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Course Description |
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Ballet Technique: The Trainee class in Ballet Technique is designed to polish and prepare the especially talented student for a career in dance. These classes finely tune the dancer’s technique and develop the ultimate necessity of individual expression.
Pointe: The Trainee class in Pointe emphasizes much longer combinations and strengthening exercises, including reveles in arabesque, fouettes, attitude turns, and pirouettes. These exercises produce the type of strength and lyricism required in a professional dancer.
Men’s Class: The Men’s Class concentrates on particular steps that the male dancer must master. Strength of evaluation, stamina and elegance are stressed. The student learns to make the athleticism of dance a thing of tasteful artistry.
Character: After mastering the character technique, the students learn choreography which features all the physical expressions of appeal, allurement, ecstasy and temperament. Further, the students learn to surmount the problems of involved steps and abrupt tempo changes.
Pas De Deux: Along with training in the fundamentals of classical dance technique, Trainees begin to study the art of partnering. First they master the techniques of balance, holding and lifting. Classical pas de deux are also taught to provide understanding of the unity between movement and artistic communication.
Variations: Students learn classical variations in an atmosphere of a professional rehearsal. Each variation is polished and coached very carefully to assist the student the enhancement of his or her technical and artistic personality.
Lectures: Lectures are occasionally offered on the history of dance and other pertinent topics. Trainees are required to attend lectures when they are offered.
Teaching Assistantship: Trainees of an advanced level who show particular aptitude for teaching are offered the opportunities to work as teaching assistants. Assistants work in the children’s division classes, for which they receive credit towards the Trainee certificate. After sufficient experience as an assistant, certain students may be selected to teach a children’s class under the supervision of a full-time faculty member.
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