--a'-. a-:j'a'ns, J a n u a rlyl - - 4 . v : - - i - r - S al m n u s ar sliccllrector F charcscr^, Desmond Ballet, onsContemPorary of Complex and wilLteachmasterdanceclasses pedormat thefinalgala,wherea panelof experlswtllchoose10 winnersjn danceas YoungArts in the Panelists Scholars. Presidential dancefieldare:Broadwaystar BallState DeLeeLively-Torti; MichaelO'Hara;Yanis University's Pikieris, directorof Mencia-Pikieris of Schoolof Dance;and PatGraneY the PatGraneyComPanY. its is reevaluating YoungARTS that usually Conference Educator's with takesplacesimultaneouslY week. We wantto iake YoungARTS it up a notchand be moreavailable saYsDr,Armen and accessible," programsmanagerat Shaomian, we "MostimPodantlY, YoungARTS. want Lomakesurethal red 1e.Sgel educatloncreC1.cecause continuing that .: I -:, i for we understand themto getfunc'I I ..^: arestill : -: actential in theworks':' .," ;Pe a h T P r O . e - : '. j : : : - o 9 6 t - E ! o d I o E E F -6 o I - -,.__- _:. -: t Zar E I