Summer Dance Intensive

Dance

Ballet and Modern/Contemporary Dance classes are the two focused dance majors. Classes will be divided into three levels, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Your technical level will be determined by your self assessment on your application and the first class you take during the week. 

During the daily choreograpy classes we will rehearse a piece that will be presented at the end of the week to the other participants and interested people from the outside. The style could vary between Modern/Contemporary and or Jazz.

Electives could include Jazz, Hip-Hop, Teaching and Understanding the Dance Techniques of Martha Graham, Horton Technique, Contemporary Floorwork, Teaching Methods of Ballet for Children, Worship Dance/Dancing Prayers, Choreography and Compositions, Pilates/Body Conditioning, Anatomy and more! Physical Theatre will also be an elective class open for everyone.

Physical Theatre

Dive into physical theatre master workshop with Infusion team Melanie Cossette and Daniel Cossette.

Technique sessions exploring various concepts from weight, weight-sharing, breath, suspension, counter-balance, characters and body control. Technique sessions will lead into mimography, where students learn Infusion repertoire taking them into the process of creative design.

This physical theatre workshop will:

• Give advanced students space to develop their precision and theatrical presence, explore concept development, and keep their technique sharp and applied.
• Guide beginners by providing techniques and creative applications, while giving opportunity to explore ideas.

The track will run in the afternoon, as an alternative to dance electives and dance choreography.

• 90-minute technique and exploration classes
• 90-minute choreography/mimography
  

This 5-day workshop track is for professional and pre-professional performers, actors, dancers, visual artists and students 14+.

Instructors

Randall Flinn, Artistic Director, has worked as a dance educator and choreographer with Cirque Du Soleil, Ballet Magnificat, Houston Ballet Academy, Houston’s High School for Performing Arts, Houston Met Dance Company, Project Dance, Belhaven College, Hillsong Church-Sydney, YWAM Schools of the Arts, Xaris Danz Europe and Revolve Dance Company.

Ad Deum is comprised of dance artists that have come to Houston from around the world. They have toured the USA, Europe and Asia, receiving outstanding reviews while performing the works of many amazing choreographers such as Steve Rooks (Martha Graham), Caleb Mitchell (Houston Ballet) Hope Boykin (Alvin Ailey), Bill Wade (Inlet Dance Theatre) and Stephen Wynne (Talk Dance Co.). Their mission is to serve through their lives and talents and offer hope and inspiration in a troubled world where artists can work as ambassadors of healing, restoration and cultural reform.

Melanie Cossette and Daniel Cossette, Infusion Physical Theatre, are award-winning artists trained in classical Marceau-style French mime, developed their own style integrating dance theatre. Their work has encompassed circus, shadow theatre and puppetry, delighting family audiences, as well as dance theatre challenging social injustice, prejudice and inequality. Their latest show, Soothe, explores the brain chemistry of emotional regulation. Premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022, Fringe review called Infusion “a company with charm and some chutzpah.” Psychologist Dr Lisa Harrow called it, “an emotive interplay between movement and science.”

Masterclasses

If you are not able to be part of the whole Summer Dance Intensive Seminar, you have the opportunity to attend one or more Classes without application (Sunday-Friday). The costs are CHF 25.- per class(90min). The costs have to be paid in cash(CHF) before each class to a YWAM staff member in the studio. The studios are in a 15minutes walking distance from each other. That makes a change between levels possible during the break.

Morning

9.30am-11am Ballet class 
^{(Sunday 2.00-3.30pm)}

11.30am-1pm Modern class 
^{(Sunday 4.00-5.30pm)} 

Afternoon
2.00-3.30pm Electives or Physical Theatre Technique
4.00-5.30pm Choreography* or Mimeography*

_{*Has to be participated from the beginning and is only available on request
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Electives

Info about Electives will be posted here each morning before lunchtime.

Electives Tuesday 

• Elective 1
• Elective 2
• Elective 3

Electives Wednesday 

Electives Thursday 

Electives Friday 

Locality

Accomodation: Youth with a Misson, Hauptstrasse 15, 3266 Wiler bei Seedorf

Dance classes (Might change depending on the group size, please check here, to make sure that you don't end up in the wrong studio):

Beginners Level: 
Move, Juravorstadt 11, 2502 Biel

Medium Level: 
Tilt Dance Studio, Plänkestrasse 31, 2502 Biel 

Advanced Level:
Centre de Danse Classique Contemporain, Bahnhofstrasse 8a, 2502 Biel

Studio for the Choreo: