2013 Summer Dance Intensive Camp
Monday, July 8th - Friday, July 26th
- Ages 8 and up -
Three Weeks - Monday thru Friday
(9:00am-5:00pm)
Cost $750
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Showcase Performance
Saturday, July 27th, 6:30 pm
$5 admission
Stephens College Playhouse
*Note registration forms and all fees are due 2 July
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(here are some pictures from the 2011 Showcase Performance)
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All classes are geared toward the dance student who is serious about improving his or her technique and broadening their dance experience. Emphasis is on performing at a more professional level. Professional guest artists from around the country bring a fresh perspective to the camp.
Daily Class Schedule
Regular classes will be held in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop, character, musical theatre, and more. Several spotlight classes will be held introducing students to other aspects of dance.
Classes In Session from
9:00am - 12:00pm & 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Monday thru Friday
2013 Instructors
Marie Robertson (Director/Co-Owner)
Graduated Stephens College - BFA in Dance. Member of Stephens faculty for over 8 years. Toured with 'Mid-America' and 'Harriot Ann Gray' Dance companies. Teaches primarily jazz and tap at Dancearts and choreographs award wnning numbers for the competition team. Her incredible tap teaching skills have earned her the title of the "Tap Queen".
Maggie Dethrow (Co-Owner)
Graduated Stephens College - BFA in Dance. Has taught modern in the Stephens Dance Department for over 15 years, as well as teaching/choreographing for Stephens Theatre Institute. She teaches all the modern classes at Dancearts and has proven herself to be an 'accomplished choreographer' for the studio and competition team.
Marisa Robertson (Co-Owner) - Hip Hop, Jazz
Danced since age of 5 and competed 12 years with the competition team. Has taught various styles of dance at Dancearts for over 10 years. She was awarded a summer internship at Broadway Dance Center in NY and Performing Arts Center in LA. Marisa's been aknowledged for her innovative and polished choreography, as well as her teaching ability.
Kristina Schaefer - Jazz
Began dancing at the age of 6 at Ibsen Dance Theatre in Kansas City. Began teaching various levels of Jazz, Hip Hop and Lyrical at Dancearts in 2001. She has choreographed for Dancearts competition team and is head coach for the Hickman Dance Team in Columbia, MO. She's been the jazz director at Dancer's Alley in Jefferson City since 2005.
Leah Franklin- Musical Theatre, Jazz.
Leah Franklin was born and raised in Columbia, MO. She studied dance at Dancearts and acting at TRYPS for most of her childhood. She graduated from Hickman High School in 2009 and went on to study dance and music at Stephens College. While at Stephens, Leah discovered a passion for teaching and choreography and became very involved in choreographing works featured in the community including various dance shows at Stephens, the Citizen Jane film festival and the American College Dance Festival. After graduating, she choreographed Legally Blonde the musical for TRYPS in the summer of 2012 and proceeded to move to Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, Leah was a paid actor in a small theater troupe called Creating Arts Company, all while taking dance
classes at Edge Performing Arts Center.
Kenneth Braso - Ballet
Danced professionally over 25 years. He was the featured dancer with Southern Ballet theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet theatre and Ballet Austin before joining Louisville Ballet as a principle dancer. For over fifteen years, Ken has entertained audiences by dancing roles such as the Russian Dance in Nutcracker, Peter Pan, Max in Where the Wild Things Are, Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream, and Renefield in Alun Jones' Dracula. to name just a few. After retiring as principle dancer with the Louisville Ballet in 2002, Ken directed a newly formed dance school, connected to Champion Gymnastics, where he had taught, and continues to teach, dance to gymnastics. He has given many Lecture Demonstrations in his career, most recently with New Performing Arts. In late summer of 2004, Ken made his third appearance with the Derby Dinner Playhouse in their production Fiddler on the Roof. Other performing credits include Cincinnati Opera Dance Company, numerous regional theater work and Walt Disney World. Ken has been a guest faculty member for the Governor's School for the Arts. In 2003, Ken and his wife, Liz, choreographed for Liz Bussey Fentress' nationally prized play, Liz's Circus Story.
Special Guest Artists/Instructors
Andrij Cybyk - Russian & Ukrainian Character Dance
Andrij is American by birth, Ukrainian by heritage and gypsy at heart. He began Ukrainian folk dancing at the age of four. Andrij has studied ballet at the Akron University Conservatory for Ballet and Character Dancing from the Unkrainian Dance Ensemble. While attending Duquesne University he was a member of the Tamburitzans, an Eastern European folk dance and music ensemble where he worked with the best folk artists and choreographers in the world. Teaches in NY, and tours nationally and internationally.
Natalia Ejova - Modern
Natalia is a professional dancer in NYC and a former Rhythmic Gymnast for Russia. She has performed with the Imperial Russian Ballet under Maya Plisetskaya and has studies with, and has been featured by, several notable artists. Natalia has performed with Momix and Complexions, and currently dances for the folk ensemble Barynya, works in Aerial Acrobatics and tours with the North American tour of Riverdance.
