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The core concept: Move + Elevate is an intensive pre-professional development program for committed dance students (ages 9 and up) ready to take their training beyond weekly technique classes.

Meeting every other Friday for two hours and fifteen minutes, dancers receive supplemental training in strength and conditioning, specialized technique, choreography and performance, artistry, audition preparation, confidence, leadership, and introductory dance pedagogy.

Move + Elevate Intensive Format

BLOCK 1 — TRAIN

75 minutes | Strength, Conditioning + Expanded Technique

This block develops a stronger, safer and more versatile dancer. Classes rotate throughout the program and are taught by Art in Motion faculty, Tricia Grace (and listing out other artists who are involved and at the studio), and invited guest artists.

Possible experiences include Pilates, yoga for dancers, pre-pointe preparation, flexibility and mobility, dance-specific strength and conditioning, acrobatics, jumps/leaps/turns, injury-prevention practices and guest master classes across genres.

BLOCK 2 — CREATE

30 minutes | Choreography + Performance

Dancers work with program developer and dance artist Tricia Grace to develop an original contemporary work over the course of the program. Students will not just be “learning choreography”; they will learn about:

choreographic intention → musicality → dynamics → emotional connection → ensemble awareness → storytelling → performance quality → professionalism

The students are learning how to turn technique into artistry. SUPER EXCITING! They actually perform the work. Students will experience multiple community performance opportunities each year.

BLOCK 3 — ELEVATE

30 minutes | The Developing Dance Professional

Technique alone doesn’t prepare someone for a future in dance. So this block asks: What does it actually mean to become a dance artist?

You can rotate through several mini-units.