Rutgers University
Dance Conservatory
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Tuition includes room and meals
Rutgers inspiring instructors will guide intermediate to advanced level dance conservatory students through daily intensive classes designed to increase each student's skill level.
Dance Conservatory Camp/Workshop Details
Program Director: John EvansThe Rutgers two week conservatory program is geared towards students who want a career in dance. It will help prepare the intermediate & advanced dancer to enter a college dance program that can help them realize their goals in the dance world. Students will take advanced classes in Ballet and Modern Dance each day of the program. There will be additional classes in ballet and modern partnering, as well as classes in modern & ballet repertory, jazz, hip hop, and improvisation. In between the two weeks will be a day of master classes by renown artists in the new york area and a field trip to the jersey shore for a day of relaxation. At the end of the two weeks will be a showing of material learned and created during the conservatory. Evening activities will include research into prominent college dance programs, information on what colleges are looking for and how to take an audition class. There will be a video night to look at some of the prominent contemporary choreographers working in the field so students can see what is out there and what they like. There will also be time for trips to the pool and recreation center. Students will have one on one counseling from faculty in the program as to where they are currently in their training and what they need to work on to reach their goals, as well as guidance as to potential schools that might fit their needs. Dancers will take a field trip to see an exciting dance concert at Lincoln center in New York City.
Rutgers has strict rules to protect the dance studio floors and we must respect them. Please bring soft-soled dance shoes or new, indoor, aerobic-type sneakers that have never been worn outside.
* Additional Camp/Workshop InformationStudents will be housed at The Henderson Apartments on the Douglass campus of rutgers University. Students check-in between 3 - 4pm on the first day of camp. Flights should arrive into Newark Airport (EWR) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 12pm. Flights should depart from Newark Airport (EWR) on the last day of camp after 7:30pm. Transportation is available to and from Newark Airport(EWR) for $30 each way. |
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Directors and Faculty
John Evans
Workshop Director
John Evans has been dancing and lighting dance, theater and music since 1980. After receiving a Masters Degree in Dance from Ohio State University in 1987, he moved to New York City where he danced with the Victoria Marks Performance Company for five years. He has also danced in the companies of Colin Conner, Monica Levy, Robin Becker, John Jasperse, and The Pittsburgh Dance Alloy. His choreography has been performed in New York City, regionally and internationally. He has twice been a choreographer and teacher at The Yard. He has had work commissioned by Steele Dance, Thompson & Trammel, James Madison University, University of Maryland at College Park, and Hofstra University. For The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, John choreographed productions of A Winters Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Three Penny Opera. He has received grants from the Pittsburgh Dance Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his design and choreography work with Squonk Opera. John directs his own company, John Evans & Dancers, and is co-artistic director of Bob & Bob Dance a male duet dance company. As a lighting designer and/or technical director/stage manager, he has worked with many notable companies and festivals. John has been a full time faculty member in the Department of Dance since 1995, where he teaches, performs, designs and creates new work.Faculty (Faculty subject to availability)
Location Information
Rutgers is one of the nation's major state universities. Chartered in 1766, it has a unique history as a colonial college. As the arts conservatory of Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts is a professional school offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in music, theater, and the visual arts, as well as undergraduate degrees in dance. The dance camp is located on the beautiful Douglas Residential College campus just 10 minutes from the heart of New Brunswick.
The dance program at Mason Gross School of the Arts fosters excellence in modern dance technique, performance, and creative achievement. An accomplished dance faculty of artist-educators ensures expert instruction in technique, performance, choreography, and theoretical studies.
In addition to a strong grounding in dance technique, the program assumes that to succeed as professional artists, students must be articulate about aesthetic values and knowledgeable about the practical demands of a career in dance. Theoretical work begins with a study of contemporary issues in dance and continues with music for movement, dance production, notation, kinesiology for dancers, and dance history. Dance electives and opportunities for independent study allow each student to achieve her or his own particular artistic aspirations.
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Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice. The faculty is comprised of college professors representing their schools and professional industry artists. Images are of USPA programs, but may not represent actual program or location. Photos by Tito Deverya (UCLA TFT), and Lauren di Matteo.
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