SHAKIA THE KEY COMPANY INTENSIVE
live in the workroom at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA
ONE WEEK INTENSIVE
August 1-6
MONDAY- FRIDAY, 5:00PM-8:15PM
SATURDAY AUG 6, SHOWING at 7 PM
Intensive Pricing: $100/week for 1 class $170/week for 2 classes $20 drop in
Show Pricing: $10 for festival participants/$15 public ($5 student and senior in need)
Shakia The Key is a newly established project-based dance company based in Western Massachusetts that focuses on street dance styles through performance and education. During this summer intensive, Shakia Barron will be joined by professional collaborators on her newest work, Genesis, for her project-based dance company Shakia The Key. This intensive offers an exciting opportunity to train with this collection of artists in one place, as Shakia and collaborators will teach various street dance styles from their unique approach and background.
Genesis is doubly significant–a dance work and a launching point. This project will serve as the beginning of Shakia The Key, a project-based dance company. After choreographing and directing 50+ dance works for various organizations and educational institutions, Shakia Barron is excited to create with a revolving group of professional dancers to further develop her work as it centers Hip-Hop and other street dance forms to build expansive knowledge, understanding, and love. Genesis will premiere in September 2022, platforming Barron’s artistic values of collaboration and community as a means to generate possibilities for embodied connection, between performers and audience members, investing in the generation of kinesthetic empathy. These classes are open to all levels.
SHAKIA the KEY FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
MONDAY AUGUST 1
5:00PM-6:30 PM SHAKIA THE KEY: HOUSE with SHAKIA
6:45PM-8:15PM SHAKIA THE KEY: JAZZ FUNK with Laura
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2
5:00PM-6:30 PM SHAKIA THE KEY: CONTEMPORARY HIP-HOP with Allana
6:45PM-8:15PM SHAKIA THE KEY: Hip Hop/ Street Styles with Dashawn
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3
5:00PM-6:30 PM SHAKIA THE KEY INTENSIVE:MAJORETTE with Angelica
6:45PM-8:15PM SHAKIA THE KEY INTENSIVE: HOUSE with Miranda
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4
5:00PM-6:30 PM SHAKIA THE KEY INTENSIVE: AFROVIBIZ with Jessie
6:45PM-8:15PM SHAKIA THE KEY INTENSIVE: VOP JAZZ with Angelica
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5
5:00PM-6:30 PM SHAKIA THE KEY INTENSIVE: HIP-HOP- SOCIAL PARTY DANCES with Shakia
6:45PM-8:15PM SHAKIA THE KEY INTENSIVE: TUTTING/ANMATION/FREESTYLE with Nate
Shakia Barron Bio: Shakia Barron is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator whose work is rooted in the African Diaspora, focusing on Hip-Hop, House and other African diasporic dance forms. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She graduated with her MFA in Choreography at Wilson College, she holds an Associate’s degree in dance and psychology from Dean College, a Bachelor’s in liberal arts from Westfield State University, and she received the National Dance Institute’s teaching artist certificate in 2009. She graduated with her MFA in Choreography at Wilson College, she holds an Associate’s degree in dance and psychology from Dean College, a Bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Westfield State University, and she received the National Dance Institute’s teaching artist certificate in 2009. Her other dance training includes the Bates Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and Pioneer Valley’s Performing Arts Charter School.
Barron has choreographed and directed more than 50 Hip-Hop, modern, African and lyrical works that have been performed at Trenton Educational Dance Institute, Rider University, the Princeton School of Ballet, Bates Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow. She has performed for numerous Hip-Hop events and has opened for concerts by Fat Joe, Jadakiss, 112, Charlie Baltimore, and Kima from “Total” and Omarion. In 2005, she choreographed a Hip-Hop number for the Celtics/NBA half-time show. Barron has toured nationally and internationally, dancing with Face Da Phlave Entertainment and Illstyle and Peace Productions. And recently, she made a guest appearance with Rennie Harris PureMovement. Her recent work titled “Concourse” was performed at Jacob’s Pillow in October 2021.
As a dance educator, Barron spent four years teaching at the Bates Dance Festival and taught community classes at Jacob’s Pillow. Barron is a DEL faculty member who has facilitated multiple professional Development workshops around the integration of Hip-Hip dance and history in the curriculum. Her work titled “Our House” was selected to be performed for Community Day at Jacob’s Pillow in 2019. Barron was also the 2019 Arthur Levitt Jr. ’52 Artist-in-Residence at Williams College. Prior to joining Mount Holyoke College Dance Department as a full-time tenure track faculty, she served as an adjunct at UMASS Amherst, Smith, Amherst and Connecticut colleges.
Barron has choreographed and directed more than 50 Hip-Hop, modern, African and lyrical works that have been performed at Trenton Educational Dance Institute, Rider University, the Princeton School of Ballet, Bates Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow. She has performed for numerous Hip-Hop events and has opened for concerts by Fat Joe, Jadakiss, 112, Charlie Baltimore, and Kima from “Total” and Omarion. In 2005, she choreographed a Hip-Hop number for the Celtics/NBA half-time show. Barron has toured nationally and internationally, dancing with Face Da Phlave Entertainment and Illstyle and Peace Productions. And recently, she made a guest appearance with Rennie Harris PureMovement. Her recent work titled “Concourse” was performed at Jacob’s Pillow in October 2021.
As a dance educator, Barron spent four years teaching at the Bates Dance Festival and taught community classes at Jacob’s Pillow. Barron is a DEL faculty member who has facilitated multiple professional Development workshops around the integration of Hip-Hip dance and history in the curriculum. Her work titled “Our House” was selected to be performed for Community Day at Jacob’s Pillow in 2019. Barron was also the 2019 Arthur Levitt Jr. ’52 Artist-in-Residence at Williams College. Prior to joining Mount Holyoke College Dance Department as a full-time tenure track faculty, she served as an adjunct at UMASS Amherst, Smith, Amherst and Connecticut colleges.
