06/20/09

HOWARD UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
DIVISION OF FINE ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS-DANCE     

April  2009

WELCOME to the howard university July 15-19 2009 Dance major Intensive:

We are excited about your presence and participation and as the time approaches recommended attire include:

Females

Black leotards, tights-feet/no feet, or unitards feet/no feet, ballet & tap shoes,
lappas-one and a half yard traditional African cloth, thin pants for contemporary dance

 Males

Leotards/tights/unitards-feet/no feet, black/white sleeveless t-shirts/thin jazz/sweat pants
ballet & tap shoes, no oversize street clothing

EVERYONE - BALLET AND TAP SHOES

This Summer Dance Intensive July 15 to July 19 2009 is full cost with meals $550.00 on the campus of Howard University convening at Cramton Auditorium Wednesday July 15 with payment due 12:00 noon registration. Classes commence 1:00PM providing exposure and involvement in classes and assignments offered and required within the Howard University Dance Major as well as the demands and expectations in the dance profession.  This intensive also offers you content to assess and address what your capabilities are, how they are demonstrated and what you must do as a follow-up to your process of development.

Participation further provides you an opportunity to hear from us professionals in the field intensely giving critical feedback towards application of your technical skill and physical capability and further address your cognitive skills of oral and written communication as well as the chance for you to evaluate your development as measured by professionals in the field of dance. It also give a reality check and balance profile of you, your readiness, and assessment of information.

The Dance Intensive (which will not only include new entrants to the Howard University Dance Program but other high school students, professional artists and general population participants) marathon of classes, in addition to intensive preparation for concert performance with guest choreographers, a diverse exposure to dance forms and choreographic content, on-going presence of legendary African-American artists in the profession, and summer intensive assignments that include work with professional companies such as Ronald K. Brown choreographer for Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Garth Fagan Dance (choreographer for Lion King) represent a small portion of the dance curriculum offerings.

This dance intensive is part of the dance major curriculum and is structured with the art of dance as an extremely high level academic that includes the type of work encountered in the field of dance while also offering skills that can provide even greater professional choices upon graduation.  We require a great deal of thinking and intense writing in the synthesis context that is based in affective and cognitive information with all students expecting to develop physically and orally in their presentational skills for all they do and how they do in the development of the art form. This all-inclusive dance intensive addresses the audition process for entry into the dance major process and curriculum structured program of serious development, evaluation, and results.

We look forward to you and your excited energy of involvement, 

Sherrill Berryman Johnson
Sherrill Berryman-Johnson, PhD
Coordinator/Artistic Director Howard University Dance Major
howarduniversity_dancemajor@yahoo.com

Denise Saunders Thompson
Dance Intensive Administrator
(202) 806-7512
ddsaunders@howard.edu