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Sunday, May 20, 2012

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The resident company of the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop. Don't miss IDT's 33nd annual performance Love Stories! July 28th at 2 & 8 p.m.

Join us for 2012!

Welcome!

The Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop (BJDW), celebrating 34 years of superior dance education and performance, is an internationally attended “intensive” unlike any other – it is part dance festival, part dance camp, part college dance program, and part dance convention (minus the competitions). We do our best to provide a non-competitive, supportive atmosphere for dance students.

Co-sponsored by the University of Colorado Department of Theatre & Dance, the BJDW is held each summer on the CU Boulder campus. The BJDW intensive consists of two weeks of classes, for ages 16 through adult, in jazz dance, hip hop, jazz funk, lyrical jazz, modern dance, ballet, “Auditioning 101”, Turns, and more. In addition, there are performance track classes for students who choose to perform and/or choreograph in the workshop's full theatrical dance production. The University of Colorado will award up to two hours of undergraduate college credit and 1 hour of graduate level credit to qualified students. Housing is available either in Sewall Hall (University of Colorado dormitory) or at Varsity Townhouses (furnished apartments just off campus). Housing space is limited – early reservations are recommended!

In addition, there is a separate Weekend Workshop for ages 11 through adult on Saturday July 14th and Sunday July 15th, that includes separate classes for teachers. Coming from out of town for the weekend? Stay in Sewall Hall (University of Colorado dormitory) for very low rates! Housing space is limited – early reservations are recommended!

Here's what we offer students:

• A chance to study a variety of styles for two dance-packed weeks with master teachers from across the U.S. in a uniquely inspiring environment.

• Classes held in the University of Colorado dance studios on the beautiful CU campus.

• A college level dance experience for students 16 years of age and older.
(Note that the Weekend Workshop on Saturday, July 14th and Sunday, July 16th is open to students 11 years of age and older.)

• An opportunity to perform in a full theatrical student performance in both student-choreographed and faculty-choreographed pieces.

• The opportunity to meet and become friends with dancers from around the world.

Early registration is imperative for getting the classes you want. Some classes fill to capacity early.

Our Mission

• To approach jazz dance as a creative art form and technical dance form.

• To offer quality dance training in adjunct dance forms that we believe support the development of strong jazz dancers.

• To support and nurture student creativity by providing a setting in which students can receive feedback on their choreography and by giving them the opportunity to perform their own works in a professional setting.

• To expand the dancers’ concepts and understanding of the definition and limits of jazz dance.

• To provide a dynamic and exciting learning environment.

• To inspire dancers, thus renewing or igniting a greater passion for dance.

• To support the growth of our students, not only as dancers but as human beings.

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Every year I come to the BJDW and go home with something new - a new feeling, something I learned, or saw, or did...something that I never felt before. It changes me every year more and more." - Pamela Dekel BJDW Student 1999 - 2011; Teacher and Studio Owner, Tel Aviv, Israel

Notes from the Artistic Director

New class this year:
“Back to Basics" - 4 sessions
• Alignment 101
• Core Work
• Stretch & Strength
• All Things Lower Extremity
Each session covers a different hot topic with a different faculty member. Designed to give you knowledge; practical tools and exercises you can perform in class and on your own to enhance technique, athleticism, stamina and longevity as a dancer.

Special Presentation:
"So You Think You Know How to Warm Up and Stretch? Think Again!"
In this multi-media presentation (Powerpoint, slides, film clips), first given at the 2011 National Dance Educational Organization Conference in Minneapolis, Christy McNeil proposes a radically new approach to warm ups and stretching based on current exercise science research. This approach facilitates athleticism and peak performance in class, rehearsal and on stage. Includes a look at how traditional and contemporary jazz warm ups help or hinder the dancer's performance of choreography and examines issues surrounding the current aesthetic of extreme flexibility as propagated by "So You Think You Can Dance".

Workshop Administrators

Lara Branen Co-Founder; BJDW Artistic Director; BJDW LLC Partner
Nini Coleman Graphic Designer; BJDW LLC Partner
Chris Harris Web Designer and Webmaster; BJDW LLC Partner
Daniel Morimoto Manager; BJDW LLC Partner