Modas Repertory Workshop with Sidra Bell
July 22nd - August 1st 2015 - enroll

Cost: $850 - Register and pay by Feb. 20th $750

Who: Dancers ages 15 and up of an advanced/pre-professional or professional level selected by invitation or audition. Dancers may audition via video. Contact Layla@modasdance or 505-501-7116 for audition information.

What: Modas Repertory Workshop is designed give participants the opportunity to be immersed in the creation of a new work by a prominent, nationally-recognized choreographer, while diversifying and honing their technique with world class master teachers. The work created will be presented in a performance at the beautiful Hiland Theatre on Saturday Aug. 1st.

Where: All classes will be held at NDI-Hiland Theatre with housing provided by University of New Mexico.

When: Arrive July 21st, classes/rehearsals July 22nd - Aug. 1st, performance the evening of Aug. 1st, depart Aug. 2nd

Sample Schedule:

• 9:00-11:00 Ballet or Modern
• 11:15-12:45Theatre Dance/Hip-Hop/Contemporary/Tap
• 12:45-1:45 lunch
• 1:45-4:45 Repertory with Guest Choreographer TBA
• 4:45-6:00 Dinner
• 6:00-7:30 Feldenkrais/Gyrokinesis

Faculty:

Guest Choreographer Sidra Bell
Layla Amis – Director Modas Dance, former School Director Alonzo King LINES Ballet, faculty – SFUAD
Duncan Cooper – Director Modas Dance, formerly Dance Theatre of Harlem & San Francisco Ballet
Elana Anderson - Deeply Rooted Productions
Shirin Keyani-Rose – Faculty LINES Ballet
Michael Rosales - Hurricanettes Dance line
Echo Gustafson - Moving People Dance
Jocelyn Danchick - Compagnie Jocelyne Danchick
Sidra Bell – Director of Sidra Bell Dance NY. For more information: www.sidrabelldanceny.org/

Sidra Bell Biography

currently a Master Lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and was an Adjunct Professor at Barnard College in New York City. She has a degree in History from Yale University and an MFA in Choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance.
Ms. Bell has won several awards, notably a prestigious 1st Prize for Choreography at the Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. Her critically acclaimed choreography and company has been seen throughout the United States and in Denmark, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Germany, China, Canada, Aruba, Korea, Brazil and Greece. Sidra Bell Dance New York (SBDNY, Inc.) was lauded in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's 2010 Best in Dance for ReVUE, and in the 2012 Year in Review in ArtsATL's notable performances for Nudity.
Bell has received many commissions from institutions internationally and created over 100 new works, with companies of distinction such as BODYTRAFFIC (CA), Ballet Austin, Sacramento Ballet, The Juilliard School (NY), River North Chicago Dance Company, Ailey II (NY), LEVYdance, Robert Moses' KIN (CA), Alonzo King's LINES Ballet School (CA), Uppercut Dansteater (DEN), Motto Dans Kolectif (TUR), Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (NY), Tisch School of the Arts (NY), University of Utah, August Wilson Dance Ensemble (PA), Point Park University (PA), University of Michigan, The Ailey School (NY), Barnard College (NY), New York Live Arts, Dance Theater Workshop (NY), Kelly Strayhorn Theater (PA), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (NY), Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NY), Springboard Danse Montréal, The Duo Theater (NY), Purchase College Conservatory of Dance (NY), National Choreographer's Initiative (Irvine, CA), Visceral Dance Chicago, University of the Arts (PA), Five College Dance Department (MA), and Houston Metropolitan Dance Company.

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