Dance Intensive Highlights
The General Day of the ITW Summer Dance Intensive:
10-10.15 Attendance, News, Warm-up, etc.
10.15-11.45am - Morning Class (Jazz, Lyrical, Hip Hop)
11.45-12.00 - BREAK
12.00-12.30 - Strength and Conditioning (Yoga, Stretching, Pilates, Cardio, abs and arms, etc.)
12.30-1.15 - Specialty Class (Tap, Ballet, African, Improvisation, etc.)
1.15-2.00 - LUNCH
2.00-2.45 - Solo Composition
2.45-4.00 - Musical Theatre Choreography
Musical Theatre and Solo Choreography
Each afternoon of the Dance Intensive week, students will have the opportunity to choreograph their own dance solos in their favourite style of dance. Using movement composition tools and techniques and learning how to effectively express through movement to music, each student will develop his/her own short routine that will be shown at the end of the week.
Each afternoon of the Dance Intensive week, students will have the opportunity to choreograph their own dance solos in their favourite style of dance. Using movement composition tools and techniques and learning how to effectively express through movement to music, each student will develop his/her own short routine that will be shown at the end of the week.
In Musical Theatre Dance rehearsal, the Dance Intensive will come together to put together an ensemble work consisting of a musical theatre medley. Each dancer will have a featured moment and will explore different kinds of musical theatre dance from Bob Fosse to Jerome Robbins to Michael Bennett. This musical theatre review will also be performed at the end of the week in conjunction with the students' solos.
Contemporary Dance
A fusion of modern, contemporary, and ballet, this class will focus on developing strength ad flexibility with expressive, graceful choreography. Dancers will learn turns, leaps, footwork, and partnering within the lyrical/contemporary technique to inspire personal
A fusion of modern, contemporary, and ballet, this class will focus on developing strength ad flexibility with expressive, graceful choreography. Dancers will learn turns, leaps, footwork, and partnering within the lyrical/contemporary technique to inspire personal artistry and creativity.
Jazz Dance
Encompassing a wide range of commercial dance styles including Jazz, Street, Urban-Commercial, and Jazz-Funk, this class will focus on dance styles seen in music videos and on TV. Jazz class in the ITW Summer Dance Intensive is about evolving strength, technique, and style while focusing on attack and confidence. Learn amazing acrobatics
Encompassing a wide range of commercial dance styles including Jazz, Street, Urban-Commercial, and Jazz-Funk, this class will focus on dance styles seen in music videos and on TV. Jazz class in the ITW Summer Dance Intensive is about evolving strength, technique, and style while focusing on attack and confidence. Learn amazing acrobatics and dances to your favourite pop songs in a fun, high-energy class.
Sarah Dennis
Sarah is trained in ballet (Ms. Pauline McGrath, Debbie Allen School of Dance) and has received vocational dance exams in modern, ballet, tap, and RAD ballet (ISTD). Credits include The Nutcracker and Coppelia, (Irish National Youth Ballet), Swan Lake (Ballet Ireland). Sarah toured nationally with Monica Loughman and INYB. Additionally Sarah has danced with London Studios Centre, Central School of Ballet, the Yorkshire Seminars, and was granted a scholarship for the Impultz dance festival in Vienna where she studied with India’s got Talent judge, Terrence Lewis.
Sarah is trained in ballet (Ms. Pauline McGrath, Debbie Allen School of Dance) and has received vocational dance exams in modern, ballet, tap, and RAD ballet (ISTD). Credits include The Nutcracker and Coppelia, (Irish National Youth Ballet), Swan Lake (Ballet Ireland). Sarah toured nationally with Monica Loughman and INYB. Additionally Sarah has danced with London Studios Centre, Central School of Ballet, the Yorkshire Seminars, and was granted a scholarship for the Impultz dance festival in Vienna where she studied with India’s got Talent judge, Terrence Lewis. Sarah completed distinction level in Dance and Ballet Education (Royal Academy of Dance, London) and continued training at Inchicore College graduating with distinction in dance instruction and education (ISTD). She is a qualified Fitness Instructor and has a First Class Honours from the University of Limerick.
Sarah is a qualified professional Make-Up Artist with a Diploma in Fasion, Media and Theatrical make-up. She has done make-up for Bram Stocker (RTE) and has worked for Maybelline and L’Oreal. She uses these skills as a make-up artist in collaboration with stage performances.
Hip Hop /Commercial /Lyrical Contemporary
Hip Hop dance classes will focus on a variety of dance styles that include elements of popping, locking, breaking, tutting and more that correspond to today's hip hop music. This fun class will have a similar structure to other dance classes including a warm-up, technique, and learning routines, but will be more about finding your inner funk and enjoying yourself to the beat of the music. Jump high, kick loud, and get down to the beat in this fun and stylized class.
Hip Hop dance classes will focus on a variety of dance styles that include elements of popping, locking, breaking, tutting and more that correspond to today's hip hop music. This fun class will have a similar structure to other dance classes including a warm-up, technique, and learning routines, but will be more about finding your inner funk and enjoying yourself to the beat of the music. Jump high, kick loud, and get down to the beat in this fun and stylized class.