School Dance Residencies

HALF OR FULL DAY WORKSHOPS

Healthy Body Healthy Mind:
Large emphasis on movement through learning Breaking, Hip Hop, House, Locking, and Popping techniques. Ties in with PhysEd.

Express Yourself:
Ties into the Fine Arts curriculum. We explore ways to express ourselves in visual forms by using Hip Hop dance techniques. The program is designed around improvisation, creating dance phrases and learning how to connect our thoughts and feelings with our physical body.

Immersion Into Hip Hop:
This module is designed to connect students to the many positive messages inherent in Hip Hop culture and to educate them about Hip Hop dance by building skills in breaking, popping, locking, Hip Hop party dances and choreography. This high energy dance program is extremely flexible and can meet the needs of elementary, junior high and high school students. We will focus on teaching authentic techniques in Breaking, Popping, locking and Hip Hop within the context of Hip Hop culture with an emphasis on peace, love, respect, unity, knowledge and having fun.

Each workshop can include a sharing assembly on Friday afternoon where parents are invited to see the work that has been done and students share their accomplishments with each other.

Half Day Workshops start at $250 per day, and Full Day Workshops start at $500 per day.

ONE WEEK DANCE RESIDENCY

• One or two qualified instructors (dependent on class size).
• Every student receives five Hip Hop dance classes.
• Students will learn age appropriate skills and each class will have a different focus.
• Sharing assembly on Friday afternoon (if desired)  where parents are invited to see the work that has been done and students share their accomplishments with each other.
• Starting at $2500/week

TWO WEEK DANCE RESIDENCY

• One or two qualified instructors (dependent on class size).
• Every student receives ten Hip Hop dance classes.
• Students will learn age appropriate skills and each class will have a different focus.
• Sharing assembly on Friday afternoon where parents are invited to see the work that has been done and students share their accomplishments with each other.
• Starting at $5000 for both weeks

TWO WEEK DANCE RESIDENCY: FOCUS ON CHOREOGRAPHY

• Pulse Studios Creative Director, Tara Wilson will create a custom show based on your vision that will include all the students in up to two casts.
• Every student receives ten classes to learn and develop choreography.
• Each cast will perform the show on either consecutive nights or one in the afternoon of the final day and one in the evening of the final day, including dress rehearsal.
• Instructors will perform a special piece for the show.
• Starting at $5000 for both weeks

TWO WEEK DANCE RESIDENCY: FOCUS ON SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

• Pulse Studios Creative Director, Tara Wilson and a minimum of  two instructors will work with students to recreate the show SOMETHING FROM NOTHING. 2 more instructors will join midway through the process as the cast of the show is 4 professional dancers and dancers from the school.
• Teachers receive a minimum of 2 sessions with Tara Wilson to prepare for the residency.
• Each student meets with instructors every day to learn a specific section of choreography in the show. Students will dance with the professional cast in the show.
• Students will work with through their personal stories of Zero and we will discuss our message with them: we all feel like Zero at some times in our lives and we all have different ways of moving forward from these moments. We are not alone in feeling this way. Students will learn about the different personal stories of the dancers in the show and that these stories are real: never feeling good enough, suffering from bullying, not knowing one of your parents, not being able to commit to anything.
• The show will be in the evening outside of school hours, either on the Thursday or Friday evening at the end of the residency.
• Starting at $10,000 for both weeks