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FOR A MORE COMPLETE BROCHURE OR TO REGISTER, CALL OUR STUDIO AT
573-875-1569
All classes are geared toward the dance student who is serious about improving his or her technique and broadening their dance experience. Emphasis is on performing at a more professional level. Professional guest artists from around the country bring a fresh perspective to the camp.
Daily Class Schedule
Regular classes will be held in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop, character, musical theatre, and more. Several spotlight classes will be held introducing students to other aspects of dance.
Classes In Session from
9:00am - 12:00pm & 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Monday thru Friday
2013 Instructors
Marie Robertson (Director/Co-Owner)
Graduated Stephens College - BFA in Dance. Member of Stephens faculty for over 8 years. Toured with 'Mid-America' and 'Harriot Ann Gray' Dance companies. Teaches primarily jazz and tap at Dancearts and choreographs award wnning numbers for the competition team. Her incredible tap teaching skills have earned her the title of the "Tap Queen".
Maggie Dethrow (Co-Owner)
Graduated Stephens College - BFA in Dance. Has taught modern in the Stephens Dance Department for over 15 years, as well as teaching/choreographing for Stephens Theatre Institute. She teaches all the modern classes at Dancearts and has proven herself to be an 'accomplished choreographer' for the studio and competition team.
Marisa Robertson (Co-Owner) - Hip Hop, Jazz
Danced since age of 5 and competed 12 years with the competition team. Has taught various styles of dance at Dancearts for over 10 years. She was awarded a summer internship at Broadway Dance Center in NY and Performing Arts Center in LA. Marisa's been aknowledged for her innovative and polished choreography, as well as her teaching ability.
Kristina Schaefer - Jazz
Began dancing at the age of 6 at Ibsen Dance Theatre in Kansas City. Began teaching various levels of Jazz, Hip Hop and Lyrical at Dancearts in 2001. She has choreographed for Dancearts competition team and is head coach for the Hickman Dance Team in Columbia, MO. She's been the jazz director at Dancer's Alley in Jefferson City since 2005.
Leah Franklin- Musical Theatre, Jazz.
Leah Franklin was born and raised in Columbia, MO. She studied dance at Dancearts and acting at TRYPS for most of her childhood. She graduated from Hickman High School in 2009 and went on to study dance and music at Stephens College. While at Stephens, Leah discovered a passion for teaching and choreography and became very involved in choreographing works featured in the community including various dance shows at Stephens, the Citizen Jane film festival and the American College Dance Festival. After graduating, she choreographed Legally Blonde the musical for TRYPS in the summer of 2012 and proceeded to move to Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, Leah was a paid actor in a small theater troupe called Creating Arts Company, all while taking dance
classes at Edge Performing Arts Center.
Kenneth Braso - Ballet
Danced professionally over 25 years. He was the featured dancer with Southern Ballet theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet theatre and Ballet Austin before joining Louisville Ballet as a principle dancer. For over fifteen years, Ken has entertained audiences by dancing roles such as the Russian Dance in Nutcracker, Peter Pan, Max in Where the Wild Things Are, Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream, and Renefield in Alun Jones' Dracula. to name just a few. After retiring as principle dancer with the Louisville Ballet in 2002, Ken directed a newly formed dance school, connected to Champion Gymnastics, where he had taught, and continues to teach, dance to gymnastics. He has given many Lecture Demonstrations in his career, most recently with New Performing Arts. In late summer of 2004, Ken made his third appearance with the Derby Dinner Playhouse in their production Fiddler on the Roof. Other performing credits include Cincinnati Opera Dance Company, numerous regional theater work and Walt Disney World. Ken has been a guest faculty member for the Governor's School for the Arts. In 2003, Ken and his wife, Liz, choreographed for Liz Bussey Fentress' nationally prized play, Liz's Circus Story.
Special Guest Artists/Instructors
Andrij Cybyk - Russian & Ukrainian Character Dance
Andrij is American by birth, Ukrainian by heritage and gypsy at heart. He began Ukrainian folk dancing at the age of four. Andrij has studied ballet at the Akron University Conservatory for Ballet and Character Dancing from the Unkrainian Dance Ensemble. While attending Duquesne University he was a member of the Tamburitzans, an Eastern European folk dance and music ensemble where he worked with the best folk artists and choreographers in the world. Teaches in NY, and tours nationally and internationally.
Natalia Ejova - Modern
Natalia is a professional dancer in NYC and a former Rhythmic Gymnast for Russia. She has performed with the Imperial Russian Ballet under Maya Plisetskaya and has studies with, and has been featured by, several notable artists. Natalia has performed with Momix and Complexions, and currently dances for the folk ensemble Barynya, works in Aerial Acrobatics and tours with the North American tour of Riverdance.
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FOR A MORE COMPLETE BROCHURE OR TO REGISTER, CALL OUR STUDIO AT
573-875-1569
