Tag: summer study

Why You Should Consider a Choreography Intensive This Summer

If you’re looking to explore a new aspect of your artistry, a choreography-focused intensive is a perfect opportunity to deepen your skill set as a dancemaker. Whether you’ve only dabbled in composition or you’re already working toward a choreographic career, the growing number of programs available means there’s an option suited for you. Dance Spirit […]

Four Reasons to Get Excited (Yes, Excited!) About Your Virtual Dance Intensive

After a spring filled with sad announcements about COVID-canceled recitals and competition events, you knew the IRL summer intensive cancellations were coming. But the disappointment still stung. That said, for those willing to continue training online, there are silver linings to all-digital summer programs (in addition to staying healthy and helping to stop the spread […]

More and More Dancers Are Attending Multiple Intensives in One Summer. Should You?

For dancers, summer is synonymous with summer intensives—weeks-long programs filled with classes, rehearsals, and cross-training. And today, many dancers are trying to cram as much as possible into their warm-weather “breaks” by enrolling in two, three, even four intensives over the course of a single summer. But while dancing literally all summer might sound like […]

Could Your Dancing Benefit from a Dance-Adjacent Internship?

For dancers, summer break usually means it’s time to head to a dance intensive. But if you’re looking to broaden your horizons beyond the studio, a dance-related summer internship might be the way to go. Pursuing an internship in a field like arts administration, production, community outreach, or casting doesn’t mean you’re giving up on […]

School Buzz: Musical Theather at The Boston Conservatory

The Boston Conservatory Launches Musical Theater Dance Intensive Are you a Broadway-baby-to-be? Head to Beantown this summer for The Boston Conservatory’s new musical theater dance intensive. Broadway veterans and conservatory graduates Nick Adams and Noah Racey will be teaching master classes. Dancers between ages 15 and 25 can submit an audition video online through May […]

Home Away From Home

Quinn Pendleton, from Washington, CT, attended her first summer program when she was 13. She spent subsequent summers at Boston Ballet, the Washington Ballet and the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, and at 17 moved to Germany to dance with Staatsballett Berlin. “Every year I got a little more used to going away,” says Pendleton, […]

School Buzz: Eight rockin' summer study programs

Ballet with a Twist If you love ballet, but feel like the classics aren’t for you, don’t fret! COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet’s summer program will give you the foundation and structure of classical ballet, but also train you to work off-center and tackle many different dance styles. At COMPLEXIONS, you work with artistic directors Dwight Rhoden […]