May 29 - July 21, 2012

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Summer Intensive Registration Information:

GUEST ARTISTS’ WORKSHOPS
featuring:
- Dance Technique
- Repertory and Choreography

- Informal Showing at end of semester

Special guest teachers just announced:

June 4 - 14, 2012: d. Sabela Grimes

d. Sabela grimes aka Ovasoul7 is a multi-hyphenate artist and educator whose work transforms speech and sound into a visual performance with movement that is electric on transmission. Pleasurably sharing his intimate inquiries as choreographer, writer, filmmaker and composer/sound designer, Sabela has conceived and presented a body of creative work that proactively seeks to expand beyond contemporary notions of Hip Hop culture and aesthetics. His work journeys through the current future of the present past and the corrugated spaces of many incarnations. Each creative offering is a familiar ritual, a conscious spectacle, the stillest rumination.

June 25 - July 6, 2012: Caroline Fermin of Gallim Dance

Caroline Fermin (Dancer) attended the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts throughout her youth and later received her BFA from The Juilliard School. In 2007, she joined James Sewell Ballet in Minneapolis. She has received grants and awards for her work, and she created a highly needed project to bring young artists to work in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Caroline is spearheading Gallim's outreach program. ABOUT THE COMPANY Gallim Dance exists to support the vision of Artistic Director Andrea Miller, who pushes dance to its rawest edge. Founded in 2007 in New York, Gallim Dance takes its name from the Hebrew word for waves, gallim. While walking along the shore in Tel Aviv, Miller observed the unique tuning ability of surfers as they catch the momentum of each wave and carve their own path within the swell. Miller felt an alignment in this phenomenon with her dance sensibility: listening deeply to the momentum of society and her generation in particular and catching the voice that emerges from the wave. Miller’s movement style has a fierce and fearless physicality, percussive rhythmic sensibility, and expressive faces which reveal deep humanity and inner experience. Her highly trained and multi-talented dancers are equally skilled in technical abilities as they are in character movement, making them able to inhabit her bold, extraordinary movement sequences that flicker between classical line and grotesque eruptions. She has a gift for pushing both her dancers and audiences to extremes with her thought provoking work. Gallim’s mission is carried out through three distinct programs: the creation of new work presented through professional touring performances, education activities in schools and community centers, and a mentorship program through which Miller and her dancers cultivate young artists. Gallim has performed at The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Spoleto Festival USA, White Bird Dance, Madrid en Danza (Spain), Isadora Festival (Russia), Chutzpah! Festival (Canada), Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York Live Arts, Joyce Soho, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Juilliard Theater, Judson Church, C and venues in Boston, Nashville, Palm Beach among others. Upcoming performances include touring to Canada and Germany, residencies at New York City Center and Joyce Soho and a 2012 New York Season at The Joyce Theater The company nurtures creative education in their local New York area and the many places they tour—extensive programming includes classes in movement technique, Gallim repertory, and improvisation. Currently, Gallim is invested in their rich partnership with Dancewave and The Fieldston School in New York. Gallim Dance regularly teaches master classes and sets work for many prestigious companies and universities across the world. The company has received generous support from Foundations including the National Dance Project for a 2011-2012 Touring Award, The American Music Center, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, First Republic Bank, The Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation’s USArtists International, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, The Princess Grace Foundation, and The Trust for Mutual Understanding.

 
REGISTRATION
- Registration begins in mid-march, 2012
- Registration deadline is May 11, 2012. Sign up early! Once spots are filled, you’ll be put on a waiting list.
- Non-credit enrollment is limited and based on a first-come, first serve basis.
- Credit-seeking students from other colleges may register during the late registration period, based on availability.
- For housing information please call 312.369.7044.

The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago features a nationally respected academic program focusing on developing a personal voice and maturity in the dance artist.  The 2012 Summer Dance Intensive offers challenging technique courses across a range of styles and is open to degree-seeking and community students.  The Dance Center faculty is comprised of working artists, enhanced by national and international visiting artist-teachers. 

Scholarships available to current students

 
For more information contact Academic Coordinator Chad Wilson at (312) 369-8353 or email danceinfo@colum.edu