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YOUTH CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
PRE BALLET (ages 5-7): The Pre Ballet class will focus on learning the fundamentals of ballet with an emphasis on ballet's basic patterns and coordination, while maintaining an atmosphere of positivity and FUN. Ballet can sometimes feel very serious and hard, but the goal for the kids will be to show them that even though things may be challenging, that doesn’t mean they are failing. Instructor: Tyler Rai CREATIVE MOVEMENT (ages 5-7): A fun movement class focusing on learning new patterns, understanding rhythms, and exploring creative impulses. Class will include movement games as well phrases across the floor with an emphasis on play, developing a more clear body awareness, and their own movement voice. Instructor: Tyler Rai YOUTH DANCE TECHNIQUES (ages 8-12): An introduction to Modern dance for early adolescents, this class will include floor work, combinations across the floor, and performance skills. By watching and integrating movement into their own bodies, student will be encouraged to develop their own, unqiue style. Instructor: Tyler Rai BALLET II (ages 13+): This class is geared towards older students who want a more creative and personal experience in Ballet class. The class is rigorous and fun, working on strength, flexibility and coordination with a sense of play and joy of dance. Instructor: Jen Polins TEEN/ADULT CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE (ages 13+): This morning technique class is an intermediate level class for teens and adults. This will be a time to breath, ground, groove, and invert. There will be space for getting lost in somatic places, some release technique, and time for task-based, narrow focused work. We will sweat, we will investigate pelvic half differentiation and feats of strength. We will challenge how we approach dance class and how we see each other. Some yawning, some good jams. Instructor: Jenny Bennett ABOUT THE TEACHERS
JENNY BENNETT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF HATCHERY BALLET II, HATCHERY, TEEN/ADULT CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE Jenny Bennett holds a BFA from the University of Massachusetts, where she had the privilege to study with and perform works by Fritha Pengelly, Terese Freedman, Jen Rosenblit, Robert Battle, Trisha Brown/ Abby Yager, and Doug Varone/ Eddie Taketa. While living in San Francisco, she performed with The Riley Project, Stacey Swan/ Daymare, and Kelly Bowker at The Garage and Counterpulse. In New York, she collaborated and performed with Meghan Fredrick at Greenspace, Movement Research, and at The Judson Church. She has taught at studios across MA and the Chicago area, as well as creative movement in elementary schools through The San Francisco Arts Education Project and Yoga through mindfulness education at R.H. Conwell Elementary. Current influential teachers include Corinne Andrews, Patty Townsend (Embodyoga®) and Jenn Nugent. Recently she worked with Kate Seethaler and Barbie Diewald, performing at Smith, University Settlement, Jacob’s Pillow and in Residency at A.P.E. Gallery. Photo by Jim Coleman. MOLLY FLETCHER LYNCH
YOUTH DANCE TECHNIQUES Molly holds an MA from The London Contemporary Dance School. She has been a lecturer at the College of San Mateo, and Sonoma State University, and is currently on faculty at Umass Amherst and Keene State College. Molly has toured her work throughout New England, California, Spain, England, Italy, and Croatia. Her work has also taken her to the Symphony Hall in San Francisco where she choreographed the 2012 Opera, Carmina Burana. She has been awarded residencies at the Academia Dell’ Arte in Arezzo Italy, the Foundry in Oakland CA, the Garage in San Francisco, the Pigi Pefani School in Peania Greece, the Sausalito Civic Center, the SAFEhouse in San Francisco, the Zagreb Dance Center in Croatia and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton. In addition, Molly also teaches yoga, pilates and practices Tae Kwon Do. TYLER RAI
YOUTH DANCE TECHNIQUES Tyler Rai is an improvisor, dancer, and collaborative artist currently based in Amherst, Massachusetts (Nipmuck/Pocumtuc territory). She creates performances to dialogue with the more-than-human; including rivers, mountains, and the ghosts of melting glaciers. She has performed in the works of K.J.Holmes, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Bouchra Ouizguen, Athena Kokoronis/Domestic Performance Agency, Mina Nishimura, and is the instigator of the temporal collective, Hungry Mothers. Her works have been performed in fields, abandoned cabins, river-edges, aboard SWALE - a barge and floating food-forest in Sunset Park, and most recently at Judson Memorial Church (NYC). She has been an artist-in-residence at The Domestic Performance Agency, Earthdance, RedHorse Studios, The Sable Project and has guest taught at Middlebury College and UMASS Amherst. She received her BA from Bennington College and is a certified Tamalpa Life/Art Practitioner. |
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